My interview on EWTN radio’s The Good Fight

Earlier this month I was interviewed by EWTN’s Barbara McGuigan on her program The Good Fight.  We ran through the story of my conversion and return to faith.  The interview begins 20 minutes into the program and lasts for the remainder of the 2-hour show.  Barbara, the fighter that she is, delved into the most controversial of topics… our greatest challenges at LifeSiteNews, how to deal with graphic abortion photos with your children, homosexuality, etc to download click here or click Here to listen to the mp3 stream
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The personhood debate: myopic vision v. recklessness, or pragmatism v. principle?

Time for a family discussion. The personhood debate has been a searing one, and I must confess that I tend to come down on the side of the personhood amendments. Folks have written to me from both sides of the aisle on this one, and I feel somewhat like a dazed and confused fish out of water. I’ll throw out my observations and take my lumps like a big boy. I ask but one favor… To those disappointed with the bishops, I ask that we stick to the facts and keep the tone civil. They are the Apostolic Successors, and […]
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Mother Teresa told me not just to pray, but to intervene to end abortion

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was called from this world on September 5, 1997. In my many conversations with her about the pro-life movement, it was very clear that she expected us not simply to pray but to intervene. She told me about how she went to the places where abortions were performed and took the women by the arm, away from that place of death and to her communities where they would find hope and life for themselves and their children. Help us to honor Mother Teresa by joining the special novena we have posted at priestsforlife.org. You will find […]
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74-Year-Old UK Pro-Lifer Jailed, Denied Health Care for Sending Abortion Pics to Hospital

74-Year-Old UK Pro-Lifer Jailed, Denied Health Care for Sending Abortion Pics to Hospital by LifeSiteNews.com by Gudrun Schultz and Hilary White NORFOLK, England, May 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man who sent graphic pictures of mutilated and aborted babies to staff and officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn was jailed for a month, given a five-year anti-social behaviour order, and threatened with five years incarceration if he disobeys the order. Atkinson was charged with “sending malicious communications” to the hospital. 74-year-old Edward Atkinson told the judge, “Then you may as well lock me up and throw away […]
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Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner

Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unlike gold and platinum, life does not have value in itself, a member of the House of Lords and a campaigner for assisted suicide said in a televised debate last week. Medical professionals need to change their attitude towards assisted suicide, to take into account the wishes of patients who request to die, said Baroness Mary Warnock, known in Britain as the “philosopher queen” of bioethics. “There is no moral justification why the opinions of judges, […]
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Infamous Catholic Nun Cites Virgin Mary as Support for Pro-Abortion Views

Infamous Catholic Nun Cites Virgin Mary as Support for Pro-Abortion Views by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman HINSDALE, IL, December 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sr. Donna Quinn of the Sinsinawa Dominican community, already notorious for volunteering as a clinic escort at a local abortion facility, has now come in out praise of the failure of the Nelson/Hatch/Casey amendment in the Senate, which would have restricted federal abortion funding. In addition, Quinn has described the Virgin Mary as “one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice.” On December 8, Sr. Quinn sent a thank-you note to those who […]
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US Bishops Approve New Blessing for the Child in the Womb

US Bishops Approve New Blessing for the Child in the Womb by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner BALTIMORE, November 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of a US election that saw the most pro-abortion president in the nation’s history take to the helm, US bishops are making a concerted effort to dam the pro-abortion tide. Affirming the sanctity of all human life has been a significant focus at the USCCB’s 2008 Fall General Assembly, with the latest initiative being a proposed blessing for the unborn. Although the results of the vote are yet to be released, a spokesperson for the […]
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On the Dianafication of Jack Layton

It seems some of the public and many establishment leaders have lost their marbles or, shall we say, common sense at the moment regarding the legacy of the personally likeable NDP leader Jack Layton.
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Commentary on August 25 news

Fascinating reports today: Lila Rose at WYD; Poland bill still very alive; Another PP manager become pro-life, Must see PRI video on Russia, Crossroads students had problems with Notre Dame Basilica last year as well.
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On convincing your public school to adopt abstinence programs

