Family

By James Parker, July 2020 What words does the phrase ‘child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church’ conjure up in your mind? Perhaps the words darkness, shame, secrets, destruction, the glory in [...]

Written by Kathy Clubb   While it has been very unsettling to watch the chain of events underway in the US due to the death of George Floyd, it has been no less disquieting to see Black [...]

Written by Kathy Clubb Reactions to the coronavirus from within the Church have been swift and in some cases startling. Many responses are based on common sense and are no different from advice [...]

A State in Slavery to Atheism Written by Michael Baker Published on Superflumina Babylonis Consider the realities in the Australian State of New South Wales.  Every day its peoples enjoy the [...]

Written by Kathy Clubb From worshipping in a mosque to getting sex ed from Mormons, Australia’s Catholic schools have definitely lost the plot. FLI has been reporting on this for years, and [...]

After ten years of failed demands for State recognition of unions between two persons of the same sex as marriages, Australians are being asked to express their view in a postal poll.

It was announced in October 2013 that a Synod on the family would be held in Rome during October 2014, followed by a General Synod of Bishops on the same topic in October of 2015. About 150 Synod [...]

This was the headline on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on 13th June 2009. Only one problem – it wasn’t true! And it still isn’t true. As a matter of fact, the then Deputy [...]

The Australia Day Life and Family national conference held in Albury NSW from 26th to 29th January this year provided a wonderful springboard for the development of many of our programmed goals [...]

Over the past year Sydney’s major universities have witnessed the emergence of several student bodies promoting intellectual discussion and philosophical debate over the major bioethical issues [...]

This is a more comprehensive version of an article that appeared in “Family World News” and “The Catholic Weekly.” Some sense of the greatness of marriage as a bond [...]

A characteristic mark of a society drifting towards totalitarianism is that its political, economic and cultural elites wield power so as to suppress expressions of opposition from those who [...]

  My pro-life missionary work has been taking me “Down Under” for 25 years but I have never been met with larger or more enthusiastic crowds than at the recent Family Life [...]

It’s not an exaggeration to say that FLI’s recent conference was the best I’ve ever attended. With a line-up of engaging speakers, a thoroughly family-friendly venue, a hard-working and helpful [...]

A lustful world with its unrestrained and immoral sexual activity creates a demand for abortion as the back-up for failed contraception. Any method of abortion which can streamline the process, [...]

I prefer to refer to same-sex marriage instead of Gay Marriages or Homosexual Marriages because the terms are clearer and clarity is what is sorely needed in this debate. Often verbal engineering [...]

White pearls and white clothing, a genteel face softly made up, a thoughtful expression and fashionably controlled hair were the images chosen to promote prenatal testing for “Down Syndrome and [...]

This year, the Feast of St James the Apostle on July 25th marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae On the regulation of birth. His Holiness [...]

I have long believed that Planned Parenthood frequently violates federal laws against the targeting of ethnic minorities, not to mention state laws against everything from late-term abortions and [...]