Bishops Begin Distancing from Vatican Document on Gays in Priesthood

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 […]
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Jean Augustine Steps Aside For Star Liberal parachute Candidate Michael Ignatieff

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, […]
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Knights of Columbus Forced to Pay Damages to Lesbians for Refusing to Rent Hall for “Wedding” Recept

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 […]
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Convicted “Honour” Killers May Also be Charged For Procuring Late Term Abortion

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 […]
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Vatican Message on World AIDS Day: Prevent this “Planetary Evil” Fostered by “Pansexual Culture”

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 […]
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Manitoba Taxpayers to Pay for all Abortions

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 […]
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Toronto Cardinal’s Spokesman: Frequenting Gay Bars Would Hamper Ordination to Priesthood

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 […]
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Canadian Election Buzz

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 […]
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Australian Abortion Doctor to Stand Trial for Manslaughter

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 […]
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99-Year-Old Pro-Life Campaigner Says Do Not “Stand Idly by When Human Life Is At Stake”

By Terry Vanderheyden PORTLAND, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-lifer who has spent 30 years, six days per week, protesting abortion outside Oregon’s most notorious abortion clinic, enjoined, “Thou shalt not stand idly by when human life is at stake.” In a tribute article appearing in the Catholic Sentinel, Marion Hite, who turns 100 next month, emphasized, “They’re killing babies in there.” Sentinel writer Ed Langlois describes Hite’s witness as so loving, though, that even the clinic workers themselves have come to his aid. A woman entering Portland’s Lovejoy Surgicenter – which commits a third of the state’s 10,000 […]
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Missouri Law Banning Infanticide Ruled Unconstitutional

By Terry Vanderheyden KANSAS CITY, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Missouri law that bans partial-birth infanticide has been struck down as unconstitutional. A federal appeals panel ruled Monday that the 1999 Infants Protection Act, which limits late-term partial-birth abortions, has decided that the law is unconstitutional because it does not have a provision for the so-called health of the mother. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel of three judges hearkened back to a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar Nebraska law because of a failure of the law to provide for the health of […]
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Indiana Court Upholds Waiting Period before Abortion

By Terry Vanderheyden INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring an 18-hour wait period before abortion, which also mandates that women receive counseling before abortion. The 4-1 ruling upheld a 1995 law that requires that women show their face at a clinic at least 18 hours before an abortion. Abortionists and their advocates who challenged the law argued that counseling and a waiting period requirement contravened rights of women to privacy. The court disagreed, saying that the law “does not impose a material burden on any right to privacy or abortion […]
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Malta, Italy, Germany, Poland and Slovakia Object to EU Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Terry Vanderheyden VALETTA, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maltese officials joined with officials from five other western European nations to object to European Union support for embryonic stem cell research yesterday. Malta’s Competitiveness Minister Censu Galea launched the complaint in Brussels, emphasizing the country is against the use of human embryos for use in medical research. The objection was a part of a joint declaration also adopted by Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. The countries petitioned the EU to drop plans to fund research that utilizes human embryos in favour of research that uses adult stem cells exclusively. […]
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USCCB President Says to Become a Priest Candidate Must Accept That Homosexuality is Disordered

By John-Henry Westen SPOKANE, WA, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com on the Vatican’s release of the document on homosexuality and the priesthood, the President of the United States Conference of Bishops acknowledged that ordination to the priesthood is only open to men who accept the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, President of the USCCB, told LifeSiteNews.com that the publication of the document marked “a significant moment in the Church.” Much of the media has focussed on the barring of men who are actively homosexual and those with deep-seated homosexual tendencies […]
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Swedish Pastor Ake Green Acquitted of Hate Speech against Homosexuals

By Terry Vanderheyden STOCKHOLM, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sweden’s Supreme Court has acquitted Pastor Ake Green of a charge of inciting hatred against homosexuals. The 5-0 ruling, handed down today, maintained that Green’s sermon was protected by freedom of speech and religion. Green had been convicted and sentenced by a lower court in 2004 for his so-called hate speech. While the media have falsely claimed that Green referred to homosexuals as a “cancerous tumor” on society, Green told the courts he was referring to homosexual acts, not persons. In fact, the only similar reference in his 2003 sermon was […]
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Vatican Officially Releases Document on Homosexuality and the Priesthood

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has officially released the document “Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders.” The released document is the same as the version which was leaked to reporters in recent weeks. The document is dated November 4 and bears the signatures of Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and of Archbishop Michael J. Miller C.S.B., respectively prefect and secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education. On August 31, 2005, Benedict XVI approved the […]
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Conservative Leader Launches Campaign with Promise to Revisit Homosexual Marriage

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, November 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a press gallery scrum this morning, the first official day of Election 2006, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said that if elected, the Conservative Party would revisit the controversial legislation on homosexual marriage. Harper said he would first bring forward a motion (a propsal that a law be enacted) on the traditional definition of marriage. He stressed that there would beÂa free vote on the matter,Âincluding a free vote for cabinet ministers. The free vote for cabinet ministers is significant since during the vote on the homosexual ‘marriage’ legislation, the Liberal […]
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The entire machinery of judicial nominations seems to have ground to a halt under Senator Arlen Specter’s leadershiphttps://www.worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=11323 Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, but Alito shouldn’t say if he’d overturn it. https://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007606 The Path of the Man in Black – Johnny Cash – for him the cross was the only answer to the inevitability of suffering and pain.https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-10-018-v John Gibson Is Right About The War on Christmashttps://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=10292 The Assault on Christmashttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU05K17 ‘Christmas’ trees vs. ‘Holiday’ treeshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47600 For first time in 20 years US government cracking down on porn producershttps://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2005/1212/098.html Kansas Parents Want Books Removed from Curriculumhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/282005a.asp Abortion provider reportedly […]
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Massachusetts Turns in Two Times the Necessary Signatures to Repeal Gay “Marriage” on 2008 Ballot

By Terry Vanderheyden BOSTON, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A family advocacy coalition has submitted double the required number of signatures necessary to ensure voters have an opportunity to overturn a 2003 activist court decision by voting on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex “marriage” during the 2008 general election. VoteOnMarriage.org collected over 120,000 signatures in time for the Wednesday deadline. “I credit this phenomenal effort to thousands of citizen volunteers and over 1,200 communities of faith – including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim – who have worked tirelessly to give every citizen in the Commonwealth a voice in how […]
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Vatican Drops Singer Daniela Mercury from Christmas Concert over Condom Support

By Hilary White and John-Henry Westen ROME, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Vatican Christmas concert will not feature condom-supporter, Brazilian rock singer Daniela Mercury. The concert, partially sponsored by the Vatican, is to raise funds for the Jesuit missions, including their work with AIDS sufferers. The agency promoting the concert said that they had received a letter from the Jesuits saying the singer’s support of condoms in the battle against AIDS was “against the moral doctrine of the church,”  Eligio Ermeti of the Prime Time Promotions agency. “We received a letter from the Jesuits asking us to remove […]
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Boston Archbishop to Homosexuals: “Because we love you, we cannot accept your behavior.”

By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley wrote a pastoral letter last week calling on Catholics to show true love to persons with homosexual tendencies. This is done he said by telling them that homosexual acts are sinful, he said. Otherwise, the bishop continued, we are dangerously “deceiving people.” After clarifying that the Catholic Church does not tolerate unjust discrimination towards persons with homosexual tendencies, the leader of the Catholic Church in Boston reminded Catholics that although Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery, he did however – after saving her life […]
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St. Louis Archbishop Orders Priests to Preach on Embryo Research

By Hilary White ST. LOUIS, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis has again stepped up to the pro-life plate missed by many elsewhere in the Catholic hierarchy. Burke ordered the priests of his St. Louis Archdiocese to preach on Sunday about why embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) cannot be allowed and to instruct the Catholic faithful not to support it. The direction is in response to a petition about to circulate that would amend the state constitution to protect ESCR. In a move that is bound to stir up the usual secularist suspects with screeches […]
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British Doctors “Increasingly Uneasy” with Abortion Survival Rate Reports Times

By Hilary White LONDON, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The weekend edition of the London Times carries a report that provides insight into what pro-lifers identify as the moral vacuity of media representation of abortion. In a story on “botched” abortions the Times reports on the latest British medical scandal: that some of the intended victims survive. A government agency has published a report titled, “Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH),” that shows, to the horror of the British medical establishment, that up to 50 babies survive abortion every year in Britain. The Royal College of Obstetricians and […]
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Liechtenstein Legalizes Abortion

By Terry Vanderheyden VADUZ, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liechtenstein, a predominantly Catholic European nation, has legalized abortion. A national referendum there Sunday saw only 20% support for an initiative of Catholic Archbishop Wolfgang Haas and other pro-life groups to implement a constitutional amendment to ban the procedure. Although up until now it has been technically illegal to commit abortion in Liechtenstein, the prior abortion law included exceptions for underage and unwed mothers, and where the pregnancy would constitute a serious health risk to the mother. The government introduced a measure to legalize abortion last year; 80% of voters ratified […]
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Ireland’s Largest University Prevents Abortion Survivor Speaking

DUBLIN, Ireland, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gianna Jessen, a 28-year-old woman who survived a saline abortion when she was 7 months in utero, has been prevented from speaking at Ireland’s largest university – University College Dublin (UCD). Despite her cerebral palsy, which she has described as a gift and is a legacy of the abortion, Jessen has traveled the world with her powerful testimony. She is living evidence of the humanity of the unborn child and the fact that abortion takes a human life. ‘Ultrasound’, the pro-life student network formed by the pro-life group Youth Defence, was delighted when […]
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Canadian Federal Election Imminent – Monday Non-Confidence Vote Scheduled

By Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Monday is D-Day for Canada’s opposition parties as they are scheduled to debate and vote on a non-confidence motion tabled yesterday by Conservative leader Stephen Harper with the support of the Bloc Quebecois and NDP parties. It is expected that passage of the motion is all but certain and that after losing the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin will ask the governor general to dissolve Parliament Tuesday and set an election date for Jan. 16 or 23. The later date is considered more likely since the Liberals are said to want […]
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No Ideology can Eradicate True Meaning of Marriage say Maltese Bishops

By Hilary White FLORIANA, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops of the tiny Mediterranean island nation of Malta have issued a letter pleading for the retention of traditional moral values and opposing the push to include homosexual partnerings into the legal definition of marriage. The bishops’ statement calls the meaning and nature of natural marriage, “an evident truth and an undeniable fact.” They write, “The word ‘marriage’ does not just mean any relationship between two human beings, but means a union between a man and a woman for reasons determined by nature itself.” The Maltese bishops reiterate the […]
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Abortion, Not Poverty, Is the Greater Tragedy Says Southern Baptist Leader

