🔴 Instead of continually rewarding celebrities, we should give greater publicity to volunteers | Writes Catherine Pepinster Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/0…

Good to see that the importance of work-life balance is being recognised here by the new Pope.

Jen Craft MP: "When I was given the diagnosis of my daughter's Down's Syndrome, the next thing the midwife said to me, after 'sorry', was 'I can book you a termination within 48 hours.'"

And just like that, #AssistedDying just became a new social contract between the state and the terminally ill. Ayes 314 Noes 291. A very dark day 💔

Both Sir Edward Leigh, father of the House, and Diane Abbott, mother of the House voted against the assisted dying bill. From very different political traditions but their years of experience meant they had the wisdom to see its deep flaws.

Do we actually need a new Archbishop of Canterbury? app.independent.co.uk/2025/06/22/277…

Good morning! I’m here BBC Radio 4 Today to give my Thought for the Day - talking about listening and attentiveness - and reference to the Homewards project, working to erase homelessness. #TFTD

The Diocese of San Bernardino has suspended the Sunday Mass obligation due to fear of ICE raids. This is what the Trump-Vance agenda looks like in real life: Catholics too afraid to go to church. The MAGA assault on the Catholic Church isn't theoretical. It's happening now.

Good morning! Here BBC Radio 4 Today to give my Thought for the Day, talking about the Good Samaritan in common parlance - but what this radical teaching was really about. On air around 7.45-7.50 am approx. #TFTD

And now just a few hours to go until the start of BBC Proms. Weeks of music stretching ahead.

Older readers will understand why, whenever I see this sign in the Palm house at Kew Gardens, it reminds me of former Tory leader Michael Howard and his sometimes distinctive pronunciation of certain words.

Who’s next for Westminster? Catherine Pepinster’s guide to the runners & riders: “the nuncio’s chief priority must be to avoid the embarrassments of some recent appointments” thetablet.co.uk/features/whos-…

According to Frank Cottrell-Boyce on BBC Radio 4 Today, Richmal Crompton’s William is one of the great cultural figures. We need children to have William-like childhoods: making their own entertainment, alleviating their own boredom.

Good morning! I’m here BBC Radio 4 Today to give my Thought for the Day - on the new production of A Man For All Seasons and what Thomas More tells us about statesmanship. On air 7.45-50 am approx. #TFTD

Watching Tom & Jerry’s

Newman, the remarkable Englishman who is being named as a Doctor of the Church. My take for @telegraph (behind a paywall but do subscribe): telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/1…

Good morning! I’m here at New Broadcasting House BBC Radio 4 Today to give my Thought for the Day about Ukraine, the war, children - some very special images of Mary. On air 7.45-7.50 am approx. #TFTD

Catherine Pepinster BBC Radio 4 Today Thank you Catherine Pepinster for your thought provoking and powerful words about children in war, and my paintings depicting the ongoing horrors and suffering for the children of Ukraine in #ThoughtForTheDay #TrumpPutinMeeting

Morning! I’m at the BBC to give my Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 Today and the topic is three score years and ten - the biblical span of life, and plans to make the pension age 70. On air 7.45-7.50 am approx. #TFTD.