Commentary on April 30 News – Crafty Obama, Hilary Clinton’s huge change in US policy, Good News Ite

Dear Readers, President Obama and his team have proven to be very crafty, so we suggest his statement that FOCA is no longer his “highest legislative priority” should not cause us to lessen our vigilance. His continuing appointments of the most radically pro-abortion of US politicians to his inner circle tells all we need to know about where he wants to take the United States and the world on this issue. As well, Hilary Clinton’s admission that the Obama administration interprets the term “reproductive health” to include abortion is a  massive and ominous change in US foreign policy. First off, […]
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African Archbishop Responds to Media Criticism of the Pope regarding Condoms

By Archbishop John Onaiyekan, Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As an Archbishop, dealing on a daily basis with people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, I know that the Pope is speaking the truth. I suspect that those who were so vociferous in condemning the Pope have never touched an HIV infected person, let alone rendered any care and attention. It is so much easier to distribute gadgets, especially at other people’s expense. What reduces infections is less casual sex, not more condoms. That is the truth. Those who accuse the Pope of being “unrealistic,” that young […]
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Commentary: Obama/Clinton Position on Family Planning and Abortion Violates Cairo Agreement

Commentary by Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, April 30, 2009 (C-FAM) – Last week at a United States (US) House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that there was a new administration in place with different values, beliefs and global agenda.  Nothing illustrated this rupture with previous US policy more than her admission that the Obama administration interprets the term “reproductive health” to include abortion. In response to a question from Congressman Christopher Smith (R-NJ) on whether her definition of the phrases “reproductive health,” “reproductive services,” and “reproductive rights” includes abortion, Secretary Clinton stated that, “We […]
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Notre Dame Replaces Glendon Laetare Award with Speech by Former Award Recipient Judge Noonan

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – University of Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins has announced that federal Judge John T. Noonan, a former recipient of Notre Dame’s Laetare award, has accepted an invitation to speak in place of former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon at this year’s commencement ceremony. Glendon recently turned down an invitation to speak and receive the Laetare award in protest against the school’s honoring President Obama at the same ceremony. After Glendon announced her decision, Fr. Jenkins issued a release saying that the university intended to give […]
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Miss California Features in New Pro-Marriage Ad

By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today released its new TV advertisement featuring footage of Miss California Carrie Prejean’s encounter with judge Perez Hilton during the recent Miss American pageant. Hilton, a homosexual celebrity gossip, had asked Prejean during the pageant about her views on same-sex “marriage,” to which Prejean responded that marriage should be between a man and a woman. The answer sparked a controversy and widespread coverage in the media, while Hilton subsequently attacked Prejean on his blog, calling her a “dumb bi**h.” The ad – a continuation of […]
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57: Montana Bishop Criticizes Notre Dame for “Shamefully Ambiguous” Witness to Church Teaching

By Kathleen Gilbert BILLINGS, Montana, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Michael Warfel of Montana has joined the chorus of U.S. bishops voicing opposition to the Notre Dame scandal with a scathing letter issued today to University President Fr. John Jenkins.  In the letter, a copy of which LifeSiteNews.com received from the bishop’s office, the bishop condemns the Obama honor as the latest in a series of decisions sending a “shamefully ambiguous message” on the school’s fidelity to Church teaching.  Bishop Warfel also indicates he will encourage parishioners to boycott the school and its Catholic formation programs “until its leadership […]
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Scranton Bishop May Deny Communion to Senator Robert Casey

By Tim Waggoner SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, April 30. 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Joseph F. Martino of the Diocese of Scranton says he is on the verge of refusing communion to Senator Robert Casey because of his “inconsistent” voting record on life issues, but has asked Casey to assess his actions first. Despite promises that he is “pro-life” Casey has a history of pro-abortion voting; but his most recent vote to nominate strongly pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services appears to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. The diocese released a […]
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Obama Flip-Flops on FOCA: Says “Not Highest Legislative Priority,” but Continues Extreme Abortion Pu

By John Jalsevac April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During last night’s prime-time news conference, marking the 100th day of Obama’s presidency, the president appeared to backtrack on previous statements he had made about the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), stating that at present FOCA is “not highest legislative priority.” However, as pro-lifers leaders have warned in recent months, Obama, may be well on the road to eventually implementing all that FOCA proposed by continuing to follow a stealth strategy of piecemeal implementation of FOCA. FOCA is a bill that would eliminate all federal, state and local restrictions on abortion, and […]
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U.S. House Passes Sexual Orientation “Hate Crimes” Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday voted 249-175 to expand federal “hate crimes” law to include protection based on a person’s sexual orientation or “gender identity.” The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2009 would grant the federal government authority to investigate crimes that appear to be motivated by a person’s sexual orientation.  The bill also extends current hate-crimes protection to victims not engaged in a federally-protected activity, such as voting or going to school. President Obama yesterday strongly supported the measure, urging lawmakers to pass the measure he […]
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“ND Has Turned Its Back on the Catholic Community”: 56 Bishops against ND Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three more bishops have spoken out against the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Obama by asking him to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at the school’s graduation ceremony May 17. “In my first year as bishop no issue has generated more mail expressing dismay and sadness as the recent decision by the leadership of the University of Notre Dame to honor Pres. Barack Obama at this year’s commencement,” wrote Bishop James V. Johnston of the diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO in his […]
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Alberta Government Refuses HRC Reform, Adds “Sexual Orientation” to Anti-Discrimination Law

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, April 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alberta Government has caved in to the homosexual agenda and included “sexual orientation” as a category of prohibited discrimination in its bill to amend the human rights act. The bill was introduced into the legislature by the government this week. Alberta has had de facto “gay rights” protection since a 1998 Supreme Court ruling in the Vriend v. Alberta case. That case saw homosexual activist Delwin Vriend charge Alberta with violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by refusing to include “sexual orientation” in the province’s human rights […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes 2 for April 30, 2009

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. LIFE ISSUES – GENERAL They dragged me in and injected my belly with a needle: Reuters report on ChinaReuters reports on forced abortions in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhouhttps://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/04/they-dragged-me-in-and-injected-my.html Cardinal Rigali endorses Democrats’common ground’ bill supporting pregnant womenhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15782 The Coming Medical Conscription to Require Doctors to be Complicit in Assisted Suicides https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/04/coming-medical-conscription-to-require.html Time Touts Test for ‘Foolproofing Suicide’https://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/04/20/time-touts-test-foolproofing-suicide Same Time, Next Year?  A Critique of the Washington March for Lifehttps://www.box.net/services/ipaper_by_scribd/102/269956084/7366f9/Same_Time_Next_Year_1/shared/6hid9smnt6 […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for April 30 – Obama and the Democrats, Obama Crushing of Free Speech, O

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. The Obama administration is causing grave concern about how fast it is moving to radically change the policital, economic and cultural landscape, not only of the United States, but also the world. Even LifeSiteNews, as much as it warned about the Obama agenda long before the election, did not expect such rapid and massive actions by his administration against life, family, faith and freedom. It appears that the danger is much […]
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Commentary: Toronto Star Columnist ‘Wishes’ Conservative Michelle Malkin Were Shot

Commentary by Jeff Poor April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Want to see left-wing social activism gone wild? Take a look at some of the views coming from Antonia Zerbisias, columnist for the Toronto Star’s Living section. Zerbisias, posted on her Twitter site she wished renown conservative Michelle Malkin were shot. “Forget the Marxists. I wish the marksmen would take @MichelleMalkin. I’m thinking Dick Cheney. He’s such a great shot,” Zerbisias wrote on the social-networking site Twitter. Zerbisias has trumpeted her left-wing stance on women’s issues over the past year, taking hard line positions on abortion. Aside from questioning former vice […]
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Former Supermodel Kathy Ireland Gives Powerful Defense of Right to Life on National Television

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman UNITED STATES, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former supermodel Kathy Ireland, who became famous in the 1980s and 90s for her appearances on the cover of Sports Illustrated, is not holding back on her pro-life views as she tours the nation promoting her new book on motherhood. In a recent appearance on Fox News’ “Huckabee,” Ireland gave an explanation of the right to life that host Mike Huckabee said was the most articulate that he had ever heard from any source (see video at https://vodpod.com/watch/1528667-kathy-ireland-on-abortion). “From the moment of conception a new life comes into being, the DNA, the genetic […]
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New Hampshire Senate Approves Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert CONCORD, New Hampshire, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Hampshire’s senate this afternoon voted 13-11 to extend the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, reports the Associated Press.  The bill would make New Hampshire the fifth state to legalized same-sex “marriage,” and the third to do so this month. The measure survived despite the fact that the Senate Judiciary Committee last week voted 3-2 to send the bill to the Senate floor with a recommendation to vote it down.  A last-minute amendment ensuring the right of religious clergy to decline performing same-sex “marriage” ceremonies, and allowing […]
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Anti-Spanking Bill Being Considered By Canadian Senate

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette’s anti-spanking Bill S-209 died on the order paper last Fall due to the federal election, she vowed to continue to reintroduce it until it becomes law. Accordingly, the bill was reintroduced in the Canadian Senate early this year and has already passed First Reading. Bill S-209 seeks to repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada that says, “Every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as […]
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Morning after Pill Adverts Air on British Television

By Hilary White LONDON, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although a proposal by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to permit ads for abortionists and contraceptive companies was to allow for a public consultation until June, the first television ad for the abortifacient morning after pill (MAP) already aired last week.  The cartoon ad that was shown on all major British networks on April 23, shows a young woman waking up and thinking of a broken condom, while a man snores beside her in the bed. After seeing a crying baby on a bus, she visits a pharmacist and is given the drug, […]
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Groups Furious U.K.‘s Faith Schools, Parents to be Given Exemption for Mandatory Explicit Sex-ed Pro

By Hilary White LONDON, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government announced this week that it will adopt the recommendations of homosexualist activists and pro-abortion groups to make explicit sex education a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all schools from primary school onward. The plan, however, has angered some of these same groups by allowing “faith schools” to teach traditional Christian sexual morality and allowing parents to remove their children from morally offensive classes. Earlier this week, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls said that, starting in 2011, personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) will become a compulsory […]
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Archbishop Chaput Criticizes “Creative Reasoning” Behind ND Defense of Obama Invitation: 53 Opposing

By Kathleen Gilbert DENVER, Colorado, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has weighed in on the controversy at Notre Dame, criticizing the school’s defense of its decision to honor President Obama and praising former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon’s refusal to accept the Laetare Medal at the same ceremony. 53 bishops and over 340,000 Catholics have protested against Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree on May 17. In an email to LifeSiteNews.com, Archbishop Chaput confirmed that he had advised concerned Catholics to […]
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Rhode Island Bishop Chastises Catholics for “Abysmal Apathy” in Allowing Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If same-sex “marriage” takes hold of Rhode Island, it will be because of the “abysmal apathy” of Catholics who did not stand up for true marriage, says Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence. Bishop Tobin penned an April 23 column for the Rhode Island Catholic, discussing the growing pressure in New England to overthrow marriage, and the negative consequences in store. “And what’s the typical response of Catholics in Rhode Island?” he wrote.  “‘As long as it doesn’t affect me, I really don’t care what other people do,’ you say. […]
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Eight Roman Catholic Bishops Confirm Attendance At National March For Life, Ottawa

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight Canadian Catholic bishops are set to take part in this year’s Canadian March for Life, which will take place on May 14 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. This is the first year in the March’s 11 year history that the March has been given the full support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). (For more info about the March: https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/march2009/index.html) Deborah Gyapong of Canadian Catholic News said that she expects this to be, “the biggest and best March for Life ever,” with at least nine bishops confirming […]
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Supreme Court Upholds Tough Rules on Swearing in Broadcast Media

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court narrowly ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is authorized to regulate “fleeting expletives.” The decision overturns a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case initiated after broadcast networks aired the “F-word” and “S-word” from live events. Penny Young Nance, former policy Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission on indecency issues and current Concerned Women for America board member, responded to the news: “Today’s Supreme Court decision in Fox v. FCC is a huge victory for American families. Once again the Supreme Court has reaffirmed […]
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Mary Ann Glendon to Receive Pro-Life Award for Notre Dame Decision

April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bradley Mattes, Executive Director of Life Issues Institute, announced today that they will present the group’s prestigious “Hero at Heart” award to Mary Ann Glendon, former Ambassador to the Vatican. The honor is given annually to individuals who demonstrate outstanding courage or compassion on behalf of innocent human life. Recipients have included Congressman Henry Hyde and former Kansas Attorney General, Phill Kline. Ambassador Glendon recently declined the University of Notre Dame’s most revered honor, the Laetare Medal, which was to be presented to her during the university’s May commencement ceremony. In a letter to Notre […]
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Pro-Abortion John Kerry Advises Obama to Select a Pro-Life Ambassador to the Vatican

By Hilary White ROME, April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator John Kerry, one of the most prominent pro-abortion Catholic politicians in the US, told an interviewer last week that it is only logical for the White House to appoint a pro-life ambassador to the Vatican. Kerry, a former Democratic candidate for US president, said, “I think that if you’re going to have an ambassador who has access to His Holiness and who has the ability to be able to represent all the other things which you want to come together on, it is best not to, you know, make things […]
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Morning After Pill for UK School Girls by Text Message: Catholic Secondary School to be Forced to Pa

By Hilary White OXFORD, April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK Catholic bishop has condemned a plan by Oxfordshire health officials to allow girls as young as eleven to order the abortifacient morning after pill by text message from their school nurse. An auxiliary bishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Birmingham told local news media that the proposed plan by local health authorities and the Oxfordshire County Council “goes against the very central idea the Catholic church has on human life.” Bishop Leonard William Kenney told the Daily Telegraph, “It is sending out the message that it was better to […]
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Exclusive Interview: Cardinal Rigali Says Notre Dame Defence of Obama Honor “Evades Common Sense”

By Kathleen Gilbert PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali, Chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, weighed in on the Notre Dame scandal in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.com today.  Rigali called the school’s decision to honor President Obama a “most unfortunate” decision that “must not happen again,” and criticized the school’s defense of the decision as one that “evades common sense.” President Obama is due to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree at Notre Dame May 17. “My reaction is that it is most unfortunate,” said Rigali.  […]
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Pro-Abort Sen. Specter Announces Switch to Democratic Party

By John Jalsevac April 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Arlen Specter, the pro-abortion senior Republican senator from Pennsylvania, has announced that he intends to switch parties, and will seek re-election in 2010 as a Democratic candidate. Specter has been a Republican senator since his election in 1980. However, in a statement released today Specter said that since the 1980s the Republican Party has moved too far to the right. “I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,” he said. The senator has been a long-term support of legalized abortion, though he has claimed that he is […]
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Mexico Archdiocese Says Abortion on Demand Has Transformed Capital into a “Homicidal City”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MEXICO CITY, March 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Mexico City has issued an editorial addressing Mexico City’s second anniversary of abortion on demand, in which it accuses the anti-life legislation of transforming the capital into a “homicidal city,” according to the Catholic news agency ACI Prensa. The editorial, which was published in the Archdiocesan magazine From the Faith (Desde la Fe), compares the number of unborn babies murdered by abortion with those killed by organized crime. While ten thousand people have been killed by organized crime in the last three years, more than double that […]
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Archbishop Naumann: Notre Dame Leadership Either “Incredibly Naëve” or “Doesn’t Care” about Unborn C

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more archbishops have expressed disapproval of the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to offer the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree May 17. In his column in The Leaven, the Kansas City diocesan newspaper, Archbishop Joseph Naumann said he was “dismayed” to learn of the honor, saying he does “not fault the president for accepting this invitation, but the university for offering it.” “Notre Dame’s action is inconsistent with its Catholic identity and harmful to the efforts of the church to advocate for the protection […]
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Christian Teacher Suspended after Questioning Homosexualist Training Program