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Southern Baptist leader disagrees with the claim of an anti-poverty campaigner who said that poverty was the number one “inhumane” problem afflicting the US. “I don’t think the most damaging issue in this country today is poverty,” said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, according to a Tennessean.com report. “There’s not a single day that goes by, for the last 32 years (since Roe vs. Wade) that I have not personally grieved and prayed for the 4,000-some odd babies, disproportionately African-American babies, I […]
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HIV Escalating: 20% Increase in Canada; Doubles to 40 Million World-Wide

By Terry Vanderheyden and Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There are now almost 58,000 people with HIV in Canada, up 20% from 2000, according to recently released figures from the United Nations and World Health Organization. Homosexual sex accounted for the majority of new cases, at 45%, while 25% of new cases were in women, the report said. Ten years ago only 10% of new cases were in women. Heterosexual sex accounted for 30% of new cases, with intravenous drug use responsible for the remainder. Young women aged 15 to 29 were particularly affected, accounting for 42% […]
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Pope Benedict Insists Catholic Universities Remain Faithful to Church Teaching

By John-Henry Westen ROME, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to Rome’s Sacred Heart Catholic University today to address students on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year.ÂThe Pope, knowing the devastation to the faith of millions of Catholic students which has taken place in Catholic universities, asked pointedly of students at Catholic Universities “How do they leave? What culture did they find, assimilate, develop?” The ideal envisioned by the Catholic Church for Catholic schooling has been expounded on in various papal documents. It revolves around the hope of higher learning fused with […]
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Frustrated Population-Control Philippine Politician Wants Church Declared National Security Threat

By Terry Vanderheyden MANILA, November 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Filipino politician, frustrated by the Catholic Church’s opposition to a population control bill, has suggested that the Church be labelled a threat to national security. Alagad Partylist Representative Rodante Marcoleta charged that the Catholic Church is responsible for hindering the passage of population-control Bill 3773. “It’s an open secret that there’s strong lobbying by the Catholic Church,” Marcoleta said, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “Do you treat the Catholic Church (as) a national threat?” Bill 3773, the “Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act,” mandates a rule that restricts families […]
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Falwell’s faithful put Hub on notice: Don’t mess with Christmashttps://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=113565 Merry Christmas is not offensive! By Rabbi Daniel Lapinhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47559 The “extremism” of Judge Sam Alitohttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/larryelder/2005/11/24/176684.html Senate conservatives praise Alitohttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20051124-121045-8152r.htm Massachusetts VoteOnMarriage.org Exceeds Goal – Collecting Over 120,000 Signatureshttps://www.voteonmarriage.org/news.html#051122pr Sex shop chain withdraws from lawsuit after citizens stand up against proposed store https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3602 PM Martin plans negative campaign – Onslaught of ads to follow Christmas hiatus https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051124/ELECTSTRATEGY24/Front/Idx Home Education Seen As Timely Solution to Failing Public Schoolshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/232005e.asp In Gratitude for Katrina and Angelicahttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=30941 Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin documents just how loco some liberals have become in her new book, “Unhinged.”https://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0038645.cfm Elton […]
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Canadian Physician and Long-Time Pro-Life Campaigner, Dr. André Lafrance, Dies at Age 68

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian pro-life community has been dealt a blow today to learn that long-time pro-life campaigner, Ottawa physician Dr. W. André Lafrance, 68, has died. Dr. Lafrance collapsed as he walked away from Parliament Hill Wednesday; police were unable to revive him. The exact cause of death is still not yet known, although he had a history of heart disease. Dr. Lafrance had been on parliament hill praying with Fr. Tony Van Hee immediately before his collapse. Fr. Van Hee is the Catholic priest who prays and fasts as a constant […]
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Pope Benedict Enforcing Traditional Rules and Orthodoxy

By John Jalsevac – Writing from Rome ROME, Italy, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an apostolic letter released by the Vatican Press this past Saturday, Pope Benedict again demonstrated his unwillingness to tolerate serious dissent in the Church and further raised the ire of liberal groups, already up in arms anticipating the newly leaked Vatican document reaffirming the centuries-long ban on admitting homosexuals into the priesthood. In the “motu proprio” (on his own initiative) letter, Pope Benedict officially revoked the unusual four decade long autonomy of the notoriously liberal Franciscan basilicas in Assisi, again placing them under the jurisdictional […]
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Korean Cloning Scientist “Disgraced”

By Terry Vanderheyden SEOUL, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South Korean embryonic stem-cell scientist and national celebrity Hwang Woo-suk has been publicly “disgraced”– not for killing embryonic children – but for the unethical practice of using donated eggs from his female colleagues. Publicly apologizing for the unethical practice and admitting he lied to cover it up, Hwang announced he is resigning from his public posts including his chairman position at the World Stem Cell Hub, which supplies scientists world-wide with embryonic stem cells. “I am very sorry that I have to tell the public words that are too shameful and […]
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AIDS Activist Quits Toronto Committee Citing Dangerous Programme

By Hilary White TORONTO, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The illogic of introducing gay men to the bathhouse subculture as a means of stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS has led to the resignation of a Toronto AIDS activist. The Globe and Mail reports today that Richard Churchill, a real estate developer and long time volunteer for AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), has said that the organization has lost sight of its mandate to help people avoid contracting the disease.“HIV is a preventable disease and, here, we’re doing things that are not preventing it, but complicating it,” the 44-year-old real estate […]
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Abstinence Includes Sexual Activity Says Maryland Middle School

By Hilary White POTOMAC, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maryland Gazette reports today that the eighth-grade health class at Herbert Hoover Middle School identifies two types of sexual intercourse as “abstinence.” It would seem that even after decades of sex ed, saturation of sexual imagery in the media and the virtual abolition of sexual mores since the 1960’s that educators still cannot effectively identify the sexual act. Webster’s College dictionary defines the verb “to abstain” as “to refrain voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy.” A chart showing different forms of contraception in the Herbert Hoover health […]
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Gov’t Minister Says Stay-at-Home Parents Like Those Who Refuse to Bring Children to Doctor or Hospit

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Liberal Social Development Minister, Ken Dryden, dismissed a Conservative Party proposal to offer tax cuts to parents who prefer to raise their children at home rather than in his proposed massive, government-funded day care program. Dryden has suggested that parents who keep their very young ones at home are like those who refuse to bring their children to a doctor when they are sick. In Question Period Monday, Dryden claimed that the Conservative party is pitting one style of family life against another when they insist that Canadians parents should […]
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Pro-Life Conference Triumphs Over Adversity – CLC National News Report

Excerpt from the Dec. 2005 Campaign Life Coalition National News A day before the November 17-19 National Pro-life Conference in Montreal was to kick off, it looked like it wasn’t going to happen at all. However, somewhat of a miracle occurred over the next 24 hours that transformed a disaster into a triumph of generosity and determined spirit. Due to the threat of protests by the usual rent-a-mob of pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and feminist militants, the Holy Cross fathers of St. Joseph’s Oratory suddenly and unilaterally cancelled our contract to use their conference facilities. They took this severe action out of […]
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Former Soviet Union Countries Commemorate Fifty Years of Abortion

VILNIUS, Lithuania, November 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After being the first country to legalize abortion in 1920 under dictator Vladimir Lenin, the former Soviet Union reversed its position in 1936, only to change its position again in 1955. Yesterday, fifty years ago, the government of the former USSR legalized abortion for the whole Soviet Union and occupied countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The resulting loss of life has been staggering with abortion used as the primary means of ‘birth control’ and in some cases abortions outstripping births. LifeSiteNews.com spoke with Rev. Robertas Skrinskas in Lithuania who noted that […]
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Merry Christmas is not offensive says Jewish Rabbihttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47559 Christmas Under Fire—and the Return of the Grinchhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/222005d.asp Australian pagan parents object that their children being forced to sing Christmas hymns and carols at school   Australiahttps://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17320733%5E2862,00.html Once Upon a Time When America Had Christmashttps://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10444 Consumers Flock to Weekend Shopping Boycott Against Anti-Christmas Target Storeshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/222005c.asp Nova Soctia tree grower unhappy his large tree given to Boston called a “holiday tree” – says “if you’re gonna do that you might as well put a tree up for Easter.”https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/23/holiday-tree051123.html Judith Reisman: E! TV Using ‘Girls Next Door’ to Normalize Porn Industryhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/232005f.asp Massachusetts Father’s Fight […]
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Homosexual Activist MP Forced to Apologize for Lie; Tells Constituent to “Kiss My Ass”

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian homosexual activist member of parliament, Scott Brison, has been forced to apologize to Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper and the National Citizens Coalition. Brison admitted he lied in a release November 4 when he charged Harper with breaking federal lobbying laws while he was president of the NCC. Brison, Public Works Minister for the Liberal Party, read a letter of apology in the House of Commons Monday, saying that he lied about the NCC being charged under the Elections Act six times. “We accept his apology and hope that this […]
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Bishop Refuses to Answer Questions on Catholic Hospital Award for Abortion Supporter

By Hilary White ST. BONIFACE, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic St. Boniface General hospital in St. Boniface Manitoba is set to go ahead with plans to grant an award to infamous anti-Catholic abortion promoter Stephen Lewis. The Catholic archbishop of St. Boniface, Emilius Goulet, has refused in a telephone interview to say unequivocally that he will urge the hospital to rescind the award. Yesterday, LifeSiteNews.com received the text of a public statement from the archbishop of St. Boniface, Emilius Goulet, as well as a private letter addressed to Mrs. Maria Slykerman, head of Campaign Life Coalition Manitoba, giving […]
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Norwegian Government Minister Calls for Homosexual Hate Crimes Legislation

By Terry Vanderheyden OSLO, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a Salvation Army employee was allegedly fired over homosexuality, in violation of Army Christian moral principles, a Norwegian Cabinet Minister is calling for a change in the law to prevent discrimination against homosexuals. Minister of Children and Family Affairs Karita Bekkemellem commented on the firing: “We need a legal code that can catch problems like this; this has long been my attitude. But of course this matter must be taken up with cabinet colleagues,” as reported by aftenposten English news. Socialist Left Party (SV) member Karin Andersen, also the parliament’s […]
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Dominican Bishop Calls for End to Pornography and Prostitution

