BLACKPOOL: A crowd of Catholics on the sidewalk of the famous seaside resort listen intently as the new Bishop of Lancashire, Paul Swarbrick, speaks. (PHOTO CREDIT: MICHAEL DURNAN)
REGINA: There’s a big atheist movement in the UK, which imagines itself to be informed only by ‘science’ and ‘reason’.
JP MALLON: I wonder why science and reason does not inform the debate? Yet we Catholics are the ones against reason apparently. What gives us great hope is that it seems the younger generation of Catholics are much more brave in challenging the status quo and speaking out about the reality of 50 years of the Culture of Death.
*HISTORICAL NOTE: The 4th May is the Feast of The English Martyrs. Many Englishmen and women, priests, religious and lay, were put to death during Penal Times in 16th and 17th centuries. It was High Treason for a Catholic priest to offer Mass and for anyone to assist or shelter them – punishable by hanging, drawing and quartering.
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