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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for January 7, 2009

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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac

LIFE ISSUES

Leading US Pro-Life Advocate, Father Richard Neuhaus, Said to be Dying
National Review on line reports today that Fr. George Rutler, who gave Fr. Neuhaus the Catholic Sacrament of the sick, says that “he is not expected to live long” and suggests “that it is appropriate that prayers be offered for a holy death.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg2NGUyYzdhNTU4MDJmZjk0MTY1OGM5Zjg0ODd...

Abortion and the Obama Presidency - Four national pro-life leaders reflect on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
http://www.ignatius.com/Magazines/CWR/miller_jan09.htm

A Sign of Contradiction: The 2008 Election and the Catholic Church in America
Virtually every Catholic in Congress is ardently pro-abortion - For over two decades, the flawed quality-of-life or "seamless garment" theory of the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago has provided 'cover' for countless pro abort politicians to falsely claim they're pro-life, and has enabled Catholic University academics to support abortion. Obama’s Catholic success can easily be attributed to the seamless garment, which for 25 years has watered down Church teachings on abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research.
http://www.mindszenty.org/report/2008/DEC08.pdf

Catholic Nancy Pelosi wants Congress to pass law undoing Bush restrictions on stem-cell research
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=8a251a25-05d4-4814-9c0e-295a...

A record number of women from Northern Ireland are opting to go to England and Wales to terminate a pregnancy - there were 1,343 abortions carried out in England and Wales where the woman gave a home address in Northern Ireland in 2007
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-irelands-record-a...

Selling abortion
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14860

Montreal Gazette: Quebec should condemn assisted suicide explicitly
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2009/01/montreal-gazette-quebec-should-conde...

Reports: Hospital threw baby's body out with trash
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/01/reports-hospita.html

Eight Responses to the Pro-Choice Mindset
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&...

CWA Organizes Opposition to Obama’s Freedom of Choice Act during March for Life
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/16202/MEDIA/life/index.htm


HOMOSEXUALITY

HIV being spread mainly through homosexual relations in Spain
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14688

Obama era expected to end taboo on gays in US military
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090107/ts_alt_afp/usmilitarygays_newsmlmmd

Obama names gay man as director of Office of Management and Administration
http://www.gaypolitics.com/2009/01/05/obama-names-gay-director-of-office-of-mana...


RELIGION

‘Anti-Catholic Al’ in Senate?  - “Franken has a long and ugly history of Catholic bashing.”
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/anti_catholic_al_in_senate/

Spain Is a Battleground for Church’s Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/europe/06church.html?ref=world

Europe is headed for Muslim future, says Czech Cardinal - While European Muslims are living their religion, Europeans are "pagans, as they do not respect their religion". To face the danger of dying out, Europe needs to install a program of spiritual rehabilitation.
http://aktualne.centrum.cz/czechnews/clanek.phtml?id=626414

Bishop Vecchi suggested the staging of mass prayers outside Christian churches in Italy was a deliberate move "on orders from afar" as part of a strategy of "Islamisation" of Europe.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5461114.ece

Protect Christians or step down, India's top court instructs officials in Orissa
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=60270

Why the Canadian Human Rights Commission thinks its okay to persecute Christians
http://deborahgyapong.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-chrc-thinks-its-okay-to-persecute...


FAMILY

An estimated 158,000 people attended a Mass and rally in Madrid “in favor of the family” on Dec. 28.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/europe/06church.html?_r=2
 
Divorced from Reality - “We’re from the Government, and we’re here to End Your Marriage."
http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-01-019-f
 
The Twelve Days of a Large Family Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaD8xat6VDw&feature=channel_page

Coulter Castigates MSM's Glorification of Single-Motherhood
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/01/07/coulter-newsbusters-gmt...

MISCELLANEOUS

Giant drugmaker Merck now seeks Gardasil approval for boys
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090106/merck_gardasil_0901...

CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Belief in Global Warming 'Almost a Religion'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/01/06/cnn-s-lou-dobbs-belief-glo...

Supreme Court to take up Obama's eligibility question again - Conference to evaluate claims president-elect isn't qualified
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85434

Nearly nine of ten Oregonians would opt out of regular public schools
http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe861274726c037b76&m=fef71276756301&ls=fe...

The Generational Theft Act of 2009 by Michelle Malkin; Washington will saddle future generations with unprecedented debt because of the economic recovery interventions Obama is planning, not despite them.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/07/the-generational-theft-act-of-2009/

Massachusetts Legislature continues doing business with no quorum - contrary to Constitution. On New Years Eve: 3 Senators meet and pass laws!
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08c/informal_sessions/Dec31Senate.html

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