Massive Changes Needed in EU Family Policy to Avoid Demographic “Catastrophe” – new report

The news about abortion, marriage, divorce and the birth rate in Europe is bad and only getting worse, a report recently presented to the EU said.
According to the report by the Institute for Family Policies abortion rates in Britain have leaped by a third among unmarried teenage girls and abortion is helping to age the [...]

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Who Are The Neoconservatives? An Interview With Michael Novak

Prominent writer, thinker, and Crisis Magazine co-founder Michael Novak talks with Italian scholar Alia K. Nardini about neoconservatism, Catholicism, and the future of the West.

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More Condoms, Fewer Poor People in Developing Nations will Solve Climate Change: UNFPA

The fight against “climate change” can be won with the distribution of more free condoms and decreases in population, especially in the developing areas of the world, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said in a report.
“Women with access to reproductive health services … have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in [...]

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Herald removes biased statement – did they read our blog post?

Last Friday we reported about the blatant, and completely ludicrous, partisan politics that the NZ Herald had engaged in when reporting on the March for Democracy protest.
It seems that someone at the Herald may have read our blog commentary challenging their very unabashed bias in renaming the March for Democracy the “DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO [...]

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For all her courage under fire, Carrie Prejean was never the right choice to front family values

Poor Carrie Prejean. The dethroned Miss California USA, who won the admiration of family values America for defending marriage in front of the nation, is sinking in the mire of a sex scandal. Not the sort that has dragged greater stars from the public firmament — the marital infidelities of an Eliot Spitzer, a Mark [...]

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An attack on a flawed philosopher shows the deficiencies of political correctness

Steady on. Are these politically-correct writers serious? Do they really believe that German and English skinheads will stop tattooing their noggins with swastikas because they can’t read Heidegger? The likelihood of a youth who reads Heidegger joining a neo-Nazi outfit is near zero. If Heidegger was a Nazi, he is a defanged Nazi.
Ideas do have [...]

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Reluctance among Clergy to speak about the Catholic Sexual Ethic

Some informative reading…
In 1976 the Catholic Theological Society of America endorsed the publication of a book on Catholic sexual ethics, entitled HUMAN SEXUALITY: New Directions in American Catholic Thought. It was authored by Fr. Anthony Kosnik and several others. Many seminaries used this as a text for sexual ethics during the 1980s and 1990s. You [...]

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What the heck is wrong with the NZ Herald?!!

I was reading the NZ Herald this morning (their online version) and I came across this article about the March for Democracy, which is happening in Auckland tomorrow.
The main body of the article wasn’t too bad, and I think that it actually provided some good balance, especially to the ridiculous comments made by the Children’s [...]

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LIFE MATTERS: IVF – our failure to teach is aiding injustice

Life Matters is a weekly opinion column which appears
EXCLUSIVELY on Semper Vita every Friday morning

By Brendan Malone
Being the media spokesperson for Family Life International means that I regularly get contacted by journalists asking for comment and interviews on important pro-life issues, and usually this is no big deal, except when it comes to one particular [...]

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Amnesty International Pushes “Gay Marriage” Down Under

Activist organization Amnesty International is putting its weight behind an Australian bill seeking to legalize “same-sex marriage” in that country, claiming that “internationally recognized” non-discrimination norms dictate such a result.
In a submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Australia’s Senate, Amnesty’s Australian affiliate contends that laws limiting the right to marry to opposite-sex [...]

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