ROME, May 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Stop killing the future,” “Abortion is homicide,” “Every abortion is a dead baby.” These were among the stern messages carried on signs in yesterday’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Nazionale in Rome.
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Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Sun May 12 12:45 EST Comments (56)
ROME, May 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Francis surprised about 40,000 Italian and international participants in today’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Internazionale in Rome this morning, when he left the Apostolic Palace to greet them…
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Public fight at the Vatican continues as Vatican Cardinal contradicts Vatican clarification
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri May 10 16:50 EST Comments (15)

ROME, May 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with the liberal US newspaper National Catholic Reporter (NCR), Brazilian cardinal who heads the Vatican’s congregation for religious sisters has denied the Vatican’s claim, made in a…
Continue Reading »Vatican Cardinal complains publicly he wasn’t consulted on liberal nuns investigation
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed May 08 09:59 EST Comments (23)
ROME, May 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican is vigorously denying the existence of a public quarrel between the office in charge of religious orders and the doctrinal watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The…
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Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conformism”
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu May 02 17:01 EST Comments (33)
ROME, May 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While pro-family advocates have noted the incredible rate at which the homosexualist movement has gained the political upper hand in the last five years, others are voicing concern about the shrinking “social…
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Italy’s new Foreign Minister a former illegal abortionist; avoided prosecution by entering politics
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed May 01 16:35 EST Comments (9)

ROME, May 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Armed with a home-made abortion device, operated by a bicycle pump, Emma Bonino, Italy’s newly appointed Foreign Minister, started her career in the early 1970s as an illegal abortionist and radical feminist.… Continue Reading »
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Liturgical liberalism and support for gay civil unions linked?
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Apr 29 15:56 EST Comments (32)
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ROME, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The man in charge of the widely criticized public liturgies of the late Pope John Paul II has told an interviewer that there should be legal recognition of same-sex unions as a matter of…
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Researchers killing embryos ‘demean’ themselves: U.S. priest-scientist at Vatican
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 24 15:32 EST Comments (9)

VATICAN CITY, April 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers who justify the killing of human beings at the embryonic stage “demean” themselves and diminish their own humanity, an American ethicist told LifeSiteNews.com at the Vatican’s stem cell…
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Top researcher: iPS cells ‘probably’ already embryos, have already made cloned animals
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Apr 23 14:05 EST Comments (5)

VATICAN CITY, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the top researchers in the field of stem cells has said that iPS (induced pluripotent) stem cells, the “embryo-like” cells hailed by many as the answer to the ethical problems presented by…
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Vatican Cardinal: ‘Individual bishops’, not just conferences must fight culture of death (exclusive)
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Apr 23 10:00 EST Comments (1)

ROME, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishops of the world must, as individuals, take the lead in combating the Culture of Death, and not wait for the national conferences, Cardinal Raymond Burke told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview…
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Vatican misses golden opportunity to evangelize stem cell scientists
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri Apr 19 20:12 EST Comments (14)

ROME, April 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vatican-sponsored three-day conference aimed at educating about the ethical benefits of adult stem cell research might have been expected to hear more than 15 minutes on ethics. But that was the time…
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Organizer hopes astonishing growth of Rome March for Life will kick-start public debate
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 17 16:55 EST Comments (3)
ROME, April 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers hope that the 3rd annual Italian Marcia per la Vita Nazionale (National March for Life), set for May 12th in Rome, will kick-start a public debate on abortion that has remained tightly locked…
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Rome’s March for Life will promote 1 million signature EU pro-life campaign
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Apr 15 16:22 EST Comments (1)
ROME, April 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year’s National March for Life (Marcia per la Vita) in Rome is coinciding with an international effort to have the European Union ban funding for embryo research and declare that all human beings have…
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Vatican stem cell conference hopes to overcome ‘prejudice,’ promote adult stem cell trials
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 10 17:01 EST Comments (0)
ROME, April 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has said that a conference it is sponsoring this week on ethical stem cell research will help to correct the public misperceptions of the burgeoning scientific field. The conference, spokesmen…
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Homosexual activists excited by softer tone of U.S. cardinals
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Thu Apr 04 17:02 EST Comments (49)

ROME, April 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Experts say, despite an apparently softer tone on homosexuals from two leading American cardinals, the Roman Catholic Church will not and cannot shift its moral teaching on same-sex "marriage" or the grave…
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