Articles for Month: October 2006

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 […]

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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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