By Hilary White ROSEAU, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Garbriel Malzaire, the Roman Catholic bishop of Roseau, Dominica, has called for a stop to pornography and prostitution saying that the sex trade is challenging the fabric of the Christian and civil society and he urged the government to take stronger action. “Pornography simply means the exhibition of sexual activity in literature, or in live shows intended to stimulate erotic feelings to the onlookers. These things are happening before our very eyes and we are pretending that it does not exist. There are now more houses of prostitution in the country […]
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Boston Archbishop will not Attend Catholic Charities Dinner Honouring Pro-Abort Mayor

By Hilary White BOSTON, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sean O’Malley, the Catholic Archbishop of Boston, has confirmed that he will not be attending the December 9 fundraising dinner of his diocese’s Catholic Charities because of the anti-Catholic positions of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino who is to be honoured at the event. In a statement dated November 22nd, an announcement from Catholic Charities said, “In light of the mayor’s past statements concerning abortion and same-sex marriage policies, the archbishop regrets that he cannot attend the dinner.” A spokesman for the archdiocese of Boston confirmed the decision and said that an […]
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“Gendercide”– Abortion and Infanticide of Girls Leading to Lop-Sided Demographics

By Terry Vanderheyden UNITED NATIONS, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report has revealed that globally there are at least 200 million more males than females – because of what one researcher has termed “gendercide”– the extermination of girls in utero and out. Lead researcher Theodor Winkler, announcing his findings Thursday at the United Nations, said that infanticide and gender-specific abortion were the leading causes for the dearth of girls. “We are confronted with the slaughter of Eve, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions,” Winkler stated in the preface to his recently published book on the subject, “Women in […]
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Family Advocacy Group Succeeds in Pulling 91 Advertisers from Playboy TV Show

By Terry Vanderheyden TAMPA, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Florida family advocacy group’s e-mail campaign has succeeded in deterring 91 companies from advertising on Playboy’s “Girls Next door” television show, but the group cautions that the battle is not over. “This severe loss of advertisers appears to have influenced the Entertainment Channel (E!) to reduce the number of times the program airs each week from 20 to six,” said Florida Family Association Executive Director David Caton. “Fourteen episodes representing seven hours of air time have been cut from this show. Your emails to advertisers have influenced a 70% reduction […]
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Doctors Refusing to Prescribe Ortho Evra Patch

By Hilary White   NEW YORK, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recent flurry of publicity surrounding the Ortho Evra contraceptive patch has resulted in some doctors refusing to prescribe the deadly drug. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that some doctors do not want to take chances after the manufacturer began including warnings of fatalities and stroke related to the patch.   Lee Shulman, incoming board chair of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and a consultant to Ortho-McNeil, said the company expected a “decrease in use” of the patch.  The patch is worn on the skin and delivers […]
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NOW v. Scheidler, Operation Rescue, et al, Heading Back to US Supreme Court

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After almost 20 years of harassing litigation, the case of National Organization for Women v. Scheidler, Operation Rescue and three other pro-life defendants is heading back to the US Supreme Court for an unprecedented third time. With oral arguments scheduled to take place on Nov. 30 at the high court, at issue is a federal appeals court decision that purported to reopen the case despite the Supreme Court’s complete rejection of NOW’s lawsuit in 2003. “We are hopeful that the high court will reinforce what it said two years ago and […]
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St. Boniface Archbishop “Wiggling” with Ambiguous Statement on Stephen Lewis Award

By Hilary White ST. BONIFACE, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After requests from pro-lifers and Catholics to revoke an award to the infamously anti-Catholic abortion crusader, Stephen Lewis, neither St. Boniface General Hospital nor the Archbishop of St. Boniface has backed away from the decision. Lewis is being offered the prestigious 2005 International Award for his “work in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa,” according to a press release from the Catholic hospital. Lewis is indeed prominent for his international work, but his prominence is as a leader in the cause for abortion, contraception and mass sterilization programmes and his […]
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Youth Sick of Being “Tricked into Casual” Sex by “Safe Sex” Campaigns

By John-Henry Westen LIMA, Peru, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Pro-Life Congress, held in Lima November 10-13, attracted some 5,000 participants.“The first human right is the right to life without discrimination of sex, age, race, faith, economic or social situation or any other condition,” said the conference’s final declaration, agreed to by pro-life leaders from many different nations. A sub-section of the conference, the 1st International Youth Pro-Vida Symposium, released a statement by the youth which called on states to ensure “that authentic development of young people is not distorted or manipulated by economic, ideological, political or social […]
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New Campaign Announced to Elect a Pro-Traditional Marriage Canadian Parliament

By LifeSiteNews.com staff OTTAWA, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pat O’Brien, M.P., (Independent) for London-Fanshawe, and the Hon. Dr. Grant Hill, P.C., former M.P. and former Interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, announced today a national campaign to elect a pro-traditional marriage Parliament at the next election. Mr. O’Brien and Dr. Hill are the national co-chairs of this co-operative grassroots campaign called “Defend Marriage Canada”. Grant Hill and Pat O’Brien were on opposite sides of the House for 11 years. This non-partisan approach is evident in their working together. Mr. O’Brien said “working with a former political opponent […]
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National Pro-Life Conference in Montreal A Rousing Success Despite Setbacks

By Tony Gosgnach  Preview of article to be published in Dec. Interim Newspaper The Canadian pro-life movement pulled the proverbial rabbit out of a hat when it came time to stage its annual national conference in Montreal this year, Nov. 17-19. Dealing with both the cancellation of its venue a scarce 24 hours before the conference was to begin, as well as ominous threats from leftist anti-life factions, the three-day event at an alternate location still ended up being a rousing success, with attendance totaling just under the 400 mark far more than originally predicted and happy faces all around. […]
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Pope: Human Dignity – Right to Life Begins at “Fecundation”

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI addressed participants in a Health Care conference at the Vatican Saturday, on the topic of the human genome. An analysis of scientific data, he said, reveals the dignity of human life “from the first moment of fecundation.” The statement is significant since it answers, for Catholics, questions surrounding the beginning of a right to life. Many, some Catholics included, have wondered about the stage at which the embryo deserves protection. Some have proposed that the morning after pill would avert abortion since it acts prior a modern definition […]
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Police make Arrests in Illegal Gay “Pride” Parade

By Terry Vanderheyden POZNAN, Poland, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Police arrested more than 65 homosexual activists in Poland’s south-western city of Poznan for participating in an illegal “Equality March” there Saturday. Poznan district prosecutor’s office spokesman Miroslaw Adamski saidÂthe activists face fines of up to 5,000 zlotys ($1500 USD) or up to one month in prison. Organizers of the march, Campaign Against Homophobia, were refused a permit by city authorities Tuesday, arguing the demonstration posed a “danger to life, health and property.” Last month, a European Union spokesman suggested that the country may lose its voting rights in the […]
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Italian Minister Wants Abortion Counselling Centres to Employ Pro-Lifers

By Terry Vanderheyden ROME, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italy’s minister of health has called for a change to the way abortion services are offered in the country, suggesting that abortion counselling centres fairly employ both pro-abortion staff as well as pro-lifers. Francesco Storace called for a new measure to allow members of the Catholic Movement for Life to participate in abortion counselling at the country’s state-funded family abortion centres. Storace, from the National Alliance party, argued that the country’s abortion law, passed in 1978, was “designed to prevent abortion not just legalize it.” He emphasized that the abortion law […]
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Euthanasia Doctor Commits Suicide after Finding Patient He Killed Was Not Terminally Ill

By Terry Vanderheyden ZURICH, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor acting for the Swiss euthanasia group, Dignitas, has committed suicide after learning that a German woman he euthanized was not terminally ill. Dignitas is under investigation after news of the woman’s death. The 69-year-old woman contacted Dignitas with a medical report stating she had terminal liver cirrhosis; an autopsy conducted later in Germany revealed the woman was in good health other than depression, and that the medical report was falsified. The woman, whose name was withheld, allegedly convinced her German GP to falsify the report so that she could […]
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Sexy Roadside Ads a Traffic Hazard UK Poll Finds

By Hilary White  LONDON, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British survey of distracted drivers shows that sexy advertisements and other roadside glitter constitute a significant hazard. The survey of 2000 Britons, commissioned by Privilege Insurance Company, showed that one quarter of UK drivers have swerved out of their lane while looking at ads and other off-road objects.   This latest study backs up one done by US psychologists from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, showing that viewing sexually explicit images can result in a split second of mental blindness. Drivers glimpsing the many sexually explicit ads that line modern […]
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Pro-Gay-Marriage Jewish Leader called Not Jewish

By Hilary White HOUSTON, November 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the president of the ultra-liberal Union for Reform Judaism, has lashed out at conservatives on the “religious right” who defend traditional morality and the family. He made his remarks in a speech Saturday, to about 5,000 during the movement’s national assembly in Houston.  With unconscious irony, Yoffie attacked those who hold to traditional religious moral values about marriage and sexuality equating them with the murderous Nazi regime.   He said, “We cannot forget that when Hitler came to power in 1933 one of the first things that he […]
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UN Human Rights Committee Rules That Denying Access to Abortion Violates Women’s Human Rights

By Steve Jalsevac NEW YORK, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The militantly pro-abortion Center For Reproductive Rights (CFRR) is touting a ruling yesterday by the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) as “a landmark decision establishing women’s right to access to legal abortion.” The case was initiated by the Center for Reproductive Rights together with the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) and the Counseling Center for the Defense of Women’s Rights (DEMUS) on behalf of Karen Llontoy, a young Peruvian woman who was not permitted to kill by abortion her anencephalic unborn child. Through […]
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Homosexuality Triggering HIV Escalation

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the rates for new cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have been on the decline among heterosexuals and intravenous drug users, US health officials are expressing alarm at an eight percent increase in HIV rates in homosexual and bisexual men in one year. Measuring the increase in prevalence of the virus from 2003 to 2004, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the 8% rise in cases among men who commit sodomy with men, “was statistically significant” for the 33 states that reported on HIV […]
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Gay Porn Bookstore to Petition Canada’s Supreme Court to Restore Taxpayer Funding For Its Legal Chal

By Hilary White VANCOUVER, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vancouver bookstore specializing in homosexual pornography is being allowed to petition the Supreme Court of Canada to restore its government funding for its fight with Canada Customs. The battle of Little Sisters and Canada Customs has been going on for many years since the agency decided not to allow certain items it classed as obscene to enter the country. Yesterday, the top court granted Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium permission to appeal to the Supreme Court to pursue government funding, up to $1-million, to fund its legal costs to […]
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US Catholic Bishops Task Force on Political Life to Meet with Politicians