By Hilary White LONDON, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian teacher in the UK has been suspended after he complained about the use of training time to promote the idea that homosexuality is normative. Kwabena Peat, 54, was one of several teachers that walked out of his school’s compulsory training day in January, at which Sue Sanders, a prominent UK homosexualist activist, suggested that those who do not accept homosexuality as normal have ‘issues’ that need to be addressed, according to the Daily Mail. After the event, Mr. Peat wrote to the three staff members who organized the session at […]
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US Scientist Claims to Have Implanted 11 Cloned Embryos

By Hilary White April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US reproductive scientist claims to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into 4 women. Although Dr. Panayiotis Zavos told media last week that the experiment had failed to establish a successful pregnancy, he intends to continue his work to create cloned human embryos for full-term gestation. Zavos’ claim was backed up by a documentary filmmaker who said he recorded the procedures. “There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely […]
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US Presbyterian Church Holds The Line Against Homosexual Clergy

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski April 27, 2009 (LIfeSiteNews.com) – The US Presbyterian Church’s (PCUSA) constitutional requirement that its ministers and elders practice “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness” has again withstood an attack by homosexualist activists who had hoped to change the sect’s fundamental principles. Last year the General Assembly of the 2.3-million-member denomination considered an amendment to drop the requirement of “fidelity and chastity” and allow practicing homosexuals to assume leadership positions within the organization. The proposal would have had to be approved by a majority of the 173 […]
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Notre Dame Loses $8.2 Million in Withheld Donations over Obama Scandal

DEARBORN, MI, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the same day that former Vatican ambassador Mary Ann Glendon announced that she has decided to refuse Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal due to the university’s invitation of Obama to receive an honorary degree at this year’s commencement ceremony, a group protesting the decision has announced that the university has also lost millions in donations because of the scandal. (See: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042702.html) Organizers of ReplaceJenkins.com, an online effort urging alumni and donors to the University of Notre Dame to withhold donations, announced Monday that they have personally confirmed over $8.2 million in withheld donations. […]
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Illegal Abortionist Bertha Bugarin Sentenced to 6 Years, 9 Months Prison

SAN DIEGO, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist Bertha Bugarin was sentenced in San Diego County on Friday to 6 years, 8 months on nine felony counts of committing abortions without a medical license. Judge Charles Gill ordered that Bugarin’s sentence run concurrently with a sentence she is currently serving on similar charges in Los Angeles. Bugarin once ran the second largest abortion chain in California, operating eleven abortion mills in the 1990s. She was known to hire abortionists who were sex offenders, substance abusers, unlicensed, and professionally incompetent. Bugarin herself had no medical training By the time of her […]
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UPDATED: Mary Ann Glendon Refuses Notre Dame Honor over Obama Invitation – White House, Fr. Jenkins

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Ann Glendon, the former United States ambassador to the Vatican who was set to receive the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal at the school’s commencement on May 17, has written to University president Fr. John Jenkins saying that she will not attend the ceremony or accept the award after all.  Glendon says her refusal stems from the University’s persistence in choosing to honor Obama with an honorary degree, despite U.S. Bishops Conference policy that forbids honoring pro-abortion politicians.  President Obama is scheduled to give the keynote commencement […]
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Commentary on News for April 24, 2009

Dear Readers, As if the evidence weren’t strong enough, today we present one of our most revealing stories about the Development and Peace scandal yet, this time about one of their Nicaraguan partners that is heavily and actively pro-abortion. They say that a picture is 1,000 words, and this time we have photos to prove what we’ve been reporting about D&P’s partners (see the online version for the photos). We also have an interview with a representative of the Mexican group, who openly and freely admits to the organization’s numerous pro-abortion activities. In the face of such overwhelming evidence, is […]
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Jesuit U. Faculty Union Threatens to File Complaint if Abortion Coverage Revoked

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A representative of the Faculty union at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco (USF) has said the union would file an unfair labor practice complaint against the University if it changed the health insurance plan to exclude abortion, reported Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) yesterday. The University stirred controversy in December when it was revealed that the students’ default health insurance package, touted as tailored to the school’s needs, included abortion coverage. The University administration quickly amended the plan, saying the inclusion had been an oversight. In addition, the administration […]
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Mexico City Governor to Receive Award for Legalizing Abortion from Bloomberg Foundation

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexican media sources are reporting that Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City’s governor, is scheduled to receive an award from a foundation founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in appreciation for his support for legalized abortion on demand in Mexico’s capital. Since abortion on demand was legalized in Mexico City two years ago, more than 23,000 unborn children have died at the hands of city doctors, many of them carrying out the procedure in public hospitals at taxpayer expense. In response, ten Mexican state governments have […]
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NH Senate Committee Opposes Same-Sex “Marriage” while Maine Holds Public Hearing on Issue

By Kathleen Gilbert AUGUSTA, Maine, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The city of Augusta saw what is considered the largest public hearing in Maine’s history over the same-sex “marriage” debate on Wednesday, when an estimated 3-4,000 people arrived to advocate for and against a same-sex “marriage” measure.  Elsewhere in New England, New Hampshire’s Senate Judiciary Committee sent that state’s homosexual “marriage” legislation to the House with a recommendation to strike it down. Maine’s LD 10-20, officially entitled “An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom,” was proposed in February by Senator Dennis S. Damon.  The legislation […]
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Public Resistance against Homosexualization of Society Launched in Germany with Over 600 Prominent S

By Hilary White April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Preparations for a conference on psychotherapy set for May in Marburg, Germany are being disrupted by an “action alliance of queer, feminist, and anti-fascist and anti-sexist” groups that want two Christian therapists removed from the roster of speakers.  In response, a group of at least 600 prominent German professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds has issued a public statement and petition to protest the “totalitarian aspirations of the gay and lesbian associations.” These organizations, they said, are trying to suppress freedom of expression and academic inquiry at the upcoming 6th International […]
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Free Speech Concerns Ignored as “Hate Crimes” Bill Passes Fed. Judiciary Committee

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A divided House Judiciary Committee yesterday voted to send a federal “hate crimes” bill to the House, after free speech advocates failed to secure protection for pastors who might preach biblically-based injunctions against homosexual activity. In a motion almost completely ignored by the mainstream media, the Judiciary Committee voted 15-12 to allow the hotly contested H.R. 1913, known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2009, to go forward. The measure would grant the federal government a new authority to prosecute any violent crime anywhere in the country […]
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Condom-Pushing, Pro-abortion Stephen Lewis to Speak at Ontario Catholic Principal’s Conference

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Principal’s Council of Ontario has invited Stephen Lewis to be the keynote speaker at its annual conference to be held in Toronto April 30 to May 2, 2009. The conference is entitled Celebrating the Human Face of God. However, Lewis has a long record of outspoken opposition to Catholic moral principles on sexuality, marriage, and the sacredness of life. In addition to his political activity in Ontario as one time leader of the New Democratic Party, which openly states its support for abortion on demand, Lewis’ long history […]
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Wolverine, Hannah Montana and Britney Spears Issue Pro-Homosexual Message

 By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three stars of the silver screen and the entertainment industry, looked up to and admired by countless children and teenagers, have sent a positive message to their fans about the homosexual lifestyle.  Statements from Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus were issued in the wake of the Miss America beauty pageant controversy, where Miss California’s Carrie Prejean was denied the competition’s crown and called a “dumb b*tch” by a homosexual judge for announcing her support for true marriage. (See: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042103.html) The judge, who calls himself “Perez Hilton,” has since been trying to […]
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Institute One Child Policy for a “Sustainable” Australia : Population Control Group

By Hilary White CANBERRA, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A population control pressure group has issued a call for the Australian government to institute a one-child policy to ensure the continent’s environmental and economic “sustainability.” Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) said this week that Australia’s 22 million people must be reduced to 7 million and that restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is “one way of assisting to reduce the population” and avoiding “environmental suicide.”  Speaking on the eve of Earth Day, the group’s national president, Sandra Kanck, a former Democrat politician, said a one-child policy is “something […]
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Adult Stem Cells from Fat Tissue Offer Hope for MS Treatment

April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A preliminary study on the use of stem cells obtained from a patient’s own adipose tissue in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has shown promising results. The three case studies, described in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine support further clinical evaluation of what are known as stromal vascular fraction (SVF) cells in MS and other autoimmune conditions. Thomas Ichim, from Medistem Inc., and Dr. Boris Minev, from the Division of Neurosurgery, University of California San Diego, worked with a team of researchers to demonstrate the possible effectiveness of SVF cells in […]
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New Orleans Archbishop to Boycott Xavier U. Commencement Honoring Pro-Abort Catholic

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans has made public his letter to the Xavier University of Louisiana, announcing that he will boycott the university’s May 9 commencement exercises, in order to protest the selection of pro-abortion “Catholic” political activist Donna Brazile as the featured speaker and honoree.  Archbishop Hughes is also opposing the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor the staunchly pro-abortion President Obama at commencement, a decision condemned by at least 46 U.S. bishops and over 333,000 petitioners. “It is with regret that I make the […]
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LifeSite Special Report – Pedophilia Advocate Featured In Catholic Church Concert

Thursday November 2, 2000 Pedophilia Advocate Featured In Catholic Church Concert TORONTO, Nov. 2 (LSN.ca) – LifeSite has learned that an Oct. 27 concert at St. Basil’s Catholic Church in Toronto featured a composition by Gerald Hannon, Canada’s leading advocate of “intergenerational sex,” or pedophilia. Hannon was part of the choir and he was applauded separately after the piece by the musicians and those in attendance. The event was the inaugural concert of Kammermusik Toronto, a choir and orchestra under the direction of Keith Muller, who is also the music director of St. Basil’s Church. The programme noted that St. […]
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Commentary on April 23 News – Sebelious, Hilary Clinton “evil”?, Georgetown/ND, UNICEF, Questions o

Dear Readers, Kansas Governor Sebelius may not sail into final acceptance of hernomination as easily as expected by some. The sleaze factor issubstantial in this case. It is revealing that the President of Hopeand Change keeps choosing disreputable individuals for his inner powercircle. The exchange between Senator Hilary Clinton and Congressman Chris Smithshould be read by everyone. We suggest you forward that storyeverywhere. It is an incredibly important story confirming that Clintonand the Obama administration are true extremists in every literal senseof the word. In fact a better word for their views on forcing abortionon the world might be downright […]
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Connecticut Assembly Legalizes Same-Sex “Marriage”: Governor Signs Bill

By Hilary White HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state of Connecticut’s General Assembly voted late Wednesday night to change the definition of marriage to be the legal union of two people, instead of a man and a woman. The Assembly vote enshrines in law a 2008 decision by the state Supreme Court that legalized same-sex “marriage.” (See: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08101010.html) The bill passed 28-7 in the Senate and 100-44 in the House of Representatives. Governor Rell had stated in early 2007 that she would veto any same-sex “marriage” legislation that came across her desk, saying the existing civil unions […]
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Interview: Pope’s Spokesman Responds to Media Confusion over His Use of the Term ‘Therapeutic Aborti

By Hilary White ROME, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian and some Spanish news media last month carried comments from the head of the Holy See press office saying that Pope Benedict XVI had not “absolutely” condemned “therapeutic” or “indirect” abortion in a speech during his trip to Africa. In a speech to the president and diplomatic corps of Angola on March 20, Pope Benedict said, “How bitter the irony of those who promote abortion as a form of maternal healthcare! How disconcerting the claim that the termination of life is a matter of reproductive health!” At the time, Italian […]
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Catholic St. Mary’s College “Sex & Candy” Talk Calls Premarital Sex ” a Learning and Growing Process

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An event dubbed “Sex & Candy” Monday invited young women at the Catholic St. Mary’s College to discuss premarital sex, which was discussed as a “learning and growing process,” reported the Notre Dame Observer Tuesday. The dorm-wide panel discussion at Holy Cross Hall invited women to eat chocolate candy and chocolate-covered strawberries as they were encouraged to receive STD screening and build relationships with their sexual partners. The talk was hosted by Health Center staffer Cindy Horton-Cavanaugh and Women’s Health director Cathe DeCleene. “Being sexually active is a learning […]
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Contraceptive Pill Makes Exercise Ineffectual: Study

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW ORLEANS, April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Physiological Society in New Orleans found that women who use the contraceptive pill gain far less lean muscle mass from weight training compared to those who don’t take oral contraceptives. The study, led by Chang-Woock Lee and Steven Riechman from the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University in College Station, and Mark Newman of the Human Energy Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, found that oral contraceptive use limits muscle gain from strength training […]
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Ontario Demographic Fact-Sheet Shows Growing Imbalance in Population Age and Looming Labor Shortage

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The current Ontario demographic fact-sheet, showing the province’s trend in population growth, birth rate and aging, continues to show a sliding decline in fertility, which, coupled with increased life expectancy, indicates an aging population that will be more and more dependent on fewer and fewer workers. The developing labor shortage is underscored by the trend that the statistics reveal called the Total Dependency Ratio, which is the ratio of the population aged 0-19 and 65+ (elderly), to the population aged 20-64. In 2006 this ratio was 60.6 percent, which means […]
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Pro-Abortion Catholic VP Biden at Georgetown Awards Ceremony: “There is No Excuse for Violence again

By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vice President Joe Biden, a strong abortion proponent, said that there is “no excuse” to harm a child during an awards ceremony at the Law Center of the Jesuit-run Georgetown University yesterday, according to CNSNews.com.  The vice-president’s appearance at the university had been condemned by pro-life Catholics, who argued that the event violated a directive from the U.S. bishops that pro-abortion politicians should not be honored by Catholic institutions. The president of the Cardinal Newman Society, which has been in the news recently for its efforts to […]
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FDA Caves, Makes Plan B Available to 17-Year-Olds without Prescription

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday they would not appeal last month’s ruling by a federal judge ordering the agency to make the controversial morning-after pill available to 17-year-olds without a prescription. A New York district court judge had ruled March 23 that the FDA’s decision under the Bush administration to restrict minor girls’ free access to the pill was “arbitrary and capricious.”  Judge Edward R. Korman’s ruling was lauded by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which had launched the lawsuit against the FDA.  The Center insisted that […]
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Nations Balk at UN Proposal for Billion Dollar Global Gender-Policing Agency

By Susan Yoshihara NEW YORK, NY, April 23, 2009 (C-FAM) – At a meeting at United Nations (UN) headquarters last week, nations pushed back when UN staff insisted governments approve an enormous new gender-policing agency with scant details on its budget, staffing, or mandate. The UN Secretariat called the meeting to get nations to choose one of four models it proposed for a new UN “gender entity.” It is estimated that the new entity will have a minimum one billion dollar annual budget, including non-voluntary funding by the United States (US) and other major UN donors, while giving the new […]
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Bishops Zubik, Loverde, LeVoir Make 46 Bishops Against ND Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three more bishops have lengthened the list to 46 U.S. Church leaders condemning the Notre Dame scandal.  The University of Notre Dame continues to face a rising groundswell of outrage from Catholics across America after inviting President Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree May 17. In a column appearing in the April 24 edition of the Pittsburgh Catholic, Bishop David Zubik lamented that Notre Dame, a “symbol of Catholic education in America throughout its history,” has “embarrassed Our Lady and embarrassed our Church.” […]
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Secretary of State Clinton Admits Obama will Work to Dismantle Abortion Laws around the World

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted on her avowed commitment to eugenicist Margaret Sanger’s global agenda, and asked whether the Obama administration would work to overturn pro-life laws around the world – a priority that Clinton confirmed. In a hearing to discuss the Obama administration’s foreign policy, New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith questioned Clinton on her statements upon receiving Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger award on March 27.  Clinton had said she was “really in awe” of the Planned Parenthood founder. “The […]
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Commentary on April 22 News Reports – Development and Peace, Earth Day, Notre Dame

Dear Readers,If there has been any doubt that Development and Peace is indeed funding pro-abortion, pro-contraception groups, today’s story should finally lay that to rest – for the remaining sceptics. Also, we are now certain that if we had the manpower and other resources to undertake on site investigations of all the groups, we would very likely find similar information about many more of them. The pattern is becoming clear. Our reports of incriminating website materials were sufficient to determine a serious problem in every one of those cases (documents do count – that is what the Church itself relies […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Earth Day

