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Another American Abortion Election
Written by Kathy Clubb The latest – and still contested – US presidential election is yet another in the series of elections which are intimately caught up with the problem of legal abortion. Throughout recent decades US elections from the 1970’s through to Trump and Clinton and now Trump and Biden, the issue of abortion […]
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Noosa’s Black Mass: does error have rights?
An event touted as Queensland’s first public Black Mass was held in Noosa last week; it was live-streamed to an unknown number of viewers worldwide. The sold-out event – no great feat as apparently only forty tickets were available – took place in a council-owned venue known as “The J”. Readers are no doubt aware […]
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Queensland State Elections: a matter of life and death
State elections will be held in Queensland this Saturday, October 31st, with life and family issues firmly at the forefront of many voters’ minds. FLI has been exposing successive ALP governments’ perverse love of abortion for twenty-five years[1] and this election particularly highlights the issue. It was the current Labor government under Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk […]
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Victoria’s Equality for Faith Campaign
Written by Kathy Clubb Melbourne’s five million residents have been under the world’s longest-running COVID lockdown since early August, leaving churches closed with Catholics unable to attend Mass. Baptisms are banned, confession is not available in some parishes and until the Archbishop intervened last month, it was prohibited for priests to give dying Catholics the […]
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Friars penalised for criticising Parramatta curriculum
Bishop Long’s sympathies to the LGBTQI+ agenda and his new school curriculum, which promotes many errors including gender ideology, have been the source of a good deal of criticism both within and outside Australia. But rather than being disciplined for his deviations from Church teaching, it appears Bishop Long has the protection of some in […]
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What the Church Fathers said about the Council
Written by Kathy Clubb Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s recent letters condemning the Second Vatican Council have unsurprisingly provoked much debate among Catholics. There is a great deal of emotion surrounding the Council’s validity or otherwise, despite the conciliar Fathers explaining at the time that it was to be a pastoral council, and not a […]
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The James Martin effect
Written by Kathy Clubb The mention of Fr James Martin usually elicits one of two responses from Catholics: conservatives believe his approach endangers souls and harms those with same-sex attraction while liberals tend to laud him and emulate his technique. Some begin to follow him believing his views on same-sex attraction to be in […]
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Parramatta’s Education Fiasco
Written by James Parker Controversy is ablaze in Western Sydney and, once again, it is all about education. The new draft religious education curriculum for the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta claims to teach students from Years 7-12 about gender ideology, identity politics, and LGBTQ+ studies. Having been a gay activist, I recently exposed the deliberate strategies that are in […]
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Educating the next generation of nominal Catholics
Written by Kathy Clubb Parramatta Diocese’ new school curriculum is proving to be of grave concern to faithful Catholics, even though it is still in draft mode and has not yet been rolled out. Many of the wishes of parents are not being respected; some are complaining that they have not been informed about […]
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Conversion Therapy and Government assaults on True Identity
Written by James Parker If you blinked, you might have missed almost identical pieces of legislation recently passed by regional governments. Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory both adopted laws within days of each other to criminalise so-called conversion therapy. Legislation demands that health service providers reject any therapy or pastoral care which suggests […]
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