Articles for Month: December 2008

WASHINGTON, December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League and the Diocese of Amarillo scored a major victory this week as Planned Parenthood prepares to completely withdraw from the Texas Panhandle.   Using American Life League’s STOPP project to defeat Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain has been completely eradicated from the diocese of Amarillo, Texas. “Once again we see that the STOP Planned Parenthood plan works – even on a grand scale,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League and director of the STOPP project. “We have been honored to work closely with Bishop John Yanta, Respect Life […]

By John-Henry Westen   VATICAN CITY, December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During his exchange of Christmas greetings with the Roman Curia this morning, Pope Benedict XVI noted that the Church “cannot and should not limit herself to transmitting just the message of salvation to her faithful.”  It must also he said “protect the human being against self-destruction” – a destruction which comes from a warped understanding of marriage and human sexuality. “It is necessary to have something like an ecology of the human being, understood in the proper manner,” said the Pope. “It is not a surpassed metaphysics when Church speaks of […]

I wish to thank you all for your invaluable services in promoting the culture of life and further inspiring others to do the same. LifeSiteNews is one of my main news sources that I check throughout the day and one which I have encouraged many others to read and support.    Also, a special mention of thanks to Steve Jalsevac for his insightful four part series “Election Message to Bishops”. As one who promotes the Holy Father’s emphasis on the Sacred Liturgy and writes about its centrality in the life of the Church, I wish to thank Mr. Jalsevac for […]

U.S. Supreme Court Appeal Is Now the Next Step

December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Center for Bioethical Reform in Slovakia www.cbreurope.sk has this week filed a complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic as a result of serious free speech violations committed against them by the Slovak Ministry of Interior and the Police Corps.   On 16th October 2008 the police in the city of Kosice, where the constitutional court sits, forced pro-life activists to remove a display of twelve large frame-mounted billboards showing aborted fetuses juxtaposed with images of other genocides including victims of the gulag, holocaust, ethnic cleansing etc. The activists who were outnumbered […]

December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the war on Christmas exists: “The root cause of the war on Christmas, which is conducted almost exclusively by well-educated white people in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia — the very same people who like gay marriage — has almost nothing to do with fidelity to law (the First Amendment in the U.S.): it has to do with ideology. “The ideology is plainly an expression of left-wing secularism, and it is nothing if not anti-Western and anti-Christian. At its worst, it is driven by hatred; at its […]

Abortion and Intolerance: Constants of the Left?

By Kathleen Gilbert   December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Departing from the usual atheist response to proselytizing believers, Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame mused aloud in a video monologue: if you believed eternal life was at stake, why would you remain silent? In other words, they wondered why Christians are so strangely reluctant to share what they believe is necessary for the eternal salvation of every person.   Penn, a magician and entertainer, is known for irreverently debunking the Bible as a hoax on a list with such items as alien abduction and ESP on the popular “Penn […]

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Caroline Kennedy has gone public with her stance on the issues in response to a wave of media inquiries after Kennedy, virtually unknown in the political world, announced her interest in the New York senate seat Hillary Clinton will leave open when she becomes Secretary of State.    As was widely suspected, Kennedy emerged as firmly entrenched in favor of abortion and same-sex “marriage” in keeping with a strongly left-of center persona.    In email responses to questions from the New York Times, Kennedy’s spokesman Stefan Friedman described her as […]

By Hilary White LONDON, December 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview last week, a UK Catholic bishop said that his Church’s teaching on artificial contraception is a matter of small importance, and insisted that contraception has nothing to do with abortion. Bishop Kieran Conry of the southern diocese of Arundel and Brighton said the Church’s doctrine on artificial contraception is not a “key” teaching and that disobedience to it is “not high up on the list” of sins. Asked if the seminal 1968 encyclical letter by Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, was a mistake, Bishop Conry replied, “I don’t […]