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Letter to China
HURT A new Perth initiative aims to help women overcome the grief no-one warned them about - the silent epidemic of suffering caused by abortion
Banned on the internet within 24 hours of its release, Pope Benedict’s historic letter to the faithful of China offers a vision for a way forward. What is its significance, and can the Chinese Government live with one Catholic Church?
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Elaborate embryo lie Bioethicist says stem cells licences show federal MPs were hoodwinked into 2006 vote ■ By Anthony Barich
Two more deacons join the fold
The Southern Cross Bioethics Institute in Adelaide, Australia has exposed the global push for therapeutic cloning and the destruction of human embryos for research as an elaborate cover-up by the IVF industry for other motives. Fr John Fleming, adjunct lecturer at the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, said he has never believed that stem cell research was the real agenda for embryonic research. “If you look at the literature – and we’ve done plenty of research – the vast amount of reasons why embryos are used in experimentation have nothing to do with stem cells but everything to do with in vitro fertilisation, the testing of certain toxic products on embryos, the development of new contraceptives and so on,” said Fr Fleming. Fr Fleming speaks with the authority of one who has been a member of the Biotechnology Consultative Group advising the Commonwealth Biotechnology Ministerial Council and UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) International Bioethics Committee that developed the “Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights”. He was also a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998. “The stem cell debate was very appealing – ‘we’re going to be able to cure everything the universe has ever known about disease’ – not,” he said. “That was the beach-head to break open the question of embryo research Continued - Page 2
Ordinariate faces crisis ■ By Anthony Barich
The Catholic Diocese of the Australian Defence Force will be shut down if up to 20 priests can’t be found to minister to the country’s servicemen and women, according to its Bishop Max Davis. Bishop Davis, who took possession of the See in 2003, said the ADF requires 22 full-time Catholic chaplains for the army and has only three – only one of whom is young enough to be deployed. The other two are too senior, and one of whom has been in the army long enough to be a full Colonel in terms of his insignia, “and when you’ve got the commanding officer of a unit as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he doesn’t like to be outranked by the chaplain, and that makes life difficult for him,” the Bishop said. By the end of 2007 there will be only 10 full-time chaplains in the ADF against 34 established billets. Bishop Davis says Australia has 3000 soldiers deployed around Continued - Page 7 Gratitude: Newly-ordained Deacon Ernesto Cerrutti takes the hand of Archbishop Hickey in thanks following his ordination last Friday 6 July. Deacon Cerrutti was ordained together with Manoel Lopes Borges; both have been studying for several years at the archdiocesan Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminary run under the auspices of the Neocatechumenal Way. With more than 250 people present, the occasion PHOTO: JAMIE O’BRIEN was a joyous one. Full Story, photos: Page 3
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ET CUM SPIRITU TUO The Holy Father’s motu proprio liberalising access to the Latin Mass has been widely welcomed by those who yearn for its return - and a younger generation discovering it.
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