Articles for Month: September 2005

ROME, Italy, September 28, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – On September 21st, amid severe criticism, Italy’s health minister Francesco Storace halted experiments surrounding the abortion pill RU-486 citing health and legal reasons. Doctors and pro-choice advocates criticized the move stating that the decision was politically and religiously motivated. Margherita Boniver, a top Foreign Ministry official in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition and a pro-choice supporter, was quoted in the Corriere della Sera newspaper saying “In the end, (the abortion law) is the target … The current government doesn’t have enough time to change the law but they are going to keep […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 28, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The old saying “tell a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it” has been reinforced by the events surrounding the hijacking of Fr. Mychal Judge’s reputation after his heroics during the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Concerned Women for America posted an editorial, written by Dennis Lynch, that details the attempts, and seeming success, of homosexual activists to portray Fr. Judge as a “gay priest”. Mr. Lynch detailed the life and death of Fr. Mike, a Franciscan priest who died ministering to the victims in the twin towers of New […]

PARIS, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – France, once one of Europe’s most fecund nations, has seen the writing on the wall and begun to offer parents financial incentives to encourage more childbirth. At a replacement rate of 1.9 babies per woman – still below the 2.1 rate necessary to simply maintain a population – France is one of the better off European nations, second only to Ireland in fertility rate. The French have introduced incentives to try to counter the fiscal disaster the birth decline will eventually cause by offering financial incentives to couples to have a third child, such […]

NEW ORLEANS, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move billed as a humanitarian gesture, one Little Rock abortuary is offering free abortions to Katrina evacuees. Little Rock Family Planning clinic director Jerry Edwards argues that if the women don’t abort their children right away, they could be facing more hazardous partial-birth abortions later. “If we didn’t provide it now, they would get it later – a late-term abortion that would give greater risk to the mother’s health,” he claimed, as reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle. A local area Right to Life group said the free abortion offer was adding […]

FRONT ROYAL, VA, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International President Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer has released a strongly worded statement praising reports that Pope Benedict is about to release, through a Vatican Congregation, a document noting men with homosexual orientation are not to be admitted to the priesthood. The full statement from Fr. Euteneuer follows: It appears that Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a policy statement that men with a homosexual orientation should not be admitted to seminary and should be barred from receiving Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic Church. The Congregation for Catholic […]

FREDERICKSBURG, VA, September 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stand True Ministries is gearing up for the second annual Students’ Day of Silent Solidarity (www.silentday.org ) on Tuesday, October 25. On this date, students from hundreds of campuses in both the United States and Canada will take a vow of silence to express their contempt for the murderous act of abortion that has claimed one-third of their generation and continues to take the lives of over 4,000 babies per day in the United States alone. “Thousands of American babies are permanently silenced every day by the violent act of abortion,” said Bryan […]

Editorial

Civil Union ‘Compromise’ Never Massachuestts Gave Legislature A Chancehttps://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=508597 ADF attorneys vow to appeal ruling against “Choose Life” license plates https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3539 ‘Ex-gays’ study central to debatehttps://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050926-095613-8795r.htm The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedomhttps://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev093005a.cfm Bolder Sex-Ed Classes Unsettle Some Collegeshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601444.html Proposed amendment shows Florida anti-gay-marriage opponents are serioushttps://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050927/COLUMNIST36/509270313 Some Catholics do not support Cardinal O’Malley’s call for action against gay ‘marriage’https://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2005/09/26/news/news03.txt A new wave of persecution against Chinese Catholicshttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4205 U.S. to U.N.: Keep Away from Internethttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/160211.shtml Plurality of Americans still describe news media as too liberalhttps://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=18766 UK Hospital bans cooing over newborn babieshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=363576&in_page_id=1799&in_a_source= […]

September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, is proving to be a sleeper hit with increasing numbers of reviews praising the surprising quality and depth of the production. Emily Rose deals with the question of whether or not there is an evil presence in the world and a consequent battle between good and that evil that effects us all. Advocates of the spreading abortion, euthanasia and sexual liberation culture of course totally reject a belief in evil as a separate reality. To them, good and bad, right and wrong, are merely decided by each person […]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After speaking at a convention to honour the pro-euthanasia physician who pronounced that Terri Schiavo was in a “persistent vegetative state,” Terri’s estranged husband and killer, Michael Shiavo, drew a standing ovation. Michael Schiavo, speaking at an “ethics” convention honouring Dr. Ronald Cranford, who is retiring from medicine because of a cancer diagnosis, spoke publicly about the euthanasia of his wife Terri for the first time since her death in March. “Terri didn’t die an awful death,” he claimed. He said that, as Terri died, he “laid a red rose in her hand […]