Articles for Month: October 2006

Michael J. Fox admits he hasn’t read cloning measurehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52671 Charges expected in baby’s death at abortion businesshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52635 The Hewlett Foundation’s answer to global warming? Abort babies.https://www.cwfa.org/articles/11711/CWA/life/index.htm A culture clash over modest dresshttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=402 Fatherhood means promises to keephttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=403 The Church and Islam: A Sprig of Dialogue Has Sprouted in Regensburghttps://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=93245&eng=y American Think Tank Concerned by EU’s Approach to ‘Media Regulation’https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/272006g.asp New male contraceptive Pill with no side effectshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=413524&in_page_id=1770 Pennsylvania Republicans rally for Rick Santorum.https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzRiMTQxYTBhYzg0NjUxNzVjNDc3MDE3ZmQ5NjgxZWE= Billionaires for Bush are increasingly outnumbered by billionaires who hate Bushhttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmE4NWY3Yjc4YmJmMDJmOGU0ZmQwNGE0MjNlMDJiZTY= Pope Benedict expresses “personal anguish and horror” over priestly sex abusehttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7932 What about marriage in the […]

By Meg Jalsevac VANCOUVER, October 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Approximately 60 Canadian Postal workers at the Commercial Drive Post Office in Vancouver, Canada walked off the job in protest rather than deliver a pamphlet that says homosexuality is “ungodly, unhealthy and unnatural.” The pamphlet, entitled ‘The Prophetic Word’, was written by Rev. Sterling Clark of Waterford, Ont and contained an article called “The Plague of this 21st Century: The Consequences of the sin of Homosexuality (AIDS).” In the article Clark compares AIDS with the Black Plague of the 14th century and blames homosexuals for the AIDS epidemic that has now […]

By Meg Jalsevac NEW YORK, October 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New York abortion clinic known as Dr. Emily Women’s Health Center has settled a lawsuit filed against them last month on the condition that they cease advertising their services under the ‘abortion alternative’ heading in phone directories or online directories. The lawsuit was filed by the Expectant Mother Care Pregnancy Center (EMC) and was settled in the State Supreme Court in White Plains, NY. EMC is a pro-life organization that operates clinics in New York and New Jersey to offer life-giving choices and assistance to pregnant women. Dr. Emily […]

By Gudrun Schultz NEW JERSEY, October 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Bush has repeatedly spoken out against the New Jersey Supreme Court during election campaign speeches over the past week, criticizing the court’s decision to grant legal recognition to homosexual couples. “We believe in family values. We believe values are important,” President Bush said Monday, speaking to a crowd of 5,000 in Georgia. “And we believe marriage is a fundamental institution of civilization.” In a controversial ruling October 25, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the state Legislature to grant same-sex couples all of the legal rights of marriage, either […]

Palliative care expert gives presentation to Canadian MPs

By Gudrun Schultz BARCELONA, Spain, October 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – European women who are too far into their pregnancies to obtain a legal abortion in their home countries regularly travel to a private Barcelona clinic for late-term abortions, some as advanced as eight months, IOL News reported yesterday. The head of the Barcelona abortuary, Carlos Morin, said on a Danish documentary that women from Denmark, Germany, Britain and Spain come to the clinic to obtain abortions after the legal limits in their home countries are exhausted. Danish doctors and politicians spoke out against the revelations after public broadcaster DR’s Magasinet […]

Fox admitted stopping meds to appear more disabled for 1999 Senate appearance

By Weena Kowitwanji of AsiaNews.it   RepublishedÂwith permission THAILAND, October 31, 2006 – It is “ironically tragic” that a mother should “want the death of her child when she should protect him as best she can,” Cardinal Michai Kitbunchu, archbishop of Bangkok, told AsiaNews after some NGOs called for the legalisation of abortion in Thailand. The prelate said that “Catholic doctrine strongly opposes abortion since man was made by God in His image, and blessed him above all other creature. Human life is the Father’s most precious gift, valued and full of dignity.” The proposal to legalise abortion came at […]

From 'pro-choice' to supporting forced abortion

An Election Message from Dr. Alveda King October 2006

In the September 19, 2006 story titled: “Religious Right” most feared by Euthanasia Movement, author Hilary White incorrectly identified Jon Eisenberg as having used expletives in speaking about the Catholic Church. It was not Eisenberg but other speakers at the euthanasia conference who used expletives in describing the Church. See the corrected version of the story here:https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06092004.html

Commentary by Douglas Johnson  Director of Congressional Affairs  National Right to Life, Washington, D.C. I have been closely following the race for Tennessee’s open U.S. Senate seat over the past couple of months. I have been somewhat astonished at the degree to which many journalists, and even some conservative commentators, have unskeptically accepted the recent declarations by Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., that “I am pro-life.” Mr. Ford made this declaration most recently on Tucker Carlson’s program on MSNBC today (October 30). My astonishment is due to the fact that Mr. Ford’s claim to be “pro-life” cannot survive ten minutes study […]

Father Raymond Gravel is former homosexual prostitute

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New evidence that abortion causes significantly increased risk of mental illness in women cannot be downplayed by the medical profession, a group of leading UK doctors has warned. The group of 15 senior obstetricians and psychiatrists cited a recent New Zealand study, published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, that found an increased level of mental health problems after abortions in women with no previous history of psychological problems, in a letter to The Times. Women who have had abortions are twice as likely to have psychological […]

By Gudrun Schultz SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Newly ordained Bishop Paul Swain began his leadership of the Sioux Falls diocese with a statement of support for pro-life legislation on the Nov. 7 ballot, Argus Leader reported Friday. “I’m proud to say that the first vote I will cast as a South Dakotan will be yes for Referred Law 6,” Bishop Swain said, during his speech following his ordination as bishop in the Saint Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls October 26. Referred Law 6 is the bill to ban all abortions in the state, legislation passed […]

CHICAGO, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some Midwestern members of Amnesty International USA are concerned about the position AIUSA took last April favoring the “decriminalization” of abortion. However, Amnesty’s Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago, which ended on Sunday, refused to reconsider or even to discuss that position—or the draft policies implementing it. At the international level, Amnesty has drafted but not yet adopted a position endorsing and implementing decriminalization. However, according to conference participant Richard Stith, “If events in Chicago are typical, AI adoption of decriminalization as a world-wide goal seems almost inevitable because many objections to such a position […]

However, Fox is wrong about the use of unethical embryonic stem cell research

HAMILTON, Ontario, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â The Hamilton diocese has refused to fund an ecumenical conference featuring peace activist James Loney, who has been a vocal critic of the Catholic Church’s teaching against homosexual activity. “We have a general policy that we don’t sponsor events where a person has publicly disagreed with key teachings of our Catholic faith,” said Most Rev. Gerard Bergie, auxiliary bishop of the Hamilton diocese. “Mr. Loney has publicly disagreed with the church’s teaching with regard to homosexuality.” James Loney became a public figure during the time he was held as an Iraqi hostage last […]