Catholic coalition seeks to influence outcome of climate-change billAimed largely at Catholics in the country’s 19,000 parishes and 6,250 elementary schools, the campaign integrates the traditional Catholic practice of prayer with specific actions meant to reduce an individual’s carbon footprint on the world while influencing public policy.https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901812.htm ‘Quiet Sun’ baffling astronomers – There are no sunspots, very few solar flares – and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time. Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year low in […]
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Letters to the Editor for April 22 – Fr. Gravel, Obama, Canadian Bishop Laments Pope

RE: Openly “Pro-Choice” Priest Asks Catholics to Stop Funding LifeSiteNews Over Development and Peacehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042101.html You are right! Raymond Gravel's remarks and witness to his god HAVE encouraged me to send you a donation!  I will also pray for his conversion to the one, true God and for all those he has led astray with his distortion of Truth. Rena DonahueMichigan ____________________________ In MY opinion, a so-called Priest who supports Abortion, has in fact “defrocked” himself and should no longer be referred to as a Priest, but, rather, “a former Priest” and possibly even – “a former Catholic” as he has openly […]
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D&P Mexico Investigation Report Going to Bishops then Public – Perhaps by June

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report from the committee of inquiry that travelled to Mexico to investigate the funding of pro-abortion groups by the development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) is under preparation and will only be made public “as late as June,” according to a CCCB representative. Having visited Mexico from the 15 to 18 April, 2009, the committee, made up of officials from Development and Peace and the CCCB, including two Canadian bishops, will first present its report to the CCCB Permanent Council, a committee of 12 bishops made […]
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ND Prez’s Religious Superior Responds to Scandal, Criticizes Pro-Lifers for Condemning Obama

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has obtained an email written by Fr. Peter Jarrett of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, in response to a concerned Catholic regarding the school’s decision to invite President Obama to give the commencement speech and receive an honorary degree May 17.  Fr. Jarrett is the religious superior of University of Notre Dame President and Holy Cross priest Fr. John Jenkins. In the email, Fr. Jarrett emphasizes the event as an opportunity to “engage and possibly dialogue” with Obama on life issues.  Jarrett also criticizes pro-life Catholics’ negative […]
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Russian Church Asks to Have Christianophobia Listed as Form of Discrimination

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MOSCOW, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A delegate of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), being held in Geneva this week, has asked that Christianophobia be included in international law as a form of discrimination and intolerance. “It is very important to the Russian Orthodox Church to raise the issue of introducing to the list of threats the notion of Christianophobia in addition to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Georgy Ryabykh told the Interfax news […]
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Cardinal Rigali Criticizes Draft NIH Guidelines for Destructive Stem Cell Research

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Justin Rigali, Chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, reacted today to new draft guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research issued late last week by the National Institutes of Health. The text of his statement follows: New draft guidelines for federally funded stem cell research involving the destruction of human embryos, released Friday by the National Institutes of Health, mark a new chapter in divorcing biomedical research from its necessary ethical foundation. Without unconditional respect for the life of each and every member of the human race, research […]
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Notre Dame’s Bishop Rebukes Jenkins’ Defense of Obama Honor

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, whose diocese includes the University of Notre Dame, has issued a letter refuting University president Fr. John Jenkins’ justification of honoring Obama at this year’s commencement exercises. A letter to the school’s board of trustees from Fr. Jenkins was obtained exclusively and published by LifeSiteNews.com earlier this month. In the letter the president attempted to justify the school’s plan, in light of a statement from the USCCB against honoring pro-abortion politicians, to give a platform and an honorary law degree to President […]
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German Parents Convicted after Withdrawing Daughter from Explicit Sex-Ed Program: Appeal Filed

April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance Defense Fund attorneys are representing two German parents in an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights filed Tuesday. The two parents were convicted under German law when they chose to educate their child at home on the subject of sexuality rather than allow her to participate in a four-day “sexual education” course and related stage production at her school, both of which taught views of sexuality in conflict with the family’s Christian faith. “Parents, not the government, are the ones ultimately responsible for making educational choices for their children,” said ADF Legal […]
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Pro-Life Defender Bishop Carlson Appointed Archbishop of St. Louis Archdiocese

By Kathleen Gilbert ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert Carlson of Saginaw, Mich. has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Abp. Raymond Burke as head of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. A Minneapolis native, Archbishop Carlson also served in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from 1994 to 2005. Carlson, the bishop who in 2003 famously ordered former Sen. Majority Leader and strong abortion advocate Tom Daschle to cease calling himself Catholic, is well known as a strong defender of the Church’s pro-life teachings. On the eve of the U.S. presidential election last November, Carlson urged […]
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Dissident U.S. Nuns Unlikely to Change, Even in Face of Vatican Inquiry and Shrinking Numbers: Exper

By Hilary White ROME, April 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leadership of a prominent left-leaning group of Catholic sisters is scheduled to meet today with Vatican officials to explain some “doctrinal content” of speeches given at its annual assemblies. In February, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) launched a “doctrinal assessment” of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the largest umbrella organisation for sisters in the US, after “concerns” were raised about the “tenor and doctrinal content” of some addresses at the group’s annual meetings since 2001. As reported last week by the National Catholic […]
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Commentary on April 21 News

Dear readers, It seems the Development and Peace story is coming to a head, as LifeSiteNews is being more intensely and irrationaly criticized.  With Canada’s foremost dissident Catholic priest calling on Catholics to denounce and withdraw funding from LifeSiteNews, we can’t help but think that may encourage extra donations from readers. This story seems to especially verify that our reports are accurate and on target. The Notre Dame and Georgetown scandals are apparently competing for the most outrageous stunt award as Georgetown is set to award Vice President and abortion-supporter Biden and Notre Dame’s Fr. Jenkins is gushing over the […]
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Letters to the Editor for April 21, 2009 – Notre Dame Scandal, Development and Peace

Re:: Growing number of bishops leading in the ND scandal Dear LSN, As another reader commented before,  there’s been no sign of any California bishops standing up for church teaching.  The list has doubled since that time and there’s still not a California bishop.  I feel shame.  God bless those bishops that are leading as they should be and showing good example. K. DoerrCalifornia ____________________________ Dear Lifesite News, I believe there are parallels to be drawn between Hitler’s early appeasement of the Church and Obama’s current efforts. While Hitler planned his final solution, he did his best to pacify the Church. Some of these […]
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Pro-Family Group Urges Congress to Oppose Federal “Hate Crimes” Bill Set for Committee Hearing Tomor

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the House Judiciary Committee prepares to examine tomorrow the homosexual “hate crimes” bill H.R. 1913, Concerned Women for America (CWA) is urging Congressmen to reject the bill as unconstitutional and a proven threat to Christian free speech. The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2009, a reincarnation of the 2007 “Matthew Shepard Act,” would put homosexuality on a par with race or religion as subject to federal protection from hate-motivated crimes.  The bill would also give federal officials more involvement in prosecuting crimes when the victim’s homosexuality is […]
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“We are at War!”: Bishop Finn Delivers Rousing Clarion Call to the “Fight for Life” in America

By Kathleen Gilbert OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert Finn of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph issued a powerful call to action to pro-lifers at the 2009 Gospel of Life Convention on Saturday.  In his speech, Finn heavily criticized pro-abortion Catholic politicians who claim a “personal opposition” to abortion, stating that such persons are “warriors of death” who “have abandoned their place in the citizenship of the Church.” “As I speak a word of encouragement today I also want to tell you soberly, dear friends, ‘We are at war!’” began Finn, who said that today’s […]
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Regional Marches For Life Set For Cities Across Canada

By Tony Gosgnach, Assistant Editor, The Interim April 21, 2009 (theinterim.com) – The annual National March for Life in Ottawa gets a lot of attention in the Canadian pro-life community and with good reason. This year’s event in the nation’s capital will be the 12th of its kind and will likely draw almost 10,000 people, if not more than that. But another phenomenon has been growing out of the success of the national march and that is a series of regional Marches for Life in provinces across Canada. Intended for those who want to make a pro-life statement, but do […]
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Canadian Bishop Laments Recent Actions of Pope Benedict

By John-Henry Westen CORNWALL, ON, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his homily for April 7, Alexandria-Cornwall Bishop Paul-André Durocher expressed his disappointment with the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI.  “We must admit that, for the past few months, the Church has not seemed to be much of a herald of Good News,” said the bishop, as he enumerated recent events which he suggested are cause for concern. He recounted: “Last December, the media reported that the Pope compared homosexuality to environmental pollution. In January, the lifting of the excommunications of four Lefebvrist bishops caused general consternation when one of […]
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Polish Cardinal, Former Secretary to Pope JPII: Politicians, Like Pilate, Kill the Truth of the Life

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KRAKOW, Poland, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During his Good Friday homily at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a Marian pilgrimage site near Krakow and home to a live dramatization of the Passion of Christ, Archbishop of Krakow Stanis?aw Cardinal Dziwisz called on the over 150,000 faithful present to show courage and speak the truth in defense of the dignity of human life. The Cardinal condemned abortion, euthanasia, common-law marriage, homosexual unions and in vitro fertilization. Speaking to the thousands gathered for the Good Friday service around the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska monastery, Cardinal Dziwisz said that the attitude of Pilate, […]
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El Salvadorans Fight to Protect Marriage and Prevent Homosexual Adoption

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SAN SALVADOR, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Congress of El Salvador is currently considering constitutional amendments to definitively prohibit “homosexual marriage” and protect children from adoption by homosexuals. The measures have thus far been endorsed by all major parties except the most influential one—the socialist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which won the recent presidential election.   The constitutional amendments were approved in a vote in 2006 and now must be ratified by the unicameral legislature of El Salvador before the FMLN takes office, or the reform could be in jeopardy. “What we want to […]
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Sebelius Approved by Senate panel, Final Confirmation Pending

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate Finance committee today voted 15-8 to approve President Obama’s Health and Human Services nominee, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, sending the confirmation to the full Senate for a final vote. Sebelius’ nomination has been strongly opposed by pro-life leaders who have criticized her extreme pro-abortion record and connections to Kansas’ notorious late-term abortionist, George Tilller. When one senator in a question published last week asked Sebelius to disclose her relationship with Tiller, the governor answered that Tiller had donated a total of $12,450 to her campaigns.  Later it was […]
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Miss California Sparks Controversy for Supporting True Marriage, Called “Dumb B*tch” by Homosexual J

By Kathleen Gilbert LAS VEGAS, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sunday’s Miss USA 2009 pageant has become a lightning rod for the debate over Christian free speech in America, after one contestant lost the crown, according to one of the judges, because she answered in favor of true marriage when quizzed on the same-sex “marriage” debate. Celebrity gossip Perez Hilton, one of 13 telecast judges in the competition aired live on NBC, asked Miss California’s Carrie Prejean: “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.  Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?” Prejean answered: “I […]
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Openly “Pro-Choice” Priest Asks Catholics to Stop Funding LifeSiteNews Over Development and Peace

By John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in the Quebec daily Le Devoir, covering the LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) exposé on the fact that the official international development arm of the Canadian bishops is supporting numerous abortion advocacy groups has caused Quebec’s most controversial priest to defend the agency.  Fr. Raymond Gravel, who was forced out of federal politics by the Vatican and has frequently criticized the Catholic Church’s stands against abortion and homosexuality, called on Catholics to quit funding LSN over the issue. Writing Monday, April 20, 2009, in a feedback post to the story in Le […]
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‘Christ did not die for the sins of the people’: Head of German Catholic Bishops Conference on TV

FREIBURG, Germany April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews) – According to the chairman of the Catholic bishops’ conference of Germany, the death of Jesus Christ was not a redemptive act of God to liberate human beings from the bondage of sin and open the gates of heaven. The Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, known for his liberal views, publicly denied the fundamental Christian dogma of the sacrificial nature of Christ’s death in a recent interview with a German television station. Zollitsch said that Christ “did not die for the sins of the people as if God had provided a sacrificial offering, like […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for April 20, 2009

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac OBAMA You couldn’t have made Obama’s first 80 days uphttps://www.jewishworldreview.com/dave/weinbaum041409.php3 Obama: America Not Christian – But Islam Shaped It For The Better by Don Federhttps://www.rightsidenews.com/200904144385/culture-wars/obama-america-not-christian-but-islam-shaped-it-for-the-better.html Obama’s OpiateLet’s cut through all of Barack Obama’s baloney. His speech on the economy at Georgetown University on Tuesday was a testament to the massive ego of a callow leader with grandiose pretensions bordering on megalomania. https://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/16/obamas-opiate Political grandstandingObama’s announcement was all […]
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Commentary on April 20 News – New LSN D&P Page, Notre Dame Pressure Builds, LSN Pregnancy Support Pa

Dear Readers, With the continuing flow of hard evidence of more pro-abortion groupsbeing funded by Canada’s Development and Peace, it is not surprising that firstCatholic Insight magazine, then the Catholic Register and now BCCatholic have published articles and/or editorials indicating seriousconcern about D&P. Today, we launch our special page summarizingall reports to date on the issue at https://www.lifesitenews.com/features/DevelopmentPeace/. More will be added as we continue toaccumulate and enter material. With the still growing number of US bishops condeming NotreDame’s decision to honor Barack Obama and the number of signatures tothe Cardinal Newman Society petition easily surpassing 300,000, therejust might be […]
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Pro-Life Groups Say “Restraint” of NIH Guidelines for Embryo-Destroying Research is Deceptive

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to draft guidelines released Friday by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), taxpayer-funded embryo-destructive research will not create human life for harvesting, but will only use “leftover” embryos from fertility clinics.  While left-leaning scientists are dissatisfied with the restriction, pro-life groups have also said that the guidelines will ultimately do little to rein in more expansive future forms of destructive human experimentation. Pro-life critics have said that the regulations are simply a significant step in a deliberate incremental plan towards ensuring unrestricted federal funding for every stage of embryo-destructive […]
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CT Archbishop Urges Catholics to Contact Legislators about Anti-Free Speech Homosexual “Marriage” Bi

By Kathleen Gilbert HARTFORD, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a letter issued Friday, Archbishop Henry Mansell of Hartford urged Connecticut’s Catholic parishioners to contact state senators and representatives to vote against a bill that, according to the bishop and other critics, poses a dire threat to free speech. (For contact info for all legislators, see: www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009_docs/CTcontactinfo.pdf) “We need you to speak out again. We’re facing another attack on our religious liberty. It is very serious and has to be stopped now,” wrote Archbishop Mansell. Bill 899 is a piece of legislation that would codify the state supreme court’s decision […]
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Vancouver Diocesan Editorial: “Writing Could be on the Wall” for Development and Peace

By John-Henry Westen VANCOVER, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The editorial in this week’s edition of the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver calls for an overhaul of the official international development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, following reports that the organization is funding numerous pro-abortion and pro-contraception groups around the world. (See the full editorial online here: https://bcc.rcav.org/09-04-20/editorial.htm) Editor Paul Schratz writes that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP or D&P) should open wide its doors in order to “assist the bishops in conducting a good housecleaning from top to bottom.” “Over the last […]
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Group Launches Campaign for Retraction on Homeland Security Pro-Lifers as “Extremists” Remarks

April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) today announced it is launching a national campaign demanding that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) retract a warning it included in a recent report on domestic terrorism that labels pro-life supporters as ‘extremists.’ At the same time, the ACLJ is notifying all 50 states that the report – and the offensive warning – should not be used to curtail the First Amendment rights of pro-life supporters.  Further, the ACLJ is supporting a call for Congressional hearings on the DHS report. “The report creates a very troubling […]
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Ontario Town Transit to Overhaul Advertising Rules after One Complaint about Pro-Life Ad from High-S