Yeah, I know it’s an oldie, but it sure is good….. I was holding a notice from my 13-year-old son’s school announcing a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could examine the curriculum and take part in an actual lesson presented exactly as it would be given to the students. When I arrived at the school, I was surprised to discover only about a dozen parents there. As we waited for the presentation, I thumbed through page after page of instructions in the prevention of pregnancy or disease. I found abstinence mentioned only in passing. When the […]
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New Film: Doctor Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who” to Raise Pro-Life Questions

New Film: Doctor Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who” to Raise Pro-Life Questions by LifeSiteNews.com By Elizabeth O’Brien LOS ANGELES, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new animated version of the well-known children’s book, “Horton Hears a Who,” may once again spark debate about the story’s pro-life interpretation when it is released next Spring. The 20th Century Fox production of the well-known children’s book, “Horton Hears a Who,” is a major production that will be in theatres on March 14, 2008. The film features the voice of Jim Carrey as the main character Horton and Steve Carell as the Mayor of […]
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Gianna Jessen to Sen. Obama’s Attacks: “I’ve Dealt with Worse – I’ve Survived an Abortion.”

Gianna Jessen to Sen. Obama’s Attacks: “I’ve Dealt with Worse – I’ve Survived an Abortion.” by LifeSiteNews.com CHICAGO, IL, October 30, 2008 (LifeSitenews.com) – BornAliveTruth.org released its second ad earlier this week featuring abortion survivor Gianna Jessen responding to Senator Barack Obama’s direct attack on her (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fLxy4qQeU). BornAliveTruth says that Obama’s response spot to the original Gianna ad was filled with false and misleading distortions about Gianna Jessen and Obama’s own voting record against born alive infant protections. “Senator Obama had the audacity to go after Gianna Jessen, born alive after a failed abortion, and call her and the ad […]
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Is rise in theft of euthanasia drugs from veterinary hospitals related to euthanasia activists?

A news report published in the Marinscope Community Newspapers is warning the local residents of a cache of drugs that were stolen from a local veterinary hospital. The article, written by Joe Wolfcale and titled: Police warn residents of dangerous drugs stolen from vet hospital states that: San Anselmo police have issued a warning to residents to be on the lookout for a dangerous cache of drugs stolen from a San Anselmo veterinary hospital early Tuesday, Aug. 23. An employee of the Ross Valley Veterinary Hospital… discovered the back door unlocked and several controlled substances had been stolen from a […]
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Court Protects California Woman from Schiavo-like Death by Dehydration

Court Protects California Woman from Schiavo-like Death by Dehydration by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac FRESNO, Calif., July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a hearing today in the Fresno County Superior Court, the family of patient Janet Rivera was reinstated as her conservator. The Court ruled that Ms. Rivera’s cousin, Suzanne Emrich, temporarily replaces the public guardian who made the decision a few weeks ago to deprive Ms. Rivera of food and water. Rivera has been in coma for the past two years, resulting from a heart attack. After Rivera’s husband recently experienced medical problems, a Fresno County Public Guardian was […]
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Incredible video: Woman raped by 8 men urges girls to choose life as she did

A pro-life woman has uploaded the beautiful testimony of her mother who chose to keep her after she was conceived in rape 50 years ago. The mother, Ann Phillips, tells how she was gang-raped by eight men in 1956 as she was on the way home from seeing Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments. When she found out three months later that she was pregnant, her parents wanted her to abort the child.  But, she says, “I didn’t believe in destroying her, so I had her and they forced me to give her up.” Several years ago her daughter looked her […]
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Commentary on August 23 news

Last and most difficult Governor Perry article; Biden blind to evil; IVF and a voice in the wilderness; This is not rocket science regarding the cost of divorce; Archbishop Tobin downplaying severity of nuns problem.
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Dr. Death Kevorkian to Run for Congress

Dr. Death Kevorkian to Run for Congress by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski DETROIT, March 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Infamous euthanasia activist Dr. Jack Kevorkian has announced that he plans to run for US Congress as an independent in Michigan’s 9th congressional district. “We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington,” Kevorkian told the Oakland Press, his local Michigan newspaper. In order to be placed on the ballot, Kevorkian will need to obtain 3,000 signatures. Nicknamed Doctor Death for his boast of helping at least 130 people – many of whom had no diagnosed physical illness, […]
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Pro-Life Group Asks Obama Why He Supports Removing All “Common Sense” Restrictions on Abortion

