Articles for Month: November 2006

Court warned that law must be changed or court would change law automatically

Former editor of Toronto Diocese Catholic Register greatly helped national pro-life efforts

By John-Henry Westen EL SALVADOR, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 9, New York Times reporter Jack Hitt produced what may be called a ‘hit piece’ against the pro-life movement in El Salvador.  The piece, laden with scare tactics, culminates in his tale of woe of a woman who he says had an illegal abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant and was sentenced to thirty years in prison.  The only problem with the story is that the woman was found guilty of strangling her full-term baby shortly after her birth. Writing in an editorial in one of the […]

By John-Henry Westen REPENTIGNY, November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Raymond Gravel, a Catholic priest, who has scandalized Canadian Catholics for years by condemning Vatican pronouncements against homosexual marriage and pronouncing himself publicly in favour of abortion, has been elected to Parliament, representing the Bloc Quebecois in Repentigny Quebec. While the Vatican has officially forbidden priests from seeking public office, Gravel obtained permission to run from his Bishop – Gilles Lussier of the diocese of Joliette - on condition that he cease priestly functions for the duration of his political career, and that he abstain from voting against the Church […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SHANDONG, China, November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after the retrial of blind Chinese human right’s advocate Chen Guangcheng concluded without an immediate verdict, his wife was taken for questioning by police in Shandong Province, the Associated Press reported earlier today.   Yuan told the AP she was approached by six or seven policemen as soon as she left a court in Yinan County where she was signing documents. “They said they wanted to talk to me about some matters, but refused to say what they were,” Yuan said in a telephone interview from the […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Medical Association has asked the U.S. bishops to stop using controversial sexual abuse education programs, aimed at teaching young children to protect themselves from abusers, in their dioceses. During the association’s annual conference in Boston last month, the CMA released a 55-page study that condemned programs such as “Talking About Touching” as ineffective, out-of-step with child development, and not in keeping with the Church’s teaching on the appropriate sex education of children, the National Catholic Register reported last week. The report, entitled To Prevent and to Protect: Report […]

Laws would force churches and faith-based organizations to allow gay groups to use facilities

The population police are at it again  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420   New Special Report Raises Disturbing Questions about Hillary Clinton and Abortion  https://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=1588   ‘If only we had enough condoms’  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422   Africa still desires children  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=423   One of the world’s most prestigious medical journals is pushing a failed strategy to promote “reproductive health”.  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419   How Gene Patents Are Putting Your Health at Risk  https://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_11-26-2006/Intelligence_Report   The Economist’s moral blinkers  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=424   Two Christian men sentenced to ten years in prison for “blasphemy”  https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7859   Jiangsu: a new bishop to be ordained without Holy See approval  https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7855   10 Is […]

By Peter J. Smith SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rising tide of polygamist groups in America have adopted the tactics of homosexual activists to lobby for legal recognition of their relationships, however, these groups are playing an important role in the long-standing agenda to dismantle the traditional family. In a recent Washington Post story, “Valerie”, a mother of eight “with a smile as bright as Utah’s sky”, who “has insisted that she’s just like you and me” illustrates that polygamists have discovered the tactics used by homosexual activists to further acceptance of their relationships in society. Namely, that […]

AFA Center for Law & Policy disappointed with President Bush's nomination of Neff