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SARNIA, Ontario, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently a pro-life ad that reads, “9 months. The length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada,” was removed from six Sarnia Transit city buses after one complaint by a teenager. Now, because of the incident, city staff are considering an overhaul of bus advertising rules, calling them inconsistent and “somewhat outdated,” according to a Sarnia Observer report. Earlier this month LifeSiteNews reported that Miranda Domingue, a student at St. Francis Xavier school, complained in a letter to the paper that she was “outraged” that the city appeared […]
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Abortion Linked to Higher Rates of Domestic Violence: New Research

By Hilary White April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a woman gets an abortion, the couple is more than twice as likely to argue when discussing future children, and nearly three times as likely to experience domestic violence, compared with women who carry the pregnancy to term and raise the child, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Health on Mar. 24. “Abortion may play a vital role in understanding the aetiology [cause] of relationship problems,” the authors stated. The study said that abortion within a current relationship causes 116% more arguing when discussing future children, and […]
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“Architect” of U.K.‘s Anti-Life Culture, Tony Blair, Promotes Himself as “Faith” Leader in Toronto

By Hilary White TORONTO, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may have made his fame as the re-shaper of Britain’s political culture, but now he is travelling the world in an effort to remake himself as a world leader in “faith.” Blair gave an email interview to the Toronto Star last week prior to a visit to Toronto, in which he said, “I’m really, and always have been in a way, more interested in religion than politics.” Blair told the Star, “To understand the state of modern politics you have to understand the modern state […]
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“Fr. Jenkins Will Probably Lose His Job”: Nine More Bishops Make 42 against ND Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nine more bishops have publicly acknowledged their disapproval of the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at the school’s commencement exercises May 17.  Bishop Paul Coakley of the diocese of Salina, KS, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) today that he has written a personal letter to Father Jenkins expressing his “deep disappointment” at the invitation.  Citing his grave concern over the President’s support for anti-life policies, Bishop Coakley told LSN that he reminded University president Fr. John Jenkins of the USCCB […]
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Book Review: A Love for Life – Christianity’s Consistent Protection of the Unborn

Reviewed by Thaddeus M. Baklinski April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dennis DiMauro has compiled an excellent resource for anyone wishing to understand the true Christian position on abortion. Beginning with an examination of the historical Jewish views on abortion, and continuing with a brief but well-researched and referenced study of the pronouncements on abortion by the early councils of the Catholic Church and the Church Fathers, the book concludes with the current positions on abortion of all the major Christian denominations. DiMauro demonstrates, by outlining the course of thought on the sinfulness of and religious penalties for procured abortion through […]
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Undercover Video: Tennessee Planned Parenthood Coaches 14-year-old to Lie about Age of ‘Boyfriend’

MEMPHIS, April 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A counselor at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis, TN was caught on hidden camera coaching a 14-year-old girl to lie to a judge so he would not find out about her 31-year-old boyfriend; the girl could then obtain a waiver for an abortion without her parents’ knowledge. This is the sixth Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic implicated in a developing multi-state child abuse scandal, involving the deliberate suppression of evidence of statutory rape by PP employees. Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student and president of the nonprofit Live Action, entered Planned Parenthood’s Memphis Health […]
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Letters to the Editor for April 17 – LifeSiteNews Praise, Disabled Child Death, Development & Peace

Re: Praise for LifeSiteNews I hope Father Jenkins will change mind about the honourary degree.  I think he will still not rescind his invitation on the commencement speech.  Thank you for giving the pro-life movement a voice around the world.  God bless all the persons on your staff who do His work for those who have no voice. Laura PiatkowskiBrampton, Ontario  ____________________________ Dear Lifesite News, I would like to tell you how much I appreciate your news. As a Canadian living in Mexico and very pro-life, it’s a wonderful source to know what’s going on in the world. Barbara Spencer ___________________________________________________ […]
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Latin American Delegations Appear to Betray Pro-Life Constituencies Back Home

By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D. NEW YORK, April 17, 2009  (C-FAM.org) – Latin American pro-life leaders are questioning how their delegations performed at this year’s United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) meeting, and the picture is troubling. Brazil, seconded by Uruguay, pushed “reproductive rights” throughout the week-long session, while only two nations – Peru and Chile – made reservations affirming that abortion remains illegal in their countries.   As the CPD conference began the week of March 30, nations from the developing world known as the G-77 met to work out common positions, especially on controversial “sexual and reproductive […]
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Dominican Republic Debates Ratification of Pro-Life Language in New Proposed Constitution

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SANTO DOMINGO, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Legislators in the Dominican Republic debated past midnight yesterday over pro-life langauge that is proposed for the nation’s new constitution. Article 30 of the document states that “The right to life is inviolable from conception until death.  The death penalty cannot be established, pronounced, nor applied, in any case.” According to the Dominican newspaper Listin Diario, the article has broad support across party lines, although some representatives are disputing it, and wish to introduce language that would allow exceptions. Attempts to delay a vote or to submit it to […]
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Fed. Judiciary Committee to Examine Homosexualist “Hate Crimes” Bill Monday

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Representative Barney Frank announced Thursday that the House Judiciary Committee will be considering hate crimes legislation, H.R. 1913, this coming week of April 20. Frank is expecting the committee to pass the bill and send it to the House to vote on later this spring, according to a news release issued by Rep. Frank last week. H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, would add sexual orientation to the list of categories covered under federal hate crime law and would expand federal power to […]
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Vatican Rebukes Belgium Gov’t for Criticizing Pope Condom Remarks

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement released today, the Vatican rebuked the Belgium legislature for passing a formal resolution last week declaring Pope Benedict XVI’s comment on condoms and the AIDS epidemic “unacceptable.”  “[The Vatican] deplores the fact that a Parliamentary Assembly should have thought it appropriate to criticize the Holy Father on the basis of an isolated extract from an interview, separated from its context, and used by some groups with a clear intent to intimidate, as if to dissuade the Pope from expressing himself on certain themes of obvious moral relevance […]
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Notre Dame Alumni Withhold Donations Until ND Prez Replaced

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of University of Notre Dame alumni have unveiled a campaign to withhold donations to their alma mater in an attempt to oust University president Fr. John Jenkins, who is standing by his invitation to President Obama to speak and receive an honorary degree at this year’s commencement exercises. Citing the invitation, as well as Jenkins’ “other regrettable decisions over the years,” the alumni founders of ReplaceJenkins.com are urging alumni and other Notre Dame contributors to sign a petition pledging to withhold all donations until the president is […]
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Bishop D’Arcy May Join Prayerful Notre Dame Protests against Obama Invite

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notre Dame’s own Bishop John D’Arcy has expressed a desire to attend “prayerful and dignified” demonstrations led by Notre Dame students against the school’s honoring of President Obama on May 17, according to reports. Bishop D’Arcy’s latest statement on his support for peaceful demonstrations clarifies once again an April 10 statement in which the bishop urged protesters “to stay away from unseemly and unhelpful demonstrations against our nation’s president or Notre Dame or Father John I. Jenkins.”  While construed by several media outlets as a condemnation of all protests, the […]
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Brazilian Archbishop Who Announced Excommunication of Abortionists Receives International Pro-Life A

By John Jalsevac FRONT ROYAL, VA, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Representatives from Human Life International (HLI) presented Brazilian Archbishop Dom Jose Cardoso Sobrinho with the Cardinal von Galen Award in acknowledgement of his heroic defense of Catholic Church teaching and human life. The ceremony took place at the Damas College Auditorium in Recife, Brazil on April 16. In March Archbishop Sobrinho made international news after he declared that the Catholic doctors and counselors who facilitated the abortion of the unborn twins of a nine-year-old girl had incurred a latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication. The tragic story of the nine-year-old girl, […]
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Irish Protestors Shut Down Speech by “Involuntary Euthanasia” Activist

By Hilary White CORK, Ireland April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a British professor of medical ethics was slated to speak at Cork University Hospital (CUH) in Ireland advocating legalising euthanasia, including “involuntary euthanasia,” he did not expect to be met with an angry group of Irish patriots determined to see him off in the name of their nation’s constitution. Professor Len Doyal, emeritus professor of medical ethics at Queen Mary, University of London, is a euthanasia advocate and has said that “involuntary euthanasia” should be permitted. He has advocated changing British law to allow doctors in some cases to […]
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Sarah Palin Speaks against Abortion At Indiana Right to Life Banquet

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EVANSVILLE, IN, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Governor Sarah Palin spoke yesterday at a pro-life banquet sponsored by the Vanderburgh County Right to Life, where she criticized President Barack Obama for his rampant pro-abortion policies, and give witness to her own pro-life choices. The banquet was attended by over 2,000 pro-lifers, with nearly a thousand more watching on a large screen in an adjacent auditorium. AP reports that Gov. Palin was cheered wildly as she entered the banquet hall with her husband, Todd, and that she received two standing ovations during her speech. Palin condemned President […]
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D.C. Prepares to Recognize Out of State Same-Sex “Marriages” May 5

 By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A final vote on May 5 is poised to confirm a preliminary vote last week by D.C.‘s city council to recognize same-sex “marriages” performed in other states.  If confirmed, the little-noticed vote would open the doors to same-sex “marriage” in the influential district. Some commentators have speculated that it could also incite Congressional discussion over the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The D.C. Council unanimously voted last Tuesday to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages” after having voted in early March to extend all marriage benefits to D.C. same-sex couples in domestic […]
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Award-Winning Ballad “My Chance” Urges Women to Choose Life

By Kathleen Gilbert NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A moving new pro-life song is making waves after winning a leading Christian music award late last month. “My Chance,” sung by Jaime Thietten and written by Rick Shadrick and J.T. Tallent, tells the story of a young woman haunted some time after succumbing to pressure to abort.  “We couldn’t wait to bring him home.  Ain’t it funny how you forget?  We were gonna call him Chance,” she sings.  Later the listener learns that the woman, who is portrayed as mourning her child into her old age, was never able […]
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MUST READ: All LSN Evidence of Development and Peace Pro-Abortion Funding …So Far

Last Updated: June 07, 2010 April 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For several months LifeSiteNews (LSN) has been collecting evidence that the official development arm of the Canadian bishops, Development and Peace (D&P), is funding numerous radical leftist organizations that promote a pro-abortion and pro-contraception ideology. Thus far LSN has collected evidence about pro-abortion and pro-contraception D&P partners in East Timor, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Togo, South Africa, Benin, Brazil, Mexico, Haiti, Peru and Guinea. LSN reporters are currently working on reports about D&P partners in other parts of the world as well. We have additionally followed up on leads from John Pacheco […]
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Four Texas Planned Parenthoods Caught Performing Abortions Without Licenses – Issued Cease and Desis

April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Life League is urging groups across the country to investigate Planned Parenthood affiliates after four San Antonio, Texas abortion facilities were issued ‘cease and desist’ orders by the Department of State Health Services for performing illegal abortions. Due to direct investigation from pro-life groups in the area, the abortion businesses were discovered performing medical abortions without a license. “So much for Planned Parenthood’s ‘safe, legal and rare’ mantra,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League. “Women and children are abused and dying from Planned Parenthood’s sex business every day, Planned Parenthood performs more […]
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Commentary: UNICEF, WHO Want ’ Alliance’ with Church but Promote Abortion

Commentary by Steven W. Mosher, President, Population Research Institute (PRI) FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 16, 2009 (PRI) – When the director of our Latin American office, Carlos Polo, received information about the upcoming “Pastoral Meeting about Children and Adolescents at Risk,” organized by the Latin American Catholic Bishop’s Conferences (CELAM), he decided to attend. He was concerned about the forthcoming appearance of speakers from UNICEF and the Pan-American Organization for Health (OPS), which is a member organization of the World Health Organization (WHO). How would UNICEF and OPS/WHO explain their abortion advocacy to the Church representatives from throughout Latin America […]
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Letter Reveals another $200,000 Donation from Notorious Abortionist Tiller to Help Elect Sebelius

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A second financial revelation has cast further doubt on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ representation to the Senate Finance Committee of the nature of her relationship with late-term abortionist George Tiller.  Sebelius is President Obama’s nominee for the secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS). She is currently seeking Senate confirmation. After Sebelius was recently found to have reported only a fraction of Tiller’s $38,450 in donations to her insurance commissioner campaign, Operation Rescue yesterday released a copy of a 2002 letter from Tiller stating that he contributed $200,000 to his political action […]
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Secular Quebec is Persecuting the Catholic Church: Quebec City Archbishop

By Hilary White QUEBEC CITY, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Like the condemned and crucified Christ, the Catholic Church is being persecuted in the once highly religious province of Quebec because she “told the truth as received by God,” the Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec City has said. In a recent interview Marc-André Séguin of Agence QMI asked the Cardinal whether the Catholic Church is persecuted in Quebec society. Marc Cardinal Ouellet, the Primate of Canada responded, “Sure, absolutely.” “The Church bears witness to the Risen One, who is also the Crucified,” said Archbishop Ouellet. “Jesus was committed, he told the […]
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Pro-Aborts Work to Keep Pro-Life Groups from Participating in UN Meetings

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, April 16, 2009 (C-FAM) – This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). While the international community holds meetings around the world to discuss global progress towards achieving the goals outlined in the 1994 ICPD program, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and pro-abortion non-government organizations (NGOs) are attempting to block pro-life participation from discussions on “sexual and reproductive health and rights.” In particular, the ICPD +15 Global NGO Forum – to be held in September in Berlin – is being organized by a steering group composed of […]
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Manitoba Implements Mandatory Child Porn Reporting Law

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Manitoba government passed legislation on Tuesday making it mandatory for its citizens to report child pornography. The amendment to the Child and Family Services Act now includes child pornography in the existing definition of child abuse, and makes Manitoba the first province in Canada to legally require anyone who suspects a child is being sexually abused, whether evidence is found online, in books, photographs or other audio and visual material, to report it to the authorities. Family Services Minister Gord Mackintosh said yesterday that child sexual exploitation is […]
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Editor of Canadian Catholic Magazine on D&P Scandal: “Let D&P rest in peace for eternity”

By John Jalsevac April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The editor of the Catholic Insight magazine, Fr. Alphonse de Valk, has penned a lengthy article about the recent scandal involving the Canadian Bishops’ official development arm, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP or D&P), which has been found to be supporting numerous pro-abortion and pro-contraception groups around the world (See bottom for links to extensive coverage).  Published in the May edition of Catholic Insight, the article by Fr. de Valk gives a detailed history of the development organization and charges that the recent scandal is merely the latest […]
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Standing Ovation at Mention of Unborn for New York Archbishop During Installation Mass

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral erupted in applause yesterday during the installation Mass of Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the new leader of the Catholic Church in New York, when the prelate mentioned the sanctity of human life in the womb.  In a press conference the day before, the popular new archbishop affirmed that he would not back down from defending life and family in his influential new position. “The Resurrection goes on, as His Church continues to embrace and protect the dignity of every human person, the sanctity of human life, […]
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Rhode Island Gov. Denounces Same-Sex “Marriage,” Throws Weight behind Marriage Campaign

By Kathleen Gilbert PROVIDENCE, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time as several New England states are under pressure to alter marriage laws to include same-sex couples, one governor is not shying away from defending true marriage in his state. Immediately after Vermont’s legislature overturned a veto to legalize same-sex “marriage” last Tuesday, Rhode Island’s Gov. Donald Carcieri announced he would throw his support behind the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). “What I don’t want to see happen with this issue is what’s happening is courts deciding things or legislatures deciding things this […]
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Parents of Disabled Girl File Human Rights Complaint against Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital over T

By Hilary White TORONTO, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of a disabled baby girl, who died in 2005, have launched a human rights complaint against Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. The parents allege that the hospital placed a “do not resuscitate” order on the child without their consent and otherwise refused to provide normal care that could have saved her life. Timothy and Barbara Farlow say that the hospital failed to give their daughter Annie proper medical care because she was disabled. Annie suffered from the non-fatal genetic disorder Trisomy 13 and died 80 days after her birth. […]
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International Organizations Gather 40,000 Signatures So Far in Support of Pope’s Statements on Condo

FRONT ROYAL, VA, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a response to the deluge of criticism leveled against Pope Benedict XVI for his statement about the ineffectiveness of condom promotion in stopping the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, four prominent international pro-life organizations have gathered 40,000 signatures so far in support of the Holy Father. Kath.net (based in Austria), Human Life International (HLI, Virginia, USA), HLI Europa (Poland), and Vida Humana Internacional (VHI, Miami) have joined forces in reaching out around the world to gather support for the Pontiff, whose statement questioning the value of the promotion of condoms has been attacked […]
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Focus on the Family Launches Website to Help Parents Fight Back against Homosexual Indoctrination in

By Kathleen Gilbert COLORADO SPRINGS, April 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 17, thousands of schools across America will observe the homosexualist “Day of Silence,” which is sponsored by one of the largest homosexual advocacy groups in the nation. The event encourages students to refuse to speak for the entire school day to promote and celebrate homosexualist causes. To help parents prepare for the “Day of Silence” and other homosexuality-promoting activities in their schools, Focus on the Family has launched TrueTolerance.org, a website that hosts a stockpile of information on what kids are being taught and how parents can fight […]
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Controversy: Development and Peace Funding Pro-Abortion Groups

By Father Alphonse de Valk Republished with permission from the May 2009 edition of Catholic Insight magazine TORONTO, April 16, 2009 (catholicinsight.com) – For 42 years, Catholic dioceses across Canada have sent contributions via Share Lent and Share Life to the international development organization of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB): the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) – Development and Peace (D&P) as it is called for short – to supply humanitarian help to the poor of the world. On March 11, 2009, the Mexican correspondent for the pro-life news agency LifeSiteNews, Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, revealed […]
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LifeSite Daily News for Wednesday April 8, 2009

Wednesday April 8, 2009 SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print Commentary on April 8 News Reports – Notre Dame, The Blairs, D&P;, Latin American bishops, Rick Warren, Letters Leaked: ND Prez Comment on USCCB Document Prohibiting Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians Four More Makes 29 Bishops, 10 Holy Cross Priests Condemn ND Scandal Unlike Development and Peace, U.S. Bishops Development Arm Has Strong Pro-Life Policies Tony and Cherie Blair Attack Pope on Homosexuality and Condoms Notre Dame’s Bishop on Obama’s Pro-Abortion Views: “No One Is Allowed to Say Who Sits at Table of Life” Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru Calls Pro-Abortion Forces “Traitors” […]
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LifeSiteNews.com is a valued source for news even for the mainstream media.

