Articles for Month: March 2009

By Hilary White, Rome correspondent ROME, March 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican must remove key members of the US Catholic episcopate and replace them with men who will speak and act courageously and with urgency to stop abortion, a prominent American pro-life advocate has told Catholic leadership at the Vatican. Randall Terry, a former leader of Operation Rescue, came to Rome last week with a delegation of US pro-life advocates to ask prominent Vatican prelates to end the “scandal” of some American Catholic bishops refusing to act on behalf of unborn children by replacing them. Terry told LifeSiteNews.com in […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest sensation in American conservatism has just arrived – in an unlikely package. 14-year-old child actor and political prodigy Jonathan Krohn of Duluth, Minnesota, burst onto the political scene last month during the CPAC convention in Washington.  In a brief speech extolling conservatism and it core values, the articulate and electrifying young speaker brought his audience to its feet, and the video quickly made the rounds on the Internet.  Since then he has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and countless radio shows. (To see the Youtube video of Krohn’s […]

By Hilary White MARCH 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new method of creating embryonic-like stem cells from ordinary skin cells is being lauded as the solution to the embryo research problem, but one prominent bioethicist has cautioned that there may still be unseen ethical problems and is urging caution. Two teams of researchers, in Britain and Canada, have devised what they say is a safer technique for reprogramming adult cells so that they become “pluripotent” stem cells – those that can be changed into most of the tissue types of the human body. Published in the latest edition of the journal […]

Wednesday January 9, 2008 Vatican Newspaper Article Says Catholics Should Receive Communion Kneeling and on the Tongue Editorial by John-Henry Westen Although it may seem a little strange, there is a definite battle being waged within the Catholic Church. It is the same “culture war” being waged by secular moderns against those who uphold traditional morality, it is pro-life vs. pro-choice. But within the Catholic Church the same battle is fought along liturgical lines, and the publication in the Vatican newspaper of an article calling for Catholics to receive Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue is telling. “If some […]

Amazing Story: Life without arms… A young, armless girl even pilots a planehttps://www.4marks.com/videos/details.html?video_id=1056 Taking Chance – an inspiring Movie Trailerhttps://www.4marks.com/videos/details.html?video_id=1038 One Pair of Hands – an inspirational Christian video for our timeshttps://www.4marks.com/videos/details.html?video_id=1054

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Besides removing all restrictions on using taxpayer funds for embryo-destructive research yesterday, President Obama also formally rescinded a Bush-era executive order pushing for more research into the most promising and ethical forms of stem cell research. The executive order signed yesterday by Obama specifically rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007. Executive Order 13435 pushed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “conduct and support research” on stem cells that “may result in improved understanding of or treatments for diseases and other adverse health conditions, but are derived […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MEXICO CITY, March 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mexico City assemblywoman says that that sex education programs are necessary to “defeat” the “restrictive moral conditioning” of students. Rebeca Parada, a Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City, made her comments before a group of sex educators at the “Sex with Education Forum,” organized by the Assembly held last week in the nation’s Federal District. “The absence of specific, permanent programs for divulging information on sexuality, constitutes the principle obstacle preventing us from continuing to advance,” Parada told the group. “We should defeat, with the participation of […]

By Kathleen Gilbert HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following widespread outrage from the Catholic community, a Connecticut bill seeking unprecedented regulation of the Catholic Church has been tabled for the duration of this legislative session, which lasts until July.  However, Connecticut bishops are still calling for a Wednesday rally in Hartford to oppose the bill, as it has not been definitively struck down.   Judiciary committee co-chairs Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald stated today in a press release that discussion on S.B. 1098 would be postponed until the Attorney General examined the constitutionality of the bill’s […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KINGS LYNN, UK, March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life campaigner Edward (Ted) Atkinson was sentenced to jail for 12 weeks last Wednesday after he sent graphic images of aborted and disfigured babies to a bed company in Wales, Lynn News has reported. This is not the first time that Atkinson has been criminally charged for sending such materials through the mail. On  May 4, 2006 he was convicted at Swaffham Magistrates Court, Norfolk under the “Malicious Communications Act” for sending pro-life material through the post to Mrs. Ruth May, Chief Executive of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After concerned LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) readers contacted the Knights of Malta, sources within the Knights have confirmed they will likely reject the knighthood application of former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams. Williams is on record as being a staunch advocate for abortion and same-sex “marriage.” Sources say Williams is “unlikely” to be accepted into the Order of the Knights of Malta, a highly prestigious Catholic order, “unless of course he completely repudiates formally” his statements on life and family issues. LSN reported last week that Williams was undergoing formation in the prestigious […]