Letters

Emily's List

Maureen Federico

Contents - Aug 2012 - Buy a copy now Assumption homily: Mary: The true Ark of the Covenant - Pope Benedict XVI Benedict XVI sets up Anglican Ordinariate for Australia - Monsignor Harry Entwistle News: The Church Around the World Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland - Br Barry Coldrey Religious freedom: US Supreme Court upholds Obamacare - Babette Francis Vocations: Australian religious Sisters: 'In the true spirit of Vatican II' - Kate Cleary MGL Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism - Philippa Le Feuvre Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family - Archbishop Barry Hickey The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history - Cedric Wright Parents' love for their children: finding the right balance - Andrew Kania Letters: Fact-filled article - Thomas and Patricia Watkin Letters: Caritas - Lance Eccles Letters: Old Testament God (1) - Fr Brian Harrison OS Letters: Old Testament God (2) - Frank Mobbs Letters: Emily's List - Maureen Federico Letters: Transubstantiation - John Young Letters: Real Presence - Theo Jorna Letters: Women priests - Francis Vrizmoed Letters: Marriage - Peter J. Young Books: LESSONS IN A ROSE-GARDEN: Reviving the Doctrinal Rosary, by Aidan Nichols O.P. - Peter Westmore (reviewer) Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools - Br Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Books: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE PRIESTLY BREAST: Procedural Justice - Michael Thomas (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: The Pietà: the love of our heavenly Mother - Anne Lastman

Congrats to the good honourable people who received a Queen's Birthday Honour and no doubt deserved it; but the Victorian ex-Premier, Joan Kirner, is not one of them. This woman campaigned relentlessly to get the "legalised" killing of unborn children at any stage of gestation made into law and she finally succeeded.

Early in her time, she also had released into the public schools, the Labor Party's "Blue Book" which condoned, even encouraged, immoral behaviour among children of any age. I think from memory it was fairly quickly withdrawn.

Ambitious Labor Party women (and some uxoriously misguided men) who promote the notorious Emily's List seem to have come to a sticky end, Kirner being one, along with Anna Bligh and probably in future one of its original architects, Julia Gillard.

Heavens above, they might all get "honours". Not from the Queen, I hope, but from the moguls who run the Labor Party and do like to have some sort of a swan-song amongst their particular gaggle of geese.

MAUREEN FEDERICO (MRS)
Frankston South, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 25 No 7 (August 2012), p. 16