Articles for Month: October 2006

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%