Pro-Life

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While there has been much focus on ‘same sex marriage’ in the media, there is another dark horse emerging from the wings. Recently in the United States, a ruling by the Equal Employment [...]

Peter Singer is the Ira W De Camp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at Melbourne University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In June 2012 he [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Australians have had a more or less universal medical coverage since 1975 with the introduction of Medibank and later in 1984, of Medicare. This system was modelled on the first true [...]

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 was expecting to be encouraged by the retreat with Monsignor Reilly. I was expecting to come away on fire for the pro-life cause. I was expecting to return with revolutionary ideas that would [...]

If you had told me that I would return from New York to write the following, I would not have believed you. I could not have believed that one would return from the most vibrant, colourful, [...]

The pro-life retreat held in Brooklyn, New York at the Monastery of the Precious Blood from the 28th June to the 1st of July was, for me at least, long anticipated. I had heard a rough idea of [...]