Despite AIDS program's abstinence emphasis, US is still largest condom donor in the world

TORONTO, October 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A nation-wide poll conducted by COMPAS Inc. for the Institute for Canadian Values and National Post from October 18 – 27, 2006 shows that a large majority of Canadians want Parliament to act to protect freedom of religion inÂlight of legislation redefining marriage to include same-sex couples. 64 percent of respondents to the survey, conducted October 18 – 27 said that Parliament should review existing legislation to ensure that freedom of religion is protected while 24 percent opposed such an initiative. Support for a review was nominally higher among women (67 percent in favour […]

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, October 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – University of Toronto students in the Sexual Diversity Studies program explore sadomasochism, bondage and domination as part of an “academic” approach to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, Reuters reported October 20. Described as “edgy,” the Sexual Diversity Studies program is one of the largest of its kind in North America. Students and teachers defend the program as a serious approach to sexual issues. “It’s not sexy sex sex, where we’re talking about whips and chains, but we will talk about whips and chains,” graduating student Robbie Morgan told Reuters. […]

Muslim, Hindu employees however allowed to wear their faith symbols

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, B.C., October 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young B.C. woman who gave birth to conjoined twin girls yesterday was repeatedly offered an abortion by her doctors during her pregnancy. Felicia Simms, 21, gave birth to the little girls by caesarian delivery yesterday at 34 weeks gestation, in a complicated surgery attended by a team of 16 doctors at the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Despite being given just a 20 percent chance of survival, Krista and Tatiana emerged from their mother robust and crying, CanWest reported. The babies are joined at the top of their […]

Canada, other nations and UN threaten removal of aid money

PSAC encouraging members to "strategically target" undecided MP's

By Hilary White TORONTO, October 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s stem cell and cloning law is proving to be loose enough to attract one of the world’s most prominent researchers in the field of unethical embryonic stem cell research to move from the U.S. to Canada to take advantage of the situation. Dr. Gordon Keller is considered one of the leading lights in embryonic stem cell research and will take up his post as Director of the University Health Network’s McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in January. The Toronto Star reports that Keller, who hails originally from Saskatchewan, specifically credited […]

Says, "if you really believe that the Spirit of God is with you, what have you got to fear?"

Virginia battle on same-sex ‘marriage’ down to wirehttps://www.washtimes.com/metro/20061024-114643-2695r.htm Eight reasons conservatives must vote on November 7th – Michael Medvedhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2006/10/25/eight_reasons_conservatives_must_vote_on_november_7th Holding my nose and voting Republican – By Linda Chavezhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2006/10/25/holding_my_nose_and_voting_republican Why Christians Must Vote in This Electionhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/252006gst.asp California Activist: Justices on Ballot Appear Biased Against Traditional Marriagehttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/252006c.asp Why Attack the Values Voters?https://www.cwfa.org/articles/11690/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm Catholic Vs. Clinton – N.Y. pro-lifer is long-shot candidate for U.S. Senatehttps://ncregister.com/site/article/499/ Baltimore Cardinal calls for offensive against pornographyhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7911 British archbishop denounces ‘bigoted’ faith schools policyhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7908 Nicaraguan pro-life leader warns “therapeutic” abortion a door to decriminalization of all abortionshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7905 Child-Porn Sites Reported to the U.S. Rarely Shut Downhttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042448.cfm Schools […]

Leaves Decision of What to call such Unions up to Legislature

By Hilary White WARSAW, October 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading party in the Polish ruling coalition has proposed to close the “rape exception” loophole for abortion in that country and is seeking an insertion into the constitution that would guarantee “the legal right to life from the moment of conception,” Radio Polonia reports. The League of Polish Families (LPR), a part of Poland’s coalition government, said that Poland’s restrictions on abortion are not sufficient as long a child can be killed for having been conceived by rape or incest. While Poland’s protections for unborn children are among the strongest […]

Muslim Speaker is Daughter-in-Law of CWL Provincial President

Police officials, in an incredibly inconsiderate manner, forced crying children into police car

By Gudrun Schultz PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oral contraceptives increase the risk of breast cancer by an average of 44 percent, a comprehensive analysis of world studies on the link between breast cancer and contraceptives has found. Published in the journal of the Mayo Clinic this month, the key article examines findings from a careful analysis of international studies conducted between 1980-2002. Entitled “Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Pre-menopausal Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis, the article finds an increased risk for breast cancer of 44 percent, in pre-menopausal women who took or were taking oral […]

Chaput: Examine candidates’ abortion stances; abortion is the “foundational” issue when votinghttps://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_4539464 Election Turnout Crucial to GOPÂ – Paul Weyrichhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/23/190636.shtml Congressional Scorecard Reports Pro-Family Voteshttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042435.cfm Churches Under Attack as Election Nearshttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042420.cfm Michael J. Fox Ads Inaccurate, Steele Sayshttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200610/POL20061024c.html Michael J. Fox Is Not Infallible; He’s Just the Latest Victim Used by the Democrathttps://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102406/content/rush_is_right.guest.html Fox Addresses Rush Limbaugh’s Accusationshttps://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_297190206.html Partial-Birth Abortion Opponents ‘Cautiously Optimistic’https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200610/CUL20061024a.html Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incineratorhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=412172&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments Does Planned Parenthood oppose child abuse?https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-morse102302.asp The Stem Cell Rat Racehttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06J16&f=PG03I03 Anti-Christian Ad in U.K. Results in Gov’t-Applied ‘Hand Slap’https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/242006g.asp College Students Warned Against Courses That Subvert Family […]

New booklet gives directives to all Catholics on how to act 'in the public square'

By Hilary White JOLIETTE, October 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic priest who is probably Canada’s most outspoken opponent of Catholic teaching on sexuality, Fr. Raymond Gravel, has announced his candidacy for the Bloc nomination for Repentigny, Quebec, in a coming federal by-election. Should Fr. Gravel win the Bloc nomination, he is likely to win the seat to Canada’s Parliament. Repentigny, a riding just north of Montreal, is considered a stronghold for the separatist Bloc Quebecois party. Fr. Gravel was unavailable for comment from his parish, St. Joachim de LaPlaine, but in an interview on Radio Canada, the French language […]

Part II

Schools will be shut down if they do not comply with order, regardless of religious beliefs

McMurtry has lesbian daughter and is chummy with gay activists

By Gudrun Schultz SANTIAGO, Chile, October 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Constitutional Tribunal of Chile has called for an investigative study into the abortifacient capacity of the morning-after pill, after a 6-4 vote last week. The Tribunal has decided to review a controversial policy to permit minors over the age of 14 access to the pill free of charge, without parental consent, implemented by the Ministry of Health in September despite strong objections throughout the country. The Alliance for Chile, a coalition of the nation’s two leading conservative parties, fought for a re-evaluation of the Ministry’s decision, saying the policy […]

