Our Christian heritage is under attack again. And, as always, its by atheistic elite liberals, using "minorities" that they imported in the first place as battering rams against Christianity and tradition.

But a veteran MP has warned that Parliamentary prayers should not be abandoned to appease ‘modernisers’.

Sir John Hayes said it was important to begin each sitting of the House of Commons with prayer to afford MPs time for quiet reflection, and in recognition of the UK’s Christian heritage.

The practice is thought to have been first introduced in 1558. Prayers follow the Christian faith and attendance is voluntary.

Sir John contended: “Whether you believe in the divine or not, it’s important to recognise our country is rooted in the Christian traditions. Prayers are a reminder of that.”

He warned that some among the new intake of MPs “either because of ignorance or hostility, don’t understand the point about the need for a period of contemplative time or the Christian tradition on which our country’s system of ethics and laws are founded”.

He added: “There’s a certain sort of arrogance associated with people who arrive somewhere and want to change everything before they really understand it.”

Form of the main prayer in the House of Commons

“Lord, the God of righteousness and truth, grant to our King and his government, to Members of Parliament and all in positions of responsibility, the guidance of your Spirit. May they never lead the nation wrongly through love of power, desire to please, or unworthy ideals but laying aside all private interests and prejudices keep in mind their responsibility to seek to improve the condition of all mankind; so may your kingdom come and your name be hallowed.
Amen.”

Twin boys, born at just 22 weeks and weighing only 400 grams each, had to spend over a hundred days in hospital before they could go home.

The boys were born at Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital in South Korea after their mother’s waters broke early, at just 22 weeks and three days gestation – making them among the smallest surviving premature twins. They immediately required resuscitation procedures, including tracheal intubation, and were barely breathing on a ventilator.

“The miracle of survival by overcoming the extreme crisis of extremely low-birth-weight identical twins, for which it is difficult to find even statistics, is evaluated as the first achievement in Korea overcome by the high-level expertise and dedicated efforts of the medical staff of the NICU of Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital”, the hospital said.

The remarkable and heart-warming story deals another blow at the abortion industry ghouls who claim that such precious infants are mere "clumps of cells" to be disposed off if they are in any way inconvenient.

Wholesale chain Costco has refused to bow to aggressive pro-abortion demands to sell DIY abortion pills.

The good news comes after the issue arose last August, when the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) wrote to numerous major retailers urging them not to sell chemical abortion drugs through their pharmacies. Among those pressuring Costco and others were New York Democratic Comptroller Brad Lander, who claimed that not doing so would “risk losing investor confidence.”

“Maximizing shareholder value requires Costco to avoid politicizing its services and to continue to do what it has always done best, provide excellent grocery and retail goods to families,” ADF wrote. “The ‘growing market opportunity’ of abortion drugs is legally and politically fraught, raises significant reputational issues, and reduces the company’s customer base, both literally and because it would drive away many existing customers.”

Costco's subsequent refusal to stock the pills (at least for the time being) won it the gratitude of pro-life groups such as Live Action, which circulated a video and thanking the company and urging pro-lifers to switch their pharmacies to Costco from rivals which have entered the abortion pill business.

Dozens of MPs who voted in favour of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill have suggested they may withdraw their support over what medics’ involvement may be.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill intends to allow those in England and Wales deemed to be terminally ill and with less than six months to live to receive help to kill themselves.

It passed its Second Reading in the House of Commons with a majority of 55 votes, and is soon to be considered by a committee, but several MPs scrutinising it say it must change in order to progress.

Among other changes they hope to secure, MPs are particularly keen to ensure medical professionals are prohibited from suggesting assisted suicide to their patients.

The Guardian reports that as many as 30 MPs are prepared to withdraw their support if such assurances are not given, which could potentially cause the Bill to fail at its Third Reading.

One MP told the newspaper: “I was happy for it to progress, but there are concerns as well that I’ve got that will be addressed before it actually becomes law.”

They added: “I think that 55 majority will start [being chipped away at]. I think it will pass probably between 10 and 20 majority. And that then starts to make things potentially more difficult in the Lords.”

Labour MPs Chris Webb and Mike Tapp, both of whom voted for the Bill, are in favour of amending it to try to reduce scope for coercion.