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Catholic bishops’ task force on the problem of nominally Catholic but pro-abortion politicians is meeting in closed-door sessions in Washington with representatives of the Republican and Democrat parties. The head of the task force, the Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, said that there may be a document ready for the next bishops’ meeting in June. The task force, set up at McCarrick’s suggestion after the US bishops met in Denver during the last presidential election to discuss the problem, was charged with hammering out the details for bishops […]
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Catholic PM Who Forced Gay ‘Marriage’ Worried About Upsetting Christians with Christmas Election

By Terry Vanderheyden PUSAN, South Korea, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, who pushed through same-sex “marriage” legislation earlier this year while at the same time claiming he is a “devout Catholic,” has suggested that asking voters to entertain an election campaign over the Christmas holidays might offend Christians. En route to the Asian Pacific summit in Korea, Martin told reporters that “When you are talking about the holiday season, there are also other religions that have different New Year’s at different dates and their holidays at a different date and I think we have to […]
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General-Secretary of Italian Conference of Bishops Says Barring Homosexuals From Seminaries “Not Dis

By John Jalsevac in Rome ASSISI, Italy, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian Bishops’ Conference, currently meeting in Assisi, has reportedly passed a number of norms to be applied to the acceptance and formation of candidates for the priesthood in Italian seminaries. These new norms come in response to Pope Benedict’s encouragement to the Conference earlier this week that the bishops “define ever better the formative proposal so that it ensures a human, intellectual and spiritual preparation that is up to the measure of the new challenges that the priestly ministry is called to address.” Although the full text […]
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Conservative Catholics Ready to Rumble with Dissenters over Homosexual Priest Ban

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than two weeks away from the widely rumoured November 29 publication date of a new Vatican document dealing with homosexuality and the priesthood, dissenters from the church’s stand against ordaining homosexuals – among them priests and bishops – have taken their claims public. As LifeSiteNews.com reported, Rochester, NY Bishop Matthew Clark, and a former international leader of the Dominican Order have publicly endorsed ordaining homosexuals despite long-standing Catholic discipline against the move. (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05111406.html ) More than coming out publicly, some homosexual priests have threatened to, according to the […]
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New USCCB Document on Death Penalty “Giving Cover to Pro-Abortion Politicians”?

By John Jalsevac November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) document, entitled “A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death”, overwhelmingly passed earlier this week by a margin of 237-4, strongly encourages U.S. Catholics to work towards the eradication of the death penalty. “Twenty-five years ago, our Conference of bishops first called for an end to the death penalty,” says the document. “We renew this call to seize a new moment and new momentum.” While the document quotes the Catechism noting that “the death penalty is not intrinsically evil, as is the […]
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Chilean Bishops Criticize Government’s Endorsement of Condoms for AIDS Prevention

By Terry Vanderheyden SANTIAGO, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chilean Catholic Bishops Conference has condemned a government initiative to promote condom use as a measure for fighting HIV transmission as lacking “basic ethical considerations.” As reported by the Catholic News Service, the Bishops criticized the program because “it separates sexuality from its procreational dimension, ignores self-control and reduces the solution of the problem to a sole, exclusive formula – condoms.” The bishops criticized a failure of officials to acknowledge that infidelity and promiscuity are the real reasons behind the problem. “Instead of addressing the cause of the problem, the […]
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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Offer Hope to MS-Stricken Teen

By Terry Vanderheyden INVERNESS, Scotland, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British teen who has multiple sclerosis now claims she is walking after umbilical cord stem cell therapy she traveled abroad to receive. Wheelchair-bound since 2003, 19 year-old Amanda Bryson told The Herald that she has been walking daily since immediately after her treatment from a private clinic in the Netherlands Friday. Believed to be the only British beneficiary of the umbilical cord stem cell therapy, Bryson said this week, “It sounds shocking, but I could feel the difference after just five minutes. Since the treatment I have been transformed. […]
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Oral Sex may Cause Mouth Cancer New Study Reveals

By Hilary White BALTIMORE, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US researchers studying the effects of human papilloma virus (HPV), a leading cause of cervical cancer in women, have found a connection between the virus and instances of mouth tumours. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University compared 1,670 patients who had oral cancers to 1,732 healthy people and HPV was found in a small number of the cancer patients. Those infected carried HPV16, the most common strain of the virus, which in Britain is estimated to infect one fifth of women between 18 and 25. The study showed that people with mouth […]
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Self-Proclaimed Homosexual Elected Head of Quebec Separatist Party

By Hilary White QUEBEC, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Andre Boisclair sailed to victory of the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ), Tuesday night, and promised to hold a quick referendum to take Quebec out of Canada if he becomes Premier of the province. The openly gay Boisclair dropped out as a Member of Quebec’s National Assembly to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004 only to return and sweep the party leadership race on the first ballot with 53.7 per cent support among party members. “Two things are clear for us now – first, in […]
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Edmonton MP Calls Euthanasia Bill a Stealth Weapon

By Hilary White OTTAWA, November 17, 2005 (LifeSitenews.com) – An Edmonton MP has said that the assisted suicide bill, C-407, is part of a concerted effort by activists to create public acceptance for euthanasia in Canada.   Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East has identified the methods used to undermine what he calls “fundamental Canadian values” by stealth. He said that radical social activists push their ideas in public “through a piecemeal approach” without ever being “completely clear as to their final objectives.”“The process begins,” he said in a speech in the House of Commons, “with having ideas […]
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Parents to Demonstrate on Parliament Hill for Choice in Childcare

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This Saturday November 19th, the National Fund the Child Coalition, a national alliance of grassroots organizations which is opposed to the Liberal government’s “one-size-fits-all” National Daycare program, will be holding a number of rallies across the country. The Coalition argues that the government-controlled daycare program discriminates against the majority of Canadian families. The Coalition calls on the federal government to support all Canadian families by “funding the child.” The Coalition advocates a program which will provide parents with child care choices and “fair and equitable financial support for all Canadian families.” […]
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Montreal Evangelical Church Welcomes Canadian National Pro-Life Conference with Open Arms

By John-Henry Westen  MONTREAL, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, amidst ‘chaos’, the Canadian National Pro-Life Conference commenced. A last minute change of venue yesterday, was necessitated by the decision of St. Joseph’s Oratory, Canada’s national Catholic shrine, to disallow the conference on their premises due to threats received from ‘pro-choice’ and homosexual activist groups. Organizers told LifeSiteNews.com that two other Catholic churches and one Evangelical church offered their facilities for the conference despite the fact that it was to commence only hours later. Organizers settled on the location of a French-language Evangelical church called La Bible Parle, located in […]
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Colombian Pro-Life Leaders Request Show of Support from Other Countries

By John-Henry Westen BOGOTA, November 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders of the pro-life organization Red Futuro Colombia (The Future of Colombia Network) have requested organizations which believe in the right to life to send e-mails in support of the pro-life cause and in opposition to the very serious current attempts to overturn Colombia’s constitutional protection of the right to life. In addition to emails, pro-life leaders are asking for urgent prayers on their behalf. This South American country has been able for many years to resist the attempts of internationally-backed efforts to legalize abortion. However, they are now confronting their […]
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New Location Announced for Canadian National Pro-Life Conference

The Protestant Evangelical Church  La Bible Parle  12265 Laurentian Blvd. H4K 1N5  In the Montreal district of Cartierville  Church Phone no.  514 335 7150 For a map to the new location click here:https://www.mapquest.com/maps/linktomap.adp?mapdata=qNCyos1mfP4YwYYFJU1SeGLIK2MaGWhYNpPGf48RdEKv3%252frHdzG%252bFsR1VBS28JfUfSARqQWUrDGRwz%252b2ZlIZWTT7MPGOYIRJXKEAPX4FjMzgIMlKa0ciH%252f9tk%252fMP9YkhPpoPxVsKPUIf3uxhxa%252fbl8pRnaFxVRvzQES%252bpCg2bpT%252fkAVHK1Y7AFm3WtsBxOJDOk3AMiGSdWEt2UU3OvpytJ9U9rrq39pMgNahGxnqVsX8ky6z1WPLSmF2d4miEKVVae1Y7QdhziVzj2jFblOY3LPRsWPqP1YW20gMAXJJHq657BuVg3BfuaTz5RnZvNDQeR8wybzOgEpSQ%252fUFqmIq%252f6VsLshgjm1huoTn7zAX3MOEDXo27WE%252bhNQLlARYSagFRsfiansEhOqOE4RbwYYWtT1uctbPHpK94U1Deasq31Et0m%252bEKA9jaPpQxlDT3b%252bsW3i3gXMGeRs2lYA9EWHFaykk3ofqgMw8kI3%252fSQnZarKAnB%252fh2JWQebZx1PsmFx32 To contact the conference host Campagne Quebec Vie  514 344 2686
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Pro-abortion group objects to pharmacists having a right of consciencehttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038629.cfm Pro-family groups once again spreading the word that there’s no need to talk about “winter break” or “holiday parties.”https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038627.cfm House Urges Ninth Circuit to Rehear Sex Survey Casehttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive200511CUL20051116b.html ADL to attack Evangelical power in U.S https://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11659   Most Want Porn Stopped but Industry Continues to Growhttps://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0038621.cfm Nov. 28 red-letter day opposition parties intend to bring down the Canada’s minority Liberal government for mid-January votehttps://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/11/15/1308038-cp.html Decima Research Poll suggests bigger Liberal lead https://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051116/ca_pr_on_na/elxn_fever_poll New Sun Media-SES poll shows national support for Harper’s Conservatives has stalledhttps://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2005/11/16/1309127-sun.html Oral sex linked to mouth cancer: […]
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Bill Clinton Hailed to Become “Something Like a President of the World” says Esquire Magazine

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, November 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Disgraced former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been hailed as “The Most Influential Man in the World,” by Esquire magazine. In the December issue of the magazine set to hit newsstands Thursday, Esquire Editor-in-Chief David Granger says Clinton is poised to become “something like a president of the world or at least a president of the world’s non-governmental organizations.” Clinton, whose fame has survived revelations of sexual impropriety, perjury andÂconstant reports of other shady occurrences at the Clinton White House which would have killed any other political reputation, continues to […]
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Canada’s National Shrine Pulls Plug on Location of National Pro-Life Conference Due to Threats

***See Important Update to this story  Montreal Evangelical Church Welcomes Canadian National Pro-Life Conference with Open Armshttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05111704.html By John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, November 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day prior to the opening of the Canadian National Pro-Life Conference the religious priests who are in charge of Canada’s national Catholic shrine, St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, have reneged on the contracted use of their facilities for the conference due to threats received from ‘pro-choice’ and homosexual activists. The decision is not based on police inability to offer adequate protection, according to police officials. Organizers of the conference are scrambling to find […]
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Pope Benedict Enters Italian Abortion Debate with Praise for Pro-Life Movement