Failure to mention central contents of crucial Ratzinger letter seemingly habitual for McCarrick

By Hilary White NEW YORK, October 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US research team has released a report showing that embryonic stem cells injected into the brains of Parkinson’s patients have a serious risk of forming tumours. Steven Goldman and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York wrote in the journal Nature Medicine, that human embryo cells injected into the brains of rats showed signs of forming cancerous cells. Parkinson’s disease is caused when dopamine-releasing cells die in the brain and scientists have shown that stem cells can be targeted to repair the damaged tissue. Embryonic […]

By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, October 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Bishops have a third document slated for review at their semi-annual Baltimore meeting and this document will address marital love and the gift of life. The document is entitled “Married Love and the Gift of Life” and talks of the “false note” that contraception introduces to a marriage. As an ethical alternative, the document supports Natural Family Planning which, used under the right circumstances, “enables couples to cooperate with the body as God designed it.” Catholic News Service reports that the document is intended to be used as a […]

Nov. elections – Issues of pivotal importance to the American people that wait to be dealt with and decided https://www.cwalac.org/article_381.shtml Which of the two candidates will do less harm to unborn children if elected? – Fr. Frank Pavonehttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=34845 Catholic Voters’ Many Choices — In Guides on Faith Issueshttps://ncregister.com/site/article/378/ Minnesota Pro-Lifer Fights For U.S. Senatehttps://ncregister.com/site/article/375/ Conservatives hit for ‘whining’ over turnouthttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20061019-115634-7883r.htm Why electing Rick Santorum matters By Maggie Gallagher https://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2006/10/18/why_electing_rick_santorum_matters Now is not the time for doom and gloom – Nov. U.S. Elections https://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2006/10/20/now_is_not_the_time_for_doom_and_gloom African American Pastors Equip their Flocks to Vote Values https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0042381.cfm Suicide Film Screened at London Festivalhttps://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/suicide%20film%20screened%20at%20london%20festival_1011501 U.N. […]

By Gudrun Schultz UNITED STATES, October 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evangelical and Catholic leaders who have issued a joint statement declaring that care for the vulnerable in society is an essential requirement of authentic Christianity which must reject any deliberate taking of innocent human life as murder. “The direct and intentional taking of innocent human life in abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and embryonic research is rightly understood as murder,” the document ‘That They May Have Life’ declares, from Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Published in the October issue of the Catholic magazine First Things, the statement identifies the biblical foundations of […]

Decision supported by majority of the population

Would be considered cooperation with immoral research activity

By Hilary White NEW YORK, October 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ruling from a New York Court of Appeals has ordered Catholic institutions in the state to provide contraception coverage for female employees in health insurance plans. The Catholic Conference of New York had argued against the order as being contrary to religious freedom guaranteed in the Constitution. The Conference is likely to appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court. “We believe that forcing Catholic institutions to provide contraceptive coverage and to pay for it is a violation of our religious liberty,” said Dennis Poust of the Catholic Conference. […]

Says Judicial activism a recent social development that threatens objectivity of courts

U.S environment much cleaner in recent decades as population increased by 50%

Archbishop warns “culture of extreme feminism” denigrates meaning of motherhoodhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7866 Charge dismissed for woman who aborted own child with gunhttps://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=112925&ran=210735 Minneapolis Bus Driver Has Right not to Drive Bus with Homosexual Adhttps://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/15783884.htm Boston College Now Requires ‘Catholic Perspective,’ Could Cancel Speakershttps://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515071 Financial Helps to Mothers Begets Much Needed Baby Boom in Francehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701652.html Catholic school fires practicing homosexual guardhttps://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWS03/610190423/1005/NEWS No Death Benefits for Congressman Studds’s Homosexual Partnerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701263_pf.html Doctor: Abortion is Unnecessaryhttps://www.dakotavoice.com/200610/Guest/20061016_DO.html Abortionist Evicted in Chicagohttps://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/99510,2_1_AU17_CLINIC_S1.article Defrock predator priests, victims tell bishopshttps://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=ca88b4ad-2d8b-4078-b431-93e23304b084&k=80318 Vietnam Government cracks down on gender-based abortion practisehttps://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01SOC171006 Nicaraguan president sends anti-abortion bill to Congresshttps://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/17/america/LA_GEN_Nicaragua_Abortion.php Supreme Court Won’t Review Boy […]

By Gudrun Schultz MADISON, Wisconsin, October 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Wisconsin Bishop Robert Morlino defended his encouragement of parishioners to vote in defense of traditional marriage, saying accusations of “electioneering” leveled against him by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) were an “attempt to intimidate the Catholic Church.” “The Church does not play partisan politics. The Church does not support individual candidates or parties”, Bishop Morlino said in a press release Wednesday. “This does not mean that when important issues (often very emotional issues) arise, the Church will remain quiet while the truths of the dignity of the human person and […]

By Gudrun Schultz LISBON, Portugal, October 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ongoing efforts to break down Portugal’s laws against abortion took another step forward yesterday, as Parliament approved holding a government-initiated national referendum on abortion,, the Associated Press reported. The referendum will ask Portuguese citizens to vote on a proposal to allow abortions on demand up to 10 weeks of pregnancy. Under current laws, abortion is not permitted in the Roman Catholic country except in cases of rape, fetal malformation, or if the mother’s health is endangered, and then only up until 12 weeks gestation. Anticipated sometime in January 2007, the […]

Children Will Be Targeted if States Change Marriage Definition, He Warns

By Meg Jalsevac SYDNEY, Australia, October 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Anthony Fisher of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia told the Australian parliament today that Australian Catholic hospitals would not use treatments for their patients that had been developed through embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are cells extracted from living human embryos. The extraction of the cells causes the embryo to die. The Catholic Church maintains that embryonic stem cell research is morally evil because it necessitates the death of the embryo, a living person in the very earliest stage of development. In the introduction to Donum Vitae, an […]

NBC received millions of complaints from Christians protesting planned airing of blasphemous concert.

