Articles for Month: November 2005

By Hilary White November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After last week’s leak of the long-awaited Vatican document on homosexuals and the priesthood, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the anticipated ban was prompting dissenters to reveal themselves publicly. Now that the document has been officially released and Vatican officials have clarified that indeed the intention is to bar those with serious and persistent homosexual temptations from ordination, reports are coming in of bishops and other Catholic clergy openly or subtly dissenting. The reaction is further revealing the deep rift that has long been observable between much of the US episcopate and the teachings […]

OTTAWA, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – So far, 26 Members of Canada’s Parliament have decided not to run again in the upcoming federal election. Yesterday, Etobicoke-Lakeshore MP and Minister of State, Jean Augustine, who was parachuted into the riding in 1993 by Jean Chretien, announced that she would be one of those MPs not seeking re-election. Augustine was also a three-time chair of the woman’s caucus and one-time minister of multiculturalism and status of women.ÂHowever, sheÂwill not be missed by Canada’s social conservatives although she is certain to pop up in some other influential position. The Liberal MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, […]

By Terry Vanderheyden VANCOUVER, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has demanded that a Roman Catholic men’s fraternity, the Knights of Columbus, award a lesbian couple damages for refusing to rent them a hall for their same-sex “wedding.” The Tribunal said the Knight’s, however, had the right, as a religious group, to refuse the facility to the women, but that the women should be compensated for the “undue hardship” that cancelling the event had on them. “The Knights could have taken steps such as meeting with the complainants to explain the situation, formally apologizing, immediately […]

By Hilary White LONDON, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The three men convicted of the “honour” killing of nineteen year-old Iranian engineering student Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, may be investigated for procuring an illegal late term abortion as well. Chomir Ali’s daughter, 20 year-old Manna Begum, was six months pregnant by Ghorbani-Zarin, and the family, after having him knifed 46 times, went on to have his child killed in an illegal late term abortion facility in Spain. The murdered man’s father, Raheem Ghorbani-Zarin, has called for prosecution for the illegal abortion as well as the stabbing murder. “Manna’s family have not only […]

By John-Henry Westen and Terry Vanderheyden VATICAN, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its message for the World Day Against AIDS, December 1, 2005, the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care calls AIDS a “planetary evil”. The message, signed by Council President Cardinal Lozano Barragan notes that of the three pathways of AIDS infection – blood, mother to infant and sexual transmission – the third “remains the most important.” It is “greatly fostered” says the message, “by a kind of pansexual culture that devalues sexuality, reducing it to mere pleasure without any further meaning.” Prevention, it says, “must come from […]

By Terry Vanderheyden WINNIPEG, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Manitoba taxpayers are now paying for all abortions committed in the province. Health Minister Tim Sale revised government policy to allow private abortuaries to receive provincial funding for the procedure last week. In a blatant attempt to put pressure on the Manitoba provincial government to fund their killing business, a group of women in Winnipeg turned Henry Morgentaler’s Winnipeg abortuary into a non-profit facility – Jane’s Clinic – in April 2004. Two women then challenged the government last December over its failure to fund their lifestyle choice; Court of Queen’s Bench […]

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new Vatican document on homosexuality and the priesthood, states that there are three categories of men who may not be admitted to seminaries and may not be ordained priests, they are: “those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called ‘gay culture’”. LifeSiteNews.com asked Dr. Suzanne Scorsone, spokesman for Toronto Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, what was meant by the prohibiting ordination of men who support the ‘gay culture’. Dr. Scorsone explained that the meaning is open to interpretation in various cultural settings. However, she stated, “Obviously if a […]

The term "homophobia" is "a slogan of intimidation", says Vatican consultant

Bringing Belinda Down Has Become Battle Cry For Newmarket-Aurora Tories“This election will be a referendum on what Belinda did. People are coming from all parts of Canada to work on our campaign,” said Stephen Somerville resident of the Newmarket-Aurora Conservative riding association, of the Conservative push to oust Paul Martin’s human resources minister. “What she did was wrong on so many levels. She betrayed her party, her leader, the values she ascribed to, Conservative voters and all the campaign volunteers, who were stunned. Stunned.”https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1133219410155&call_pageid=974089105216&col=974089088220 Toronto Sun EDITORIAL: They’re done—stick a fork in ‘em!  After 12 years, four governments and two […]

By Terry Vanderheyden SYDNEY, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor who has performed almost 10,000 abortions is going to trial on a charge of manslaughter. In May, 2002, after a mother was turned away from several abortuaries who declined to commit an illegal late-term abortion, abortionist Suman Sood agreed to do the deed. She administered a drug to induce labour of the 23-week-old unborn child. The baby survived for five hours after the woman delivered him at home early the following morning. Sood, 56, is the first doctor charged with an abortion-related offence after abortion was legalized in Australia […]