Here are some of the media outlets that have quoted LifeSiteNews.com in the past week or so on our Notre Dame coverage: The Chicago Tribunehttps://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/apr/02/health/chi-ap-il-obama-notredame-ghttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cardinal-notre-dameapr03,0,5403041.story Associated Press/ Fox Newshttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/14/notre-dame-president-defends-obama-invitation/ The Indy Starhttps://www.indystar.com/article/20090403/NEWS05/904030380 The Southtown Starhttps://www.southtownstar.com/news/1509525,040309george.article The Florida Catholichttps://www.thefloridacatholic.org/cns/2009_articles/20090406_cns_nd_bishops.php Chicago Public Radiohttps://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=33241 Even the Notre Dame newspaper The Observerhttps://media.www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2009/04/03/News/Leaders.Organizations.Continue.To.Speak.Out-3696451.shtml As for today’s LifeSiteNews reports, we present an important revelation about yet another very pro-abortion group being funded by Canada’s Development and Peace organizaton – this time in Peru. We have two letters to the editor sections today because of the volume of letters received. Be sure to check them out. John-Henry […]
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Letters to the Editor 2 for April 15, 2009 – Development and Peace

RE: Two Archbishops Declare LSN Reports on Abortion-Advocacy Funding by D&P “Untrue,” “False” and “Malicious”https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09040110.html The Editor, In my opinion, the two Canadian archbishops who have denigratedLifeSiteNews for its reports on the D controversy have put themselvesin a most unfortunate position. First, it appears that they have notlearned from the clergy sex scandals of a few years ago how to respondin public when irrefutable evidence is brought to the fore. Whatappears to be cover-up just doesn’t cut it any more. Second, they havepublicly asserted their trust in the powers-that-be at D & P. Whenthey find out that their trust was […]
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Same-Sex “Marriage” Activists Systematically Target Sympathetic Supreme Courts: Homosexualist Lawyer

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that polls consistently show that most Americans remain opposed to same-sex “marriage,” and that amendments protecting true marriage have passed in 30 states in the union, several states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and California (before the court decision was overturned by popular vote) have legalized the novel institution through activist court rulings. Now a prominent homosexualist lawyer has admitted that same-sex “marriage” supporters gain court victories against state marriage laws, not as a result of the chance success of isolated complaints by homosexual couples, but through the […]
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Correction – Turcotte on Abortion

Please note that the story on Cardinal Turcotte from Tuesday April 14, 2009 left out one word in an important quotation. Cardinal Turcotte said: “I am against abortion, but I can understand that in certain cases, there is almost no other choice than to practice it.” The word “almost” was left out of the original report due to a translation error. We regret the error.  The corrected version is online here:https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09041416.html
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Commentary: God, Country, Notre Dame

Commentary by Anthony J. Lauinger, vice president of the National Right to Life Committee April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Carved in the stone of Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart is an inscription: “God, Country, Notre Dame.” Simple, edifying, profound, those words, and what they represent, have inspired Notre Dame students for almost two centuries. Generations of alumni have lived by these words. More than a few have died for them. The order is not random; it’s no accident that “God” is first. God has always come first at Notre Dame. At least, until March 20, 2009; that was […]
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America’s “Oldest” Abortion Centre Closes Forever During Holy Week

 By Kathleen Gilbert OAKLAND, California, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What is believed to be America’s longest-running abortion facility, the Women’s Choice Clinic of Oakland, Cal., announced last Wednesday it was forced to close thanks to shortages in taxpayer funds from the financially strapped state. The centre ended 36 years of abortion procedures after delayed reimbursements from Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, made rent payment impossible.  Medi-Cal funds comprised 90% of the clinic’s income. The abortion facility first opened in 1972, and had seen over 64,000 customers, according to the Oakland Tribune.  It was known for catering to teen, low-income, homosexual, […]
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NY Governor to Introduce Homosexual “Marriage” Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York Gov. David Paterson has announced he will introduce a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex “marriage.” “The timing was always right. It’s just who is willing to take that step, and I am,” Paterson said. “I think it is, as other states are showing, the only ethical way to treat people who want to live together in peace under the civil law. So my general feeling about all these issues is the right ethical decision will inevitably be the right political decision.” New York’s last attempt to pass […]
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Controversial Ontario City “Places of Worship Policy” Up For Review Again

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRAMPTON, Ontario, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A press release from the city of Brampton says that a review of “extensive public consultation conducted for the Places of Worship Policy Review” has resulted in a report which will be considered by the Planning, Design and Development Committee at its meeting on Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:00 pm in the Council Chambers. In January of last year LifeSiteNews reported on a leaked “secret” document, commissioned by the Brampton city council, that studied the way churches, mosques, temples, and other places of worship have traditionally been exempt from […]
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Notre Dame President Rejects Students’ Requests for Dialogue over Obama Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a private letter addressed to a coalition of 12 campus groups and organizations, University of Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins denied students’ requests for dialogue regarding the University’s invitation of President Obama to speak and receive an honorary degree at this year’s commencement exercises. Responding to a letter sent to him by representatives of the ND Response coalition on April 7th, the University’s president wrote that “conditions for constructive dialogue simply do not exist,” and said that students could disregard his earlier invitations to meet with him. […]
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Letters to the Editor for April 15, 2009 – Notre Dame President,  Brazil “Homophobia”

RE: Leaked: ND Prez Comment on USCCB Document Prohibiting Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicianshttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09040808.html Are we, once again being asked what the meaning of “is, is?”  Really.  How ignorant does Fr. Jenkins thinks we are?  The purpose of the directive is to give direction, no matter if the words “provisional” are used.  The direction of the Bishops is clear.  No pro-culture of death Catholics and more importantly, pro-culture of death non-catholics. Please, Fr. Jenkins, do what you know in your heart is the right and courageous thing.  Disinvite President Obama and give glory to God. Stella TrevinoAustin, Tx ___________________________ So Fr Jenkins wants us […]
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Sydney Cardinal Says He “Totally Agreed” with Pope Benedict on Condoms for AIDS in Africa

By Hilary White SYDNEY, Australia, April 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent interview with local media, the Catholic archbishop of Sydney Australia said he “totally agreed” with Pope Benedict XVI that the use of condoms in AIDS prevention tends to exacerbate the problem of the epidemic. “The idea that you can solve a great spiritual and health crisis like AIDS with a few mechanical contraptions like condoms is ridiculous,” Cardinal George Pell said. Cardinal Pell said that African countries that are “awash” with condoms, which tends to encourage promiscuity which in turn increases the instances of HIV/AIDS infections. “They’re encouraging […]
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Homosexuals Charge Professor with “Homophobia” for Denouncing Homosexual Lifestyle

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MURCIA, SPAIN, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Spanish homosexual organization has submitted a legal complaint of “homophobia” to the nation’s attorney general after a bioethics professor called sodomy a sexual perversion and said that homosexuality is a mental disorder. According to local media reports, Professor Gloria Maria Tomas of the Catholic University of Murcia was speaking at a conference when she said that homosexual behavior is “intrinsically disordered” and that homosexuality was removed from the list of mental disorders “for political motives.” Tomas clarified, however, that she believes homosexuals have “an innate ontological dignity, inalienable […]
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Commentary on April 14 News Reports

Dear readers, We hope you had a great Easter! One of the most prominent Evangelical leaders in the United States, Albert Mohler, has said he was “extremely troubled” over Pastor Rick Warren’s backing away from the gay ‘marriage’ debate. And President Obama spoke at a Catholic University today, not Notre Dame, but Georgetown.  Weirdly enough, his talk was Biblically themed even though it was on the economy.  Entitled, “The House Upon a Rock”, he spoke of building the economy on firm footings.  However, the Biblical reference is of course in Matthew 7 where our Lord notes that by listening to […]
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Counterstrike: Archbishop Emeritus, Jesuit Clergy Criticize Pro-Life Protests of ND’s Obama Honor

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the number of American Catholic bishops, clergy, and laity condemning the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Obama continues to grow, one retired archbishop has criticized the pro-life backlash against the scandal.  The president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities has also criticized the condemnations and expressed his support for Notre Dame for honoring the president.  Notre Dame stirred up a national controversy after the university announced that Obama, called the “most pro-abortion president in history” by numerous pro-life advocates, had accepted an invitation to […]
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Sebelius Caught Underreporting Campaign Contributions from Notorious Abortionist: HHS Nomination May

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Washington career of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may be in danger after it was revealed that the Health nominee reported only a fraction of her campaign contributions from Kansas’ late-term abortionist George Tiller. At least one GOP senator reportedly said the issue has raised doubts among Republican senators about the governor, a well-known champion of abortion that Obama picked to head the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). After the full senate confirmation vote was delayed earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee probed Sebelius’ connection to […]
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Montreal Cardinal: “I am against abortion, but I can understand that in certain cases, there is almo

By Tim Waggoner MONTREAL, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over the Easter weekend, Le Devoir newspaper published a story based on an interview with Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal, during which the Cardinal contradicted the teachings of Catholic Church on abortion and condoms. In the interview Cardinal Turcotte, as quoted by Le Devoir, compared abortion to killing in self-defense, effectively equating the unborn child with a violent aggressor. “Personally, I am against murder,” he said, “but can understand that sometimes, when someone is being attacked, they need to kill someone in self-defense. I am against abortion, but I can understand […]
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Baptist Seminary Prez Albert Mohler Dismayed by Rick Warren About-Face on Homosexual “Marriage”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, said he was stunned by Rev. Rick Warren’s apparent about-face on homosexual “marriage,” after the famous California mega-church pastor claimed last week on Larry King that he was not a proponent of California’s Proposition 8. Rev. Mohler told the Washington Times, “I was extremely troubled by the way he [Rich Warren] appeared to be so anxious to distance himself from the same-sex issue and to make clear he was not an ‘activist’ and that he’d only addressed the issue […]
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Abp. Dolan Determined to Fight Anti-Catholic Bias on Same-Sex “Marriage,” Abortion

By Kathleen Gilbert MANHATTAN, New York, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The day before his installation as the next archbishop of New York – one of the most influential sees in the American Catholic Church – Milwaukee’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan told the Associated Press that as archbishop he will challenge the idea that the Catholic Church’s teaching on same-sex “marriage” and abortion is unenlightened. Dolan said his top priority would be to re-inspire pride in Catholic identity, and that he would encourage Catholics to battle bias against the Catholic Church in American society. “One would hope that through education and […]
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Canada’s Largest Catholic Newspaper Calls for Open Investigation into Development and Peace

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Register, the largest Catholic newspaper in Canada, owned by the Archdiocese of Toronto, has called for an open investigation into the international development arm of the Canadian Bishops Conference.  Concerns that the development organization, called Development and Peace, is funding groups involved in abortion advocacy were first raised by an investigative report by LifeSiteNews.com.  Since the first report, which involved five groups in Mexico, LSN and others have reported on D&P funding of pro-abortion groups throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia (See bottom for links to coverage). The Register […]
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Jailed Pastor Hoye Thanks Supporters Following Release and Vows Continued Pro-Life Witness

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OAKLAND, California, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oakland pastor Rev. Walter Hoye, who was sent to jail on March 23 for peacefully counseling and picketing at a local abortion facility and was released after serving 18 days of his 30-day sentence, has issued a statement thanking everyone who prayed for him while he was incarcerated. The pastor also said that he will return to sidewalk counseling at the abortuary as soon as he regains his health, which suffered during his imprisonment. “Yes, Jesus Christ Is Risen! And yes, as I sit here writing to you as […]
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EU Parliament Removes Religious Exemption: Churches Could be Forced to Perform Same-Sex “Marriages”

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Changes made this month in the EU Anti-Discrimination Directive could force Christian and other religious groups to perform homosexual “marriages” and allow non-believers to receive Communion and other sacraments in their churches. The directive was adopted by the EU Parliament on April 2nd, by 360 votes in favor and 227 votes against and will apply to all organizations offering a service to the public, including hospitals, charities, businesses and prisons, and churches. With the removal of exemptions for “organizations based on religion and belief,” Christian groups, including the Church of England […]
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Bishops of Knoxville and Palm Beach Continue String of ND Scandal Condemnations

By Kathleen Gilbert April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Ten. and Bishop Gerald Barbarito of Palm Beach, Fl. have joined the ranks of U.S. bishops publicly opposing the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at its May 17 commencement. In his column in last week’s East Tennessee Catholic, Bishop Stika said, “As a Catholic, I am embarrassed by this gesture of the University of Notre Dame. “It is fine to honor an individual because of his accomplishments, but can one seriously believe that it is in […]
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Nazi and Stalinist Genocides were Inspired by Atheism: German Bishop Who Compared Abortion to Nazism

By Hilary White AUGSBURG, Germany, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Secularists in Germany are furious at the assertion that the Nazi and Stalinist ideologies were developments of atheism, reports Germany’s The Local newspaper. Linking Stalinist communism and National Socialism through their mutual rejection of Judeo-Christian concepts of right and wrong, Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg said this weekend that atheism created the genocidal regimes of the 20th century. Bishop Mixa also drew criticism earlier this year when he compared the number of abortions in recent decades to the Nazi’s attempt to exterminate the Jews. In his Easter Sunday sermon, Bishop […]
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ND Bishop Clarifies: Demonstrate Sure, But Don’t Disrupt Graduation

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, whose diocese includes the University of Notre Dame, has issued a statement urging pro-life protesters to host only peaceful and respectful demonstrations against the school’s honoring of President Obama. Obama is scheduled to give the university’s commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate of law May 17. A spokesman from the diocese told LifeSiteNews that, contrary to news reports that misinterpreted the bishop’s statement by saying that the bishop was discouraging all public protests, the bishop has no problem with peaceful and […]
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Canon Lawyer: Notre Dame Prez Reasoning “Too Bizarre for Words”