Pro-Life Group Asks Obama Why He Supports Removing All “Common Sense” Restrictions on Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Jonquil Frankham October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an open letter “on behalf of all Ohio parents,” American United for Life (AUL) asks Senator Barack Obama to explain his radical position on abortion, particularly regarding his promise immediately to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), should he be elected to the presidency. FOCA is a pro-abortion piece of legislation first introduced in the late 1980’s that has since received strong support from pro-abortion politicians such as Barbara Boxer and Hilary Clinton. AUL […]
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Kristof’s Error: Population Control is an Easy, but Wrong Solution

Kristof’s Error: Population Control is an Easy, but Wrong Solution by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Bryan Clowes, Research Manager, Human Life International October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nicholas Kristof’s entire article “Birth Control over Baldness” [New York Times, Sept. 25, 2010] is constructed around a single sentence: “It’s impossible to fight poverty effectively when birthrates are sky high.” His answer to this problem, of course, is the simplistic, short-sighted and dangerous solution that many others seem to endorse: Put everyone on birth control. He thus falls into the pit occupied by so many others – the fallacy that complex social problems […]
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Future of Anglican Communion Resides with Global South Bishops and Christian Orthodoxy: GAFCON

Future of Anglican Communion Resides with Global South Bishops and Christian Orthodoxy: GAFCON by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, September 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There is no turning back from “Anglican Realignment” and the future of the Anglican Church lies with Christian orthodoxy, say leaders of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), the group that formed in response to the growing pro-homosexualist dissent in the Anglican Communion. GAFCON has issued a statement following a meeting in London where they examined the results of this summer’s Lambeth Conference. The GAFCON leadership have made it clear that the breakup of the Anglican […]
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Bart Stupak’s Seat Goes to Pro-Life GOP Physician

Bart Stupak’s Seat Goes to Pro-Life GOP Physician by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith LANSING, Michigan, November 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life physician Dan Benishek (R) has seized the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, beating out his pro-life Democrat challenger. With 80 percent of precincts reporting, Benishek has taken 51 percent of the vote over Gary McDowell’s (D) 47 percent in Michigan’s 1st District. Stupak announced his retirement from Congress a month after exchanging his vote for the national health care reform law for an executive order from President Barack Obama that purports to ensure that public funds […]
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House Members: New Obama Admin. Rule Tramples Law, Enables Sex-Traffickers

House Members: New Obama Admin. Rule Tramples Law, Enables Sex-Traffickers by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of U.S. representatives are claiming that a new rule regarding HIV funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which becomes effective Thursday, undermines U.S. anti-sex trafficking and prostitution efforts. The representatives argue that the rule will open the floodgates of U.S. taxpayer money to organizations which participate in or deliberately ignore sex trafficking and prostitution. At a Thursday press conference, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), the author of a landmark U.S. anti-trafficking law and two subsequent anti-trafficking […]
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Mother to Face Contempt Charges for Refusing Custody of Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover

Mother to Face Contempt Charges for Refusing Custody of Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lisa Miller, a former lesbian who rejected the homosexual lifestyle and returned to her belief in Christ, will face contempt of court charges today for refusing to give unsupervised visitation of her daughter to her former lesbian partner. Miller, 40, told LifeSiteNews in a extensive recent interview that her six year old daughter, Isabella, has said that she would like to kill herself following an unsupervised visit, and has complained of being forced to bathe […]
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Summary of Obama Actions Against Life, Family, Faith in First 50 Days of Presidency

Summary of Obama Actions Against Life, Family, Faith in First 50 Days of Presidency by LifeSiteNews.com April 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Alphonse de Valk is the editor of Catholic Insight Magazine, a former university historian and a consummate archivist of articles and reports pertaining to life, family and religious issues over the past 40 years. In the April edition of Catholic Insight magazine Fr. DeValk presents this compendium of information gathered from a variety of Internet and other sources that together paints a picture of a president and his administration that should be of grave concern to all. See […]
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August 17 commentary

There will be a limited number of stories Thursday and likely none on Friday as LifeSiteNews staff travel from far and wide to our annual staff planning meeting. Awesome Laci Faith Lowell story, St. John Camntius flash mob video.
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Newark Abp. Rips Seton Hall Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Course

