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Joe de Bruyn is a well-known Catholic trade-unionist who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He gave a speech in thanksgiving for the award, which prompted a disconcerting walk-out by graduates and faculty members.

President Trump is an honest criminal who loves the Bible and loves Christians. I believe he is on a pathway of reform both personally, and nationally for his nation.

By 1975, two years after the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Black women fell to 2.3 births per woman. That’s a 36% decline from 1950. It is more than abundantly clear that Black Americans are diabolically being targeted by the abortion industry.

The 2024 US election was much more than an election of the next President. It was a verdict on who they trust to interpret reality. The legacy media was tried and found wanting.

In her concession speech, Kamala Harris claims her “loyalty to our conscience and to our God” and belief in “the dignity of all people” will drive her to continue fighting for abortion.

How can Trump – a demagogue and convicted felon – be so overwhelmingly popular with Americans that he didn’t just secure re-election but a political clean sweep?

With the 2024 US Presidential race now decided, here are my 12 hot takes on the election.

A referendum on abortion to birth and marijuana in Florida has failed, sparking praise from pro-life groups and thankfulness from Governor Ron DeSantis.

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.

There are 100 reasons for Kamala Harris and her band of race-baiting identity politicking champagne socialist Democrats to be banished from the White House, but let’s just do ten.

Kamala Harris has a moral blindspot on abortion. She fails to recognise abortion snuffs out a real, human life, a life with unknown potential, however tiny and still-developing it may be.

Adam Smith-Conner was convicted for silently praying near an abortion clinic. If we think these unjust measures restrict the power of prayer, we had better think again. Two remarkable testimonies of answered prayer demonstrate otherwise.

As even non-believers understand, the November 5 election in the United States will be hugely significant – for good or ill. Believers especially need to think clearly and biblically about all this.

Building upon the success in the USA of the National Prayer Assembly, the Million Women Esther Call on the Mall, and the key Feast of the Lord, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, it's time to take God's gift of repentance to the grassroots — through His true shepherds into His true Church, His Body.

The Queensland election result continues what appears to be a growing momentum of voters moving away from Labor. It was a very poor result for Labor in Queensland, involving a 7.4 per cent swing to the LNP, and a bad omen for Anthony Albanese federally.

Last week, the Australian Catholic University managed to turn every word in its name into an oxymoron. It’s Australian, but neither its staff nor its students believe in a “fair go”. It’s officially Catholic, but students walked out on an eminent speaker who opposed abortion.

As the US Presidential election draws nearer, two conflicting opinions are emerging for Christians wishing to vote in a principled manner. Both have their merits and both allow for a decision to be made in good conscience.

We expect non-Christians and Christophobes to hate on Christianity. It happens all the time and is par for the course. But it is a bit more surprising when those who claim to be Christians do much the same thing.

It would be a mistake to read too much into Harris’s words, but by exalting abortion as a manifestation of freedom, isn’t she close to endorsing Sartre’s bleakness and despair? A distinctive moral feature of abortion is being alone – radical alienation from both the child and her partner.

I hope these six simple strategies give you some idea of how to engage young people in the pro-life conversation. Please continue to pray for our young people and our culture as a whole.