Monday, March 24, 2008
VOICE OF CHURCH BEING HEARD IN ENGLAND
The Church is leading the opposition to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
With its constituency of five million members - including a number of senior Cabinet ministers - the Church has proved a serious irritant to Gordon Brown.
Senior Catholic leaders, traditionally aligned with Labour, have unequivocally - and very publicly - voiced opposition to Labour MPs being told to support the legislation, forcing ministers to consider a compromise solution.
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has called for a free vote "because Catholics and others will want to vote according to their consciences", while Scotland's Cardinal Keith O'Brien has described plans to allow the creation of part-human, part-animal embryos as "monstrous".
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