VATICAN, November 16, 2005 (CWNews.com /LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI offered his strong support to pro-life activism during his weekly public audience on November 16. At a time when Italy is caught up in a heated debate about experimental use of the abortifacient drug RU-486, the Holy Father greeted a pro-life group that was in attendance at his public audience, saying that they were “writing new pages of hope for the future of humanity.” The Pope recognized the presence of about 50 young members of the Italian Movement for Life among the 22,000 people attending his Wednesday audience. The Movement […]
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Hillary Clinton Urges President Bush to Discuss Forced Abortion on China Trip

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, November 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After years of being urged by pro-lifers and Christians to condemn China's one-child policy, President George W. Bush is now being urged in the same direction by none other than Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton.  In a letter to the President dated November 10, Clinton wrote, “I hope you will raise with the Chinese government the following points,” the first of which concerns the coercive one-child program. “Since first introduced in 1979, China's one-child policy has evoked strong concern over human rights abuses. These abuses have reportedly included denial of social benefits, […]
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Norway’s Polygamy Problem a Sign of Things to Come

By Terry Vanderheyden OSLO, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norway’s Directorate of Immigration (UDI) has reported that despite its illegality, polygamy is becoming increasingly prevalent in the country. The UDI explained that men traveling abroad meet and marry women where polygamy is legal and then bring their new wives home to Norway to join their harems. Pro-family leaders and organizations have been warning for some time that liberalization of marriage laws to allow same-sex “marriage” will open the door to all manner of aberrations including incest and polygamy. The Canadian Liberal government itself, fearing the possible increase in polygamy following […]
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South African Bishop Calls for Catholic “Theology” of Condoms for AIDS

By Hilary White CHICAGO, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South African Bishop Kevin Dowling said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune Friday that the Catholic Church needs to develop a theology of condoms to answer the AIDS crisis. Dowling told the Tribune that the Church’s teaching on sexual abstinence was an outmoded, “ivory tower” approach to the AIDS epidemic. He called on the Church to develop a theology that would allow contraception based on “human dignity and justice and human rights instead of just on an ethic of sexuality.” Since 2001, when he first made public his views on […]
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LA Times New Porn Column another Symptom of Normalization of Pornography in Society

By Terry Vanderheyden LOS ANGELES, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Los Angeles Times has added a regular pornography feature to its Entertainment section, prompting a family advocacy group to charge that the paper is adding to the growing problem of the normalization of pornography in society. The American Family Association warned that the LA Times has since the spring had reporter Ralph Frammolino write a regular column covering the pornography industry. The AFA’s Ed Vitagliano commented: “The obvious next step,” in a society already over-sexualized would be “. . . for pornography just to be considered another part of […]
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Homosexual Hate Crime Trial of Swedish Pastor Used as an Opportunity for Evangelization

By John-Henry Westen and Terry Vanderheyden STOCKHOLM, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish Pastor Ake Green, appearing before the Swedish Supreme Court Wednesday to answer to a “hate crimes” charge for preaching a sermon on homosexuality in 2003, capitalized on the occasion to evangelize the nation. Focus on the Family’s representative to the United Nations, Thomas Jacobson, reported that the trial was providentially aired on national television thus providing Green the opportunity to have not only his original sermon but also his defence of it aired nationally.“This was unprecedented in Swedish history,” Jacobson said, “that a Supreme Court hearing would […]
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Letter From Hillary Clinton to President George Bush On China’s Human Rights Violations

November 10, 2005   The Honorable George Bush   President of the United States   Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President:  This month you will visit the People’s Republic of China to meet with the leadership of that nation. These summit meetings provide an opportunity for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of important issues. During your meetings, I urge you to raise human rights issues with the Chinese government and emphasize that respect for human rights is a critically important element in the U.S.-China relationship. Specifically, I hope you will raise with the Chinese government […]
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Abortion Pill a No Go in Australia says Health Minister

By Hilary White CANBERRA, Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott announced yesterday that health risks associated with the abortion drug, RU-486 are serious enough that the killer drug will remain banned. Abbott said that though the drug itself may sometimes be a “preferable” method of abortion, it was unsafe when used in areas where there was limited access to obstetric facilities. The Health Ministry report said that the drug “carries a significantly higher risk of later adverse events, such as incomplete termination and prolonged bleeding.” “The advice from the Department of Health and Ageing provides no reasons for changing the longstanding […]
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Report on Abortion-Causing Morning-After Pill Shows FDA Used Great Caution

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on the Food & Drug Administration’s handling of the over the counter application for the abortifacient morning-after pill Plan B found the FDA’s actions “unusual”. However, Concerned Women for America has praised the FDA in light of the GAO report findings and commended the FDA for treating the application with great concern. “Making Plan B over-the-counter would needlessly expose adolescents to risks and reduce access to health care to those in need of it,” said Wendy Wright, CWA’s Executive Vice President. “The debate is […]
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US Researcher Leaves Korean Cloning Team over Ethics of Ova Donation

By Hilary White PITTSBURGH, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â A major US researcher, Gerald Schatten, has severed his ties with Korean maverick cloning doctor, Hwang Woo-suk citing ethical objections. Dr. Schatten, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences with the University of Pittsburgh, said that he believes ethical rules concerning ova donation were broken and that he had been misled by Hwang. Dr. Schatten’s major allegation was that a member of the research team had donated the ova for the work, which violates ethical protocols for research. Ova donation, which involves drugs that boost production of ovaries has real […]
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Abortion Poll Reveals Nearly Two-Thirds of Canadian Women Support Legal Protection for Unborn

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff OTTAWA, November 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Focus Canada poll conducted in October 2005 by Environics Research found that 64% of Canadian women support legal protection of unborn children before birth. The poll, commissioned by LifeCanada, the national education pro-life group, asked 2,024 Canadians several questions on abortion. Among women, 34% supported legal protection from conception on, versus 24% among men. Nineteen percent of women and 20% of men supported legal protection after three months of gestation and 11% among men and women supported legal protection after six months gestation. “For the fourth year in a row, […]
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New FDA Condom Guidelines “An Appalling Deception” According to Family Group

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-family group has called the new US Food and Drug Administration condom guidelines “an appalling deception.” The FDA’s guidelines fall short of fulfilling the requirements of a law mandated by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 2000, according to Linda Klepacki, RN, MPH, Focus on the Family’s Analyst for Sexual Health. Congress’s requirements mandated that condom labels be medically accurate about the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of condoms in preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), specifically the human papillomavirus (HPV). Klepacki criticized that, despite there being no […]
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Vatican Cardinal Compares Abortion to Killing Politicians – “Pro-Choice” and Communion

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Francis Arinze, as the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, is the highest authority in the Catholic Church – next to the Pope himself – on the question of communion for pro-abortion politicians. As such, he has oft been asked for his position on the matter in light of the raging public debate on the issue which has bishops pitted on opposite sides of the question as well as many unwilling to take any position. In an interview published Saturday by Inside the Vatican, the Cardinal, somewhat exasperatedly, […]
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Catholic Schism Being Revealed as Homosexual Priest Document Readies for Release

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the publication of the new Vatican documentÂon homosexuality and the Catholic priesthood is about to be published at the end of the month, several Catholic leaders including an AmericanÂbishop have publicly stated their views against the long-standing Vatican position against ordaining men with homosexual inclinations to the priesthood. Rochester, NY, Bishop Matthew H. Clark, was the latest to come out in favour of homosexual priests inÂa column in his diocesan paper Saturday. Homosexual priests in Canada and the United States haveÂcondemned the Church’s position in mostly anonymous statements to the […]
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New Device Generates Stem Cells from Adult Bone Marrow Donors

By Hilary White   TALLAHASSEE, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A biomedical device that grows stem cells from adult bone marrow may dramatically increase the availability of the cells for research and therapies. The device, called a perfusion bioreactor, mimics the conditions encountered by adult stem cells within the human body and increases the nutrients required for them to develop. Teng Ma an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering says, “The perfusion bioreactor can be used to reproduce mesenchymal [bone marrow] stem cells and to direct their differentiation into bone, cartilage, muscle, […]
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Anglican Bishop Opposed to Gay “Marriage” Elected Archbishop for BC, Yukon

By Terry Vanderheyden RICHMOND, BC, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yukon Anglican bishop Terrence Buckle, one of the few Canadian Anglican bishops who openly opposes same-sex “marriage,” has been elected as archbishop for British Columbia and Yukon Territory. Buckle’s only contender for the position was Vancouver bishop Michael Ingham. A number of BC parishes voted by an overwhelming majority in 2003 to accept Buckle as ‘alternative Episcopal oversight’ to Ingham, after he introduced same-sex “blessings” for their congregations. “I personally believe that we do not just stand by and watch the church fall apart over this,” Buckle said, as reported […]
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Alito: ‘No Constitutional Abortion Right’ and Americans Like Him

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, November 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Washington Times has reported that US President Bush’s latest nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., wrote in 1985 that he believed “very strongly” that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.” The document obtained by the Times was an application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III during the Reagan administration. Alito wrote that he had always considered himself a conservative. “I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the […]
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Vatican Document on Homosexuality and Priesthood to Bar Men Who Support Gay Agenda says Report

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli writes today in Il Giornale that he has seen a copy of the Vatican document on homosexuality and the priesthood and publishes what he claims are excerpts from the document. Tornielli says the eight—page document entitled “Instruction for vocational discernment criteria regarding persons with homosexual tendencies in view of their admission to the priesthood and holy orders,” will be released on November 29 and was approved by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, head of the Congregation for Education,Âon NovemberÂ4. The report confirms that the document will bar homosexuals […]
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Bomb Threats Won’t Stop Minnesota Christian Churches Working together to Defend Marriage

By John-Henry Westen ELDEN PRARIE, Minnesota, November 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A gathering of Minnesota pastors from different Christian denominations was temporarily evacuated due to a bomb threat yesterday. Minnesota’s Grace Church housed a ‘Summit’ of Evangelical pastors and Catholic priests meeting to strategize on the threat to the traditional definition of marriage. Prominent among the speakers at the conference was Calgary Bishop Fred Henry, the Canadian Catholic Bishop who is facing human rights tribunal investigation for his open and honest expounding on Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Local police patrol Sergeant Jamie Good told LifeSiteNews.com that the bomb threat was […]
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UK Proposes Mandatory Preschool from Birth