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, October 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. bishops will vote on a proposed document, “Happy Are Those Who Are Called To His Supper: On Preparing To Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist” during their annual November meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 13-16. The document, addressed to all the faithful, points out that Catholics may not receive communion if they do not accept Church teaching on matters such as abortion and homosexuality. Catholics should refrain from Holy Communion, says the document, “when they lack adherence to what the Church authoritatively teaches on matters of faith and morals.” The […]

By Hilary White JERUSALEM, October 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of the Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem protested Wednesday against the efforts of a small group of homosexual activists to bring the so-called “Gay Pride” event to the city. Jerusalem is held as one of the world’s most holy places by Jews, Muslims and Christians. The Israeli courts had ruled that the homosexual political event could go forward this summer, but just days later the Israeli/Hezbollah war broke out. The general opinion among Orthodox Jews is that the timing was a message from God. Homosexual activists have reached an agreement […]

By Hilary White VANCOUVER, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Garson Romalis is being sued by a former patient for having botched a late-term abortion. A statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court by Karin Smith says Romalis prescribed a “three-day therapeutic termination procedure” to kill and expel the body of her 18 week-old baby who had been diagnosed with the genetic condition called trisomy 13. The morning after Romalis aborted the child on November 4, 2004, Smith “was awakened by severe pain in her lower back and her night and bedclothes were wet from perspiration, and [Smith] was […]

By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In their semi-annual meeting held in Baltimore in November of this year, the American bishops will be voting on a new document meant to help clarify the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality and “those with the homosexual inclination.” The document is entitled “Ministry to Persons With a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care” Catholic News Service reports that the document condemns homosexual activity of any sort but is careful to reinforce the necessity of treating those individuals with a homosexual inclination with “respect, compassion and sensitivity.” A similar document was released […]

By John-Henry Westen SHERBROOKE, Quebec, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Andre Bergeron was sentenced to three years’ of probation and no jail time for an attempted euthanasia on his wife which he failed to complete. In July 2005 Bergeron attempted to asphyxiate his wife, who suffered from Friedreich’s Ataxia (a degenerative disorder), with a plastic bag. He called 911 prior to her death, but she died three days later in hospital. According to the CBC, Quebec court Judge Danielle Côté said at the sentencing hearing that it was clear that Bergeron did what he did out of love and not […]

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents who fought a two-year legal battle to keep their severely disabled infant daughter on ventilation are being denied the right to take her home, after the now-separated couple were judged “unfit” to provide the necessary care. Charlotte Wyatt was born three months premature with severe brain and lung damage, weighing only one pound and measuring less than five inches long at birth. Her parents fought unsuccessfully to prevent the Portsmouth Hospital from issuing a “do not resuscitate” order against the child if she should have a breathing crisis—doctors […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his columnÂin theÂOctober 22Âedition ofÂthe Catholic Register, Canada’s largest circulation Catholic publication, Michael Higgins, the president of St. Thomas University and a well-known writer on the Canadian Catholic left, claims that I misquoted him and “misrepresented” his opinions on Pope Benedict XVI’s address in Regensburg in mid-September. Higgins bitterly complains that the atmosphere in the Catholic discourse in Canada is “becoming nasty and brutish” and that the unpleasantness was especially aggravated by my September 25th LifeSiteNews.com article on his remarks in MacLean’s magazine to journalist Brian Bethune. Higgins, however, is […]

By Gudrun Schultz WINNIPEG, Manitoba, October 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -A Manitoba marriage commissioner who lost his licence last year when he refused to perform homosexual “marriages” has taken his fight for religious freedom to the Court of Queen’s Bench. The province ordered Kevin Kisilowsky, 36, to conduct marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples or hand in his licence, under a 2004 policy adopted by the province following the legalization of homosexual “marriage.” An evangelical Christian, Kisilowsky said his right to freedom of religion under the Charter was violated by the policy. “I’m just one of these Canadians who’s finally had enough,” […]

OXFORD, UK, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oxford scientists first covered up the abortion-breast cancer link with the publication of a 1982 study, and are at it again with another study released this week according to the Abortion-Breast Cancer Coalition (ABCC). The latest study is the fifth study by the university’s scientists denying an abortion-cancer link. In the first such study in 1982 Vessey et al., claimed, “The results are entirely reassuring, being, in fact, more compatible with protective effects (of abortion) than the reverse.” The study, however, was deemed irrelevant because it included, as it admitted “only a handful […]

"Conscience clause" of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's ethics code cited

SIOUX FALLS, SD, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, South Dakota Physicians for Life explained their support for Referred Law 6 at Sioux Falls VoteYesForLife.com headquarters. Ad campaigns in support of the pro-life law feature dozens of doctors in their white lab coats sporting stethoscopes expressing their support for the law against abortion. Powerfully, they say in unison during the ad “abortion stops a beating heart”. (To see the video ad click: https://voteyesforlife.com/content/video_docs.asp ) One hundred thirty South Dakota doctors endorsed the abortion-limiting legislation. Mark Gordon, M.D., Sioux Falls, stated: “Referred Law 6 allows a doctor to provide chemotherapy […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Hello Sailor,”“The Sissy Duckling” and “Daddy’s New Roommate” are among the book titles on a recommended government reading list for primary school children to teach them about homosexuality. New government regulations to place them in classrooms have been held back after officials were “inundated” by parent’s objections. The British government’s “anti-discrimination” regulations were to come into effect this month but the UK’s Telegraph reports that Cabinet ministers are “at odds” over the proposals which some warn will lead to reverse discrimination against Christian and other religious groups who hold homosexual acts to […]

LifeSiteNews.com interview with Bishop on CCCB Plenary session

By Hilary White MANCHESTER, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Telegraph reports today that a British teenager has been sentenced to life in prison after he stabbed an eleven year-old boy to death when the boy rebuffed his sexual advances. Michael Hamer, 15, pleaded guilty to murder before his trial started at Manchester crown court. Hamer admitted that on March 1st this year, he had lured 11 year-old Joe Geeling into his house where he attacked him with a frying pan and then stabbed him 16 times with kitchen knives. Hamer admitted to his own defence lawyers that he […]

By Gudrun Schultz LISBON, Portugal, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates launched a pro-abortion campaign aimed at achieving a “yes” vote in a referendum on abortion laws scheduled for January, the People’s Daily reported yesterday. “What is at stake here is that women who wish to abort should be free to do so up to 10 weeks of pregnancy without being persecuted or prosecuted,” Socrates said during his closing speech at the Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference, organized by the Socialist deputies of the European Parliament. “The Socialist Party does not impose its will. Every […]

By Hilary White BELFAST, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British lawmakers are claiming that changes to the sex offences law proposed for Northern Ireland, will “strengthen” existing laws and provide “protection to young and vulnerable adults.” However, opponents of human trafficking and the ‘sex trade’ warn the government proposals will decriminalize brothels and further the exploitation of women, especially immigrants, in prostitution. Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson claims that the proposal, for which the consultation period ended on Friday October 13th, will not impose “sweeping changes” to existing statutes. Hanson said in a media release that the paper “does not […]

By Meg Jalsevac ROME, October 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews) – According to an October 17th story in Catholic News Service, obstetricians and medical students intending to specialize in obstetrics are being increasingly pressured to take part in abortion procedures. This pressure, coupled with an excessive litigation threat, is causing a numbers crisis in the obstetrics field. Dr. Robert Walley, founder of MaterCare International, said that he had no idea how much of an effect legalized abortion would have on practicing obstetricians. Walley initially practiced obstetrics in England under the National Health System but when he refused to perform abortions he was […]

U.S facing $80-trillion deficit in Social Security and Medicare alone

Statement made during C-Span broadcasted debate with ACLU pres Nadine Strossen

Students wore vests used by abortion escorts to take women in for their abortions

