under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic By the rivers of Babylon there
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What the Australian Catholic Bishops should sayI. ABORTION––What the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference should say, but won'tRecently the Australian Catholic bishops issued a media release entitled "Catholic Bishops propose abortion alternatives". It is inadequate, to say the least. What should they be saying? more II. CONTRACEPTION––What the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference should say, but won'tIf our bishops were truly Catholic they would stand up publicly for Catholic principle on the issue of contraception. They would set forth for all Australian people - not just Catholics - what the principles are and what they may, and may not, licitly do. The bishops would not persist, as they have for more than 30 years, in the poisonous attitude of remaining silent when bound, by the oaths of office they have taken, to uphold true moral teaching. more III. IVF––What the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference should say, but won'tIVF is the inevitable result of the entrenching in society of the contraceptive mentality. Australia's Catholic bishops have remained silent on contraception. Consistently with this failure, they have failed to condemn IVF. What statement should they now make in an endeavour to redress their failures and to redeem themselves?" more IV. The Seal of the ConfessionalThe Catholic Sacrament of Penance is under attack from atheistic forces using the hard case of the sexual abuse of children. We set out here the principles including the utter necessity of silence on the part of the Confessor-priest over what he has been told in Confession. more |