Friday, May 27, 2011

Anaesthetist charged over hepatitis C outbreak - But don't mention abortion

It seems someone at the ABC went out of their way not to associate this criminal activity with the Abortion Industry - ditto for the ABC's radio news as well. Abortion isn't mentioned in the story or the articles tags.

From ABC News - 27th May 2011

Police have charged a doctor as part of an investigation into a hepatitis C outbreak at a Melbourne medical clinic.

Forty-nine women were infected after being treated at the Croydon Day Surgery in 2008 and 2009.

All of the woman have the same strain of hepatitis C as their anaesthetist, Dr James Latham Peters.

The 61-year-old Hawthorn man is facing 162 charges, including 54 counts each of conduct endangering life and negligently and recklessly causing serious injury.

Peters appeared relaxed in the dock of the Melbourne Magistrates' Court during a brief court appearance.

He was released on bail on strict conditions and had to provide a $200,000 surety.

He will return to court in August.

Continue reading at the ABC

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Pro-life mum faces threat of jail

The Catholic Leader
Published: 15 May 2011
By: Paul Dobbyn

Anne Rampa protests at an abortion clinic

A CATHOLIC mother of seven, who recently received an eight-month suspended jail sentence for taking part in a protest vigil outside a Brisbane abortion clinic, has asked for prayers as she considers her future.

Anne Rampa, of Dayboro, north-west of Brisbane, was arrested with Annerley father of six Graham Preston, outside a Greenslopes abortion clinic on February 18.

Once charged, Ms Rampa accepted bail on condition of not returning to the abortion clinic until after her court case had been heard.

Mr Preston refused to accept the condition and had already served 70 days in jail on remand when he appeared in court.

Ms Rampa and Mr Preston represented themselves in Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 28.

Both belong to the group Protect Life and have often protested outside abortion clinics since the group's formation in 2002.

Continue reading at The Catholic Leader

Cardinal Burke: On the Theo-Centric Character of the Catholic Liturgy

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke from Province of Saint Joseph on Vimeo.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tim Minchin - !@%# his Pope Song

Comedian Tim Minchin will be in Brisbane in March. Like many comedians he's sometimes funny and sometimes a complete tosser. Minchin's "Pope Song" shows just how ugly the comedian can be. The "Pope Song" is a completely unwarranted attack on Pope Benedict XVI filled with one lie after another. Given Tim Minchin declares himself a fan of Richard Dawkins one shouldn't be surprised at his difficulty with facts.

Tim Minchin's "Pope Song" with a running commentary can be seen below.
Click the "YouTube" or expansion button for a better view. Warning - much swearing.



Of course there is no credible evidence that the Pope is guilty of anything Minchin accuses him of. So why write the song, if not to give expression to his own bigoted anti-Catholic feelings.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

A victory for truth: the life of Bernard Nathanson

An unlikely hero of human dignity died this week, a doctor who once performed thousands of abortions.

Carolyn Moynihan | Thursday, 24 February 2011. MercatorNet.com

During four decades of the abortion wars in the United States there has been much traffic across the battle lines. Many who should have been on the pro-life side positioned themselves in the opposite ranks -- the deceptively named Catholics for a Free Choice is the prime example. This was the easy path, a case of going with the cultural flow under the influence of leading institutions in the media and political life.

Defections from the pro-abortion side, however, have been much more significant, not to mention heroic. Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff of the 1973 Supreme Court case which issued in the legalising of abortion throughout the US, became a high profile opponent of abortion and eventually petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn its Roe v Wade decision. Many others have followed her in the public renunciation of the killing of unborn children, most recently Abby Johnson, a young Planned Parenthood clinic operator from Texas, whose story was published last month.

But no convert to the pro-life cause comes near in prominence or influence to Dr Bernard Nathanson, one of the original abortion rights campaigners, who died on Monday at the age of 84. Dr Nathanson, did as much as anyone to launch abortion as a regular means of birth control, but for that very reason he also did more to discredit it once he faced the truth about this “procedure” and began to write and speak against it.

Continue reading A victory for truth: the life of Bernard Nathanson at MercatorNet.com

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Christian anthropology versus the Sexual Revolution

PETER KREEFT

How does Christ revolutionize the Sexual Revolution? Not by turning back the clock, not by a new Victorianism, not by opposing religion to sex, but by showing their real and profound connection.

To see that the Sexual Revolution has been radical in thought as well as behavior, just look at the revolution in language. When people use the word "morality" today they almost always mean sexual morality. That's a remarkable new development, an astonishing narrowing; it's as if we started to use the word "state" to mean only Russia, or the word "technology" to mean only "computers". The reason for the new development is obvious from my two comparisons: sex, Russia, and computers are where there have been the most radical revolutions.