CWA's Dr. Crouse warns optional SAT would lead to diminished value of BA degree

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto Star reports today that the Catholic Church in Canada is “positioning itself to take a much more active role in the country’s politics” and specifically the gay ‘marriage’ legislation which is scheduled to be reopened before Christmas. Winnipeg Archbishop James Weisgerber spoke with the Star yesterday after returning on Saturday from a meeting of Western Canadian Bishops with Pope Benedict XVI.“We are a big part of this society . . . We will be a vigorous part of the debate . . . As leaders, we are guardians of […]

He is "frustrated" by dichotomy between the moral law and current political situation

By Hilary White LONDON, October 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Korean refugee has told the Times that “racially mixed” babies born in the isolated communist state are regularly killed by doctors. A North Korean doctor, Ri Kwang-chol, told the UK paper that babies conceived by Chinese fathers are targeted in the North Korean government’s racial purity program. “There are no people with physical defects in North Korea,” Ri said. Such babies were put to death by medical staff and buried quickly, he said at a forum on human rights in Seoul. The Times speculated that a “mystical” doctrine of […]

Speaker informs class that abortion must be "compassionate, careful and graceful"

Condoleeza Rice swears in Dybul while his homosexual "partner" and "mother-in-law" look on

Could face up to one year in prison for battery during assault

Group that won court action involved in large scale porn and sex merchandise business

Amendment to the Austalia’a Northern Territory abortion legislation will make abortion too easyhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1760476.htm ‘A great blessing’– Student with Down syndrome inspires schoolhttps://www.catholic.org/hf/teens/story.php?id=21615 The Senate’s teen scandalhttps://www.catholic.org/views/views_news.php?id=21600&pid=0 Many U.S. public schools slowly turning into indoctrination camps for lefthttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/132006f.asp Parents say school undermines their authority over kidshttps://www.startribune.com/191/story/737084.html College Sex-Ed Efforts Racier – Permissiveness growing on campuses nationwidehttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042301.cfm Book says Bush just using Christianshttps://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15228489/ Cardinal Egan faces New York priests’ criticismhttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=47074 2001 story – Father Pavone asked by Egan to leave priests for lifehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/sep/01091001.html Why do Americans on the left think only they have the right to dissent? – Peggy Noonanhttps://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009078 If polls […]

Fear women will be exploited and exposed to dangers by researchers' harvesting of ova

The few journalists writing in favour of traditional marriage are being harassed, threatened

Carlson charges "ban was instituted by the Nazis and it's a device worthy of the Nazis"

Report alleges increasing violence levels against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth

By Gudrun Schultz CHICAGO, Illinois, October 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Efforts to bypass a parental notification law, preventing minor girls from obtaining an abortion without their parents knowledge, are fueled by the Illinois abortion industry with no regard for parental rights or the good of the child, the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) has charged. “There’s no compelling state interest to modify the existing law,” said David E. Smith, executive director of IFI, in a press release Wednesday. “This bill serves the interests of the radical abortion industry in Illinois—not girls nor the parents who love them.” The measure proposed by […]

Grandmother in Puerto Rico requests custody of pregnant granddaughter and her unborn childhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7820 Designs on perfect baby drives assistive repro industryhttps://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14229.shtml Bishops strongly reject anti-life law in Ecuadorhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7821 If they’re not careful, the anti-God crowd may get what they wanthttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=madder_than_ever&ns=AlanSears&dt=10/11/2006&page=full&comments=true Without Morality, America Will Collapse https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/12/153434.shtml Author claims that eradicating religion is comparable to abolishing slaveryhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/11623/BLI/commentary/index.htm Safety Expert: School Shootings Signal Need for Dads’ Involvementhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/122006c.asp School daze – By Cal Thomashttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/10/12/school_daze Interreligious tolerance not enough, authentic respect needed, Pope tells Jewish ADLhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7812 Benedict says efforts to change the institution of the family are based on hedonismhttps://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042295.cfm State Marriage Campaigns are […]

Seen as encouragement for today's faithful Catholics struggling with difficult bishops

Justice Foundation speculates rejection of case was to prevent affirming original 1973 decision

By Hilary White JERUSALEM, October 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four Israeli doctors have been charged with multiple counts of wrongful death through negligence and with doing medical experiments on the elderly patients in their charge between 2000 and2003. A government report has blasted the ethics committee of the hospitals in question for approving genetic experiments and research studies involving uncertifed drugs. The report and the police charges allege that the experiments were carried out without patient consent or the consent of their families. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the charges allege patients at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and the […]

Stresses importance of keeping partial-birth abortion battle up front

By Gudrun Schultz MANAGUA, Nicaragua, October 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life demonstration of more than 10,000 people in the country’s capital has influenced National Assembly leader Rene Nuñez, with the Sandinista Party, to sponsor legislation that would ban all abortions in the country, the Catholic News Agency reported yesterday. “Together with the bishops and the Catholic Church of Nicaragua and with the pastors of the evangelical church, we commit ourselves to seeking out the quickest way to do so, which in this case would be the reform of the current Penal Code,” Nuñez said. The announcement marks a policy […]

By Hilary White SIOUX FALLS, S.D. October 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South Dakota’s prohibition on abortion, passed overwhelmingly in the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Mike Rounds, awaits a public referendum set for November 7th. In the meantime, the law – called by Rounds “a direct challenge” to Roe vs. Wade – is being supported by a strongly pro-woman campaign that points to the psychological and physical damage done to women by abortion. Complaining that the pro-life supporters’ emphasis on the harm abortion does to women has disconcerted their strategy, Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and North and […]

Conservatives believe they are no longer being represented, either by Congress or the President, and THAT is why the Republican party is in trouble. https://newsbusters.org/node/8245 In Ohio, ‘values’ decline as issuehttps://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15213842/ Another Federal Victory for Marriagehttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042270.cfm Pro-Life Group Considers Suing Over ‘Truth Truck’ Drivers’ Oklahoma Arresthttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/102006d.asp Brownback: Time to Crack Down on Porn Distributorshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/102006e.asp Father Pavone’s Congregation Growinghttps://ncregister.com/site/article/189/ Court Gives Green Light to Lawsuit Challenging School Christmas Music Banhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/102006b.asp Bauer Less Than Optimistic About GOP’s Post-November Majority Statushttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/102006g.asp Pope’s “A brusqueness that we find unacceptable…” further explainedhttps://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=88645&eng=y Boys Will Be BoysÂÂÂÂhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/11613/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm Islam gaining popularity with Latinoshttps://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4462361 No retreat – Pope […]

Major focus of foundation is population control, condoms, abortion

By Terry Vanderheyden LONDON, October 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prince Charles, the future head of the Church of England, has sparked controversy by endorsing an openly homosexual Anglican clergyman. Harry Williams, the former dean of Cambridge University who died earlier this year, was praised by the Prince in the forward to a new book of poems being published. The Prince of Wales wrote that Williams’“proved to be a star; a man of intense humanity and warmth whose humour and originality created an aura of approachability,” according to a UPI report. Williams’ 1982 autobiography meanwhile, titled “Some Day I’ll Find You,” […]

Pro-gay Catholic teachers' union applauds appointment of lesbian to education

Trend especially worries Homeschool Legal Defense Association

Organizers urge registering now for "Healing the Culture: A New Beginning!"

