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SearchCOMMENTARY: At the end of Mass on Sunday, Catholics offered a special prayer and sang the national anthem, a hymn that asks God’s blessing on the sovereign and by implication the nation.
Parents and teachers expressed indignation at Southwark Archbishop John Wilson’s decision, some even claiming that children will be damaged by the event not taking place.
“For the first time in history,” said Pope St. John Paul II after he stepped off the airplane, “a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil.”
The Assisted Dying Bill, introduced in the House of Lords, aims to enable people deemed to have less than six months to live to seek death by euthanasia.
Under the present law in the UK, an unborn child with Down syndrome can be aborted up to 24 weeks into the pregnancy.
Thank God for the voice of the Catholic Church, then as now affirming truth and speaking with sanity.
So much seems strange and frightening, but the Church is alive.
In all of Britain’s long history we have never sought to destroy the very essence of our human community — until now.
The canonization of John Henry Newman will be a morale-boost to many in Great Britain, and following that, some good things may flow.
It’s going to be like this for some years into the future. Christians must be prayerful and courageous.
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