Newark Abp. Rips Seton Hall Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Course by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert NEWARK, New Jersey, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement released Friday, Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark slammed a proposed course on same-sex “marriage” to be offered at Seton Hall University by a homosexualist professor. Myers says that the course is “not in synch” with Catholic teaching, and that the university’s Board of Trustees has urged officials “to take whatever action is required under the law to protect the Catholicity of this university.” The university newspaper The Setonian reported earlier this month that W. King […]
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Mark Steyn “Not Guilty” of “Islamophobia”: Human Rights Commission

Mark Steyn “Not Guilty” of “Islamophobia”: Human Rights Commission by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac TORONTO (October 10, 2008) – The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal today handed down a not-guilty verdict in the case against Maclean’s magazine and its columnist Mark Steyn. Maclean’s and Steyn faced charges of “Islamophobia” in the wake of Maclean’s decision to republish an excerpt from Steyn’s best-selling book “America Alone.” In the excerpt Steyn argued that Europe, and Western post-Christian civilization on the whole, are experiencing a civilisational exhaustion that has led, in particular, to a demographic crisis. This demographic crisis, contended Steyn, exposes the […]
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Amazing pro-life short film just posted on Youtube. Absolute must watch. See it here!

Several years ago I wrote a review of an astonishingly powerful and beautiful pro-life short film created by two young brothers – who were only 20 and 23 years old at the time (You can read a fascinating “behind the scenes” article about the film here). The first-rate film was a final contender in the prestigious Doorpost film festival, which, alas it did not win. It places the same character in the context of American slavery, the Nazi holocaust, and modern abortion – to great effect. If you haven’t seen the film, it is now easier than ever to do […]
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The pro-life homily that rocked the world and caused 3 priests to be beheaded

Note: H/T to Deacon Greg Kandra who posted this earlier this month on the 70th Anniversary of this Homily. This comes from historyplace.com which has an excellent repository of historical speeches and commentary. This homily, slightly reworded for current leaders is a commentary for our present age. For distributing copies of this homily, the Nazis beheaded three priests, but left the Cardinal alone for fear of making him a martyr. See the link for additional commentary before and after the homily. Now, the commentary and homily: Commentary: This is an excerpt of the sermon by Catholic Cardinal Clemens von Galen, […]
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A simple way to promote the culture of life: memorize the phone # for the Option Line

Many people around the country are awakening to the tragedy of abortion and the need to join the pro-life movement. “What can I do to help?” is one of the questions I hear most frequently. One very important thing you can do is to memorize the phone number of the Option Line, at which people can find alternatives to abortion. The number is 1-800-395-HELP. Run jointly by Heartbeat International and Care Net, the largest networks of pregnancy centers, this hotline connects people with the alternatives closest to them. It’s 1-800-395-HELP. At some point you are going to be able to […]
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Alaska Gov. Palin Suggests Special Session for Failed Abortion Restriction Laws

Alaska Gov. Palin Suggests Special Session for Failed Abortion Restriction Laws by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot JUNEAU, Alaska, April 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After refusing to introduce two abortion restricting bills to a special session on a natural gas pipeline on Wednesday because of fears that the bills would not likely succeed, Governor Sarah Palin expressed her willingness to bring the legislation to separate sessions. House Bill 301 would forbid partial birth abortions, while House Bill 364 would require parental consent for women under 17 seeking abortion. Senate President Lyda Green called on Palin to incorporate the two bills into […]
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Heroic Mom Who Died of Cancer after Giving Birth “Cherished Motherhood”

Heroic Mom Who Died of Cancer after Giving Birth “Cherished Motherhood” by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PARSIPPANY, New York, January 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The obituary for Cathie Doroshenko, who died in her home on Sunday December 17, 2006, 3 ½ years after giving birth to her daughter Victoria Faith, said she “cherished motherhood” – a statement that was proved in a striking way by the unusual way she brought her daughter into the world. While Cathie died over three years ago, her story has been given fresh life by photojournalist Bob Karp, who documented Cathie’s pregnancy, illness, childbirth, […]
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Camden Bishop: Right to Life of Unborn Must be “First Concern” in Public Square

