Lifelines

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 [...]

This article first appeared in the online version of the Catholic Weekly in the 19th April edition.   A couple of weeks ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article [...]

Written by Kathy Thompson   Today the Australian High Court unanimously acquitted Cardinal George Pell of historic child abuse charges. Cardinal Pell was charged with the ignominious crime [...]

Written by Kathy Thompson   This article is based on a work by Roberto de Mattei, on the life of Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliviera called, “Prophet of the Reign of Mary.” Catholics who live the [...]

Written by Kathy Thompson   “They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord; and I know not where they have laid him.” [John 20:13] [...]

Written by Kathy Thompson   While in the US, I had the opportunity to catch up with several prominent pro-life leaders. I asked three of them what they would say to Australian pro-lifers who [...]

By Sarah Quale, originally pubished on personhood.org Now that the celebrations surrounding the latest Guttmacher abortion report have settled down, it’s time to look past the rhetoric on both [...]

The brilliant blue sky was the perfect setting for the 18th Day of the Unborn Child in Sydney to be led by His Grace, Archbishop Anthony Fisher following on from the 10.30am Mass at St. Mary’s [...]

Communist Russia was the first country to legalise abortion. It was in 1917, two years after Our Lady appeared at Fatima. The communist regime had birth control high on its agenda and with [...]

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 [...]

The true cost of our cultural decline                                    Judging from the recent media reports about me, you’ll know that I’m not your typical politician. In fact, [...]

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 [...]

It is with gratitude to God that we report the closing of a once-thriving abortion mill. After many years in the business of death, the Marie Stopes facility in Homebush NSW, has folded. Since [...]

For many of us around the country the Northern Territory election would not register on our radar at all. Not even Newspoll, who monitor the political heartbeat of the nation, bother to run polls [...]

In this article I argue that Western nations are in terminal decline unless they can rediscover the true meaning and value of marriage and of the blessing of children as a gift to married couples [...]

Pater Noster… When teaching his disciples how to pray, Jesus began with ‘Our Father’. He addressed God as ‘Abba’, and taught us to do the same. This was a term equivalent to ‘Daddy’, or the [...]

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 [...]

When my baby goes to Rio (+20) would she be welcome? The United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development was held between June 20-22 with over 50,000 people registered to attend and [...]