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Does 'Dignitas Infinita' effectively bridge the gap between doctrine and the lived experiences of the marginalised?  By Bill Uren

Catholic bishops in New Zealand are urging the nation’s government to easy the stress on young families, saying this has increased abortions in the country.

New Zealand’s Catholic bishops say the rise in abortion numbers since a 2020 law change is a tragedy and they want the new coalition Government to promote policies that reduce stresses that can lead to mothers opting for abortion.  

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New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have given a copy of their new ethics teaching document to all 123 members of the recently elected 54th Parliament.

Three weeks after Pope Francis released his latest apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis, Laudate Deum, a group of 13 people was unpacking its contents in the parish of Te Awakairangi in Lower Hutt. The evening, on October 25, was an “add-on” to a series of four discussions called “Catholic Questions”, exploring any manner of questions about the Catholic faith that people had today.

Pro-life groups and advocates have expressed their alarm and disappointment at the latest abortion statistics, which show a 6.8 per cent increase in chemical and surgical abortions from the previous year.

Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to overcome.

The Church as a culture must be a counterculture.

Furthering the vision of Cardinal Bernardin with an Integral Ethic of Solidarity