The Week According To . . . Caroline Farrow

For our first news review of the new year we welcome the return of the undauntable Caroline Farrow to pick through some of news stories that have got us talking this week and we will also question her about the heinous allegations of self-trolling!!
We look at the councillor getting a visit from the police for stating 'Trans rights are boring', JK Rowling gets displaced by an Olympic legend, an important legal win for Christian freedoms, The Pope hit's out at selfish pet owning couples, Gruffalo author stands up for our muzzled children and we can't ignore Sajid Javid getting owned by a brave NHS anesthetist on Sky News.... lol !

In 2010, frustrated by many of the media headlines and negative coverage of Catholicism, Caroline began a blog in defence of Catholic teaching and to reflect on UK current affairs and world events through the lens of a Catholic woman. What began as nothing more than personal musings designed to explain and propose controversial ethics and life issues to those who had struggled with them, or to de-bunk misleading narratives and headlines, soon mushroomed and popular posts would receive more than 30,000 unique visitors a day. Between 2011 and 2017, she was a member of the organisation Catholic Voices, set up to promote the defence of Catholic teaching in the public square and made numerous media interventions on their behalf and quickly became the 'go to' voice for media organisations looking to represent a female conservative Catholic point of view. Since 2013 Caroline has written a weekly column for the Catholic Universe and written for and featured in a number of other publications such as the Catholic Herald, the National Catholic Register, the Conservative Woman, Mercatornet, Crisis Magazine, LifeSiteNews and Church Militant. She used to write on Catholic culture at the now defunct Spectator Arts blog and has been featured in the Daily Mail, the Observer and the New Statesman. In 2013, Caroline was included as part of the first cohort of the BBC's '100 women' and she regularly features on BBC News, Sky News, ITV's Good Morning Britain, BBC Sunday Morning Live, the Big Questions and has made multiple appearances on Radio 4's flagship Today programme, Woman's Hour, the Moral Maze and the Sunday programme as well as featuring in one-off documentaries. Caroline also presented the coverage for March for Life UK for EWTN and has contributed to News Nightly and Celtic Connections. She also frequently contributes to Talk Radio, LBC and BBC local radio as well as BBC Radio Ulster, discussing matters pertaining to Catholicism, feminism and the challenges of motherhood and family life. Caroline has an eclectic career background. She began her professional life as a student accountant for a big 5 firm before succumbing to a desire for travel and adventure and became a member of cabin crew working both long and short-haul routes for internationally acclaimed airlines. Having got the travel bug out of her system, she returned to work within investment banking and private equity in the City of London until her first child was born. Caroline is currently the campaign director at CitizenGO, has 5 children of school-age, four girls and one boy and is married to a Catholic priest who converted from Anglicanism, a few years after they were married.

Follow Caroline on GETTR and Twitter @CF_Farrow and online https://www.carolinefarrow.net

Originally broadcast 8.1.22
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Links to the stories discussed in this episode
The Alphabet Soup of Sexuality
Police visit parish councillor's home to warn him he faces arrest over Facebook post that read 'trans rights are very, very boring'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10380107/Police-visit-parish-councillors-home-warn-faces-arrest-Facebook-post.html
School that cancelled JK Rowling and replaces her with Kelly Holmes is ridiculed because of Olympic legend’s own controversial comments about transgender athletes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10373185/Ridicule-school-axed-JK-Rowling-Kelly-Holmes.html
Christian Freedoms
Mary’s win over cross is for all Christians
https://universecatholicweekly.co.uk/marys-win-over-cross-is-for-all-christians/
Children vs Pets
Pope Francis hits out at 'selfish' couples who have pets instead of children as he calls for parents to have more offspring to solve the West's 'demographic winter'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10371579/Pope-Francis-hits-selfish-couples-pets-instead-children.html
Covid
'Masks in class is alien… dystopian': The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson hits out at children wearing face coverings, saying their learning shouldn’t be 'sacrificed' to save the NHS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10380847/The-Gruffalo-author-Julia-Donaldson-73-brands-making-pupils-wear-masks-class-dystopian.html
COVID-19: Sajid Javid directly challenged on mandatory coronavirus jabs by unvaccinated NHS doctor
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-sajid-javid-directly-challenged-on-mandatory-coronavirus-jabs-by-unvaccinated-nhs-doctor-12511224