Tag: life

Chiara Petrillo: a witness to life and joy

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Chiara Petrillo: a witness to life and joy

I’m half-way through the biography of Chiara Petrillo, the young Italian woman who died of cancer at such a young age in 2012, leaving behind her husband Enrico and young son Francesco. It is profoundly […]

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Is there a difference between “suicide” and “assisted dying”?

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Is there a difference between “suicide” and “assisted dying”?

The Assisted Dying Bill that comes before the House of Commons would “enable competent adults who are terminally ill to choose to be provided with medically supervised assistance to end their own life.” This is […]

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Choosing life, choosing love: video resources about marriage, holiness, Humanae Vitae, evangelisation, and the impact of digital media

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Choosing life, choosing love: video resources about marriage, holiness, Humanae Vitae, evangelisation, and the impact of digital media

The Choose Life, Choose Love Conference on marriage and family life was held at St Patrick’s Church in Soho in March 2014. Speakers at the two day event included Jonathan Doyle, Founder and Director of […]

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The foetal body-burning scandal: facing the truth of a throwaway culture

Filed in Science by on March 30, 2014 10 Comments
The foetal body-burning scandal: facing the truth of a throwaway culture

  An investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches has revealed that the bodies of thousands of miscarried and aborted babies have been incinerated as chemical waste, with some used to heat hospitals in a waste-to-energy scheme. The programme can be […]

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Choosing life after not choosing death

Filed in Ethics by on February 28, 2014 1 Comment
Choosing life after not choosing death

There is a good article on Albert Camus over at the First Things website. Camus famously said that the fundamental question of our age was suicide. He thought that to live honestly, one had to […]

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Choose Life, Choose Love: a weekend conference on Beauty, Freedom and the Family

Filed in Family by on February 11, 2014 0 Comments
Choose Life, Choose Love: a weekend conference on  Beauty, Freedom and the Family

Do you want to learn about the way in which married couples can be positive agents for evangelisation within our world today? Whether you are completely new to the teaching of Humanae Vitae or have […]

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The question is not whether we will die – but how we shall live

Filed in Ethics by on December 9, 2013
The question is not whether we will die – but how we shall live

An address given by Fr Martin Boland at the St Francis Hospice “Light up a Life” Service, on the 2nd Sunday of Advent Last year, I went to visit a man, a parishioner from the Cathedral here […]

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40 Days for Life London: Is it a good thing to pray outside an abortion clinic?

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40 Days for Life London: Is it a good thing to pray outside an abortion clinic?

I was at the 40 Days for Life vigil in central London during Lent. People gather outside the BPAS abortion clinic in Bedford Square, between Tottenham Court Road station and the British Museum. They pray. They witness […]

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