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When Teaching the Faith Becomes a Crime in Iceland

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A Catholic chapel stands on a mountainside in Vatnsfjörður (Vatnsfjarðarkirkja), in Iceland’s Westfjords, under a clear summer sky.

COMMENTARY: A priest is under investigation after explaining that those in grave sin should not receive Holy Communion.

Go to the Good Shepherd

Jesus the Good Shepherd

Jesus says, 'Amen, amen, I say to you ... I am the gate. … I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.'

UK Pro-Life Groups Hail ‘Great Victory’ as Assisted-Suicide Legislation Fails

Christian campaigners and their supporters gather outside Houses of Parliament to demonstrate their opposition to assisted dying in London on May 16, 2025. The bill failed on April 24, 2026.

Proposed legislation in England and Wales, which much of the media portrayed as ‘inevitable,’ stalls in House of Lords after ‘extraordinary effort’ to oppose it.