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, October 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – IVF drugs are dangerous for the health of mothers as well as babies, medical experts warned last week, and there is no clear evidence they increase a woman’s chance of conceiving. Hormone treatment during IVF procedures are intended to help stimulate egg production by the ovaries, to be collected artificially for petri-dish fertilization. The treatment leads to ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome in up to six percent of women, causing nausea, abdominal pain and bloating, and respiration problems, said a report published by Baby World October ninth. In some cases, […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yesterday sent a letter to city officials in Berkley, Michigan, offering to defend the City at no charge should the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sue the City over the nativity scene the City has included in its holiday display each December for the past sixty-five years. The Thomas More Law Center encouraged the City to keep the nativity scene as part of its annual holiday display. According to Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of […]

By Gudrun Schultz NANAIMO, British Columbia, October 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A blunt, compelling music video on YouTube produced by a Canadian disability rights advocate warns of the threat euthanasia poses to the aged, the ill and people living with disabilities. “Euthanasia Blues” is a seven-minute sequence of images with sung and illustrated original lyrics with a message about the inevitable deadly consequences of legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mwj8TUrbWg) “You might think that how you die/Should be your own choice/But if euthanasia becomes legal/Disabled people will lose their voice,” warns Norman Kunc, an educational consultant, family therapist and father […]

Only four out of nine justices would have had to vote to hear case

South African Constitution is anti-life, says cardinalhttps://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061009061844999C128062 ‘Five pillars of Islam’ taught in public schoolhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52335 WashPost: Pro-Abortion Democrats Aren’t Liberal, They Fit In The ‘Party’s Mainstream’https://newsbusters.org/node/8200 Much At Stake In Mid-Term Electionshttps://ncregister.com/site/article/188 Bigger families gain in popularityhttps://www.washtimes.com/national/20061009-123833-4739r.htm South Dakota nears abortion ban votehttps://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4244716.html Mom Accused of Swinging Baby As Weaponhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/09/D8KL9F287.html Partial-Birth Abortion — Maintain the Focus – Fr. Frank Pavonehttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=26&art_id=34694 Councillor quits over gay ‘joke’https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/5415484.stm Christian arrested for picketing with Ten Commandments sign https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/62006c.asp Replacing Mom and Dadhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/92006a.asp House Passes Child Protection Bill But Could Be Ignored in the Senate.https://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2878 Homosexual agenda in Massachusetts schools only getting worse, reports local […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor and assistant professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Calgary is warning that a change in the rules defining death for purposes of organ donations could place patients in danger and ICU doctors in a conflict of interest. Dr. Christopher Doig, director of the intensive care unit at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre, wrote in an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that allowing organs to be removed from patients after cardiac arrest could place vulnerable patients at risk. Currently Canada relies upon the “brain death” […]

By Gudrun Schultz LONDONDERRY, Ireland, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women in Northern Ireland’s Londonderry and Belfast joined in a powerful witness to the devastation caused by abortion last weekend, standing with US pro-life advocate Georgette Forney in a rally giving voice to women who regret having an abortion. Forney was in Northern Ireland to address the issue of abortion, the Belfast Telgraph reported. The co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Forney had an abortion at the age of 16. “It is my hope that, regardless of how you feel about abortion, you will listen to what we […]

By Meg Jalsevac San Angelo, TEXAS, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vickie Dawn Jackson, a former nurse in the 38-bed hospital in Nocona General Hospital in northern Texas, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, October 5, 2006 for the killing of 10 patients under her care at the end of 2000 and the beginning months of 2001. Because Jackson plead ‘no contest’ to the charges she avoided a trial by jury, eliminating the possibility that family members would have to testify for or against her. Because of her ‘no contest’ plea, life in prison was the maximum sentence […]

ÂOrange County, CA, October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Unites States Supreme Court today issued an Order declining to hear a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The case is Smelt v. Orange County, and it is one of the last remaining challenges to DOMA. Liberty Counsel intervened in this case on behalf of Campaign for Children and Families in 2004 in order to protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman and to defend DOMA. The federal DOMA allows states to reject same-sex marriages from other states. The challenge to DOMA in this […]

7th grade course material stated, "From the beginning, you and your classmates will become Muslims"

Public servants fund campaign to save taxpayer funding for program to force government to change laws

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, B.C., October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Secrecy and selective access have marked ongoing debates on the content of a controversial high school course promoting homosexuality, a parents’ organization has charged, after they were refused access to a two-day conference on the course attended by multiple special interest groups. The Concerned Parents of B.C. were not admitted to a closed, invitation-only meeting hosted by the B.C. Ministry of Education and attended by 25 organizations deemed to have interest in the material, the Vancouver Courier reported last week. Invitations to the two-day conference included the Gay and Lesbian […]

Much HIV/AIDS prevention, maternal health, economic development money actually for population control

Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situationhttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042242.cfm Philadelphia schools promote ‘gay’ agenda – District threatens truancy charges against parents who keep kids homehttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52289 Stem cell scientists ought to follow their ethical arguments to a logical conclusion.https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=379 Court Ruling: Wisconsin Program Cannot Exclude Religious Charitieshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/52006a.asp Christian leaders facing Soros-funded ‘witch hunt’ https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52318 China launches execution buses, harvests organshttps://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0%2C%2C31200-p21983_waghorn%2C00.html Christian-Muslim dialogue impossible if persecution of non-Muslims continueshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7773 Bankrupt Reveals Flawed Liberal Ideologyhttps://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0042222.cfm Mark Steyn on the Foley madness sweeping Washingtonhttps://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?ContentGuid=f0289284-410c-4643-a677-8c7329527c32&RadioShowId=5 Mark Foley’s Oprah defensehttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2006/10/06/mark_foleys_oprah_defense Defence of the foetus deserves a prizehttps://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380 Liberal Cartoonist Delights CNN Anchor by Claiming ‘80 Percent’ of […]

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, October 6, 2006 ( C-FAM.org ) – Away from the media scrutiny surrounding the opening of the General Assembly in New York, the new UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is wrapping up its second session in Geneva today after three weeks of deliberation. Established earlier this year as part of a UN reform process aimed at increasing UN transparency and legitimacy, the HRC is facing many of the same problems that plagued its discredited predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). This week a coalition of NGOs presented a report entitled, “Building the UN Human […]