By Terry Vanderheyden LONDON, November 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposed law to mandate that all children enter preschool from birth is being debated by UK lawmakers. Introducing the bill, Children’s Minister Beverley Hughes said the program would provide “integrated care and education from birth. We want to establish a coherent framework that defines progression for young children from nought to five.” A spokesman for a parent’s association commented, “We are now in danger of taking away children’s childhood when they leave the maternity ward.” Margaret Morrissey added that “From the minute you are born and your parents go back […]
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Coalition Seeks to End Child Pornography

By Terry Vanderheyden ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, November 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following on yesterday’s LifeSiteNews.com report https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05110905.html that child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial enterprise, and is among the fastest growing businesses on the Internet, an international group has announced an aggressive plan to put an end to child sexual exploitation. A 22-country coalition unveiled an action plan that proposes a 17-point plan including creation of a universal three-digit phone number for reporting missing children; the establishment of an expanded database of convicted pedophiles; and the development of a system to track child traffickers across borders. The action plan […]
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Canadian Catholic Hospital to Grant Award to Anti-Catholic Abortion Promoter

By John-Henry Westen WINNIPEG, November 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -ÂWinnipeg’s Catholic St. Boniface Hospital is set to present an award to anti-Catholic Stephen Lewis, one of the most notorious abortion pushers in Canadian history. Lewis was, in this month’s issue of the Canadian national pro-life newspaper “The Interim”, listed in the top ten persons “who have most helped lead the moral assault on Canada.” Furthermore, Lewis has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Catholic Church, particularly in its promotion of abstinence in the fight against AIDS. Nevertheless, St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation has announced that Lewis, along […]
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Fiji’s Christian Majority Denied Right to March against Homosexuality by ‘Human Rights’ Commission

By Hilary White REWA, Fiji, November 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Methodist Church of Fiji, which claims about a quarter of Fiji’s citizens as members, was refused permission to hold a march to protest incursions of the homosexual political machine into Fiji’s traditionally Christian society. The march was to have been a protest against a court ruling that upheld, on constitutional grounds, an appeal by an Australian tourist and a Fiji man against a gay sex conviction. The prohibited march was to have been the second staged by the church, the first having taken place in in Nausori earlier this […]
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Kansas Teachers can Criticize Darwinian Evolution

By Terry Vanderheyden TOPEKA, Kansas, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 6-4 vote by the Kansas State Board of Education Tuesday means that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution can now be examined critically by teachers in state schools. Secularists were quick to condemn the move. The Campaign to Defend the Constitution condemned the decision as a “threat posed by the religious right to American democracy,” while Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science called the measure “A vote to mix science and faith in public school science classrooms.” Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, […]
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Even “Good” Divorce Hard on Kids, New Study Confirms

By Terry Vanderheyden NEW YORK, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new book based on a survey of 1,500 adults ages 18-35 reveals for the first time that there is no such thing as a “good divorce” and even amicable divorces have lasting negative effects on children. Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, a book by affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, Elizabeth Marquardt, contends that “rarely do we hear about the real and lasting effects divorce has on the approximately one million children whose parents divorce each year.” Her book reports on the […]
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Texas and Oregon Firmly Behind Traditional Marriage Amendments

By Terry Vanderheyden HOUSTON, PORTLAND, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas voters overwhelmingly supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex “marriage” Tuesday. Last week an Oregon judge upheld that state’s ban passed last year. Over three-fourths of Texas voters voted yes to Proposition 2, making it the 19th state to alter their constitution to guarantee that a court-engineered change to the traditional definition of marriage would not be possible. “Texans know that marriage is between a man and a woman, and children deserve both a mom and a dad,” said Texans For Marriage leader Kelly Shackelford, according to an AP […]
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Media Says Vatican Backs Darwin While Pope Speaks on Creation not coming from Chaos

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an uncanny coincidence today, while some mainstream media sources claimed the Vatican was attacking belief in creation in favour of Darwinian evolution, Pope Benedict spoke on creation. The Times, in a story picked up in The Australian and other news sources ‘reports’ today that “The Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.” (see the story here: https://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html ) However, what actually took place was that Cardinal Paul Poupard, […]
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Child Porn Among Fastest Growing Internet Businesses

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Within only a few years, child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial enterprise, and is among the fastest growing businesses on the Internet. Through the use of digital and web cameras, child pornography has become easier and less expensive to produce. Distribution on the Internet has facilitated instant access by thousands and possibly millions of individuals throughout the world. The ability to use credit cards to purchase child pornography has made it easier than ever to obtain. Arrests in the United States for the possession of child pornography, during […]
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Swedish Pastor Defends Sermon on Homosexuality before Supreme Court

By John-Henry Westen STOCKHOLM, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish Pastor Ake Green appeared before the Swedish Supreme Court today defending himself from “hate crime” charges which were based on a 2003 sermon on homosexuality.ÂÂ He told reporters prior to entering the courthouse that should he be sentenced he would go to prison to demonstrate the insanity of the situation. Green was convicted of a hate crime and sentenced by a district court to one month in prison on June 20, 2004, the decision was appealed and overturned at the Gota Court of Appeals in February of this year but […]
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Live-In Boyfriends Increase Risk of Child Death by 48 Times

By Hilary White CHICAGO, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri-Columbia, has shown that children living in homes occupied by their mothers’ boyfriends or other non-relatives, are up to 48 times more likely to die from child abuse than those who live with two biological parents. “It is not single parenthood per se that puts a child at risk,” said co-author Dr. Bernard Ewigman. “It is the presence in the household of unrelated adults, usually a male boyfriend, that dramatically increases the risk.” The study, titled “Child Deaths […]
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California Parental Notification Proposition Defeated by Narrow Margin

By Hilary White   LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Voters in California yesterday defeated Proposition 73, a ballot proposal that would have required abortion facilities to notify parents of underage girls seeking abortions. Under current California law, thousands of minor girls seek abortions each month without their parents’ knowledge. In a close vote, the proposition was defeated 47.4% to 52.6%. In other states with parental notification laws, teen abortions have been reduced by as much as 30%. Pre-election surveys showed strong support for Proposition 73 among impoverished blacks and Hispanics, groups that are traditional targets of the abortion […]
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Battle For Very Soul of US Judicial System – Alito Update

By Steve Jalsevac Article Excerpts Senators Say Alito Has Respect for Roe V. Wade Abortion Decision  Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito expressed “great respect” for the precedent established by the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision but didn’t commit to upholding it, senators said Tuesday as Alito began a second week courting their support.   Alito said “Roe was precedent on which people, a lot of people, relied and had been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect,” Lieberman told reporters after his private meeting with the judge. Lieberman called his meeting with Alito “encouraging,” but also said […]
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Swedes Say They Are Obligated to Make Abortion Available to Polish Women

By Terry Vanderheyden STOCKHOLM, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish officials have recommended that the country open its borders to allow foreign women to access their medical system for abortions, a government-commissioned report stated. It argued that because Swedish women once travelled to communist Poland when abortion was illegal at home, they now must offer the same “service” to Poles since abortion is now illegal there. According to a Breitbart.com report, “critics” argue that before the mid-1970s, when abortion was illegal in Sweden, many women travelled to communist Poland for abortions. Now that abortion is illegal there, they reason that […]
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Mother Challenges Teen Abortion, UK Parental Notification Law

By Terry Vanderheyden LONDON, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A case before the UK’s High Court today will review whether parents must be contacted before an under-age daughter has an abortion. A mother of two teenage daughters, Sue Axon, brought the case before the court, arguing that under current law a doctor or school nurse does not have to contact a parent before a minor girl can obtain an abortion. She said that although neither of her teenage daughters has ever had an abortion, she did, herself, 20 years ago and deeply regretted it. A 1986 law allowing prescriptions for […]
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Swedish Pastor Before Supreme Court November 9 for “Hate Speech” in Sermon

LifeSiteNews.com staff BORGHOLM, Sweden, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), an American organization which defends the rights of Christians, is calling for prayer for the Supreme Court trial of Swedish Pastor Ake Green before the Swedish Supreme Court this Wednesday, November 9th. Pastor Green has been charged with committing a “hate crime” for preaching a sermon on homosexuality. ADF explains that the decision on Pastor Green is likely to affect all religious leaders and is therefore of extreme importance to Christians everywhere. Pastor Green was convicted of a hate crime and sentenced by a district court […]
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Don’t Ban Gays from Priesthood, Ban Homophobes Says Former Catholic Leader

ByÂHilary White and John-Henry Westen LONDON, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, who headed one of the largest religious orders within the Catholic Church from 1992 to 2001, has slammed any suggestion of barring homosexuals from the priesthood, and suggests further that those who would ban homosexuals from the priesthood should themselves be banned from the priesthood. An Englishman and former Master General or international head of the Order of Friars Preachers – commonly known as the Dominican Order – Radcliffe has written a letter to the London Times saying, “A document from the Vatican on the admission […]
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Maryland Catholic Bishops Identify “Coordinated Effort” in Homosexual War on the Family

ANNAPOLIS, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pastoral Letter from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Maryland says that a deliberate campaign by homosexual activists, left-leaning judges and the American Civil Liberties Union has been undertaken to corrode the family and its stabilizing influence in society. The bishops’ letter states, “There was a coordinated effort of same-sex couples applying for marriage licenses in various jurisdictions throughout Maryland. The licenses were denied and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) immediately filed suit on behalf of these couples.” It also adds that “Lawmakers recently approved bills that are seen as stepping stones of […]
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Alito Looking to be a Slam Dunk For Bush – Update

By Steve Jalsevac November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Barring some very dramatic new revelations it is appearing that President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, is a slam dunk to be confirmed. The Democrats and liberal Republicans are striking out in their attempts to eliminate this exceptionally qualified, non-confrontational nominee. The best that Alito’s opponents can come up with so far is to delay the start of the confirmation hearings as long as possible. Trouble is, there are important moral issues cases scheduled for the immediate future – as if the Dems don’t realize that and that the waiting […]
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Canadian Psych Hospital Promotes Patient Sex with Private Rooms, On-Demand Porn

By Terry Vanderheyden BEAUPORT, Quebec, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A psychiatric hospital in Quebec has initiated a program to facilitate patient’s sexual relations, by providing them with private rooms equipped with beds, television, and on-demand pornographic videos and magazines. LifeSiteNews.com spoke with University of Laval-associated Centre Hospitalier Robert-Giffard’s director of communications, Catherine Lassard, who confirmed the program, emphasizing it was a hospital-initiated measure. The trial run will allow 60 patients access to the program and if successful, be made available to all 700 residents in six months time. Nicole-Gagnon, the hospital’s ombudswoman and the person responsible for the program, […]
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Homosexual Activists Invade Pro-Family Group Headquarters En Route to White House

