Letters

Faith the solution

Tim Coyle

Contents - Jul 2014 - Buy a copy now Editorial: NSW child sex abuse report released - Peter Westmore Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land - AD2000 Report News: The Church Around the World Pauline Fathers: Opening of Mercy Valley in Mareeba, North Queensland - Garry O'Brien Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia - Br Barry Coldrey Nigeria: Oka Obulu Uzo: leading by example - Madonna Brosnan Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world? - Patrick Byrne Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia - Michael E. Daniel Life: a gift of inestimable value - Anne Lastman Apps: Smartphone Catholic apps for all purposes - Peter Westmore Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists - CNA-EWTN REPORT Egpyt: Bishop sees hope for Egypt's Christians Letters: Faith the solution - Tim Coyle Letters: Divine Office on PC - John Rayner Letters: Human rights priorities - Richard Congram Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: HE LEADETH ME, by Fr Walter J Ciszek SJ - Michael Daniel Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

The society we used to know continues to fragment into the bizarre nonsense of biological inaccuracies, males claiming the Medicare benefit for abortion, and with same sex marriage only a Prime Minister away.

Australia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, reflecting the shocking failure of the social experiment of artificial contraception and the exposure of hormone-soaked young people to media-promoted sexual liberation, and the disastrous experiment of condom promotion epidemiology, which in fact has stimulated many young people to become sexually active.

One would like to think there has been some realisation that pregnancy and some nasty infections are in fact related to sexual intercourse and activity, which in itself must be addressed.

However, I regret that the focus is now on long-acting implantable hormones for women, an attitude to women to which any self-respecting feminist should be loudly objecting.

As Catholics, enlightened as we are, there must be a self-sacrificing lead which is the only way to bring about change. More faith, more trust in Jesus Christ and His Church and less recourse to the theologians of convenience.

TIM COYLE (DR)
Cairns, North Queensland

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 27 No 6 (July 2014), p. 15