Never has it been made so glaringly obvious that it no longer matters that abortion kills a living baby. Several headlines in the media said it all on 24 November, 2011. "Medical bungle at Royal Women’s Hospital kills healthy fetus," read one in the Herald Sun. "Healthy foetus accidentally terminated,"’, said another on the ABC website. "Royal Women’s Hospital investigates accidental term...

I had an interesting discussion with my children on the way home from Mass last week. We had just had our first experience of the full revised prayers of the Mass. Previously, at various parishes we attend, there has been partial introduction of the new words and they seem to favour the shorter Apostles’ Creed rather than the revised Nicene Creed. My youngest asked why Latin was used for the...