Camden Bishop: Right to Life of Unborn Must be “First Concern” in Public Square by LifeSiteNews.com October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Camden, has called on the Catholic people of the diocese to have the courage of their convictions and to give voice to their core beliefs in the public square. In a letter to the Catholic people of the diocese published in the October 3 edition of the Catholic Star Herald, the diocesan newspaper, Bishop Galante said that for Catholics, there can be no dichotomy between belief and their responsibility as […]
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Girl with Half Her Brain Missing Lives Normal Life: Researchers Amazed

Girl with Half Her Brain Missing Lives Normal Life: Researchers Amazed by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White July 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists are stunned to discover that a ten-year-old German girl’s brain has rewired itself to allow her to see out of one eye as though she has two, even though half of her brain tissue was entirely missing from birth. In a report published this week in the online version of the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Lars Muckli, a neuroscientist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, said, “Despite lacking one hemisphere, she’s capable […]
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“Suicide is a Human Right”: Dignitas Suicide Doctor

“Suicide is a Human Right”: Dignitas Suicide Doctor by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White SCHWERZENBACH, Switzerland, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a Swiss physician, suicide “is a human right” that must be accommodated by allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of sedatives, so that patients do not have to resort to more “brutal” methods. Alois Geiger wrote in the Times on Friday that he is one of three doctors who prescribe drugs to people who come to the legal “suicide clinic” Dignitas in Schwerzenbach, Switzerland (See: https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5007010.ece?print=yes&randnum=1225034954375). In his piece, entitled “Why I prescribe drugs for suicide,” Geiger wrote […]
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Removal of Food and Hydration from Italian Woman “Monstrous and Inhuman Murder”: Vatican Prelate

Removal of Food and Hydration from Italian Woman “Monstrous and Inhuman Murder”: Vatican Prelate by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, November 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A high-level Vatican official has warned an Italian court that to allow the removal of Eluana Englaro’s feeding tube is a “monstrous and inhuman murder.” Englaro, 36, was severely injured in a 1992 car accident that left her in a state of minimal consciousness. She can, however, breathe on her own and is not on a ventilator; her “life support” has consisted of assisted feeding and hydration. Her father, Beppino Englaro, has been petitioning courts […]
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Former Euthanasia Petitioner Now Says “Don’t Give Up On Life”, as Surgery Brings New Hope

Former Euthanasia Petitioner Now Says “Don’t Give Up On Life”, as Surgery Brings New Hope by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith PALAMPUR, India, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A brilliant Indian engineering graduate bedridden by crippling rheumatoid arthritis for the past 15 years now has new hope for life and says she regrets ever having petitioned for euthanasia. India’s press agencies report that Seema Sood, 37, is now walking again for the first time since 1993, when advanced rheumatoid arthritis left her completely debilitated and horribly deformed all her joints. Two years ago, she petitioned the President of India for […]
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Italian PM Accuses President of Complicity with Murder

Italian PM Accuses President of Complicity with Murder by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, February 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, who was spearheading an effort to save the life of Eluana Englaro with emergency legislation when news of her death came, has indirectly accused Italian President Giorgio Napolitano of complicity with murder for the latter’s refusal to sign an emergency measure on Friday that might have saved her life. “Eluana did not die a natural death; she was killed,” said Berlusconi. “Napolitano made a serious mistake.” Berlusconi described Eluana as “the only citizen to be […]
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Obama to Revoke Bush Abortion Rule Protecting Conscience Rights

Obama to Revoke Bush Abortion Rule Protecting Conscience Rights by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, February 27th, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama is poised to rescind a policy that protects the conscience rights of American health care workers. The controversial rule was put into place as one of the last acts of the Bush administration and came into effect on January 20 of this year, the same day as President Obama’s inauguration. The rule was universally condemned by the pro-abortion lobby who argued that allowing physicians to opt out of controversial services or procedures would endanger women’s health. The […]
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Montana Doctors Refuse To Participate In Assisted Suicide

Montana Doctors Refuse To Participate In Assisted Suicide by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski HELENA, Montana, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After Montana joined Washington and Oregon in legalizing physician-assisted suicide late last year, Montanans trying to kill themselves are having trouble finding a doctor to fill their “exit prescriptions.” The Denver-based assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion & Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) is seeking to attract doctors willing to help patients exercise their “constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide” in Montana by releasing a statement from a 67-year-old woman who was not able to find a doctor willing to prescribe […]
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Who is Rick Perry? (Part 1 of special report)

