Tag: politics
NSW Govt ‘tone deaf’ on gender in wake of Cass report
The Cass Report on gender-affirming care in the UK’s NHS is as significant to the dangers of promoting gender-affirmative treatment in kids as the 1964 Surgeon-General report was to the link between smoking and lung cancer. So why is the NSW government preparing to open a new gender clinic, writes Monica Doumit
Dr Rocco Loiacono: JPII wanted a politics of dignity, not identity
The idea of equality before the law has its origins in St Paul's Letter to the Galatians (3:28): "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, given you are all one in Christ Jesus."
How can we navigate conflict as Christians this year?
I never liked playing team games. Mainly because I was half-blind, large and slow, but also because I didn’t enjoy being part of a...
Believer in something bigger
A passion for politics was fostered by her own Catholic background and experience of Catholic education, says influential NSW Labor MP Prue Car
Despite it...
Monica Doumit: Weeding believers out of public life
A spurious ‘investigation’ and an Opposition leader terrified of the media that launched it equals the latest lesson from Victoria: don’t let those nasty...
The woman who confounds both left and right
By Lois M Collins
Elizabeth Bruenig makes no apologies. Not for her progressive politics, not for her Catholic faith and certainly not for having children...
Dear Australian politicians: back the family and you win
We can only applaud Paul Kelly, The Australian’s editor at large, for his assessment of the current election campaign last weekend. Of specific importance...
Julian Leeser: Protections for all of us
A supporter of the proposed Religious Discrimination laws, Liberal backbencher Julian Leeser, explains his position
Too often the only thing people know about the Christian...
Premier Perrottet and the mathematics of defeat
In Hornblower, the British Admiralty tasks Captain Edmund Pellew and his frigate to remain as a retreat option in case a military campaign in...
Dr Kevin Donnelly: The PM and Christianity
Every decision made in politics and government is informed and influenced by a particular philosophy or belief system
As argued by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP,...
Peter Rosengren: Time to make the family our priority
Who will bat for Australian families at the political level?
It is entirely legitimate to question whether politics in Australia today is little more than...
Benjamin Conolly: Stop celebrating death
The prolife movement doesn’t need supporters who approve the tragic deaths of our opponents
In the age of global news, I find it interesting how...
