Letters

Courageous lead (letter)

Tom King

Contents - Jul 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Separation of Church and State? - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion - Michael Gilchhrist Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer - Joanna Bogle News: The Church Around the World Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation - Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain: 'Sure, it's a bit of a hill' - Paul Russell Letters: Synod (letter) - Lance Eccles Letters: Courageous lead (letter) - Tom King Letters: Ineffective system (letter) - John Mulholland Letters: Catholic schools (letter) - George Simpson Letters: Dating the Gospels (letter) - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Informative talk (letter) - Frank Bourke Letters: Gay lobby (letter) - Alan A. Hoysted Letters: Abusive letters - Maureen Federico Letters: Christian models (letter) - Brett Powell Letters: Christians the most vilified group (letter) - Arnold Jago Letters: Disappointment (letter) - Cathy Cleary Letters: The Passion of the Christ (letter) - June Forester Letters: Parish concerns (letter) - Peter Gilet Letters: No kneelers (letter) Letters: The power of one (letter) - Brian Harris Letters: Sacred Heart (letter) - V. Mulligan Letters: CD response (letter) - Melanie and Christopher Duluk Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement - Peter Chojnowski (reviewer) Books: An Essay on the Restoration of Property, by Hilaire Belloc - John Ballantyne (reviewer) Books: Ethics and the National Economy, by Heinrich Pesch - John Williamson (reviewer) Redemptionis Sacramentum (Sacrament of Redemption) abridged version - Fr M. Durham Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation - Fr Leo J. Trese

The courageous lead provided by Tony Abbott in placing on the public media agenda the shameful subsidising of wholesale abortion, that falls outside the parameters of medical and legal constraints, has floundered, because the Christian Churches are manifestly incompetent and disinclined to act as advocates for the slaughtered innocents.

In Queensland, the political and secular groups who profess a pro-life disposition are as usual not to be seen or heard. Will AD2000 readers initiate a public support drive aimed at funding the broadcasting of the TV documentary, My Foetus, which UK bishops and proactive Christians have so effectively utilised in recent months?

Your May 2004 article by Anthony Cappello is the stimulant we inactive pro-lifers needed. If this opportunity is neglected, we will join the host of accessories after the criminal betrayal of the 100,000 potential Australians, slaughtered with less regard than the livestock who satisfy our food requirements. Wake up Australian Christians!

TOM KING
Elanora, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 6 (July 2004), p. 13