By Kathleen Gilbert DETROIT, Michigan, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent American canon lawyer has issued a stinging criticism of the reasoning given by Notre Dame’s president Fr. John Jenkins, by which he defends the school’s invitation of President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree, calling Jenkins’ argumentation “too bizarre for words.” Canon lawyer Ed Peters responded to correspondence from Fr. Jenkins to Notre Dame trustees, which was obtained and published exclusively by LifeSiteNews.com last week.  In the memo, Jenkins told trustees that he considers the invitation to honor Obama to be faithful to the “letter and the […]
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Catholic Georgetown Gives Platform for Obama Speech Today

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amid a continuing firestorm of scandal caused by the University of Notre Dame’s invitation of President Obama to speak and receive an honorary degree at graduation, Georgetown University will be hosting the President at 11:30 a.m. today for a speech on the economy, according to yesterday’s White House press release.  The speech will take place in Gaston Hall, although only those with a ticket or RSVP may attend. Pro-life advocates decrying the President’s virulently pro-abortion record are planning to gather at the entrance to Georgetown University at 37th and O […]
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LifeSite Daily News for Wednesday January 28, 2009

Wednesday January 28, 2009 SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print Exclusive Interview: Leading Vatican Prelate Says Document of US Bishops Partly to Blame for Election of “Most Pro-Abortion President” “Stimulus” Bill Still Includes $335 Million Handout for Condoms, Sex-Ed Programs Congressman Chris Smith Introduces New Bill to Reinstate Mexico City Policy Latin American Leaders Protest Against President Obama’s Abortion “Aid” Senate Rejects Amendment Seeking to Reinstate Mexico City Policy An Interview with Deal Hudson, Part I: The Pro-Life Legacy of George W. Bush 15 to 20,000 Pro-life Demonstrators Take Part in the Paris March for Life Homosexual Men Given Custody of […]
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HUMAN GENETIC MANIPULATION WITH IVF

Thursday May 20, 1999 HUMAN GENETIC MANIPULATION WITH IVF Children Born Of Genes From Two Women And A Man Sydney, Australia, May 20 (LSN) – Scientists told a conference in Sydney that three boys and two girls have been born using an in vitro fertilization technique combining genetic information from two women and a man. The Edmonton Journal reported Monday that the technique involved: “removing cytoplasm – the human equivalent of egg white – from the younger egg and injecting it into the older egg together with a single sperm from the prospective father.” The reason given for the procedure, […]
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Unearthed Letter Included with Pre-release Version of Humanae Vitae Sent to Bishops

Tuesday July 29, 2008 Unearthed Letter Included with Pre-release Version of Humanae Vitae Sent to Bishops From the Vatican, July 19, 1968 Segreteria di Stato di Sua Santita To the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences To Local Ordinaries Your Excellency, When directing me to transmit to Your Excellency the enclosed document, publication of which is imminent, His Holiness strongly recommended that I draw your attention to its importance, and to the necessity of a concerted effort on the part of the entire Catholic Episcopate, in order that the doctrine it contains be explained with care in full to the Christian people, […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for April 11, 2009

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac OBAMA Teleprompter PresidentHave we lost the art of oratory? A couple of YouTube clips are evidence in a trial of the teleprompter president. https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/teleprompter_president1/ The Obama White House spews climate hysteriahttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/10/blowing-smoke-the-obama-white-house-spews-climate-/ The Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air. https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97ECHLG1&show_article=1 Analyst warns Obama eligibility could become flashpoint – ‘It is morphing now to include members of the armed forces’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94196 Obama’s missed opportunity – He […]
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Way of the Cross and Passion Play by Young Students “Very, very impressive”

By Steve Jalsevac April 09, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 50 Students with the Youth Office of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada put on a powerful Way of the Cross through the streets of downtown Peterborough on Good Friday. Observers agreed the acting of the students was impressive, with every one of them seeming to live and lose themselves in their roles, rather than act them, throughout the over 3 hour long event. Anne Sheridan, a local resident who attended the Passion Play for the first time this year, told LifeSiteNews that, “Apart from Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ […]
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Commentary – Easter message, LifeSiteNews returns on Tuesday

Dear readers, A blessed Easter to all of you. As we contemplate the death and resurrection of Christ in theseupcoming days, let us be inspired and strengthened to remain true toHim and what He has taught. Many temptations today cause us todeliberately reject or avoid Truth – to our great detriment. Some ofthe strongest temptations revolve around fear of losing worldly respectby doing what we must in order to be faithful. LifeSiteNews will not be publishing Good Friday or Easter Monday. OnTuesday we will resume our reports on the most important issues in theworld. John-Henry WestenSteve JalsevacLifeSiteNews.com 
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Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Says Party Will Not Oppose Homosexual Marriage

By Tim Waggoner BOSTON, April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Republican Party of Massachusetts’ newly elected Chairman told a LGTB news service recently that the party will no longer take stances on social issues like same-sex “marriage” because she is against “legislating” personal views. In an interview with the LGTB newspaper the Bay Window, Mass. State Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Nassour said that her priority of reinvigorating grass roots Republicans will be addressed through a party-wide focus on the economy – not prominent social issues. “To me social issues are personal issues. Those are personal views, and we are not legislating here […]
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Prominent Pro-Family Activist Julio Severo Flees Brazil to Escape Charges of “Homophobia”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Julio Severo, one of Brazil’s most prominent pro-life and pro-family activists, has fled Brazil to escape federal prosecutors who sought him following a complaint of “homophobia” filed against him for his unfavorable coverage of the nation’s Gay Parade in 2006, according to Severo. Severo states on his blog that federal prosecutors were seeking to obtain his address from the man responsible for his domain name in Brazil (www.juliosevero.com.br), who hired an attorney to defend his claim that he was not obligated to turn over the information.  However, their arguments were rejected. “Therefore, […]
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Pastor Warren, Like Peter, Denies Christ (at least His teachings) During Holy Week

Editorial by John-Henry Westen April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rick Warren, the popular pastor who seems to have taken on the mantle of ‘America’s Pastor’ from Billy Graham, was a strong defender of the family, and of marriage – until recently.  One of the areas of greatest conflict between Christian morality and worldly morality today is homosexuality.  With the advent of modern ultra-sound technology and thus the increasing awareness of the humanity of the unborn child, many today will forgive you for being pro-life.  After all it’s a human rights issue; you’re standing up for those smaller and weaker than […]
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University Cancels XXX Porn Screening Over Threat of Loss of Funding, But Students Show Film Anyway

By Tim Waggoner Annapolis, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the University of Maryland banned a pornographic film from being shown on campus because of a threat of the removal of federal funding by state legislators, an independent student group went ahead and showed an excerpt of the hard core sex film on Monday. Last week, word reached the Maryland State senate in the form of a budget amendment put forward by Senator Andrew Harris that the state’s flagship university was on the verge of screening a two and a half hour long explicit pornographic film. The film has been […]
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12-Year-Old Quebec Girl Sues Dad for Grounding Her…and Wins

By Kathleen Gilbert QUEBEC, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Gatineau father lost an appeal Monday after a lower court ruled last June that he had issued a too severe punishment against his 12-year-old daughter. The case involves a divorced man who says that in 2008 he caught the girl, over whom he had custody, surfing websites he had forbidden and posting “inappropriate pictures of herself” online. The girl’s father told her as a consequence that she would not be allowed to go on her class’ graduation trip to Quebec City, even though her mother had already given permission for […]
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Sarnia, Ontario Transit Pulls Pro-Life Bus Ad after One Complaint from High-Schooler

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SARNIA, Ontario, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life ad which reads, “9 months. The length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada,” has been removed from six Sarnia Transit city buses after one complaint by a teenager attending a local school. The Sarnia Observer reported that Miranda Domingue, a student at St. Francis Xavier School, complained in a letter to the paper that she was “outraged” that the city appears to be endorsing a pro-life position by allowing the sign on city buses, and wants Sarnia Transit to apologize. “These views do not reflect […]
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Pastor Jailed for Pro-Life Witness Gets Early Release

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OAKLAND, California, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oakland pastor Walter Hoye, who was sent to jail on March 23 for peacefully counseling and picketing at a local abortion facility, has been released after serving 18 days of his 30-day sentence. The California Catholic Daily reports that Hoye’s sentence was reduced by 10 days for “good behavior,” plus additional credit by the sentencing judge, Stuart Hing, for the time Hoye spent confined in a patrol car after his arrest. Hoye was sentenced to 30 days in county jail by Judge Hing of the Alameda Superior Court, who […]
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Bishops Bruskewitz, Aquila Issue Stinging Condemnations to “Formerly Catholic” Notre Dame

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more bishops have written and made public strongly-worded letters to University president Fr. John Jenkins, bringing the number of U.S. bishops to 31 protesting the school’s invitation to President Obama to speak at commencement and receive an honorary law degree May 17. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Lincoln Diocese supplied his letter, addressed to University president Fr. John Jenkins, today to the Cardinal Newman Society, which is hosting a petition against the scandal, now bearing well over a quarter million signatures (https://www.notredamescandal.com). “Permit me to add my name as […]
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Public Comment Period on Conscience Regulations Reaches Final Hours

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The public comment period on President Obama’s plan to rescind conscience regulations that protect doctors from being coerced to perform abortions, is in its final hours. The public comment period ends at 11:59 p.m. tonight, by which time all emails and phone calls must be sent, and letters postmarked; however, sources say a handful of late comments may be considered.  The regulations, initiated by President Bush just prior to leaving office, enforce existing federal laws that acknowledge the rights of health care workers not to be forced to perform or […]
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Following Blair Attacks on Pope/Catholic Church, Announcement that Westminster Cardinal Will Join To

By Hilary White LONDON, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has announced that after his retirement as Archbishop of Westminster in May this year, Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor will become the first Catholic member of the Foundation’s International Religious Advisory Council. The move comes two years after the cardinal received his friend Tony Blair into the Catholic Church without requiring the former Prime Minister to publicly apologize or recant his anti-Catholic positions on abortion and human embryonic experimentation or for his championing the cause of the homosexualist movement during his political career. Tony Blair made headlines […]
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New Poll Reveals Obama’s Plan To Scrap Conscience Protection Extremely Unpopular

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll commissioned by the Christian Medical Association (CMA) has shown that 87% of American adults surveyed said it is important to “make sure that healthcare professionals in America are not forced to participate in procedures and practices to which they have moral objections” and that 95% of Christian of physicians agreed with the statement, “I would rather stop practicing medicine altogether than be forced to violate my conscience.” The poll was taken in response to the Obama administration’s proposed rescinding of a Department of Health and Human Services […]
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Planned Parenthood 2007-8 Report: Abortions Break 300,000 in Year, Highest-Ever Taxpayer Funding

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has released its official 2007-2008 report, which shows that 305,310 unborn children were killed in chemical, medical, and surgical abortions by PPFA in the space of a year, up from 289,750 in 2006.  The report also reveals that the total taxpayer money received by PPFA affiliates increased to $350 million. (To view the report, go to: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA_2007-2008_Annual_Report.pdf) The report boasts that the number of adoption referrals provided by Planned Parenthood increased by over 100% from 2,410 referrals in 2006 to 4,912 referrals in […]
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State University Refuses Honorary Degree to President Obama: Catholic Notre Dame Still Plans to Hono

April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even as the University of Notre Dame has angered Catholics and pro-life advocates nationwide with its plan to bestow an honorary doctorate of laws on President Barack Obama on May 17, Arizona State University has declined to do the same when the President speaks at its commencement ceremony the prior Wednesday. ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler told The Associated Press: “It’s our practice to recognize an individual for his body of work, somebody who’s been in their position for a long time.  His body of work is yet to come.  That’s why we’re not recognizing him with […]
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Commentary on April 8 News Reports – Notre Dame, The Blairs, D&P, Latin American bishops, Rick Warre

Dear Readers, Notre Dame president Fr. Jenkins has cooked up his own very convenient interpretation of the USCCB guidelines regarding honoring pro-abortion politicians. Now why didn’t Cardinal George, the head of the USCCB think of that, as well as the 28 other bishops (so far) who have condemned the Obama invitation? They will have to attend creative interpretation classes at Notre Dame. We have been warning about Tony and Cherie Blair for some time. Now maybe more sceptics will finally start to consider that these two are not real Catholics and have a very unCatholic, unChristian long term international agenda. […]
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Letters to the Editor – Obama summary, ND/Obama controversy, Canadian UN delegation, D&P, Other item

RE: Priest/historian author says, Obama “represents greatest threat today, even more so than Marxist revolution of 1917 with its attack on the family”https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09040114.html Dear LSN,  Thank you for publishing the summary of President Obama’s “accomplishments.” He’s done so much in such a short amount of time to advance the culture of death that I’m having a hard time keeping up with the facts. I will pass this on to my friends and family who remain enthralled by the Presidents’ charisma and refuse to learn about what “change” is actually accomplishing. Please post another summary of the next 50 days. Thanks A. ColomerCambridge, […]
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Leaked: ND Prez Comment on USCCB Document Prohibiting Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has obtained a copy of University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins’ commentary on the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) document, “Catholics in the Political Life,” which was sent to Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees at the beginning of this month. In the commentary Jenkins explains how he believes that the university’s invitation of President Obama to be this year’s commencement speaker and receive an honorary law degree is in keeping with the “letter and the spirit” of the recommendations included in the USCCB document. The USCCB issued […]
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Four More Makes 29 Bishops, 10 Holy Cross Priests Condemn ND Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of priests with the Congregation of the Holy Cross (C.S.C.), the religious order that runs the University of Notre Dame, and four more U.S. bishops have issued their condemnation of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Obama with an honorary law degree and an invitation to speak at the school’s May 17 commencement.  Ten Holy Cross priests and Notre Dame alumni wrote a letter concerning the scandal to the University’s Observer newspaper yesterday, requesting that fellow C.S.C. member and University president Fr. John Jenkins “revisit this matter immediately” […]
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Canadian Conference of Bishops Says Two Bishops Will Lead Investigation into D&P Mexican Partners

April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following is a press release issued today by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the reports initiated by LifeSiteNews.com that Development and Peace, the official development arm of the bishops’ conference, has been funding pro-abortion groups in Mexico.  While the original LifeSiteNews.com report mentioned only groups in Mexico, later reports have found evidence for D&P funding of pro-abortion and pro-contraception groups throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The text of the press release is as follows: The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has asked two Bishops to lead a committee of inquiry […]
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Notre Dame’s Bishop on Obama’s Pro-Abortion Views: “No One Is Allowed to Say Who Sits at Table of Li

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop John D’Arcy, whose diocese includes the University of Notre Dame, has broken weeks of silence since his initial statement about the school’s decision to honor President Obama. Notre Dame touched off a firestorm of controversy after it was announced March 20 that President Obama would give the school’s commencement address and receive an honorary law degree May 17.  D’Arcy issued a statement after the scandal broke, condemning the move and announcing his intention to boycott the university.  29 U.S. bishops have condemned the invitation so […]
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Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru Calls Pro-Abortion Forces “Traitors”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LIMA, April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru denounced pro-abortion forces as “traitors” in a homily last Sunday in the cathedral of the diocese. “Human rights are often spoken of, but who defends the most defenseless one who is still within the womb of the mother?” Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani asked the crowd that had packed the cathedral. “We don’t want to participate in this parade of traitors, because although they might be powerful throughout the world, they are a parade of traitors.  They don’t defend the family, nor life, nor peace, […]
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Unlike Development and Peace, U.S. Bishops Development Arm Has Strong Pro-Life Policies

By John Jalsevac April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In stark contrast to the Canadian bishops’ official international development arm, Development and Peace (D&P), the United States bishops’ official international development arm, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), has put in place and closely follows strict pro-life policies that ensure that it is not funding pro-abortion or pro-contraception organizations. Recently, LSN spoke with CRS senior communications manager Tom Price, after LSN discovered that an NGO that is currently lobbying the East Timorese government to legalize abortion was listed as a “partner” on CRS’s website. Price investigated the situation and reported that the information […]
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Hate Crime Charge Filed over Verbal Assault against Pro-Lifers: “Ni**er! You are a worthless degenerate Ni**er.”

