The Catholic Union’s 2020 AGM will take place on Thursday 19 November at 6.30pm. By kind permission of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the AGM will this… Read More »AGM 2020 to be held in Archbishop’s House on 19 November
The Catholic Union has called on the Government to focus on supporting marriage and family life rather than looking at plans to make divorce easier.
The Government is planning a shake up of divorce laws in England and Wales, which will remove the ability to contest a divorce and replace the requirement to produce evidence of ‘irretrievable breakdown’ with a simple statement.
Read More »Catholic Union responds to shake up of divorce laws
The Catholic Union met the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, Rehman Chishti MP, this week (27 January).
Director, Nigel Parker, and Head of Public Affairs, James Somerville-Meikle, met Mr Chishti in the Foreign Office to discuss the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Truro report into Christian persecution.
Please click on the link below to see the January 2020 Newsletter. Newsletter
Please note that the CUCT Talk by Cardinal Fitzgerald on Interreligious Dialogue scheduled for 27 March at the University of Notre Dame in London has… Read More »CUCT talk on Interreligious Dialogue CANCELLED
Following the Queen’s Speech on Thursday 19 December, the Catholic Union has issued the response below.
“There is much to welcome in the Queen’s Speech, not least a commitment to protect those persecuted for their faith and implement the recommendations of the Truro report. This is something the Catholic Union has been calling for. The Government must now put words into action and show that promoting religious freedom around the world is a key foreign policy objective.
Election Statement (1)
This table selects a number of relevant extracts from the manifestos of parties other than the three main national parties which were covered in the… Read More »Manifesto Comparison Table for Other Parties
The Catholic Union is publishing an Election Statement which includes a link to this table: Manifesto comparison table
Please click below to see some questions about religious freedom to ask your parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming General Election. Ask Your Candidate Letterhead
