Last week driving home, I passed a dairy with a sign saying "Playboy Energy Drink sold here". I did a double-take. They manufacture energy drink now? Over the last few years more and more Playboy items have been filling the shelves…
Author: Michelle Kaufman
I am a Catholic mother of seven children. Blessed with an amazing husband and very supportive Mum and Dad. We live in New Zealand and are deeply involved in promoting life, faith and family through the apostolate we work for Family Life International NZ.
30 Years of Familiaris Consortio
Thirty years ago, Blessed John Paul II wrote a letter exhorting the Christian family. That apostolic exhortation was "Familiaris Consortio" or "The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World". Three decades have passed since its writing, and the…
Contradicting the Value of Preborn Children
Last week tragedy struck a family who were pregnant with 32 week old twins. One twin was found to have a congenital heart defect which for the parents was enough to warrant a death sentence. The "procedure" was duly carried out and one…
Pro-Life Politics
The elections are over. The people have spoken and New Zealand will be goverened by a National-led government. We are yet to see exactly how that government will look, and what deals John Key will do with the minor parties. We can…
Changing the Culture of Child Abuse
Yet another innocent's life has been brutally ended at the hands of those who are supposed to love and care for them. Yet again, New Zealanders are asking the question "How do we stop this endemic violence in our country?"…
Euthanasia: What It Is and What It Is Not
Given the recent resurgence of the euthanasia debate in New Zealand, it seems timely to revisit what euthanasia actually is and what it is not. In 2003, Family Life International published a resource And now... Euthanasia. The following information is directly…
To all the members of the Church
“To all the members of the Church, the people of life and for life, I make this most urgent appeal, that together we may offer this world of ours new signs of hope, and work to ensure that justice and…
Euthanasia: Killing the Suffering
Once again the issue of euthanasia has been thrust into the public arena for debate. This week Sean Davison pleaded guilty to a charge of inciting and procuring his mother's attempted suicide. The Crown then withdrew the charge of attempted murder…
Pro-Life Month – Day Thirty-One
There are some who don’t want you to know we are in a battle, even while they themselves never cease to attack. Friends, when we do get attacked and clobbered, then let us know that Christ has gone before us.…
Pro-Life Month – Day Thirty
"If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the…