An encounter with human bioethics and ‘professional’ bioethicists can be fascinating, if sometimes frightening. Bioethics is the branch of applied ethics that deals with issues that are often, quite literally, a matter of life and
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Renaming Infanticide: is it more frightening than satire?
The Journal of Medical Ethics recently published a paper titled “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” that, as the title implies, explores the ethics of killing newborn children. The authors argued that there’s no
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Installation of the new Catholic Women’s League Australia National Executive
The Catholic Women’s League Australia (CWLA) National Executive for 2012-2013 was installed during a Mass celebrated by Father Jose Koyickal at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Townsville on Sunday 12th February. The members of the
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An Ambitious Project – Publishing a Life in Bioethics
Associate Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini is something of an Australian landmark. He is currently the Associate Dean and Head of the Bioethics Department at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne. In an earlier
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To Love Until the End: Preparing for Death with Virtue and Care
Written by Anna Krohn, National Bioethics Convenor “Told that I would die within five years (in 1977) and having become interested in philosophy, I saw no harm in making the latter my principal interest rather
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Blessing & Opening of New State Office for the Catholic Women’s League in South Australia
The new State Office for Catholic Women’s League (CWL) South Australia was officially blessed and opened by the Most Rev Phillip Wilson DD JCL, Archbishop of Adelaide and President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference,
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CWLA Launches YouTube Channel
In response to the Holy Father’s invitation to “…join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible…”, the National President of Catholic Women’s League Australia, Madge Fahy, launched CWLA’s official YouTube channel
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“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
Blessed Pope John Paul II in his book “Memory and Identity – Personal Reflections” compared the politics surrounding abortion to Hitler and the Holocaust. At the time, his comments caused some controversy. He lamented that contemporary democratic
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CWLA Newsletter – October 2011
The Catholic Women’s League of Australia has just released its latest e-newsletter. This issue includes a wonderful article by Emeritus Professor Gabrielle McMullen about the recent CWLA Biennial Conference in Melbourne as well as an article