Webb said that 60 per cent of 400 constituents who responded to his survey had indicated they want assisted suicide to be legalised, and that he had voted for it on that basis. But he added: “I do feel it needs further robust scrutiny and debate and I will consider my position in the ensuing stages while continuing to listen to all perspectives.

“I’m uncomfortable that it allows doctors to suggest to patients they could take their own lives and believe this needs to be removed from the bill.”

And Tapp told BBC News: “It should only be discussed if it is raised by the patient. This helps mitigate the risk of accidental coercion, or the perception of a hint, at a time of immense emotional distress and vulnerability.”

Former Cabinet minister David Davis also voted in favour of legalisation, but told the Commons: “I say to both the bill’s sponsors that it has a number of areas that they know I think they have to put right – about a dozen, in truth.”

He added: “After the ‘Do not resuscitate’ scandal during the Covid crisis, I do not want that at any price – I do not want the state initiating this process. That is critical for me.”

Homily on the Octave of Most Holy Christmas - part of the latest fine sermon by Archbishop Vigano, surely one of the gretest men of these dark times:

In this new civil year, which for two thousand and twenty-five years has been counted from the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I would like us to reflect on the importance of the word: the Word of God, in which the meaning of our eternal life is preserved; and the word with which we communicate and express ourselves, which preserves the meaning of our daily life.

The Revolution, the satanic matrix of this rebellious world hostile to the Incarnate Word, knows well that changing words also changes their meaning. This is why the lie of the ancient Serpent uses false and deceptive language. This is why the servants of the Evil One hide their deceptions behind words that are only apparently harmless. It is the Orwellian newspeak that renames the horrendous crime of abortion as reproductive health, mutilation as gender transition, vice and transgression as freedom, the destruction of Creation as green deal, the extermination of humanity as net zero, and ethnic replacement as inclusion.

And if up until a few decades ago Holy Mother Church knew how to oppose this subversion by repeating unchanged the eternal and true Word of God and using the language proper to Faith and Morals, today a corrupt Hierarchy shows its betrayal in the same way, manipulating language, thus annulling the word of God (Mk 7:12). It renames the destruction of the divine constitution of the Church and the manipulation of the Papacy as synodality, the renunciation of the need for evangelization and conversion as ecumenical dialogue, redefines the poor as the real presence, and the legitimization of sin as acceptance.

The Word of God is the word of Truth. It does not limit itself to echoing in eternity, but becomes flesh and food, immolates itself on the Cross so that the Word proclaims the glory of the Father, redeems us from Satan’s lie and preserves us on this earthly journey from the falsehood and deception of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Remaining faithful to the Word of God means remaining faithful to the Gospel, to doctrine, to Tradition, and to the Mass of all time in which the words, spoken in the sacred language of the Church, keep their meaning intact and communicate it unequivocally, as light shines in darkness. Remaining faithful to the Word of God, that is, to God himself, means knowing how to respond to the word with the word, as Mary Most Holy did when she welcomed the greeting of the Archangel Gabriel.

Let us therefore call things by their name: let us refer to virtue as virtue and vice as vice; mindful of the admonition of Sacred Scripture: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter (Is 5:20). Let your speech, therefore, be Yes, yes, no, no: all the rest comes from the Evil One (Mt 5:37). And so may it be.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attorney left America's favourite TV pundit Tucker Carlson nearly speechless after revealing to him that the pharmaceutical industry uses cells from born-alive aborted babies for research. 

Aaron Siri sat down with Carlson for a nearly two-hour-long interview with the former Fox News host. Their conversation was released on X on December 27 and has garnered widespread attention on social media as Siri, who is helping Kennedy vet potential staffers for the Health and Human Services Department, was the subject of a hit piece in the New York Times last month. 

Among the topics Siri and Carlson discussed was the horrific subject of how Big Pharma relies on aborted babies to make its products.  

“In every single dose of an MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) shot, there are literally, literally millions of pieces from the cultured cell line of an aborted fetus in every single injection,” Siri explained to a stunned Carlson. “I could literally pull up right now the CDC’s own ingredient list for the MMR vaccine.” 

Siri has won major lawsuits related to medical freedom and vaccine injuries in his litigation experience. He further explained to a bewildered Carlson that in order for the vaccines to be developed, they need to be cultivated on “aborted fetal tissue” that are “alive.” 

More than 40,000 people around the world have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ensure that “women are not forced to compete against men in future Olympics”.