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists chained themselves to a display in the foyer of the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters in the US capitol today in an attempt to disrupt work there. A FRC employee said that about 12 homosexual activists, some wearing “ACT UP” t-shirts – an acronym for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power – followed a single member who gained admittance through a keyed security door by posing to be there for an interview. Once the door was opened, the dozen forced their way in, strewing condoms and fliers, chanting “condoms work, […]
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Abortion Notification Law in California Gets Celebrity Backing

By John-Henry Westen LOS ANGELES, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Top celebrities released strong endorsements for the YES on 73 campaign today during the final push for Prop 73, the “Parents’ Right to Know” initiative on California’s special election ballot next Tuesday, November 8th. Ben Stein, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Patrick Warburton, Laura Ingraham, and Patricia Heaton are all running radio spots in California encouraging support for Prop 73. If passed, Proposition 73 will prevent an abortion from being performed on a minor girl until 48 hours after her parent or guardian is notified. Patricia Heaton says, “As a parent, I […]
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Bishop: “Children will have to be taught about homosexual acts in health class”

By Hilary White ST. PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, November 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary will give a talk to a group of Christian pastors in Eden Prairie Minnesota, on the ramifications of the Canadian redefinition of marriage. Henry spoke to a local reporter yesterday saying that the passage of the same-sex “marriage” law has triggered a social revolution in Canada. In the last two years, Bishop Henry has endeared himself to family advocates in Canada as the only member of the Canadian Catholic hierarchy to be so outspoken in his opposition to the homosexual political agenda as […]
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EU Conference Says World is a Cruel Place Because of Catholic Church

New York, November 4, 2005 (C-Fam.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – Finding ways to force countries like Ireland, Portugal and Malta to liberalize their abortion laws was the focus of a meeting of 17 members of the European Parliament and representatives of various NGOs who gathered in Brussels on October 18. At a conference entitled, “Abortion – Making it a right for all women in the EU,” attendees heard testimony from abortion advocates from countries with restrictive abortion laws. Held at the European Parliament building, participants strategized about ways to make a right to abortion mandatory for all member states of the European Union. […]
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US Congressional Committee Examines Fetal Pain Legislation

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US House Constitution Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday to examine information related to fetal pain, and the prospect of introducing legislation to mandate that abortionists inform women of the pain abortion causes to the unborn child during an abortion. Legislation introduced concurrently in the House by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-New Jersey) and in the Senate by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), both titled the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2005, seeks to mandate that women be notified that an abortion causes pain to her unborn child. House Committee chairman Steve […]
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Anti-Abstinence-Education Activists Attack Speaker at Abstinence Conference

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff WASHINGTON, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The debate over abstinence education in the United States went up a few notches yesterday with ‘safe sex’ proponents storming the stage at an abstinence education conference. At the “Strengthening Programs Through Scientific Evaluation” conference, hosted by the Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs and Administration for Children and Families, activists opposed to abstinence education, physically accosted Deputy Assistant to the President, Claude Allen. While abstinence education proponents maintained a professional environment, Allen was aggressively overcrowded as safe sex proponents attempted to take over the podium, eyewitnesses report. After […]
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Investigation Demanded into Government Spending on X-Rated Sex Ed in U.S.

By LifeSiteNews.com staff WASHINGTON, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the midst of a national Abstinence Education Evaluation Conference being sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week, abstinence educators are calling for an investigation of the questionable content and ethical concerns with comprehensive sex education programs being supported with government money. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and other nationally known proponents of so-called ‘comprehensive’ sex education have a record of recommending curricula with extremely graphic content such as the use of grocery items like grape jelly being used as lubricants […]
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Alaskan Activist Supreme Court Overturns Law Banning Gay Benefits

By Hilary White ANCHORAGE, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alaska Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that a ban on benefits for homosexual partners violates Alaska Constitution’s equal protection clause. The case began in 1999, when voters in the Municipality of Anchorage passed a constitutional amendment blocking state recognition of gay marriage. A suit was filed at the time, which was dismissed in 2001. In that ruling Judge Stephanie Joannides said the state and city did not have to extend benefits to same-sex couples, equating them with unmarried heterosexual couples who also are not eligible. Friday’s ruling came after a […]
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PBS Documentary to Show Pro-Life Successes in Closing Abortion Facilities

WASHINGTON, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A documentary will air November 8 on PBS in the US that highlights the success of pro-life workers in closing abortion facilities through legal means. “Frontline” will air its programme called “The Last Abortion Clinic” which is billed as an examination of the efforts to “chip away” at Roe v. Wade with hundreds of state laws restricting or limiting abortion. The programme, which takes a decidedly pro-abortion angle, focuses on a Supreme Court case, scheduled for November 30, that could indicate whether Chief Justice John Roberts will allow states to keep laws restricting abortion […]
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Pope Benedict Spied On by East German Communist Secret Police from 1974

By Hilary White ROME, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently released documents from the former East German communist secret police, the Stasi, show that the future Pope Benedict XVI was under surveillance since the early 1970’s. According to a report from a major German weekly paper, Bild am Sonntag, agents of the State Security Ministry, known as the Stasi, regarded the young German theology professorÂas one of the most dangerous anti-communists in Europe. Spies collected biographical details and tried to anticipate his moves. Reporting on October 2, the paper said it had received permission personally from Pope Benedict to publish […]
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Vatican Document Barring Homosexuals from Priesthood Due Late November

By John-Henry Westen ROME, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The best-known English-language Vatican correspondent, John Allen, reports today that a new document from the Congregation for Catholic Education on the admission of homosexuals to seminaries is likely to be released late November, perhaps the last week of November. The document has been expected for over three years. A senior Vatican official also confirmed to Allen that the document’s central message is that “homosexuals are not welcome in the priesthood.” Commenting on the document’s nature, the Vatican official said, “This is not a matter of sacramental theology. It’s not saying that […]
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Anti-Catholicism, Homsexuals, Abortion and Alito – Update

By Steve Jalsevac Exceprts From Articles   Alito Hearings to Begin Second Week of January, Though Bush Wanted EarlierÂThe Republican-controlled Senate will begin hearings Jan. 9 on Judge Samuel Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court, leaders of the Judiciary Committee announced Thursday…“It simply wasn’t possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted,” said Sen. Arlen Specter.. He outlined a timetable that envisions five days of hearings, followed by a vote in committee on Jan. 17 and the full Senate on Jan. 20.  Specter was caught between conflicting pressures as he sought to work out a schedule on the […]
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China Moves from Bullets to Mobile Execution Vans to Improve International Image

TORONTO, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of its attempts to streamline the enormous number of executions and improve its public image as a human rights violator, China’s communist government has introduced mobile killing vans to execute condemned prisoners. Recent visits from United Nations Human Rights investigators and a booming economy seeking foreign trade have prompted the Chinese government to seek methods of execution less offensive to Western sensibilities. A law was passed recently that changed the most common method of execution from the traditional bullet to the back of the head to lethal injection. The execution vans are […]
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Homosexual Government Minister Loaned Failed Gay Porn Shop $10,000 Taxpayer Funds

By Terry Vanderheyden WINNIPEG, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual pornography shop that received a provincial NDP government-backed loan to begin business has gone under, leaving Manitoba taxpayers holding the ball for the $10,000. Openly homosexual Industry Minister Jim Rondeau defended the decision to guarantee a loan for the venture, arguing that the store, Queer Closet, sold items that are not illegal. “It would be inappropriate for me to censor an economic thing as long as it’s legal,” he said, as reported by the Winnipeg Sun. Rondeau said that if a start-up company has a bank-approved business plan it […]
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Canada’s Main Homosexual Activist Group Opposes Charge against Christian Pastor

By Terry Vanderheyden RED DEER, Alberta, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alberta pastor facing an Alberta Human Rights Commission hearing for publishing a letter to the editor that criticized homosexuality is finding support from an unlikely place – Canada’s foremost homosexual advocacy group, Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (Egale). Although Egale said it opposes Pastor Stephen Boissoin’s opinions, even they favour that the complaint filed by University of Calgary assistant professor Darren Lund be dropped out of respect for the right to free speech. “Egale supports Professor Lund in working to make schools safe for all children but […]
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Alberta Passes Legislation Allowing Unborn to Sue Mom for Car Accident Injuries

By Terry Vanderheyden EDMONTON, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alberta lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow children to sue their mothers for injuries sustained during car accidents while they were still within the womb. The new law, to be passed later this month, introduces a new right for the unborn that has before this time never been acknowledged in Canada – unlike the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in the US, which allows for prosecution of violent crimes that result in harm to an unborn victim. The new law resulted from the lobbying efforts of the father of a […]
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Activist Judge Rules Palmdale Parents have no Say in Sex Ed in Schools

By Hilary White SAN FRANCISCO, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Palmdale school district in California wanted children in the first, third and fifth grades to think about sex as part of a study on “barriers to learning.” When parents took the Palmdale school district to court, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them. The court ruled that, “There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children…Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to […]
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Pope Benedict XVI Praises Large Families

VATICAN, November 3, 2005 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Large families need society’s support, Pope Benedict XVI told his weekly audience on November 2. A large family, the Pope remarked, “constitutes a witness of faith, courage, and optimism.” Moreover, large families provide wealth to society, “because without children there is no future!” The Holy Father called for “adequate social and legislative” measures to support large families, repeating that they offer “richness and hope for the entire country.” The Pope’s remarks were prompted by the presence of an Italian national family association at the Wednesday audience. He used the occasion to underline “the centrality […]
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Vatican Education Official Warns Dissenting Catholic Colleges May Lose ‘Catholic’ Status

By LifeSiteNews.com staff NOTRE DAME, Indiana, November 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican’s number two education official predicts that Pope Benedict XVI will follow a path of “evangelical pruning” of secularized Catholic colleges and universities, declaring them no longer Catholic. Archbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education and former president of the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, addressed officials and faculty at the University of Notre Dame on Monday. Miller said that his prediction was based on an examination of the new Pope’s writings and approach. The Pope has argued “that it might be better […]
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Alito Path Made Smoother by Miers Fracas – Update

By Steve Jalsevac November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today’sÂupdate is thankfully much briefer than those of the past few days. Especially interesting is Mathew Franck’s comment, probably thought, but not voiced by many, that the Miers fracas almost seemed pre-arranged to smooth the way for the real nominee – Alito. Miers Helped Alito – Matthew J. Franck – National ReviewIt all could have been a strategy. It wasn’t. But it would have worked as one. Samuel Alito was probably bound for confirmation anyway, but his path has been made measurably smoother by the fracas over Harriet Miers. …this president has […]
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Anglicans Representing Two-Thirds of Global Body Reject Gay-Friendly North American Church