Many are wondering if Perry, expected to announce his 2012 campaign tomorrow, will be the “unity candidate” behind whom Republican, fiscal conservative, social conservative, religious, and Tea-Party voters will rally.
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Carleton U fails to shut down pro-life students’ lawsuit

“Carleton University claimed that our lawsuit was frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of the Court process, but the Court ruled that we have grounds for a lawsuit and we’ll continue to fight for our right to free expression," said Ruth Lobo of Carleton Lifeline.
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Semi-Pornographic “Lad Mags” Contributing to Breakdown of Family Life: Leading British Tory MP

Semi-Pornographic “Lad Mags” Contributing to Breakdown of Family Life: Leading British Tory MP by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, August 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The proliferation of “lad mags,” semi-pornographic magazines marketed to young men, are a factor contributing to the breakdown of family life and the loss of fatherhood, says a Tory leader. Michael Gove, the shadow secretary of education, told a meeting this weekend that such magazines contribute to Britain’s declining social breakdown, to teenage sex, and unintended pregnancies. Speaking to the annual meeting of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Gove said that these publications celebrate a […]
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Pro-Obama Article Re-Published in English Language Edition of Vatican Newspaper after Heavy Criticis

Pro-Obama Article Re-Published in English Language Edition of Vatican Newspaper after Heavy Criticis by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, May 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has re-published in its English language edition a highly controversial article downplaying the anti-life and anti-family policies of US president Barack Obama. The article, “Obama in the White House: 100 Days that Didn’t Shake the World,” by Giuseppe Fiorentino, was originally published in its Italian daily edition on April 30 and drew heavy criticism from leading figures in the pro-life and pro-family movements in Italy and the US. (To read the […]
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Barack Obama Consulted Repeatedly with Homosexual Anglican Bishop

Barack Obama Consulted Repeatedly with Homosexual Anglican Bishop by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LONDON, November 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During his presidential campaign Barack Obama consulted repeatedly with Gene Robinson, a practicing homosexual whose appointment as an Anglican bishop has divided the worldwide Anglican Communion. According to an interview published by the Times Online, a division of London’s Times newspaper, Obama’s campaign actively sought out Robinson, and Obama met on three separate occasions with the controversial bishop. Robinson told the Times that Obama compared his own groundbreaking candidacy as the first black nominee of a major political party to […]
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New York to implement mandatory sex ed in all public middle schools, bishops encourage opt-out

NEW YORK, August 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mayor of New York City plans to force all public middle and high school students to participate an explicit sex education regimen, a mandate the Archdiocese of New York is calling on Catholic parents to fight. The New York Times reports that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg will require that each student take a semester of sexual education in either 6th or 7th grade, and again in 9th or 10th grade in both middle school and high school. The city government is promoting two curriculum programs, entitled HealthSmart and Reducing the […]
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Why London is burning

The growing effect on of family breakdown on children in Britain caused a leading family law court judge to recently describe the scale of the problem as “social anarchy” and to urge the government to promote marriage.
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EXPOSÉ LINKS ABORTION INDUSTRY WITH SEX ABUSE CRIMES

EXPOSÉ LINKS ABORTION INDUSTRY WITH SEX ABUSE CRIMES by LifeSiteNews.com Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation Caught Aiding Sex Predators PHILADELPHIA, May 21, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A startling new investigation exposing the partnership between Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and men who sexually abuse underage girls has been unveiled by Life Dynamics Inc. (LDI). LDI President Mark Crutcher will officially present the findings of the investigation at Human Life International’s Weekend Conference in Philadelphia on Saturday. He states that: “The American abortion industry has chosen to become paid accomplices of the pedophiles and sexual deviants who target underage girls.” […]
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Parents Sue Massachusetts School for Promoting Homosexuality to Young Children

Parents Sue Massachusetts School for Promoting Homosexuality to Young Children by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ongoing struggle in a Boston suburb over homosexual material in elementary classrooms has culminated in a lawsuit between parents and the school system. David and Tonia Parker, and Rob and Robin Wirthlin are suing the town of Lexington and its public school system after their children were given books normalizing gay families. Attempts to reach a compromise with the school failed after officials refused to agree to the parents request that their young children be exempted from […]
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Political Correctness: More Insidious and Dangerous Than Most Realize, Say Writers

