Articles for Month: December 2001

FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CULTURE ARE COLLAPSING “I hope that the tragedy of the Twin Towers will awaken the Western world. More than with Muslim fundamentalists, we should be concerned about the foundations of Western culture, which are collapsing. This has been reduced already more than anything else to a civilization that has put learning to one side. The word learning is closely linked to worship, namely, religion, and the West today does not have, and does not want, religion, revelation.” – Benedictine Father Stanley L. Jaki of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on scientific and educational learning EMBRYO STEM CELL […]

PARIS, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The highest appeals court in France ruled Wednesday that children suffering from Down’s syndrome have a legal right never to have been born. The Cour de Cassation ruled that a doctor was liable for all the costs of the specialized care the child requires since the doctor failed to warn an expectant mother that her unborn child showed symptoms of Down’s syndrome. The mother was thus deprived of the option of abortion. The amount of compensation is to be announced later. Commenting on the case, The bishop of Tours, Andr{197}{189} Vingt-Trois, the president of […]

BRUSSELS, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Plans drafted by the European Commission last week hope to make racism and xenophobia crimes carrying prison sentences of two years or more, according to a report in the London Telegraph. The draft defines racism and xenophobia as discrimination based on “race, colour, descent, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin”. The list of offences covers such things as Holocaust denial or “trivialisation” of Nazi atrocities, “public insults,” of minority groups, “public condoning of war crimes”, and “public dissemination of tracts, pictures, or other material containing expressions of racism of xenophobia” – including material […]

OTTAWA, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – As police forces in 19 countries around the globe arrested 130 people connected to an international child pornography ring, Canadian authorities failed to arrest any of the Canadian suspects. The National Post reported last week that the 10-month investigation led by Britain’s National Crime Squad, was the largest ever bust of Internet pornography. Although the RCMP cooperated with the investigation entitled Operation Landmark, the Canadian police said the information sent by Interpol, which had led to the arrests in all the other countries, was insufficient to issue arrest warrants in Canada. Mark Hecht, senior […]

WASHINGTON, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Children of God For Life, the Internet's most reliable source for information on vaccines tainted by the use of aborted baby tissue, reports that the second batch of smallpox vaccine ordered November 28 by the United States will not use aborted fetal tissue in its manufacture. Whereas the first batch of the vaccine created by the Acambis Corporation used aborted fetal cell line MRC-5 as the cell substrate for growing the virus, the current batch of 155 million doses will use Vero animal cell lines. Acambis CEO John Brown stated in a conference earlier […]

VANCOUVER, December 3, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Friday, former abortionist Dr. Mark Walter Stewart, 57, was sentenced to four yearS in prison after being found guilty of having “violated the sexual integrity” of nine of his former female patients. The Naniamo Daily News reports that StEwart received four years for twice raping a vulnerable and emotionally fragile woman. He was also sentenced to three years and two years on the other nine counts against the other women. However, he will not serve additional time on the other sentences since they will be served concurrently under what has been referred to […]

HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST SITE TARGETS OPPONENTS WITH “HORRIBLE DEATH”  Amid intense public and legal scrutiny, a San Diego-based web site that advocated “a horrible death” for public figures opposed to the homosexual lifestyle, deleted from its web pages the names and profiles of public officials it targeted for attack, reports Cybercast News Service.  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive