Catholic Policy Team

Official account of the Research and Policy Team for the Catholic Church in England and Wales @catholicew tweeting on international and domestic issues.

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

A no. of abortion-related amendments on the Health and Social Care Bill being debated today:

✅ Reduce time limit from 24 to 22 weeks
✅ Clarifying sex-selective abortion is illegal
✅ End abortion to birth for disability

❌ To liberalise abortion
https://t.co/a15u1yO1dz

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

ACTION ALERT 🚨 Please urgently contact your MP asking them to support these abortion amendments. It only takes 30 seconds using our easy-to-use tool. https://t.co/itcQE9zzdC

[UK in Holy See 🇬🇧🇻🇦 @UKinHolySee]

‘The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them, based on the concrete choices we make today.’ - Pope Francis’ message to @COP26 read by His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin #TogetherForOurPlanet #Faiths4COP26

[UK in Holy See 🇬🇧🇻🇦 @UKinHolySee]

In pictures: Prime Minister PM Boris Johnson and @antonioguterres greet His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin on arrival to @COP26 World Leaders Summit, 1 November (Photographs: Karwai Tang/ UK Government, all rights reserved)

[Chris Trott @ChrisTrott]

Pleased to welcome HE Cardinal Parolin to the UK this evening. Along with counterpart the Nuncio. I wish 🇻🇦 delegation a productive conference in Glasgow! #COP26

[Raymond Friel OBE @friel_raymond]

Dear friends in parishes and schools, the team @CSANonline has produced a new resource for World Day of the Poor (14 Nov) which includes a collective worship, a novena, and a See-Judge-Act exercise for groups. Please share with your networks.
https://t.co/K55dZOdneg

[Catholic Church @catholicEW]

In a reflection given to @BBCRadio4’s Thought for the Day programme, Pope Francis looks ahead to the #COP26 UN climate summit and challenges us to work together to offer a radical new outlook on how we tackle climate change. https://t.co/q4szPhZV3R #PopeFrancis #ClimateChange

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

After meeting #LittleAmal yesterday, @CardinalNichols reflects on how she 'embodies a dimension of our human family that is travelling, at risk and in danger.'

https://t.co/sHsopJ3EOQ

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

"Our commitment to divestment in fossil fuels is a response both to the cry of the earth and of the poor, taking us one step further towards its consolation."

Archbishop Bernard Longley @RCBirmingham on divestment ahead of #COP26

https://t.co/oiwyhdPsem

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

"As the numbers continue to rise each year, the conversion of hearts and minds towards the unborn child is ever more urgent." @johnhilta speaking @March4LifeUK today, commemorating the 54th anniversary of the Abortion Act.

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

"We grieve for the death of so many children, unborn lives, by legal abortion, almost 10 million since that date. We remember those women who carry the pain and burden of their decisions."

https://t.co/V4sssjrqol

[Bishop Patrick @BishopPMcKinney]

Thank you to all who prayed & wrote to Peers. Please do read: https://t.co/CYvAXU424I

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

We will continue to scrutinise and challenge the Assisted Dying Bill.

[Catholic Church @catholicEW]

Bishop: We will continue to scrutinise and challenge the Assisted Dying Bill https://t.co/9NicPbjruT #AssistedDyingBill @johnhilta

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

Lord Brennan QC writes for https://t.co/a49PpeGIDO stating that "the dangers of such a new law are several and very serious". https://t.co/u59kLj7tLy

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

Another helpful thread on the history and mechanics of today's debate on Assisted Dying in the House of Lords #SupportNotSuicide #AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying

[Richard Chapman @SelsdonChapman]

I've followed the assisted suicide/dying issue quite a while. You might imagine from all the press, social media & lobbying manufactured by @dignityindying that tomorrow's Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Lords has a real chance of becoming law. It doesn't. Here's why.

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[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

A great thread with updates from the second reading of the Assisted Dying Bill today #SupportNotSuicide

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

Very large turnout in the Lords to debate the Meacher assisted suicide Bill. The debate is about to begin. #carenotkilling #supportnotsuicide #assistedsuicide #AssistedDying

[Catholic Church @catholicEW]

On the day the #assisteddyingbill receives its Second Reading in the House of Lords, it's fitting we conclude our Novena for Life by praying for the intercession of Pope St John Paul II on his (optional) memorial. Pray with us > https://t.co/5xpMpCJsT3 #novenaforlife

[CBET @CBET_StMarys]

In light of the upcoming #meacherbill @UKHouseofLords this Friday, useful insight offered here on the issue of #AssistedDying - is there a right to die? https://t.co/etVOKfFyGG

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

At the very least suffering requires compassionate accompaniment not the elimination of the sufferer.

[Catholic Policy Team @CatholicPolicy]

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." GK Chesterton

A helpful reflection in advance of tomorrow's second reading of The Assisted Dying Bill, by Dr. Pia Matthews @cststmarys
https://t.co/4lX0z33yxG

[The Catholic Diocese of Nottingham @NottsDiocese]

Tomorrow the House of Lords will debate assisted dying proposals introduced by Baroness Meacher. #ICYMI here is @BishopPMcKinney's letter to the diocese on these worrying proposals: https://t.co/jQXmo70XOQ