Articles for Month: November 2000

In a recent episode of the popular show “Touched by an Angel” writer/producer Martha Williamson presents a powerful pro-life message. The episode, “The Empty Chair,” told the story of a couple in Boston involved in the movie business. When the wife finds herself pregnant she is happy, but hearing of her husband’s discontent with her pregnancy she has an abortion. The show details the suffering of post-abortion syndrome and helpful counselling. In a write-up on the piece by the Pro-Life Committee of the US Catholic bishops it is revealed that “the episode was inspired by Williamson’s own experience following an […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (LSN.ca) – Catholic bishops in the US were urged by the Vatican to tighten regulations governing Catholic hospitals. This followed after several acquisitions and mergers in the US led to Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals providing sterilization, abortifacient contraception and morning-after pills.* However, the November 15 discussion of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) document seems to have weakened the directives rather than strengthened them. Tragically, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) in the US has been at loggerheads with the Vatican over the directives. The CHA, under president and CEO Rev. Michael Place, […]

HOLLYWOOD, Nov 30 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has confirmed that on December 3, on cable television, the Turner Classic Movies network (tcm) will air a remarkable pro-life film entitled “Where Are My Children?” According to information on the TCM website, the film is a newly restored silent, originally made in 1916. It stars Tyrone Power, Sr., as a district attorney who adores babies and children. He is saddened that his wife, however, never has any children. Unknown to the DA, his wife is secretly having abortions, and she belongs to an affluent social circle in which this is common. The film […]

OTTAWA, Nov 30 (LSN.ca) – Following the news that the Netherlands had passed a law legalizing euthanasia, homosexual and euthanasia activist MP Svend Robinson (NDP) promised to push the issue again in Canada. In an interview with the Globe and Mail published yesterday he said he will introduce a private member’s bill early in the next Parliament calling on the House of Commons to “look at the recent developments in the Netherlands and also to look in depth at the whole issue of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and make recommendations to Canadian law.” Meanwhile the move in the Netherlands continues […]

VANCOUVER, Nov 29 (LSN.ca) – On Saturday more than 300 representatives from five provincial political parties in British Columbia came together to amalgamate their parties into one large party able to contest the ruling NDP government in the province. The BC Family Coalition Party and four others disbanded to form the “Unity Party of B.C”. A Constitution and Founding Principles were drawn up and agreed upon by the group which commit them to a sound political program which values life and family. A press release by the BC FCP notes that “Never before have we been able to unify the […]

MIAMI, Nov 29 (LSN.ca) – Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami wrote in a recent edition of the archdiocesan weekly paper that Catholics “have emphasized that the ‘protection’ taught in sexual education has had the opposite effect in youth, making them believe that it is right to have sexual relations as long as nobody is affected physically except the unborn child.” Church News reports that in his article Bishop Favalora said that “for years the Catholic Church has been discredited for practicing chastity,” but “now science seems to support the Catholic Church.” The bishop referred to a recent report from […]

NEW YORK, Nov 29 (LSN.ca) – The agenda behind a Bill Gates funded AIDS awareness programme in Africa was revealed. The United Nations Population Fund, which is implementing the project, appointed Audrey Elster, former head of South Africa’s Planned Parenthood Association to manage the largest-ever privately funded HIV/AIDS programme targeting youth. The programme, deceptively called the African Youth Alliance is expected to follow other AIDS awareness programmes which have been used as an excuse to bring graphic sex education and contraceptive pushing into unreceptive, family-oriented African cultures. Last April, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would fund […]

UNFPA monetary pressure forces change ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (LSN.ca) – The Pakistan government promised to hold population control as a “national priority” as it thanked the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for a $35 million (US) funding agreement. In August, the Government of Pakistan rejected a UNFPA proposal to include lessons on the “benefits” of “small families” in the national education syllabus, but UNFPA threatened that the decision would cost the government $250 million. Yesterday the UN organization signed an agreement with the Asian country to provide $35 million (US) for “reproductive health, population and development strategy, advocacy and programme […]

VATICAN, Nov 29 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) – Msgr. Michel Schooyans, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family, has expressed serious misgivings about the process of “globalization” as it is seen by the United Nations leadership. Msgr. Schooyans, a noted Belgian political theorist, offered his thoughts to this week’s Vatican conference on globalization and the family. He suggested that in the eyes of UN officials, globalization means “a concentration of power that has the odor of totalitarianism.” The UN, the Belgian professor observed, “thinks that the world in its entirety has more […]

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales yesterday emphasised their opposition to the cloning of human embryos in the face of the probable vote on the issue this week in the Houses of Parliament. (SPUC)  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000119522754029&rtmo=gjfglnju&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/00/11/28/nclon28.html France’s lower house of parliament today approved a law allowing schools to hand out abortifacient “morning-after pills” to students. The Age reports that the law, which went through a first reading on October 5 is expected to sail through its final hurdle in the Senate.  https://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0011/29/A44805-2000Nov29.shtml (Pro-Life E-News)