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A new kind of feminism? |
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 Sunday 4 March 2012
In recent weeks we have witnessed a debate in the media over who has the right to call herself a feminist.
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Agent neutrality |
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 Sunday 5 February 2012
The Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists recently held the 2012 Annual Bioethics Colloquium in Melbourne. Here, Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini outlines the theme, 'Agent Neutrality and Moral Cooperation'.
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To Love...to the end: who will make your choices? |
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 Friday 25 November 2011
To love...to the end: who will make your choices?
By Associate Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
Do you know who will make medical decisions for you if you are not able to? Have you discussed with that person, or your next of kin, what you want? Do they agree? Should you appoint someone else?
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Christ makes our love beautiful |
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 Friday 25 November 2011
Christ makes our love beautiful
In early November, Australian Modotti Press and the BookMarks series of the Caroline Chisholm Library launched an English translation of Mgr Livio Melina’s book, Learning to Love in the School of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Mgr Melina is a major figure in the ‘nuptial mystery’ school of theology and is president of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Rome).
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Cloning takes a step forward |
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 Friday 11 November 2011
By E. Christian Brugger
The journal Nature has announced that scientists have for the first time successfully derived ‘patient specific’ stem cells from a cloned human embryo. The last time such a claim was made was by the now discredited Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk, who alleged in a 2005 paper in the journal Science that his team had procured stem cells from cloned human embryos. Subsequent investigations found that Hwang had fabricated the data.
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Patricia Neal: bearing witness |
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 Friday 14 October 2011
By Rebecca Ryskind Teti
We often hear stories of nice girls corrupted by Hollywood, but rarely of reversions to being nice girls. Here’s one such story, brought to mind by a recent re-viewing of The Fountainhead.
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Cloning and embryo research law review |
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 Thursday 15 September 2011
Australia is currently undertaking a scheduled review of its cloning and embryo research laws.
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Defending the dignity of those with dementia |
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 Friday 27 May 2011
By Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk
I once heard a remarkable story from a woman named Cecilia sitting next to me on a long flight. She told me how her mother had suffered from dementia for many years, eventually reaching the point that she could no longer recognise any of her children when they would visit at the nursing home. She then changed the tone of the conversation immediately when she added: “But there’s always someone in there.”
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Heart for photography |
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 Friday 13 May 2011
For Gavin and Kelly Blue, 20 April 2006 is a date they will never forget. On that day, their daughter Alexandra Charlotte was stillborn at 32 weeks.
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Finding forgiveness after abortion |
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 Friday 29 April 2011
By Anne Neville, Open Doors Counselling
It was a Friday evening when I first met Julie (not her real name). She came in to the retreat centre huddled deep into her overcoat and with her hair overhanging her face. She was terrified; terrified because she was about to embark on a journey that would plumb the depths of a grief so painful she had kept it pushed down for 12 long years; a grief so powerful she feared the act of bringing it out into the light would destroy her.
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