Political Correctness: More Insidious and Dangerous Than Most Realize, Say Writers by LifeSiteNews.com May 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”Political Correctness is Marxism, with all that implies: loss of freedom of expression, thought control, inversion of the traditional social order and, ultimately, a totalitarian state.” So runs the controversial thesis of a collaborative book recently published by the Free Congress Foundation—a US conservative think-tank—on its website, entitled “Political Correctness:” A Short History of an Ideology. The authors of “Political Correctness” attempt to trace the PC movement back to its origins—Marxism and the Frankfurt school of thought. By so doing they claim to […]
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Colombian House of Representatives Approves National ‘Involuntary’ Sterilization Program

Colombian House of Representatives Approves National ‘Involuntary’ Sterilization Program by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BOGOTA, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Colombian House of Representatives has approved a program to convince Colombians to submit to sterilization, and provide the procedure free of charge, according to the Catholic news agency ACI Prensa. Rewards to be provided to Colombians include expedited government services, preference for government subsidies, and other incentives, ACI Prensa reports. The primary sponsors of the bill are senators Samuel Arrieta and Gabriel Zapata. News of the Colombian sterilization bill arrives at the same time that […]
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Chastity Pledge Study “Deliberately” Skewed to make Programs Appear Ineffectual

Chastity Pledge Study “Deliberately” Skewed to make Programs Appear Ineffectual by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, June 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A so-called scientific analysis of the efficacy of abstinence pledges that concluded that young people who make pledges of abstinence were at equal risk for sexually transmitted disease (STD) and more likely to engage in anal and oral sex has been criticized as “deliberately” misleading, “inaccurate,” and “junk science.” The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector and Dr. Kirk Johnson re-examined the data and claims as presented by professors Peter Bearman and Hanna Bruckner in the April 2005 issue of the Journal of Adolescent […]
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Shroud Dating May Have Been Inaccurate – BBC Interviews Radiocarbon Expert

Shroud Dating May Have Been Inaccurate – BBC Interviews Radiocarbon Expert by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White NOVARA, Italy, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The techniques used in 1988 by three separate teams of scientists to date the Shroud of Turin to the middle ages, may have been inconclusive, a radiocarbon dating expert at Oxford University has told the BBC. According to the Church official in charge of the Shroud, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, director of Oxford’s Radiocarbon Accelerator, whose specialty is the use of radiocarbon dating in archaeological research, told the BBC that radiocarbon dating techniques have developed since 1988, and […]
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Lord of the Rings Profits Used to Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Lord of the Rings Profits Used to Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Profits from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy are being used to fund destructive human embryonic research at the University of California, reported the Mainichi Daily News. Filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, who brought the J.R.R. Tolkien epic to the screen, together donated US $310,000 last Saturday to fund research using the stem cells of human embryos. “Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses which up […]
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UNICEF Still Unfit to Receive Halloween Donations from Pro-Lifers

UNICEF Still Unfit to Receive Halloween Donations from Pro-Lifers by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, October 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UNICEF, the United Nations arm to assist children, has been mired in anti-life controversy for decades. That negative reputation continues to harm the organization despite some changes in the right directionÂthis year. As UNICEF gears up for its annual Halloween fundraising drive, pro-lifeÂcitizensÂare being warned not to participate in the UNICEF Halloween boxes campaign or to donate when trick or treaters come canvassing. Alternatives such as collecting money for crisis pregnancy groups, moreÂconisistently pro-child agancies or inserting explanatory notes into Halloween boxes […]
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Abortion Protest Silences Students at Over 1,000 Campuses

Abortion Protest Silences Students at Over 1,000 Campuses by LifeSiteNews.com FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, students from over 1,000 campuses in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, England and Germany took a vow of silence to express their contempt for the murderous act of abortion that has claimed one-third of their generation and continues to take the lives of over 4,000 babies per day in the United States alone. The international event is sponsored by Stand True Ministries and known as the annual Students’ Day of Silent Solidarity. “Thousands of American babies are permanently silenced every day […]
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Pro-Life Rock Album Wins Best Album of the Year at Gospel Music Awards