Friday April 3, 2009 Hate Crime Charge Filed over Verbal Assault against Pro-Lifers: “Ni**er! You are a worthless degenerate Ni**er.” CHICAGO, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, April 3, 2009, The Thomas More Society filed a Hate Crime charge in an Amended Federal Civil Complaint against an abortion clinic proprietor and ally in Rockford, Illinois as part of an ongoing court battle. On March 29, 2008, Rockford resident Keith A. Sterkeson verbally attacked pro-life advocates Eric Nelson and Kevin Rilott outside a Rockford abortion facility, saying to Nelson, in part, “A Nigger, a Nigger. You are a worthless degenerate […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for April 8, 2009

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia –  MUST SEE two part videohttps://www.shininglamp.com/page2.html Dr. Oz to Oprah and Michael J Fox: “The stem cell debate is dead.” Video of Oprah program. Another MUST SEE videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFJOzu9SyM LIFE ISSUES White House confirms it got 2 million red envelopes – President’s mail worker claims letter campaign 1 of largest in 35 yearshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94142 Pro-life float blocked from parade – For 25 years, […]
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Scranton Colleges Deny Distributing Contraceptives in Response to Bishops’ Inquiry

By Kathleen Gilbert SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Four Scranton-area Catholic colleges have told Bishop Joseph F. Martino and Auxiliary Bishop John M. Dougherty that their campuses do not provide contraception, after the bishops had asked the schools to provide information on their student health services to assure that they do not practice anything in violation of Catholic teaching. A letter dated yesterday and signed by the schools’ four presidents – King’s College president Fr. Thomas J. O’Hara; Marywood University president Sr. Anne Munley; Misericordia president Michael A. MacDowell; and University of Scranton president Scott R. Pilarz – told […]
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Student Producers Cancel Notre Dame Performances of ‘Vagina Monologues’

April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Student producers of The Vagina Monologues at the University of Notre Dame decided to cancel 2009 performances of the often criticized, verbally pornographic play, the student newspaper The Observer reports.  Both Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop D’Arcy and the Catholic education watchdog organization, The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), have been highly critical of Notre Dame administrators for past productions of the play. “It is wonderful news that Notre Dame students will not host the Monologues this year,” said Patrick J. Reilly, president of The Cardinal Newman Society. “Students at Catholic colleges and universities ought to seek ways […]
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Baby Named Faith Defies Doctor’s Predictions for Anencephaly and Thrives 6 Weeks after Birth

By Hilary White MONCTON, Canada, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 23 year-old single mother named Myah Walker has created a blog to record the first weeks of the life of her newborn daughter. Faith Hope Walker was born a little over six weeks ago and her mother’s blog features photos and videos of the child whom doctors predicted would not live more than a few minutes or hours after birth. Myah, a single mother and student living in Moncton, New Brunswick, writes that when she was 19 weeks pregnant, doctors told her that the child suffered from anencephaly, that […]
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Honduras Passes Law Prohibiting Abortifacient “Emergency Contraception”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman TEGUCIGALPA, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Honduran National Congress has passed a law banning the sale of so-called “emergency contraception” which in fact causes abortions as well as preventing pregnancy, according to local news reports. Also known as the “morning after pill,” the drug contains a hormone that, if received after a new human life has been created, prevents it from attaching to the uterine wall, resulting in its death soon afterward.  It is washed out in the following period. Although opponents of the bill tried to claim that the drug does not cause abortions, […]
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Practice of Obstetrics will “Suffer” with Obama Abolition of Conscience Protections: Obstetricians G

By Hilary White April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An international group of obstetricians and gynaecologists has formally protested plans by the US government to rescind legislation protecting the rights of conscience of doctors to refuse to participate in abortions. Dr. Robert Walley, head of MaterCare International, has warned that the practice of obstetrics in the US “will suffer” should the plans go ahead. The proposal, he writes, “is an attack on an inalienable right” and will usher in a “form of totalitarianism” that amounts to “discrimination and persecution.”  In an open letter, Dr. Walley wrote, “By interfering in the freedom […]
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Eastern Michigan University Ousts Student for Not Affirming Homosexual Behavior

DETROIT, Michigan, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom filed a lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University Thursday after school officials dismissed a student from the school’s counseling program for not affirming homosexual behavior as morally acceptable. The school dismissed Julea Ward from the program because she would not agree prior to a counseling session to affirm a client’s homosexual behavior and would not retract her stance in subsequent disciplinary proceedings. “Christian students shouldn’t be penalized for holding to their beliefs,” said ADF Senior Counsel David French. “When a public university has a […]
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Calgary Catholic Teachers Association Pulls Support For Condom-Promoting Stephen Lewis Foundation

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CALGARY, Alberta, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Calgary Catholic Teachers’ Association has decided to follow the guidance of its bishop and stop directing its Lenten fund-raising efforts to the Stephen Lewis Foundation, one of the world’s most prominent promoters of the condom doctrines of the international AIDS organizations. For the past several years Calgary Catholic teachers have been raising money during Lent to support the Lewis Foundation’s AIDS work in sub-Saharan Africa. The Stephen Lewis Foundation has been especially targeting Uganda, which had been very successful in combating AIDS with its indigenous “ABC” AIDS/HIV programs. […]
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Commentary on April 7 News Reports

Dear readers, If there was not yet enough information to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Development and Peace, the official international development arm of the Canadian Bishops Conference, is supporting pro- abortion groups, take a look at today’s coverage.  A group in East Timor funded by D&P has been battling the East Timor Bishops on  legalizing abortion. Another sad day for the United States as Vermont has legalized homosexual ‘marriage’, overriding the Governor’s veto of the original legislation. On the bright side, more US Bishops have spoken out against the scandal of President Obama being given an […]
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Bishop Listecki of La Crosse Diocese is 25th to Speak Out on Notre Dame: “Rescind the Invitation”

By Kathleen Gilbert LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Jerome Listecki of the diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, published a statement on the diocesan website today condemning the University of Notre Dame’s recent invitation to President Obama to offer the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree. “The University of Notre Dame recently invited President Obama to give this spring’s commencement address and to receive an honorary degree in law,” wrote Listecki.  “This invitation was extended in spite of President Obama’s continual offenses against the sanctity of human life through his executive actions and appointments since […]
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Revealed: Obama Commencement Talking Points for University of Notre Dame Trustees

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has obtained a copy of the talking points distributed by the University of Notre Dame to its Board of Trustees to respond to the rash of criticism the school faces from Catholic bishops, leaders, laypeople, and Notre Dame alumni concerning its invitation of President Obama to be this year’s commencement speaker. An outcry erupted immediately after the school announced, and the White House accepted, an invitation to President Obama to offer the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree May 17 (To sign a petition against the […]
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Seven More U.S. Bishops Make 24 Against Notre Dame Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seven more bishops have publicly spoken out against the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to President Barack Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree on May 17. In total 24 U.S. bishops have condemned the scandal . LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) today obtained Bishop William Higi’s statement in Sunday’s print edition of The Catholic Moment, the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Lafayette, IN. “Many people, including myself, who consider the University of Notre Dame the prestigious Catholic university in the United States, are most upset […]
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Vermont Overturns Veto, Fourth State to Recognize Gay “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert MONTPELIER, Vermont, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vermont’s House of Representatives accrued just enough votes earlier today to overturn Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of Vermont’s same-sex “marriage” bill.  The vote made Vermont the fourth U.S. state to extend the legal definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, days after Iowa’s Supreme Court imposed same-sex “marriage” in the Midwest.  The Senate voted 23-5 to overturn the veto, and the House voted 100-49, achieving the two-thirds majority needed to push the new definition of marriage as “the legally recognized union of two people” into law. Gov. Douglas had vetoed […]
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IRONY: NGO Funded by Canadian Bishops’ D&P Battles East Timor Bishops over Abortion

By John Jalsevac East Timor, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) has learned that a pro-abortion NGO that is going head-to-head with East Timor’s Catholic bishops in an effort to legalize abortion in the strongly Catholic country, is funded by the Canadian Catholic bishop’s official development arm, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P). Early last month the second International Women for Peace conference took place in East Timor, a country where upwards of 95% of residents are Catholic. At the conclusion of the conference, participants produced a list of recommendations, including one that said that abortion […]
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135-City 40 Days For Life Campaign Ends; Many Communities Eager to Keep Going

WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “If there’s a main theme I’m hearing from the tens of thousands of participants around the country at the completion of this spring’s 40 Days for Life campaign, it’s ‘We don’t want to stop!’” said Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life’s spring campaign director. “People have witnessed first-hand that a prayerful presence outside abortion facilities saves lives, and they know they will see additional results by continuing their vigils.” From February 25 to April 5, 135 cities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Northern Ireland joined together for the 40 Days for Life […]
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Ecuadorian Government Approves Abortion Drug, Despite Promises to Protect Right to Life

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman QUITO, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The administration of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has approved the use of abortifacient “emergency contraception,” despite his claim that the country’s new constitution would prohibit abortion. According to the National Network of Prolife and Profamily Organizations, the Correa administration’s Minister of Health has approved the sale and use of levonogestrel, a drug that prevents a newly conceived human life from implanting in the uterine wall of the mother.  The result is starvation and death. “Mr. President of the Republic of Ecuador, keep your word to be pro-life, fire the health […]
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Vermont House Approves Same-Sex “Marriage” Bill, Backers Seek Votes to Override Veto

By Kathleen Gilbert MONTPELIER, Vermont, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vermont’s House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage” Friday, and now the bill’s backers are scrambling to gather enough votes in the House to overturn the governor’s promised veto. House lawmakers passed the bill 95-52, a few votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed in both chambers to overturn Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto.  The Senate is expected to concur with a few minor changes in the House version of the bill, which redefines marriage as “the legally recognized union of two people.” Political leaders on […]
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Last Chance to Ask Obama Administration to Retain Conscience Protections for Pro-Life Doctors

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the period for public comment draws to a close this week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as other prominent pro-life leaders, are calling on religious Americans and all men of good will to flood Washington with petitions to retain regulations protecting healthcare workers’ conscience rights. The public comment period will end 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, thirty days after President Obama formally announced his intention to rescind the Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations in the Federal Register.  A source within the HHS has told […]
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Iowa Marriage Defenders Push for Marriage Amendment, Decry Foul Play in Activist Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert DES MOINES, Iowa, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Friday morning to overturn state law protecting marriage as between a man and a woman, true marriage defenders are urging Iowa lawmakers to allow citizens to vote on a marriage-protecting constitutional amendment.  Homosexualist activists are also drawing ire for continuing to appeal to judges to subvert existing laws with activist rulings.  In addition, pro-family advocates elsewhere are calling for a renewed effort to protect vulnerable marriage law in other states that may fall to Iowa’s fate. All seven judges on Iowa’s Supreme […]
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Hundreds of Students Rally in Prayer to End Notre Dame Obama Scandal on Palm Sunday

By Kathleen Gilbert NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Palm Sunday, 400 students, faculty and others participated in a prayer rally at the University of Notre Dame to end the scandal of honoring President Obama at commencement.   The University of Notre Dame student-formed coalition, Notre Dame Response, announced their plans last Tuesday for the first public demonstration in front of the famous “golden dome” Main Building on campus to take place on Palm Sunday.  Events in the prayer rally included an invocation, speeches, a Rosary, and a procession with flowers to the Grotto of Our Lady of […]
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Canadian Archbishop: ‘Early Induction’ on Babies with Lethal Fetal Anomaly is “Direct Abortion”

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The scandal of Catholic priests advising expectant mothers, whose babies are diagnosed with lethal fetal anomalies, that having an early induction in such cases is not opposed to Catholic teaching, is not new.  The problem was already apparent in 2002, and denounced then by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast in a column in The Catholic Register. The issue came to the fore recently after LifeSiteNews.com published an exposé of such recommendations and procedures at St. Joseph’s Catholic hospital in London Ontario.  Fr. Michael Prieur, the ethical director at the hospital, is responsible for the practice and believes […]
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Illinois Judges Upholds Pharmacists’ Conscience Rights

By Kathleen Gilbert SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Sangamon county judge has temporarily barred the Governor of Illinois and other state officials from enforcing a 2005 executive order requiring all pharmacists to dispense the abortifacient morning-after pill.  The temporary restraining order comes as part of ongoing litigation to protect the conscience rights of Illinois pharmacists. In issuing the order, Judge John Belz found that the 2005 order issued by then-Governor Rod Blagojevich posed a real threat to pharmacists with religious objections to selling the abortifacient drug. The judge said that Luke VanderBleek and Glenn Kosirog, two Illinois […]
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North Dakota Personhood Bill Defeated in Senate, Informed Consent and Ultrasound Bills Pass

By Kathleen Gilbert BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday the North Dakota Senate voted down a bill that would have granted personhood status to human beings from the moment of conception, but passed two informed consent bills with strong support. Senate lawmakers voted down the personhood bill by a 29-16 margin after it had passed the state House in mid-February.  House Bill 1572 would have defined a “person” in law as including “a human being includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens,” and thus afforded unborn children full legal protection. Four days before the […]
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Letters to the Editor April 4, 2009 – Obama/Notre Dame, Development & Peace

Re: ND/Obama affair I note that in your stories on the ND affair you refer readers to the fine Cardinal Newman site and petition. Its stunning success is a source of wonder and praise. I’m not sure if you’ve taken note of the petition and materials of the unofficial alumni association, Project Sycamore, www.projectsycamore.com, which was organized several years ago in the wake of the startling decision by Fr. Jenkins to authorize the student production of The Vagina Monologues. While our focus has been on alumni and other members of the extended Notre Dame family, we urge everyone concerned with […]
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Mexican Bishop Braves Attacks by Pro-Abortion and Homosexualist Groups After Issuing “Ten Electoral

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman CUERNAVACA, MEXICO, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishop of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos, Mexico is standing his ground in the face of heavy opposition against his “Ten Electoral Commandments,” which state that Catholics should not vote for parties favoring the legalization of abortion, homosexual unions, euthanasia, and pornography, among other policies. Bishop Florencio Olvera is distributing a pamphlet to all of the parishes of the diocese which  contains the “commandments” as well as principles to follow in deciding on whom to vote for in Mexico’s coming mid-term elections. Although Olvera does not […]
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Senate Committee Silent on Sebelius Abortion Ties as Full Senate Vote is Delayed

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The full senate vote on the confirmation of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as head of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be delayed for two weeks, after the second Senate confirmation hearing Thursday failed to question the governor on her pro-abortion record, or her controversial ties to the abortion industry. At least one Republican senator has objected to a quick vote on the Senate floor on the Sebelius nomination, leaving the decision up in the air for another two weeks, before the Senate returns from recess.  It […]
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Senate Amendment to Protect Conscience Rights Defeated

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday an amendment introduced into the Senate by Sen. Tom Coburn to protect the conscience of patients and health care providers was defeated by a vote of 56-41. The amendment was proposed in light of the Obama administration’s plans to rescind the rule, which was issued in December by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that protects the right of health care workers at federally-funded facilities to refuse to perform or be involved in medical procedures that violate their consciences.  Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a […]
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Q&A: Upset About Obama at Notre Dame? Why Didn’t You Complain About the Bush Invite?

