What will the New Year bring?

One thing we may have to cope with is a kiddies’ story book by Australia’s Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd.

It is about the PM’s cat and dog. It will be published later this month.

Why?

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This project must be considered a vote-catcher, an image-softener.

Media-aware prime ministers know there’s more political mileage in being a celebrity than in facing moral issues.

Children are being exploited as part of this – being brainwashed again – taught how not to think — certainly not to think about God.

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Children are uneasily aware that things are going wrong in the world.

Like their TV-watching parents, they are being fed a never-ending series of panic-inducing sideshows to be anxious about.

Global warming (man-made and man-fixable)

Pandemics (spread by humans, preventable by human-invented vaccinations)

Economic crises (caused by human greed, fixable by human-stimulated spending-sprees)

Because rational creatures can’t be convinced by such yarns, it’s politically important to prevent creatures being rational.

Adults succumb best to violence, sport and pornography.

Children, up to a certain age, still fall for cuteness and Prime Ministers who can speak, not only Mandarin, but also baby-talk.

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When things go wrong in the world we should be looking to the primary Cause (God), not just airbrushing the secondary causes.

Children are capable of understanding that there is a God who rules the universe and who loves us — and that we should spend our lives seeking, not just to “feel good” and “look good”, but in trying to please God by being good and showing him by our lives that we love him.

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God has put the Catholic Church into the world to lead us, adults and children, into union with him through the Sacraments of the Church.

God wants to dwell in your soul (your intellect and your will).

That is what we need to focus on and talk to our children about.