Pro-Life

Peter Singer is the Ira W De Camp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at Melbourne University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In June 2012 he [...]

A characteristic mark of a society drifting towards totalitarianism is that its political, economic and cultural elites wield power so as to suppress expressions of opposition from those who [...]

It’s not an exaggeration to say that FLI’s recent conference was the best I’ve ever attended. With a line-up of engaging speakers, a thoroughly family-friendly venue, a hard-working and helpful [...]

Australians have had a more or less universal medical coverage since 1975 with the introduction of Medibank and later in 1984, of Medicare. This system was modelled on the first true [...]

A lustful world with its unrestrained and immoral sexual activity creates a demand for abortion as the back-up for failed contraception. Any method of abortion which can streamline the process, [...]

I was expecting to be encouraged by the retreat with Monsignor Reilly. I was expecting to come away on fire for the pro-life cause. I was expecting to return with revolutionary ideas that would [...]

If you had told me that I would return from New York to write the following, I would not have believed you. I could not have believed that one would return from the most vibrant, colourful, [...]

The pro-life retreat held in Brooklyn, New York at the Monastery of the Precious Blood from the 28th June to the 1st of July was, for me at least, long anticipated. I had heard a rough idea of [...]

When I returned from New York, the first question put to me by family and friends was: “Well, how was it?” After floundering about for an adjective, or scraps of a sentence to describe my [...]

The group of young Australians with whom I travelled to New York give a joyful example to the world of how to live! These young people generously give of themselves and their time to pro-life [...]

I prefer to refer to same-sex marriage instead of Gay Marriages or Homosexual Marriages because the terms are clearer and clarity is what is sorely needed in this debate. Often verbal engineering [...]

The retreat to New York is now a memory but is certainly not something that will be forgotten by me or any of those who attended. It would be fair to say that it lived up to my highest [...]

Between the 24th of June and the 6th of July, I had the fantastic opportunity to join a group of young Australians for a retreat in New York run by Monsignor Reilly. I and two other young people [...]

The time spent on retreat with Monsignor Reilly in New York has had a profound effect on both my spiritual life and the way I perceive life issues such as abortion and contraception. Here I will [...]

The pro-life retreat which took place from the 24th of June to the 8th of July was truly inspirational to not only myself but to the group of 30 young Australian Catholics who attended. When I [...]

Out of a Philadelphia abortuary comes a grisly tale of horror that could have been made in China. “Pennsylvania is not a third-world country,” the grand jury investigating abortionist Kermit [...]

“My soul doth magnify the Lord!” Mary’s words of praise and exultation arising from the breathtaking events of her life I assign to the grand event of your marriages: Your marriage doth magnify [...]

We hear a lot about breast cancer awareness these days and the need for regular mammograms and fund raising for research. What we don’t hear about is the well established connection between [...]

The worldwide 40 Days community concluded their respective Lenten campaigns for life at the stroke of midnight Palm Sunday evening. It was the sixth centrally coordinated 40 Days effort since the [...]

  ‘Pray to End Abortion’ is the concise slogan of the 40 Days for Life campaign. This exhortation implies that it is possible to bring an end to abortion – completely. In the political arm [...]