By Gudrun Schultz VALLETTA, Malta, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Maltese Archbishop Mgr. Joseph Mercieca triggered an outpouring of criticism with his recent address calling for greater support and praise of mothers who remain home to care for their small children. The Archbishop called on the state to do everything in its power to help parents give their children the upbringing children deserve, stating that if young parents cannot raise their children together properly because both are “constrained” to work out of the home, that would be “sowing harm” in the lives of the children. Further, Archbishop Mercieca condemned […]

Groups filing amicus brief attacking parent's right to sue schools ignoring state parental notification law

By Gudrun Schultz LOS ANGELES, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling from 2005 yesterday that would have redefined the state’s legal definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, in what has been called a victory for marriage advocates across the country. A 2005 ruling by Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer said the state’s marriage laws were unconstitutional. The decision found “no rational purpose” to “limit” marriage to the union of one man and one woman. The pro-family Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of lawyers working to protect religious freedom in the […]

The practice takes human life and exploits women

By Hilary White ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, United Press International reported that Dignity Twin Cities, a homosexual organization that lobbies the Catholic Church to change its teachings on sexual purity, would be sponsoring “National Coming Out Day” with a Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. The report said that the event is being co-sponsored with Dignity Twin Cities and the notoriously pro-homosexual parish of St. Joan of Arc, with the festivities to be presided over by St. Mary’s pastor, Fr. Michael O’Connell. LifeSiteNews.com contacted St. Mary’s Basilica and spoke […]

Paper: Clergy but Not Faithful Should be Allowed to Express Opposition to Homosexuality

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stand True Ministries is gearing up for the third annual Students’ Day of Silent Solidarity on Tuesday, October 24. On this date, students from over 1,000 campuses in the United States, Canada and several other countries will take a vow of silence to express their contempt for the murderous act of abortion that has claimed one-third of their generation and continues to take the lives of over 4,000 babies per day in the United States alone. “Thousands of American babies are permanently silenced every day by the violent act of abortion,” said Bryan […]

Abortion Myth?https://acuf.org/issues/issue68/commentsmyth.asp In Pennsylvania, Who’s More Pro-Life?https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17282 Pro-life groups say pro-abortion petition misleadinghttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7766 On Thinking About Abortion with Those Who Won’thttps://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=19-07-023-v Campaigns Combating Pornography to Begin in Octoberhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/52006f.asp InterVarsity Sues for Right to Require Leaders Be Christianhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/42006c.asp Florida Elementary’s Christmas Play Canned https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042204.cfm Detroit Suburb Considers Ousting City Hall Nativity Scenehttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217970,00.html Scientists to create ‘frankenbunny’ in big research leaphttps://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23369688-details/Scientists+to+create+‘frankenbunny’+in+big+research+leap/article.do Who Knew Mark Foley was a Closeted Democrat?https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24770 California Court Upholds ‘Gay Marriage’ Banhttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/5/175428.shtml?s=ic Seems all but certain South Korean candidate for U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has clinched council’s recommendation.https://www.terradaily.com/reports/World_To_Get_New_Leader_By_Next_Week_999.html Religion, madness and secular paranoia By Michael Medvedhttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2006/10/04/religion,_madness_and_secular_paranoia Five non-religious arguments […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Education Association has announced a review of three abstinence programs that encourage teens to wait until marriage for sex and which are meant to provide “an excellent portrait” of the types of abstinence programs funded by the federal government. However, NEA, an aggressive promoter of sex-education and condom instruction for children, says that the abstinence curricula “are riddled with messages of fear and shame, gender stereotypes, and medical misinformation that put young people at risk.” According to an NEA, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. […]

By Gudrun Schultz DUBLIN, Ireland, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lesbian couple attempting to force the Irish government to recognize their Canadian “marriage” filed suit Oct. 4, after a hearing before the Irish High Court in a pivotal case threatening the country’s traditional marriage law. The two women, Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone, are seeking the same legal rights and tax exemptions as heterosexual married couples. The couple were “married” in British Columbia on Sept.13, 2003, under Canada’s new legislation permitting same-sex couples to legally wed. Dr. Zappone is a public policy research consultant and member of the […]

Court stuck down democratically passed law still supported by majority of Nova Scotians in referendum

By John-Henry Westen CORNWALL, October 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the annual Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Oct. 16-18, retired Washington, D.C. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will give an address on Catholic involvement in political life. McCarrick was the chair of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference task force on the issue. While the Vatican has been clear in its insistence that Catholic politicians who are obstinate in supporting abortion by their political activities “must” be denied communion. Most North American bishops have refused to follow the direction. Pope Benedict XVI, in 2004, prior to his […]

Severely brain-injured patients should be declared "dead," some say

SHUANGHOU, Shnagdong, China, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Yuan Weijing, the wife of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, was stopped and detained by police in Linyi City, Shandong Province, on October 3 where she and her daughter were in transit on the way to her parents’ home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Sources in China told HRIC that Yuan Weijing left her house at 7am on October 3 with her one-year-old daughter. Shortly after leaving her home, Yuan was followed by five or six individuals. At approximately 9am, they arrived in Linyi City and […]

Studies have consistently found MAP has not led to lower abortion rates

By Hilary White LONDON, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a new twist on an old feminist cliché, leaders in the Church of England have told their parishioners not to use the male pronoun for God because doing so encourages wife-beating. The Daily Mail reported Monday that a report and guidelines issued by the Church of England says that conceiving of God as masculine tends to “reinforce abuse” of women by their husbands. The Christian understanding of God as Father and Lord, held by all Christians until the beginning of the incursions of feminist thought, the report called “misguided” and […]

By Gudrun Schultz BEVERLY HILLS, California, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ms. Magazine, published by the Feminist Majority Foundation, has responded to the increasingly public expression of pain and disillusionment from women who have undergone abortions with the collection and publication of the signatures of women who say they do not regret aborting their child. Due to be released October 10, the cover story on the upcoming issue of Ms. is titled “We Had Abortions,” the Associated Press reported, accompanied with a list of the names of over 5,000 women who signed an online petition announcing their past abortions and […]

by Hilary White KAMPALA, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com, with files from New Vision) – The wife of the Ugandan president, Janet Museveni, has congratulated over 13,000 students for embracing chastity at a Kampala rally sponsored by the government as part of its AIDS prevention program. Mrs. Museveni chastised the international movement to flood the African nations with condoms and encourage young people to have sex outside of marriage. “We are not against condoms but this is not a message for the young children. As a mother, I cannot advise my child to use condoms,” she said. Museveni said, “Parents agree […]

