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Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

Morning after pill a ‘direct attack’ on the unborn, Holy See delegation tells WHO

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri May 24 16:03 EST Comments (3)

GENEVA May 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The so-called Morning After Pill, often called “emergency contraception” by the medical establishment, is not a “life-saving commodity,” the head of the Holy See delegation told the 66th World Health…

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Tags: emergency contraception, morning after pill, world health assembly, world health organization

Pro-abort politicians excommunicate themselves, must not receive communion: Irish archbishop

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed May 22 16:56 EST Comments (37)

Archbishop Eamon Martin

ARMAGH, Ireland May 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic legislators who intend to vote to support the Irish government’s impending abortion law must refrain from presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion, the Coadjutor Archbishop of…

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Tags: abortion, ireland

Defense of human life 'central' to Catholic social justice doctrine: Archbishop of Trieste

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed May 22 13:52 EST Comments (1)

Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi

ROME, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The duty to defend innocent human beings from the mortal threat of abortion and other attacks is a central part of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, a prominent Italian bishop told an audience of…

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Tags: abortion, giampaolo crepaldi

Blind Chinese human rights activist receives pro-life award at UK House of Commons

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue May 21 19:03 EST Comments (1)

Chen Guangcheng

WESTMINSTER, May 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human rights activist who has suffered imprisonment and beatings while fighting the country’s One-Child Policy, received a standing ovation in the UK House of…

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Tags: abortion, chen guangcheng, population control, uk

Third Rome March for Life draws between 30-40 thousand

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon May 13 14:00 EST Comments (0)

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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Tags: abortion, march for life, rome

Pope surprises, delights 40,000 Italian pro-lifers, joins March for Life

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Sun May 12 12:45 EST Comments (57)

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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Tags: abortion, march for life, pope francis, rome

Public fight at the Vatican continues as Vatican Cardinal contradicts Vatican clarification

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri May 10 16:50 EST Comments (15)

Cardinal João Braz de Aviz

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…

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Vatican Cardinal complains publicly he wasn’t consulted on liberal nuns investigation

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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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Tags: congregation for the doctrine of the faith cdf, lcwr, nuns, vatican

Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conformism”

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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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Tags: same-sex 'marriage'

Italy’s new Foreign Minister a former illegal abortionist; avoided prosecution by entering politics

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed May 01 16:35 EST Comments (9)

Emma Bonino

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 »

Tags: abortion, emma bonino, italy

Liturgical liberalism and support for gay civil unions linked?

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Mon Apr 29 15:56 EST Comments (32)

Analysis

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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Tags: catholicism, liturgy, piero marini, same-sex union

Researchers killing embryos ‘demean’ themselves: U.S. priest-scientist at Vatican

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Wed Apr 24 15:32 EST Comments (9)

Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco

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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Tags: stem cell research, vatican

Top researcher: iPS cells ‘probably’ already embryos, have already made cloned animals

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Apr 23 14:05 EST Comments (5)

John Gurdon

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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Tags: induced pluripotent stem cells, john gurdon, shinya yamanaka, stem cells

Vatican Cardinal: ‘Individual bishops’, not just conferences must fight culture of death (exclusive)

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Tue Apr 23 10:00 EST Comments (1)

Cardinal Burke

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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Tags: abortion, march for life, raymond burke

Vatican misses golden opportunity to evangelize stem cell scientists

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by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent Fri Apr 19 20:12 EST Comments (14)

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi

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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Tags: embryonic stem cell research, stem cell research, vatican

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