The Dispatch
In the UK, has abortion become a “Catholic issue”?
Fifty years after the country’s Abortion Act, Catholics need to look beyond their churches to share the pro-life message with the wider public. […]
Articles by Joanna Bogle
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On England’s south coast, an Oratory flourishes
St. Philip Neri’s ideas on evangelization—joy, friendship, celebration—fit in rather well with sea and sunshine. […]
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“Reflecting” on the future of the Church of England
Britain’s Secretary of State for Education, Miss Justine Greening, has told the Church of England it should “keep up” with modern attitudes and accept same-sex marriage. The Prime Minister, herself the daughter of an Anglican […]
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On church kneelers
“We have something for you,” said the manageress, with a pardonably smug smile, as soon as I entered the coffee-shop. And she went to a door, rummaged in the cupboard and produced—my bag with my […]
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Corpus Christi in Rome: Sights and sounds to lift the heart
Rome sizzles in summer heat. The sun glares down remorselessly on shoppers thronging the streets around St. Maria del Populo, where the priest has just finished celebrating the last morning Mass. I had wanted to enjoy […]
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Night and Soho
The lanterns glow through the dusk as the summer evening darkens into twilight. Meanwhile revelers in the garden square make their way slowly to the gates as the park-keeper gradually rounds them up. More noisily, […]
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Sunday morning at London Bridge
They let me thorough the police cordon on Sunday morning when I explained I wanted to get to Mass. “Father Chris sent a message to say it might have to be in the school hall, […]
Special Report
Praying with—and for—prisoners
We are sitting, the three of us, around the table in the classroom, surrounded by posters encouraging literacy and offering opportunities for taking up new skills. Father S. has been explaining about the Rosary, and […]
The Dispatch
Dame Louise backtracks
We seem to be rather short of good news for Catholics at present. Here is something that is at least faintly cheering. Dame Louise Casey is a government-appointed official with the rather worrying title of […]
General
Dear Dame Louise…
Dame Louise Casey, the “integration tsar” for the Government of the United Kingdom, said in a parliamentary session that it is “it is not OK for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage…it is […]