It is said that the first casualty of war is truth. The war in the Ukraine provides ample evidence of this, with very different representations of what has happened and is happening by each side, and by many other interested…
Category: Culture
Facebook censors ad for LifeFest Pro-Life Youth Event
Facebook has denied Family Life International NZ's attempt to run advertising for their LifeFest Youth Conference on 4 October. The youth event will feature His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke and Dr Gianna Emanuela Molla, the daughter of Saint Gianna…
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Egg freezing: A work benefit?
Two leading technology companies, Apple and Facebook, are funding their workers or ‘partners’ to have their eggs frozen for future IVF. This is already covered by Facebook's employee benefit plan, and Apple plans to introduce it in the 2015. Both…
The Wrong of rights
Teenagers are often accused of thinking that the world revolves around them. This phase usually passes especially after heading out into the ‘real world’ and discovering that they are but a ‘cog’ in the enormous kaleidoscope of life. We observe…
Life affirming ultrasound
I recently had the experience of sitting in on a 19 week pregnancy scan. For my wife and I it was the first chance to see our new child and as such, we were both looking forward to it. For…
The Edges of Life
The edges of life are controversial. On one side there are the debates about contraception, abortion and in vitro fertilisation. At the end of life the debates are about euthanasia, organ transplantation, and its cousin, brain death. Trauma surgeon Peter…
The Pope praises Humanae Vitae
Early this week an interview of Pope Francis was run by a major Italian newspaper. As is typical with Pope Francis, he is relaxed with the media, and shows a great deal of skill and honesty with his answers. He’s…
St John Paul II, Pope of the family
This last weekend was historic. It has been described as the day of 4 Popes. Pope Francis canonised two of his predecessors, Pope John XXIII and John Paul II, while Pope emeritus Benedict XVI was present.For us in the pro-life…
40 Days for Life
40 days of hopeI remember during my early years at university becoming friends with an exchange student from West Germany. When she left her home country, a wall divided it from the communist country of East Germany, and people had…
A Pro-life view of ‘Tolerance’
"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.” G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Something about ‘tolerance’ has always made me uncomfortable. I’ve long been aware that the loudest preachers of tolerance are the ones who are the most intolerant of…