Commentary by Dr. Paul Kengor April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This May, Notre Dame University will host President Barack Obama to inspire its graduates as they are sent into the world. Obama will be awarded an honorary degree. For the record, this will be a direct violation of the American bishops’ 2004 declaration that Catholic colleges should not give “awards, honors or platforms” to pro-choice politicians. Of course, the abortion issue is the crux of the controversy. Many Catholics, including as high up as bishops, are protesting the invitation, and some are boycotting the ceremony. Many pro-life Protestants are likewise unhappy. This […]
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Hate Crime Charge Filed over Verbal Assault against Pro-Lifers: “Ni**er! You are a worthless degener

CHICAGO, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, April 3, 2009, The Thomas More Society filed a Hate Crime charge in an Amended Federal Civil Complaint against an abortion clinic proprietor and ally in Rockford, Illinois as part of an ongoing court battle. On March 29, 2008, Rockford resident Keith A. Sterkeson verbally attacked pro-life advocates Eric Nelson and Kevin Rilott outside a Rockford abortion facility, saying to Nelson, in part, “A Nigger, a Nigger. You are a worthless degenerate Nigger. Oh, you are a Nigger! You are a degenerate and empty skull, thinking Jesus is going to save you. You’re […]
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Pro-Abortion Journalist Chris Matthews to Offer Commencement Address at Catholic St. Joseph’s Univer

By Kathleen Gilbert PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Undeterred by the Notre Dame scandal, another Catholic University has invited a pro-abortion celebrity to address the school and receive an honorary degree at this year’s graduation ceremony. St Joseph’s University of Philadelphia announced in March that political commentator Chris Matthews, a vocal proponent of abortion, is due to offer the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate in communications at the 2009 Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 16. Despite his avowed identity as a Roman Catholic, Matthews is known for his strong support of legalized abortion. Matthews recently sparked […]
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Campaign Life Coalition Pro-Life Petition Drive Gathers Momentum – Download Petition Forms Here

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the lead up to the landmark 2009 March for Life in Ottawa, which mourns the 40th anniversary of abortion in Canada, Campaign Life Coalition has undertaken a petition drive calling for legal protection of human life from the moment of conception to natural death. Organizers of the pro-life petition drive say they hope that the many thousands of pro-life Canadians that will attend this year’s annual March for Life in Ottawa, and those that may not be able to make it, will download the petition (available here: https://campaignlifecoalition.com/images/OSM09petition.pdf) and gather as […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for April 3

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Yes, this is a long list of news items but we stress many of them are of historical significance. In the past few months there have been more momentous developments related to the issues covered by LifeSiteNews than we have seen since our founding in 1997 and even since many of us became actively involved in the life and family movements over the past 30 or more […]
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UN Development Agencies see Human Population as “Hindrance” to Advancement: Vatican Spokesman

By Hilary White NEW YORK, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vatican spokesman told the UN on Wednesday that viewing population growth as a “hindrance” to social and economic development is a costly mistake, and one that is redirecting the work of the UN away from actually helping the poor. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the head of the Vatican’s mission to the United Nations, said that the preparatory documents for the latest session of the Commission on Population and Development, give the “impression” that the Commission is “giving priority to population control and getting the poor to accept these arrangements rather […]
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Pastor Jailed for Pro-Life Witness Writes Letter from Prison to “Men of the Cloth”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OAKLAND, California, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “It is Thursday, March 26th, 2009 and I am sitting on the top of the second of fifteen bunks in housing unit thirty-four east of the Santa Rita jail in Dublin, California,” begins a recent letter from Oakland pastor Walter Hoye, who was sent to jail on March 23 for peacefully counseling and picketing at a local abortion facility. Hoye was ordered to serve 30 days in county jail by Judge Stuart Hing of the Alameda Superior Court, who found him guilty of unlawfully approaching two persons entering an […]
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Catholics no Different on Abortion, Embryo Research but More Liberal on Homosexuality than Non-Catho

By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic social teaching on the death penalty has had some impact on American Catholics, leaving bishops with the task of urging their congregations away from the mainstream on topics such as abortion and embryo research, according to a Gallup data survey released Monday. The new Gallup analysis, based on aggregated data from Gallup’s 2006-2008 Values and Beliefs surveys, indicates that despite the Roman Catholic Church’s strong opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, there is almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholics in terms of finding […]
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Iowa Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert DES MOINES, Iowa, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Iowa state Supreme Court this morning ruled unanimously to extend the legal definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. The summary of the judges’ decision states that the traditional definition of marriage in Iowa law “violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution.” “We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective,” states the Court.  “The legislature has excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution […]
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Cardinal Ratzinger’s Preface to Michel Schooyans Book, “The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder”

Wednesday January 7, 2009 Cardinal Ratzinger’s Preface to Michel Schooyans Book, “The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder” By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger From the very beginning of the Enlightenment, belief in progress has always set Christian eschatology aside and eventually replaced it entirely. Happiness is no longer anticipated in the afterlife but rather in this world. The attitude of Albert Camus, who resolutely opposes to Christ’s words “my kingdom is not of this world, his affirmation that “my kingdom is of this world,” is emblematic of modern man’s disposition.. If in the last century belief in progress was still a generic optimism […]
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Portuguese Bishop Defies Pope Benedict on Condoms

Tuesday March 31, 2009 Portuguese Bishop Defies Pope Benedict on Condoms By Hilary White ROME, March 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict continues to be attacked from within and without the Catholic Church for his reiteration of the Church’s opposition to condoms as a means of preventing HIV infection. Most recently, a Portuguese Catholic bishop issued a statement to the media this weekend saying that in some cases using condoms is a moral requirement. In a pastoral note, published on the website of the diocese, Ilidio Leandro, the Bishop of Viseu said that he does not agree with Pope Benedict’s […]
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Commentary on April 2 News

Dear Readers, Some very important stories today. The Notre Dame controversy is intensifying. Our exclusive interview with the president of Notre Dame’s religious superior in Rome is, shall we say, interesting. Bishop Doran hits the nail on the head for many critics of the Notre Dame invite and honorary degree for “Abortion President” Obama. The poor Episcopalian Church. How much further from Christianity can they really go and still call themselves a Christian Church? Another revelation today about the infamous Brazilian abortion. Three United Nations stories reveal the coming very negative influence of the Obama administration on world affairs. And […]
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Letters to the Editor – Notre Dame and Development and Peace Controversies

RE: The Notre Dame/Barack Obama controversy We wanted to let Ms. Gilbert know she did a great job with her article on Cardinal George and Notre Dame.  We have linked to it on the Chatterbox section of our website. Susan A. FaniDirector of CommunicationsCatholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, United States_____________________ Dear Editor, Unlike many Catholics I’m not impressed w/ 15 Bishops expressing their dismay that Obama has been invited to Notre Dame (ND).  Their job, which somewhere down the road they forgot, is to protect the Church.   According to Cardinal George, “Whatever else is clear, it is clear […]
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Mother Who Gave Permission for Abortion on Nine Year Old Daughter Indicted for Negligence in Daughte

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL, April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of a nine-year-old girl who consented to her abortion against the will of the girl’s father, has been indicted for negligence in the sexual abuse committed against her child, according to reports in the Brazilian media. The woman, whose name has been revealed by the Brazilian media as Esmeralda Aparecida, denies that she knew that her husband, the stepfather of the girls, was abusing them.  “He always treated them very well, I wouldn’t have noticed that the situation was bad,” she reportedly told the police. Antonio Luiz […]
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New UN Policy Paper on Population Called “Neo-Malthusian” and “Statist”

By Austin Ruse    WASHINGTON, DC, April 2, 2009 (C-FAM) – On the eve of the annual UN Commission on the Population and Development, the UN Population Division (UNPD) issued a policy brief calling for heightened governmental action on fertility reduction in the 49 countries the UN General Assembly calls the “least developed.” The paper – “What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?” -complains that, “Fast population growth, fueled by high fertility, hinders the reduction of poverty and the achievement of other internationally agreed development goads.” The unnamed authors report that, “the fertility of developing […]
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Texas Governor Proclaims April as Abortion Recovery Awareness Month

DALLAS, Texas, April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas Governor Rick Perry has proclaimed April as Abortion Recovery Awareness Month. In a statement released in late March, the governor stated, “Ending a pregnancy through abortion interrupts the natural birth process and creates significant trauma and stress for those involved in the pregnancy.  An abortion is a tragic ending, not only because of the loss of a life, but also because of the physical and psychological trauma caused by the procedure itself.  This often leads to lasting emotional and mental health problems for the mother, father and other involved family members.  Peer-reviewed […]
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“Abortion is a Blessing”: US Episcopalian Lesbian Minister Appointed to Head Prestigious Seminary

By Hilary White April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, an openly lesbian minister in the American Episcopal Church, has caused a stir on the internet with a sermon, posted to her weblog, in which she called abortion a “blessing” and called for the suppression of rights of conscience for health care workers. In her sermon, titled, “Our Work is Not Done,” she wrote that there should be no restrictions whatever on abortion: “If we were to find that, while we were here, Congress had acted to insure that abortion would always be legal, that would be a very […]
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Prominent Canon Law Prof Contrasts Archbishops Wuerl and Burke on Communion for Pro-Abort Politician

Commentary by Ed Peters, Canon Lawyer April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I often tell my students, the answer to a canonical question is seldom found in a single canon. Two prominent American prelates, Abp. Donald Wuerl of Washington DC and Abp. Raymond Burke of the Apostolic Signatura, are the lead figures in a significant disagreement over admitting certain pro-abortion Catholic politicians to Holy Communion. Wuerl basically believes that, under Canon 916, Catholics, including pro-abortion politicians, should determine their own eligibility for reception of Communion. Burke argues that, beyond Canon 916, Canon 915 requires ministers of Holy Communion to withhold the […]
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For Republicans, the Elusive Promised Land Shrinks in the Rearview Mirror with Every “Centrist” Capi

 Commentary by J. Matt Barber April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, they rebelled against God and were made to wander aimlessly in the desert for 40 years on a needlessly roundabout journey to the Promised Land. God kept the coveted prize out of reach until that rebellious generation passed.   Today we find an improvident Republican Party lost in the political wilderness. As the GOP seeks to find its own Promised Land – a return to majority leadership – it has, to its own detriment, rebelled against the core conservative principles solemnized within its own […]
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Sweden Legalizes Homosexual “Marriage”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski STOCKHOLM, April 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to legalize same-sex “marriage,” making it the fifth EU member country, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Norway, to recognize “gender-neutral marriage,” and joining Canada, South Africa and some US states in giving in to the homosexual agenda. The law was passed by 261 votes to 22, with 66 abstaining or absent, and will come into force on the first day of May. The new legislation repeals a 1987 law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. “The decision means […]
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U.N.’s Top AIDS Envoy Forgets Diplomacy in Demonizing U.S. Abstinence First Strategy

Friday July 16, 2004 U.N.’s Top AIDS Envoy Forgets Diplomacy in Demonizing U.S. Abstinence First Strategy BANGKOK, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International AIDS Conference in Bangkok is in an uproar. While overpopulated with pro-condom ideologues, it is hearing from Uganda, the only African nation that has dramatically reversed the epidemic, on why condom use is a very distant third add-on to their successful ABC program of promotion of abstinence before marriage and being faithful during marriage. However, rather than slamming the Ugandan delegation at the conference which included the Ugandan President, the anger of the pro-condom activists has […]
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Archbishop: No Reason to Rejoice in Having Pro-Abort “Catholic” Sebelius as HHS Head

By Tim Waggoner KANSAS CITY, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent interview with Catholic Action, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City addressed the recent appointment of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), warning of the potential for her and other Catholic pro-abortion politicians to lead members of the faith community astray. As a member of his diocese, Gov. Sebelius, one of the nation’s most pro-abortion politicians, has in the past repeatedly disobeyed Archbishop Nauman’s requests that she refrain from receiving Holy Communion. Archbishop Nauman recounted how last year he had not intended […]
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World Renowned Canadian Novelist Michael O’Brien Warns about Globalization and New World Order

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an extensively researched article, ‘Globalization and the New World Order,’ which has been reproduced widely during the past week, the well-known Canadian author, Michael D. O’Brien, discusses recent developments in globalization and what they may portend for the future. (To read the complete article see: www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009_docs/GlobalizationFinal.pdf) O’Brien warns that the globalization we are currently experiencing has the unprecedented potential for bringing about a one-world government, with the subsequent dangers to individual and national freedoms. O’Brien cites the devastating effect of the E.U. and the U.N. on the “moral and psychological […]
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Two Archbishops Declare LSN Reports on Abortion-Advocacy Funding by D&P “Untrue,”“False” and “Malici

By John-Henry Westen WINNIPEG, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite mounting evidence, two Canadian Archbishops have declared the LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reports on the funding of numerous abortion advocacy groups by D&P around the globe to be false (See coverage of the D&P denials here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09033006.html). In a March 23rd letter to his archdiocese, James Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg and the current President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the accusations against D&P are “untrue.” “There have been public accusations made that Development and Peace is funding partners in Mexico and in Bolivia, partners who are involved in or supportive of abortion,” […]
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It’s in the Dictionary: Webster’s Includes Homosexual Partnerings in Definition of Marriage

By Hilary White MARCH 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the world’s most popular English language dictionaries has changed the definition of the word “marriage” to include same-sex partnerings. In a recent edition, the definition includes “the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary continues to give its first definition as “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law.” The online edition of Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary gives […]
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Terri Schiavo Remembered in Second Annual Terri’s Day Memorial Mass

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AVE MARIA, Florida, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the fourth anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s death by court-ordered dehydration, Priests for Life and Terri’s Foundation observed an “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters” (“Terri’s Day”). The day was commemorated with a special Mass at the Ave Maria Oratory on the campus of Ave Maria University. The two organizations established the day last year with the intention of fostering education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar […]
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Four More Bishops Make Thirteen Opposed to Notre Dame Obama Invitation

By John Jalsevac April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four more Catholic bishops have come out in opposition to the Catholic University of Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to be this year’s commencement speaker and to receive an honorary doctorate. The latest statements bring the total number of bishops who have publicly opposed the decision to thirteen (see list at bottom). In addition to the bishops, a petition launched by the Cardinal Newman Society in protest against the invitation has been signed by more than 225,000 individuals (To sign the petition, go to: www.notredamescandal.com) The four bishops who have […]
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NY’s Highest Court to Hear Appeal in Suits against Officials Who Attempted to Recognize Same-Sex “Ma

ALBANY, N.Y., April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, agreed Tuesday to hear two appeals filed by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund in lawsuits against officials who have attempted to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages” in contradiction to state law. “New York state and local officials shouldn’t recognize the laws of foreign jurisdictions when they conflict with state law,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum. “These officials have overstepped their authority in order to forward the agenda of special interest groups.” ADF attorneys are arguing in Lewis v. New York State […]
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“I Just Can’t Take it Any More”: Thanks to 40 Days for Life, Woman Wants Out of Abortion Business

Commentary by Shawn Carney, Spring Campaign Director, 40 Days for Life April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I won’t tell you where this is happening, but there is a woman we know of who’s pondering a career change. An abortion center employee has been talking to the 40 Days for Life prayer volunteers outside of her workplace – and she wants out! Her message was simple – she just couldn’t take it any longer. It was time to look for a new job. She asked the vigil participants to pray for her. She said she couldn’t simply quit her job, because she […]
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Notre Dame Student Coalition to Hold Prayer Rally in Response to Obama Scandal on Sunday

By John Jalsevac NOTRE DAME, IN, April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Notre Dame’s student-formed coalition, Notre Dame Response, has announced plans for its first official demonstration in response to the Obama scandal. The prayer rally will take place at 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 5, 2009 and will be held in front of the University’s Main Building following the noon Palm Sunday Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The student coalition was formed in response to the University’s announcement, earlier this month, of its selection of President Barack Obama as its 2009 Commencement speaker. The […]
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A Statement From Archbishop Daniel J Bohan on Development and Peace

March 25, 2009 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Over the past few days the integrity of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and peace has been called into question by accusations published by the website “LifeSite News.” The LifeSite article appeared under the headline: “Hundreds of Thousands in Canadian Lent Collection Money Funding Pro-Abortion Groups in Mexico” and went on to state that “… money, donated through the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP), is being given to at least five different pro-abortion groups, which the CCODP calls “partners”.” In response, the Executive Director of Development and […]
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