by DAVID FLINT – HOW did George Cardinal Pell, Prince of the Church, become a persecuted political prisoner, Australia’s Cardinal Mindszenty? When the internationally esteemed Cardinal is finally laid to rest in Sydney’s great Basilica, it will be in the crypt already…
THE Catholic Church is in danger of again splitting in two as Pope Francis prods his unwilling flock in a “damning” direction. The irrepressible analyst of all things Roman Catholic, Damian Thompson, recently described the Church as having split into what are,…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
IF AUSTRALIA is to secure its future, then those who seek to rally behind the nation should maintain unity and not attack their own – especially when they’re school kids. The alternative is for the country to be perverted by Left-wing activists indoctrinating those kids, prior to taking us all down that road more recently traversed by Venezuela – once resource rich, but now an impoverished, socialist State.
THE figures are extraordinary. Two years into our National Redress Scheme for victims of institutional sexual abuse, over $500m has been paid to 5920 of 10,000 applicants who have so far applied – a mere blip compared to the 60,000 victims assumed to be eligible.
THERE’S no doubt as a result of the COVID-19 virus and its debilitating and destructive effect on society both medically and economically that increasing numbers of people are distraught and in danger of suffering anxiety, loss and depression. Whether measured by alcohol consumption, family violence, calls to organisations like Beyond Blue or the incidents of self-harm and in extreme cases suicide it’s clear the fabric that holds communities and families together is under threat.
IT TOOK no more than a tweet from Chief Justice, Susan Kiefel, to deliver a massive defeat for the ‘guilt by accusation’ brigade who had so undermined the rule of law.
A unanimous seven justice ruling has restored that ancient and fundamental principle that the Crown must prove a criminal accusation beyond reasonable doubt.
VICTORIA Labor Premier Daniel Andrews lifted two fingers to Australia’s highest court this week after it released imprisoned cardinal George Pell, ruling he had been wrongfully convicted.
Andrews, who wears the permanent face of a scolded infant, wrote “I believe every single victim and survivor of child sex abuse” in a pointed social media swipe at the High Court’s unanimous decision.
