Church in UK and Ireland

‘Horton Hears a Who’ fosters forgiveness in Northern Ireland
- Jan 20, 2018
Dr. Seuss’s ‘Horton Hear a Who’ teaches lessons of forgiveness to children in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

By Claire Giangravè
Catholic schools in Ireland might lose right to choose their students
- Jan 19, 2018
A proposal to end the ability of Catholic schools in Ireland to give preference to Catholic children is causing fears over the increasing secularization of society in the majority-Catholic country.

By Charles Collins
Irish bishop warns against thinking sexual abuse crisis is “behind us”
- Jan 15, 2018
Bishop Brendan Leahy is warning that the greatest danger in the fight against abuse is to “relax and believe that the worst is in some way behind us.”

By Charles Collins

Church in Scotland criticized for not meeting abuse victim groups
- Jan 8, 2018
The author of an independent review of the child protection policies of the Catholic Church in Scotland has said he is “disappointed” in the progress the bishops are making in meeting victims and survivors of clerical sexual abuse.

By Crux Staff
Bishops urge U.K. to allow more child refugees from France
- Dec 11, 2017
An English and a Scottish bishop said the situation of migrants waiting in the French port of Calais for the opportunity to cross the English Channel into the United Kingdom had become increasingly perilous since the clearance of an illegal migrants’ camp known as “The Jungle” a year ago.

By Simon Caldwell
British Catholic schools remove ‘mother,’ ‘father’ from admission forms
- Nov 14, 2017
The Catholic Education Service, an agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has advised more than 2,200 schools to revise their policies to take account of a government adjudicator’s decision not to use “mother” and “father” on forms, because the terms discriminated against “separated, step- and gay parents.”

By Catholic News Service