By Hilary White OTTAWA, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Harper government has vowed to protect the rights of religious people in Canada in the face of anti-Christian insults and attacks on religious freedom by Liberal opposition interim leader Bill Graham. Yesterday, LifeSiteNews.com reported that Graham had chastised the government for appointing Darrel Reid, a former head of the Christian organization, Focus on the Family, as Chief of Staff to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, calling the appointment an “affront to our democracy.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper today responded that while the government and the Conservative Party “defend the equality rights […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – IfÂthe current attempt toÂrestore the traditional definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman fails, the Conservative Government will propose legal protections for those who oppose homosexual ‘marriage’, according to what a government source revealed to the Globe and Mail. The Globe reported today that a source within the Government has revealed that should the homosexual ‘marriage’ law stand, the government is planning a “Defence of Religions Act” to allow religious and conscientious objection to homosexuality and homosexual ‘marriage’. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, the press secretary […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the fall meeting of the United Stated Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which will take place November 13-16, the Bishops will be asked to give final approval to a document on contraception. A media advisory from the USCCB notes that the bishops will vote on approval of “a document from the Pro-Life Committee offering pastoral guidance on the Church’s teaching concerning contraception, linked with a culture of life.” The issue of contraception has launched back onto the public scene in recent months with the attempt of pro-abortion forces to drive […]

By John-Henry Westen and Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, October 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The passage of Peter Naglik as the result of a 2:30 a.m. car accident in Ottawa on Sept. 29 has left family and numerous friends saddened at the sudden loss of this exceptionally well-liked and gifted individual.   Peter’s obituary notice in the OttawaÂCitizen stated he“was dedicated to public service and was well known at Queen’s Park and on Parliament Hill. He was a consummate professional, known as a gifted writer with a penetrating mind. Peter was also a loyal friend, always available with wise advice or a […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Party of Canada has put out a “reality check” to Canadian media highlighting the appointment of former Focus on the Family Canada President Darrel Reid as Chief of Staff to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose. Liberal Leader Bill Graham called Reid’s appointment an “affront to our democracy.” Following in the “scary” Christian theme, made famous in the Liberal Party attacks on former Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day, the Party’s ‘reality check’ noted that “Reid was Canadian president of the U.S. based social conservative group Focus on the Family.” Andre Fortin, […]

LOS ANGELES, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an extraordinary move, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, prepared taped messages in Spanish and English which were to be played on Sunday, Oct. 1, at all 288 parishes in the archdiocese. In the message, Cardinal Mahony urged Catholics to vote yes on Proposition 85 and to pray for its passage every day until the November elections. Proposition 85, the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection Initiative, would amend the state constitution to require that at least one parent of a minor girl be notified before undergoing an abortion. “As […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – News sources around the world are featuring headlines today such as “Pope linked to child abuse cover-up” and “Pope protects pedophile clerics” after this weekend’s airing of a BBC film claiming that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was personally complicit in a massive cover-up of the abuse of children by homosexual and pedophile priests. The BBC has come under severe criticism for its Panorama program which relied exclusively on the interpretation of the evidence of two men, Colm O’Gorman, a crusader on sexual abuse by priests, and Fr. Tom Doyle, an American priest […]

By Gudrun Schultz PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts’ Superior Court Judge Thomas Connolly ruled in favor of granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples from Rhode Island, in a decision released Friday, Cybercast News Service reported yesterday. That ruling will not change Rhode Island’s current prohibition against homosexual “marriage”, Rhode Island’s Attorney General said on Friday. “This ruling does not authorize same-sex marriages in Rhode Island, and it does not mean that Rhode Island will recognize a same-sex marriage performed in Massachusetts,” Attorney General Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “As I have consistently explained, only the […]

By Gudrun Schultz BROOKLYN, New York, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Sullivan, of Brooklyn, has called on Catholics who minister to active homosexuals to work towards bringing them into “full participation in the life of the church,” in a call for pastoral acceptance that dismisses Church teaching opposing homosexual activity. Speaking to a conference of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries Sept. 21-24, Bishop Sullivan said Catholic pastoral care towards homosexuals should be “accepting, welcoming, encouraging,” care that does not “reject, define and exclude,” but that “enables, and encourages participation.” Bishop Sullivan […]

Say images showing pre-born stretching, kicking, sucking thumb are "dangerous"

Surprise! Moral movies draw 7 times the fanshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52221 Va. Catholics urged to back marriage banhttps://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935264&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190882868&path=!news!politics Pro-Family Groups Hail Veto of California’s Sexual Indoctrination Billshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/292006a.asp Bias Makes Media Overreact to Embryonic Stem Cell Hype, Researcher Claimshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/292006f.asp Activist Claims Pro-Homosexual Chicago Is Unfairly Prosecuting Himhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/292006e.asp AFA Leader: Ford is Hurting, But Boycott Will Make Essential Pointhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/282006c.asp Nigerian catastrophe triggered when Christian brushes off Muslim’s ‘advances’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52200 Muslim reactions to the Pope’s remarks are “politicised”, Moscow Patriarchate sayshttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7340 Radical Muslim who made death threats against Pope escapes prosecutionhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407498&in_page_id=1770 Bertone emphasizes religious freedom, right to life in first meeting with diplomatshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7726 Anti-Defamation League says conspiracy […]

OTTAWA, October 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bright light in the Canadian political firmament went out tragically last Thursday. Peter Naglik, 39, leaves behind him a legacy of quiet, active, strategic and brilliant work for the growing social conservative movement in Canada. LifeSiteNews will report more extensively on Naglik tomorrow but funeral arrangements are published below for the benefit of those who mayÂwish to pay their respects. Visitation – Wednesday, Oct. 4:  Paul O’Connor Funeral Home 1939 Lawrence Ave E, Scarborough, ON  Afternoon visitation: 3 pm – 5 pm Evening visitation: 7 pm – 9 pm Visitation, Funeral Mass, Interment […]

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Personal reflection

Opinion By Hilary White TORONTO, October 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When I came out of the café I and my friends frequent after Sunday Mass yesterday, the weather was so lovely that I decided it would not be worth going home for the two hours I had before LifeChain. So I shopped. I Sunday-shopped. What else does one do in this day and age, in the beating heart of Canada’s largest commercial metropolis? There is a little second hand bookstore in which I like to kill time and hard-earned paycheques and despite the heavy preponderance of Marxism in the political […]

By Gudrun Schultz JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South African nurse who says she was forced to resign from a senior position at a Vereeniging hospital after refusing to participate in abortions was granted leave to take her case against the Health Department to the Labour Appeals Court, IOL news reported Friday, with files from SABC news. Wilhemien Charles, together with Doctors for Life, in 2004 charged the Kopanong hospital and the health department with having “discriminated against her Christian beliefs” after she refused to participate in abortions because of her religious beliefs. She said she […]

By Gudrun Schultz PYONGYANG, North Korea, October 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pregnant women imprisoned under the communist regime in North Korea routinely face forced abortions, a recent report by a South Korean lawyers’ association stated, in the first report the group has released on human rights conditions in The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The survey conducted by the Korean Bar Association relied on two years of data collection and interviews with 100 North Koreans who had defected to the South after 2000, the Korean Times reported. According to statements by defectors, 57.7 percent indicated they had witnessed or heard […]

Chaplain court-martialed under ban calls decision a "victory for religious liberty"