THE ARCHBISHOP of Sydney, George Cardinal Pell, this week restated the Church’s “grave concerns” about proposed legislation due to be debated in State parliament this month that would allow same-sex couples the right to adopt children.
Cardinal Pell was a co-signatory to a letter to all State MPs this week urging them to reject the bill and to ensure that the right of every child to know the love and care of a father and a mother continued to be reflected in the Adoption Act.
The Bill to rewrite the Act was introduced last June by the independent state MP and Lord Mayor Clover Moore. Ms Moore said she would, however, now amend it so as to give church adoption agencies the right to refuse adoption services for gay and lesbian couples, without breaching anti-discrimination laws.
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- Fri, 3 September 2010
Happiest refugee gives 'all credit to big fella upstairs'
COMEDIAN Anh Do sees himself not as a comic but as a storyteller.
And after arriving in Australia as a two-year-old refugee, having survived a perilous boat journey from Vietnam and two encounters with pirates, he has endless stories to tell.
A YOUNG descendant of the Irish Orphan Girls places flowers at the Irish Famine Memorial at Sydney’s Hyde Park barracks.
About 300 people attended the 11th annual commemoration of the site last Sunday.
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