By Terry Vanderheyden AIN EL-SUKHNA, Egypt, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anglican prelates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting at a summit last week, condemned Canadian Anglicans and the US Episcopal Church’s willingness to ordain homosexual priests and to bless same-sex unions. In a statement released Sunday, the church leaders meeting at the 3rd annual Global South to South Encounter said the North American Church’s support for homosexuality is “a direct repudiation of the clear teaching of the Holy Scriptures, historic faith and order of the church.” Strongly condemning a 2003 US Episcopal Church (ECUSA) move to ordain an […]
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Pro-life Journalist Can Stay at Ontario Legislature

John-Henry Westen TORONTO, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -ÂIn a surprising victory for pro-life journalism, The Interim newspaper columnist Frank Kennedy, arrived at a compromise with the Queen’s Park Press Gallery, thus maintaining his press credentials at the Ontario Legislature. Kennedy, who has been the Queen’s Park correspondent and columnist for The Interim, Canada’s life and family issues newspaper, for nearly 20 years, was not confident going into the specially called meeting of the press gallery to consider the veteran journalist’s standing within the group. In October Kennedy was informed that he had offended some of his fellow journalists after he […]
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Toronto Catholic Cathedral Fundraiser for Condom-Push in Africa Cancelled After LifeSiteNews Story

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A fundraising concert which was scheduled to take place at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto on November 10 to benefit an organization involved in distribution of condoms in Africa has been cancelled on the heels of a LifeSiteNews.com story exposing the situation. The LifeSiteNews.com story, based on a tip from the web log of Catholic World Report editor Domenico Bettinelli (https://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.phpÂ), pointed out that the fundraiser at the Cathedral was to support a St. Michael’s Hospital venture called Dignitas International. (see the LifeSiteNews.com coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05103106.html ) However, Dr. Suzanne Scorsone Communications […]
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MPs Charge Liberals with Complicity in Trafficking of Women with Continued Fast-Tracking of Stripper

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The now massively publicized Gomery Report on Liberal government corruption does not deal with yet another major Liberal corruption scandal. Assurances by the Liberal government that the stripper scandal has come to an end have a hollow ring according to two MPs who both charged that the Liberals are “complicit” in the trafficking of women by fast-tracking nude dancer’s and lap-dancer’s visas. Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy condemned the Liberal’s claim that they had cancelled a controversial program to fast-track stripper visas. “Canadians made the mistake of believing the Liberals,” Ablonczy said, […]
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Canadian IVF Clinics in Violation of Federal Guidelines Study Shows

By Hilary White OTTAWA, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has shown that of the 24 fertility clinics that practice in vitro fertilization, only one can be shown to be in compliance with the recently passed federal law on reproductive technologies. Halifax’s Dalhousie University published the study in the Canadian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and said that the IVF facilities are in violation of federal ethics guidelines chiefly surrounding the frozen storage of embryos. Ethics professor Margaret Somerville of McGill University said that the study “should sound a serious warning for everyone connected with research.” The study […]
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Liberals Come Out Against Broad Euthanasia Bill But Hint at Coming Tighter Version

By Terry Vanderheyden and John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Ministry of Justice expressed its opposition to many aspects of a Bloc-sponsored bill to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia as debate on the bill commenced Monday. The government, however, gave strong indication that it would not oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation that met its own conditions on how such legislation should be worded. Hon. Paul Harold Macklin, Canada’s Attorney General and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, said Monday, “Having examined the bill, I am confident in stating my position that Bill C-407 should […]
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Boston Gay Activists Harass and Intimidate Focus on the Family Ex-Homosexual Conference

By Hilary White BOSTON, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “Love Won Out” conference in Boston Massachusetts that teaches that homosexuality isÂfrequently preventable and treatable was disrupted by shouting protesters while police stood by. The October 29 conference, sponsored by Focus on the Family and the Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston was protested by a group of homosexual activists who objected to the conference message. Spokesmen for the church said that radical homosexual activists had been harassing them for weeks preceding the conference. Protesters would come to stand outside the church holding signs and confronting worshippers as they left […]
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United Methodists Remove Active Lesbian from Ministry

By Hilary White HOUSTON, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Methodist Church, has “defrocked” a lesbian minister who admitted from the pulpit to being in an active lesbian relationship with her live-in partner. Irene Stroud has been removed from ministry by the highest judicial court of the denomination, the Judicial Council, that reiterated the denomination’s ban on “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals” in the clergy. The court decision upheld a local church panel decision that Stroud had engaged in practices that are “incompatible with Christian teachings” by being in a lesbian partnership. An appeals committee had overturned the panel decision but […]
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CBS’ Mike Wallace on Alito: “He’s a nice Catholic boy and he doesn’t believe in abortions”

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff WASHINGTON, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the October 31 edition of the CNN show, “Larry King Live,” CBS reporter Mike Wallace commented that the mother of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said her son is “definitely against abortion.” To which Wallace said: “He’s a nice Catholic boy and he doesn’t believe in abortions.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded to Wallace’s remarks saying, “We at the Catholic League like nice Catholic boys who don’t believe in abortion. For that matter, we even like not-so-nice non-Catholic girls who don’t want to kill the kids. What we don’t […]
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Canadian Parliamentary Euthanasia Debate Begins – Conservative MP Slams Proposal

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Parliamentary debate on assisted suicide/euthanasia bill C-407 began Monday with Bloc MP Francine Lalonde’s speech supporting her bill. Her speech was soon followed however by that of Conservative MP Jason Kenney whose arguments, were they heeded by the House, would have closed the door to the bill. C-407, as he pointed out , would lead to the same atrocities against the infirm and disabled as happened with the introduction of euthanasia in Nazi Germany. Kenney, speaking personally and not on behalf of the Conservative Party, said “this legalization of euthanasia […]
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Abortion, Armageddon and The Nuclear Option – Alito Nomination Update

By Steve Jalsevac November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harriet Miers produced a flood of reaction and news stories but it already appears the Alito nomination debate will far eclipse the Miers controversy. President Bush has thrown down the gloves on the 40 year battle over the role of the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Now the United States will be forced to fully debate the future direction of the Republic – a nation ruled by an activist court and its liberal ideologues or a nation ruled according to the Constitution created by the founders. Hold on. It’s certain to be […]
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Top American Vatican Official Explains Appointment to Doctrinal Office

By Hilary White ROME, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an extensive interview with Vatican Radio, Archbishop William Levada, the recently appointed head of the Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that his experience with the US sex abuse scandals may have been the reason for his appointment. Levada, who left his position as Archbishop of San Francisco in May, is the first American to hold such a high position in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy. The Archbishop had served under the former Cardinal Ratzinger in the office between 1976 and 1982. Vatican Radio asked him why […]
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Catholic Belgian University Agrees with Forcing Physicians to Refer for Euthanasia

By LifeSiteNews.com staff BRUSSELS, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Physicians must refer patients for euthanasia, and euthanasia is part of palliative care in Belgium, according to a joint statement issued by the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Ghent and the Belgian Association of General Practitioners. Concerned about the implications of the statement for freedom of conscience, the Protection of Conscience Project, basedÂin British Columbia, Canada,Âwrote to the Association in July, 2004 to initiate a dialogue on the subject. The Association answered the first letter but failed to respond when the Project attempted to continue the discussion. “Referral is […]
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Sacramento Bishop:  No Place in Catholic Schools for Abortion Supporters

See Update: Sacramento Catholic School Expels 15-year-old Student who Alerted Bishop to Abortion Activist Teacher https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05110208.html By John-Henry Westen SACRAMENTO, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The uproar created when, on October 5, Bishop William K. Weigand directed a Catholic school to dismiss drama teacher Marie Bain after she was discovered to be an escort for a Planned Parenthood abortion center, has been used by the bishop as a teachable moment. The bishop issued a message to the faithful on October 26 in which he explained his actions in light of Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life. The Bishop’s October […]
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Homosexual Activist Professor at New Jersey Catholic College Demoted

By Hilary White SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic university in New Jersey is under attack for censuring a homosexual activist on its faculty. A report from the Associated Press says that an associate dean at Seton Hall Univeristy, W. King Mott, was demoted for writing a letter published Oct. 19 in Newark’s Star-Ledger attacking the Church’s teaching on human sexuality. In his letter, Mott accused the Church of “scapegoating” homosexuals for what he called the “pedophile scandal” of priests sexually molesting young men and boys. The day after the letter appeared, Molly Smith, the […]
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Number of U.S. Unwed Mothers Reaches All-Time High

By Terry Vanderheyden WASHINGTON, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The percentage of women who are unmarried when they have children has reached a record high according to statistics released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The statistics for 2004, released Friday, revealed that 35.7 percent of all births were to unmarried women and that the percentage of unmarried mothers increased for all ages and races. The increase translates to almost 1.5 million children being born to unwed mothers last year, up significantly – four percent – from 2003. Over half of births […]
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Poland’s Ruling Minority Government Looks to Pro-Life Party for Support

By Terry Vanderheyden WARSAW, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Coalition talks between Poland’s ruling minority Law and Justice Party and the Civic Platform Party broke down this week. This has forced Law and Justice to look to other minority parties like the Catholic Polish League of Families to shore up the control its 154 members have over the 460-member parliament. The Polish League of Families, the most pro-life minority group in parliament, seeks to re-define abortion law to make abortion illegal under all circumstances. Presently, abortions can be committed when pregnancy results from rape, for fetal malformation, or if continuation […]
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Catholic Organization for Life and Family Opposes Canadian Euthanasia Bill C-407

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, has come out strongly condemning proposed legislation to legalize euthanasia in Canada. In a letter to all Members of Parliament and Senators, COLF emphasized that Bill C-407 “clearly contradicts fundamental Canadian values and constitutes a real threat to the most vulnerable members of our society.” COLF called elected representatives to reject Bill C-407 and instead encourage the government to devote more resources to home care, palliative care and research on pain control. “It is […]
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Abortion Referendum in Portugal Delayed Until September 2006

By Terry Vanderheyden LISBON, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s constitutional court has denied the country’s ruling Socialist Party a referendum on abortion planned for late this month, because the currently ruling president had already rejected an attempt at a referendum during his term in office. The referendum was originally planned for later this month, to fulfill a campaign promise by Prime Minister Jose Socrates and his ruling Socialists made prior to February’s election. Originally set for June, the date was moved to November 27 because of a fear of low voter turnout during the summer holiday season. The last […]
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