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Victorian Government is usurping parental rights

Written by Kathy Clubb Although there are many reasons not to support the ALP at Victoria’s upcoming state election, there is none of more concern to parents than Labor’s horrific policy regarding “gender affirmation.” Of particular interest is the section on parental consent which makes it clear that this policy completely strips away the […]
Love & the Atheist

Written by Michael Baker September 21, 2022 – St Matthew Published on Super Flumina It is a principle underlying sound philosophy that every creature loves itself. Every thing created owes its essence (what it is) and its existence (that it is) to an Author. Its desire for continuance, its opposition to any influence that […]
A Rose among the Synodal Thorns

Written by Kathy Clubb When Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote that the Our Lord’s crowning with thorns was suffered by Him in reparation for sins of the intellect, he could have had in mind the kind of intellectual pride that is currently on display at the various national Synods. Australia’s Plenary Council is a good […]
Senate to debate bill aiming to overturn NT and ACT euthanasia ban

The Restoring Territory Rights Bill, which aims to overturn the 25-year-old ban on euthanasia laws in the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory, will be introduced into the Senate this week. It comes after the private members bill passed the House of Representatives, 99 votes to 37, on August 3. If the bill passes the […]
Post-pandemic fear lives on

Dr. Wanda Skowronska Many use the term ‘post-pandemic’ of our times, full of hope that the worst events of the past two years are fading. Though some of these excesses have faded into the past – queues in supermarkets, lockdowns, closure of churches and police aggression against protestors – there remains, however, a residual […]
A very sincere thank you to all our supporters

I would like to express my thanks to all our supporters for the response to our “Urgent Appeal” which was emailed on 31st May and sent by post on the 6th June. The response was very edifying of the work that has been done at FLI over many years in the defence and promotion […]
Exorcists are seeing harmful consequences from smoking ceremonies

Written by Kathy Clubb Although elements of paganism have been creeping into various parishes and dioceses for some time, the blatant idolatry on display during the 2019 Amazon Synod really opened the floodgates. Since that time, faithful Catholics in the West have been inundated by indigenous emblems, prayers and rituals in what appears […]
Vic Labor votes down bill which would force public hospitals to perform abortions

August 19, 2022 Victoria’s Labor Party has voted down Fiona Patten’s Health Legislation Amendment (Conscientious Objection) Bill which aimed to expand abortion access by preventing publicly funded hospitals from refusing to perform abortions. The bill would have also forced all taxpayer-funded hospitals – including those with religious affiliations – to perform euthanasia. The […]
Victoria’s Catholic Hospitals Dodge a Bullet

Written by Kathy Clubb In an astounding reversal, a proposed law that would have forced Catholic hospitals to provide abortions was rejected by Victoria’s Upper House this week. Put forward by Fiona Patten of the Reason Party, the Health Legislation (Conscientious Objection) bill was designed to make Catholic and other denominational public hospitals […]
Vic MP pushes for religious hospitals to be forced to perform abortions

August 08, 2022 Victorian MP Fiona Patten is pushing a new bill which aims to take away the rights of publicly funded hospitals with religious affiliations to refuse to perform abortions and euthanasia. The state’s current laws allow women to access an abortion at up to 24 weeks into their pregnancy. Abortions can still […]