Dear Parishioners
Please find attached a copy of a Message that is posted on our diocesan website regarding the regarding the recent passage through parliament of proposed legislative changes: the amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill decriminalising abortion up to birth, and the third reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
I wish to thank all of you who contacted your local MP either personally, or through the ‘Right to Life’ online facility, to ask them to uphold oppose this recent proposed legislation. I also attach for your information a list I have compiled which details the way each MP voted.
Statements have also been issued by Archbishop John Sherrington, the lead episcopal member for Pro-Life issues in the Department for Social Responsibility, and by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the President of the Bishops’ Conference. These are available on the Bishops’ Conference website: https://www.cbcew.org.uk/
With every blessing
+ Marcus
