Tag: Life Issues
Reading the signs of the times
By Patrick O’Shea
Understanding what’s happening at a deeper level is important. It points us to the solutions
A common soundbite I hear in relation to...
Living Well, Dying Well
An innovative new program has been launched drawing upon the rich pastoral traditions of the church to help accompany the dying
People living with a...
Drop dead disgrace
Two leaders, both the heads of their respective parties, opposed euthanasia in NSW.
Yet it still became the law. Instead, internal opposition to the legalised...
Law a victory for lost sense of life
Writing about the struggle between the “culture of life” and “culture of death", St John Paul II said that the deepest roots of the...
Dr Bernadette Tobin: Legalise Euthanasia: watch it break out
To legalise so-called voluntary assisted dying is to legalise a practice that predictably and inevitably expands. There is plenty of evidence of bracket creep...
Editorial: Euthanasia’s backers: all talk, no answers
In recent weeks The Catholic Weekly has devoted its editorial attention to the issue of euthanasia and the purely emotive campaign which underpins current...
Monica Doumit: Those damn Catholics who won’t shut up
Bernard Nathanson was a US abortionist who performed about 5000 abortions, including the abortion of his own child, and presided over tens of thousands...
Q&A with Fr Flader: Biden and the Eucharist
Dear Father, President Joe Biden of the US, who is a Catholic, has expressed publicly his support for abortion rights, yet he continues to...
Monica Doumit: We will never be silenced
This week marks one year since abortion was decriminalised in New South Wales. One year since that horrid bill, the product of dodgy and...
Monica Doumit: The love that’s just too much trouble
Attitudes on end of life care reveal a double standard
We have known for a long time that those who describe themselves as pro-choice when...
Monica Doumit: No show a sign of disrespect
Anyone who has seen the film The Passion of the Christ will recall the brutal scourging scene, which lasts for some six-and-a-half minutes. Less...
Monica Doumit: Two laws for the same life
If some of the politicians who voted in favour of the abortion-till-birth bill rightly get booted from office at the next election, perhaps they...
