Monica Doumit
Monica Doumit is the Director, Public Affairs and Engagement for the Archdiocese of Sydney and a columnist with The Catholic Weekly.
Articles by Monica Doumit:
23 October 2025
2.6 MINS
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) reportedly drew the line at a teacher's request to use they/them pronouns and to be referred to as Mx rather than Mr, and so now MACS is being sued for discrimination. This religious freedom case may affect all faith-based schools and institutions in the country.
15 October 2025
2.6 MINS
When the law changed to allow for mitochondrial donation, I thought we might just have reached the limits of how far we were prepared to manipulate the creation of human life for our own purposes. But I was wrong.
14 October 2025
2.7 MINS
Next Wednesday, 22 October, Libertarian MLC John Ruddick is set to table the Abortion Law Reform (Sex Selection Prohibition) Amendment Bill 2025, which makes sex-selective abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to five years imprisonment.
20 August 2025
2.5 MINS
Addressing the launch of the Christian Alliance Council of New South Wales at Parliament House last week, Premier Chris Minns reflected on the contribution of Christianity to public life in NSW.
15 August 2025
2.7 MINS
The NSW Government introduced a bill that would introduce a new crime of creating AI-generated pornographic material of a person without their consent. It is a welcome move. However, incremental bans on non-consensual pornography ignore the simple truth that, on some level, all pornography is non-consensual.
31 July 2025
2.5 MINS
The Queensland Supreme Court has authorised an abortion for a 12-year-old girl. Yet those acting in her “best interests” gave no consideration to psychological care or counselling for her problematic sexual activity, nor any effort to understand what was driving her behaviour. This silence is stunning as it is tragic.
22 July 2025
2.9 MINS
A viral Coldplay concert video exposed a secret affair — leading to public humiliation, job loss, and unexpected lessons on integrity, fidelity and the tangled webs spun by sin.
18 July 2025
3 MINS
A male prisoner serving a 43-year sentence for murder has so far had his application to transfer to a women’s prison denied. But if changing your sex by filling out a form is at the “very heart of what the New South Wales Government is about”, isn't this a blatant case of double standards?
2 July 2025
3.1 MINS
A horror car crash near Newcastle, resulting from dangerous driving, claimed the life of an unborn child. If the deceased baby is less than 20 weeks', he/she isn't recognised as a human being in NSW Law. Grieving mothers deserve better.
3 April 2025
2.8 MINS
If the Greens sought to introduce a bill that would seek to make maternity care more accessible in the regions, then perhaps we could take their comments on abortion more seriously. The irony of the appeal to equitable access is astounding.
28 March 2025
2.1 MINS
Debate on the Greens bill to broaden the state’s already extreme abortion laws began in the New South Wales Parliament on 26 March. The Australian Medical Association is opposed to the threats to the conscience protections for health care professionals contained in the bill.
21 January 2025
2.7 MINS
Whether he realised it or not, Federal Court judge Peter Tree has laid the responsibility for the continued use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children — despite increasing international caution — firmly at the feet of the New South Wales Government.
31 December 2024
3.2 MINS
As 2024 comes to a close, I really do think we have reason for hope. The tide has begun to turn on many social and cultural issues and we are beginning to see a bit of a return to normality.
12 November 2024
2.8 MINS
An explosive report that exposes the “transition” from evidence-based medicine and holistic care to activism in the care of children with gender dysphoria was released this past week. Australia’s current gender care guidelines continue to ignore developments in other countries.
7 November 2024
2.5 MINS
That these issues are front and centre in multiple jurisdictions, years after abortion until birth was decriminalised in every state and territory, suggests that the tide may be turning, even if ever so slightly.
16 October 2024
2.1 MINS
Premier Chris Minns has thrown his support behind a controversial bill introduced to parliament by the Independent Member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich.
12 October 2024
2.8 MINS
Whatever is beaten out on the anvil receives its shape from the anvil as well as the hammer. The anvil cannot and need not strike back. It need only be hard and firm.
1 October 2024
2.9 MINS
Apart from having the highest death rate, Queensland also has the title of the first coronial inquest into a wrongful death under its euthanasia laws.
18 September 2024
2.9 MINS
The problem with the government’s approach is that it goes way beyond truth and lies, but about an arbitrary judgment by faceless bureaucrats of what is or isn’t true or what is or isn’t harmful.
6 September 2024
2.8 MINS
Anti-life activists and MPs are so ideologically addicted to unfettered abortion access and the dehumanisation of babies in the womb that they are willing to reject the humanity of certain babies outside the womb as well, born alive after failed abortions.





