Monday morning, first day back from the holidays and after some prayers, I'm sitting at my desk checking the voicemail. I had a message from a lovely lady who had organised a group of women to knit baby clothes for…
Author: Frank Fischer
A bitter pill
This week’s news has yet another report of an otherwise young and healthy women who died needlessly. The cause of death, a blood clot. And the likely reason is a medication she was taking. And the sad part is that…
Mary’s “yes”
Advent is well under way now, and we are counting down the days until Christmas, the birth of the Christ child. The Christmas story is one we all know well, and in all the celebration we can forget that it…
Why are they not telling women the information they want about abortion and breast cancer?
I had a few 'pro-choice' activists visit me in the office this week. They were obviously wanting to know a bit about what we are doing, and were polite enough to visit in person. This differs greatly from my experience…
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Condoms and HIV
It is frequently stated that condoms are the solution to the AIDS epidemic. We have had condoms for a long time, and they are plentiful, cheap, and their use is advocated to virtually every school student in the country many…
Bishop Colin Campbell officially opens Dunedin’s John Paul II Centre for Life
Family Life International NZ’s new John Paul II Centre for Life in Dunedin was officially opened on Sunday the 10th of November by Bishop Colin Campbell who is the Centre’s Patron. The opening and blessing was witnessed by a capacity…
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Why does Cecile Richards want the Pope silenced?
Why does Cecile Richards want the Pope silenced? Specifically, why does Planned Parenthood want the Holy See thrown out of the UN? I was surprised to see the “See Change” campaign surface again. I thought it had died a natural…
Professor says sex ed for boys needs to be ‘vulgar’
Professor Alan McKee says that sex education classes aren’t reaching boys. And he has a point. You only need to look at our teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates to know that the current comprehensive sex education isn’t working.…
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Virtue and Public Policy
Chastity has had a bad press of late. It almost sounds like something that should have been left in the Victorian era. But it still has an important role now. A great example of this is the role chastity had…