No one speaks of a revolution in any other area of morality. No one speaks of the Property Revolution or the Bearing False Witness Revolution. In fact the rest of the natural moral law is pretty much still in place. Almost no one defends terrorism, sadism, cannibalism, insider trading, nuclear war, environmental pollution, rape, hypocrisy, torture, or murder. We are still "judgmental" about those things. But if it has anything to do with sex we dare no longer be "judgmental".

Continue reading Christian anthropology versus the Sexual Revolution

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

What Pope Benedict actually said about condom use.

What Pope Benedict actually said:
"There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality. " - Pope Benedict XVI

Read more by George Weigel at,
Deflating the New York Times' Condom Scoop
No, the Pope did not change Catholic teaching on condoms.

Also from Patrick Coffin and Jimmy Akin on Catholic Answers:

Condom-mania still going strong

From Bill Donohue at the Catholic League (USA):

Metro News is reporting that today the Bloomberg administration is launching an iPhone app that allows users to find the nearest place to receive free condoms. The following is Bill Donohue's quote to Metro News:
"Condomania has reached new heights of delirium with this latest iPhone app gimmick. Every year the Bloomberg administration gives away more free condoms, and every year the rates of STD's climb. They are impervious to reason--they never get it."

Cases of STDs reported by state health departments: United States, 1997-2009

Saturday, February 12, 2011

House of Horror mastermind Tania Staker jailed for 10 years | Courier Mail

You have to wonder why no Government agency uncovered this horror earlier. Twenty people living in one house and nobody thinks that maybe something is not right?

A WOMAN who masterminded a cruel regime of starvation "beyond comprehension" and fuelled by jealousy has been jailed for 10 years.

Today, the Supreme Court in Adelaide jailed Tania Marie Staker, 36, for her role in the neglect of five children at a northern suburbs house between February and June 2008.

Three men - the children's father Luke Armistead, 38, Michael Quinlivan, 27, and Robert Armistead, 41 - were each sentenced to nine years in prison.

In sentencing, Justice Kevin Duggan said each of the adults had inflicted a daily routine of punishment "beyond comprehension" on the five siblings.

"It reached a point where the children were made to stand against a wall without moving ... they were made to stand in the same position from morning until night."

Each of the children were beaten, starved, choked and fed only the scraps left over after the other 21 children in the house had eaten a share of hot chips or noodles.

Continue reading House of Horror mastermind Tania Staker jailed for 10 years | Courier Mail

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Who was missing from the March for Life?… The news media.

by Sheila Liaugminas | 28 Jan 2011
March for Life Last year Newsweek tried to claim young women were the ones missing. That fallacy exposed, they tried just ignoring it this year. So did most other big outlets. But media blackouts don’t work anymore. Except to marginalize the media…
In all the places that did cover Monday’s massive March for Life on the Mall of Washington, one theme emerged more than ever before: “the new face of the pro-life movement is young, vocal and rapidly expanding.”
Continue reading at MercatorNet.com

What the media refused to show:




But we've seen the media blackout before:

Abortionist charged with murder

by Sheila Liaugminas | 27 Jan 2011

New Born Baby Jarring headline. Not that abortion doesn’t take human life every day. But startling to see that law enforcement and media actually noticed.

It took a particularly gruesome example to get their attention.

Continue reading Abortionist charged with murder at MercatorNet.com

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Abduction, identity and donor babies

Most media miss the obvious

Carolyn Moynihan | 24 Jan 2011
The story of Carlina White, the American woman who was abducted as a baby and has only just found her mother and her own identity, has made world headlines. But how many journalists are drawing the obvious moral of the story: kids need to know who they are.
Right now, babies are being concocted in laboratories around the world from the ova and/or sperm of anonymous donors and in some cases carried to birth by surrogate mothers -- all to satisfy the desires of adults to have a child. Their successes will be written up with sentimental approval.
Continue reading Abduction, identity and donor babies at MercatorNet.com

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Couple aborts twin boys for girl | Herald Sun

“It’s All About Me.” More disgusting behaviour from supporters of abortion and IVF.

January 08, 2011

A COUPLE so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the sex of their next child.

The couple, who have three sons and still grieve for a daughter they lost soon after birth, are going to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to win the right to select sex by IVF treatment.
They say they want the opportunity to have the baby daughter they were tragically denied.
An independent panel, known as the Patient Review Panel, recently rejected the couple's bid to choose the sex of their next child using IVF.
They have gone to VCAT in a bid to have that decision overturned.

Continue reading Couple aborts twin boys for girl | Herald Sun

Monday, January 3, 2011

Courtyard of the Gentiles to promote dialogue between believers and nonbelievers



From RomeReports.com

Top 10 Vatican news stories from 2010



From RomeReports.com

Courier Mail Continue Their Hate

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The Courier Mail continues to show its dislike of the Catholic Church and in particular the Papacy. The Courier Mail thinks a sign from the Protest the Pope Rally, which is factually wrong in 3 out of 4 of its statements, is one of the best protest signs for the year 2010.