The petition to “Keep Women’s Sports for Women”, organised by Alliance Defending Freedom, criticised the committee for failing to prevent men from entering women’s sports.

The IOC’s Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination framework allows each sport’s governing body to determine its own eligibility criteria. But it claims there should be “no presumption of advantage” on the basis of biological or physiological characteristics.

Former college swimmer Riley Gaines, who competed against a man known as Lia Thomas, said her “safety and privacy in the locker room was repeatedly jeopardised because of sports bodies which put ideology before women’s rights. I’m one of so many young women that have lost out on medals and opportunities – simply because I wasn’t a male.”

“The IOC is looked upon as a leader on sports policies. It must take heed of this petition, and take a stand for women around the world in protecting our sports – not only for this generation of athletes, but the little girls who one day dream of winning the gold.”

Former Olympian Sharron Davies MBE added: “Women’s sport should never have been sacrificed on the altar of virtue-signalling gender ideology, against all the peer reviewed science in the first place.”

“Let’s hope common sense & prioritising fairness & safety for female athletes will return soon. The willful negligence of the boxing during the Paris 2024 Olympics was a particular low point and a total disgrace.”

Actress, singer and sister of Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears, has revealed she experienced pressure to have an abortion when she was pregnant at 16. The 32-year-old contestant on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! told fellow contestants and viewers about her teen pregnancy. “When I first got pregnant… They didn’t want me to have the baby”, she said. 

The mother of two cried as she told fellow contestants that people around her “didn’t want me to have the baby”. Having been on a children’s television show, she spoke about the backlash that she faced when her pregnancy was announced by the media. “The whole world was like, ‘You’re a s**t, you’re horrible your life is over… Because I got pregnant young and I was on a kids’ show”, she shared.

Despite the intense scrutiny of being in the public eye, she decided not to have an abortion and gave birth to her daughter, Maddie Briann Aldridge, who is now 15 years old. Spears also has a second daughter, five-year-old Ivey Joan. 

The American actress and sister of Britney Spears, came to fame in 2005 as the protagonist of the children’s television show Zoey 101 and in 2007, she drew the attention of the media when, at age 16, she became pregnant. 

Back in 2007, the Nickelodeon star spoke about how much of a shock it was for her and her daughter’s father, Casey Aldridge, to find out they were having a baby. “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected. I was in complete and total shock and so was he”, she said. 

Aware of how much public interest there would be in her pregnancy, then 16-year-old Spears moved to Mississippi and “literally hid”. She recounted how she initially kept the news of her pregnancy to herself so that she would not be influenced by others in her decision to keep her baby. “Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone’s opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me”, she shared.

The number of cats and dogs dying from consuming their owners’ cocaine is rapidly increasing year on year in the United States, demonstrating the drug’s growing use.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that the number of cats being admitted to an animal poison control centre in the US due to cocaine or methamphetamine has increased by more than half annually since 2019, and dogs by over a third each year.

The study identified “significant increases in cocaine exposure”. It highlights the far-reaching effects of widespread drug use, beyond users themselves.

Dr Orrin Ware, who authored the study, explained “we want to highlight that pets are vulnerable populations that can experience significant harm if exposed to intoxicating substances”.

The researchers concluded: “Animals are highly sensitive to the stimulatory and sympathomimetic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine.

“Any degree of exposure should be considered concerning, as there is the risk of severe toxicity and death”.

The problem has also exploded in the UK.

The NHS describes cocaine as a “highly addictive drug” which acts as “a short lived central nervous system stimulant” which has various long-term side-effects including heart damage, malnutrition and impotence, while an overdose can be fatal. Possession of cocaine carries a maximum seven-year prison sentence in the UK.

In October, it was revealed that a spike in cocaine use has led to an enormous rise in the number of drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales.

Deaths involving the Class A drug topped over 1,100 in 2023 – more than ten times those in 2013.

In total, almost 5,500 people died as a result of drug poisonings last year, the highest since records began in 1993.

Drug and alcohol treatment charity Change Grow Live said the “devastating loss of life” was “deeply saddening, unnecessary and unacceptable”.

In Scotland, a report this autumn revealed over 600 children lost a parent or guardian from drug-related deaths in 2020.

In its report, Public Health Scotland examined official statistics from 2019 and 2020. Scotland has the highest drug fatality rate in Europe.