Articles for Month: May 2009

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PRINCETON, NJ, May 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Gallup poll released yesterday says that a majority of Americans continue to oppose giving homosexual unions the same status as natural marriage, and close to half believe that allowing legal same-sex “marriages” would change society for the worse. 57% of respondents to the poll said that “marriages between same-sex couples should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriage,” while only 40% supported homosexual “marriage.” The numbers indicated a rising trend of support for traditional marriage. In a similar poll 53% […]

The new Criminal Code would grant "personhood" to the unborn after 24 weeks

Supported nomination of extreme pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sibelius as Health Secretary

Brought over 150 students to the March for Life and Youth Conference

By John-Henry Westen   MONTREAL, May 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judie Brown, a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, has confirmed the accuracy of the LifeSiteNews.com revelations about the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P).  Brown, Founder and President of American Life League, the largest grassroots pro-life educational organization in the United States released a commentary today commenting on the scandal.  “In order to confirm any concerns we might have, since we knew that the CCODP was accusing LifeSiteNews of reporting false information, we engaged the services of a researcher to independently investigate the reports that have […]

by Theresa Gilbert OTTAWA, Ontario, May 28, 2009 (theInterim.com) – The 12th National March for Life took place on May 14, but more than 850 students were still going strong the next day at the Youth Conference organized by Campaign Life Coalition. As the buses unloaded and participant packages were given out, the organizers soon realized they had surpassed their expected number of attendees, making this the largest year yet.  As the students settled in for the day, the first session was introduced: “Canadian Politics: How to Get Life Issues on the Radar Screen.” They were greeted by Conservative MP […]

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dissatisfied with the recent ruling from the California Supreme Court on Proposition 8, the former rivals in the Bush v. Gore decision have joined together this time to urge a federal appeals court to nullify the Californian citizens' vote to ban same-sex “marriage.” Ted Olson and David Boies, who represented George Bush and Al Gore respectively in the landmark Supreme Court decision that put an end to the cycles of ballot recounts in Florida and effectively settled the 2000 presidential election, are asking a federal appeals court to forbid […]

By Alex Bush  UNITED KINGDOM, May 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. John Owen, a UK aide to the Archbishop of Cardiff, has come under fire from pro-homosexual groups for stating that most sexual abuse cases committed by clergy are “committed by homosexuals” on BBC1's Big Questions. The priest said that the majority of sexual abuse by clergy affected teenage boys, drawing criticism from other panelists on the show that he is “ill-informed, ignorant, corrupt and dishonest.” The topic of Big Questions was the 2,565 page tome that recently came out describing abuses committed in Irish schools, known as the Ryan Report. […]

Commentary by Judie Brown See Part I of this two part series. May 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The events in the Archdiocese of Boston that brought about the unbelievably bad news regarding the “joint venture” between Caritas Christi Health Care System and the Centene Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, continue to unfold at a fast and furious pace. In view of the public reports that Massachusetts regulators had approved a joint venture between the two entities in early March 2009, public expressions of alarm grew. Concerned Catholics could not help but see that this union would result in Caritas Christi being […]

Denounces plans to lower the age of consent for abortion to 16 years old