Stephen Cottrell

Parliament’s culture of death and the Church’s troubling silence

IN THE 1980s, as a pre-med student at Trinity College Dublin, I attended a lecture that I was reminded of this week. Ireland’s State Pathologist, Professor John Harbison, presented a video demonstrating how abortions are performed: limbs systematically dismembered, a human life methodically destroyed....

“Rise and Rave” at Cape Town cathedral sparks criticism

The dean of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town has been criticized for allowing his church to be desecrated by permitting a secular electronic dance party within its precincts. However, the Very Rev Terry Lester has defended holding the dance party saying the event...
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