Pro-Life Rock Album Wins Best Album of the Year at Gospel Music Awards by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The band Critical Mass has received the Best Rock Album of the Year honours for their third release, Grasping for Hope in the Darkness, at the 27th annual Canadian Gospel Music Association Covenant Awards, which took place October 22nd in Toronto. The band is made up of seven solidly pro-life Christians include LifeSiteNews.com’s ownÂwebmaster Harvey Armoogan who runs the mixing console for the band. Grasping for Hope in the Darkness is a modern rock concept album tracing a man’s […]
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Sex-Selective Abortion:  China’s “Vow” to Crack Down an Empty Promise?

August 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com)—AP reported yesterday that “China vows [a] crackdown on sex-selective abortions” to close the gendercide gap.  Don’t hold your breath. A BBC news article, “China acts to protect baby girls,” reported the same vow in 2004.  Zhao Baige, then Deputy Director (now Vice Minister) of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission, vowed seven years ago:  “Illegal sex determination and sex-selective abortion must be strictly banned . . . China has set the goal of lowering the sex ratio to a normal level by 2010.” The result?  In 2004, there were 117 boys born for every 100 […]
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10-year-old girl poses seductively for French Vogue

One leader commented that ending age-based "discrimination" of sexuality is a priority for global lobbies such as Planned Parenthood, which has stated that “sexuality and sexual pleasure are important parts of being human for everyone - no matter what age."
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Text of Test: Homosexuality test in Ontario Catholic school religion class

Part A:  Define Terms 1. Sexual Orientation 2. Heterosexuality 3. Homosexuality 4. Gay 5. Lesbian 6. Coming Out 7. Gender 8. Straight 9. Bi-sexual 10. Homophobia Part B: Myths and Stereotypes: Answer true or False for each statement 1. Gay people are very different from straight people. ____ 2. Homosexual people hate and fear the opposite sex. ____ 3. Gay males and lesbian females are overly sexual. ____ 4. Homosexual people are societal failures; they are weird, misguided, and perverted. ____ 5. Homosexual people are always in unstable relationships. ____ 6. All male hairdressers and decorators are gay. ____ 7. […]
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Abortiongang sends death message

Recently, a member of our staff forwarded me this, it’s a 7-step, easy-to-read and horrifically misguided list on how to further indoctrinate our culture with the message of death from abortiongang.com – how appropriate. What bothers me most about this heart-wrenching list is not the comments listed under it (one reader went so far as to say that this “thoughtful and questioning” list will generate “gestures of kindness and respect that will eventually make the world a better place.”) It’s also not their use of the term “social justice” when referring to how readers can spread abortion acceptance even further. […]
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Doctors Seek Asylum After Exposing Ukraine Abortion for Cosmetics Scandal

Doctors Seek Asylum After Exposing Ukraine Abortion for Cosmetics Scandal by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz DUBLIN, Ireland, March 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Ukraininan doctors, Vadym Lazaryev and Vladymyr Ishchenko, have been seeking asylum in Ireland since 2004, after they were forced to flee their country for exposing appalling human rights abuses of women and unborn children in the Ukraine. The doctors were part of a group working to uncover a macabre system of medical trafficking in the bodies of unborn babies, European Life Network reported today. Doctors were deceiving women into aborting their babies for false “medical” reasons, and […]
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Oprah Winfrey Backing Lesbian Who Boasts of Quizzing 6-Year-Old Girl About her Private Parts

Oprah Winfrey Backing Lesbian Who Boasts of Quizzing 6-Year-Old Girl About her Private Parts by LifeSiteNews.com CHICAGO, IL, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oprah Winfrey and Faith Hill were among the prominent celebrities who participated in the tenth anniversary of the controversial play “The Vagina Monologues” (TVM) on Satuday at the New Orleans Arena. An updated version of the play written by lesbian (bisexual) Eve Ensler was performed by Winfrey at the arena. The new version includes a chapter in which a six-year-old girl is asked several questions about her vagina. For several years the Cardinal Newman Society has campaigned […]
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VIDEO: The Kenyan Referendum: One Year Later

One year ago, Kenyans passed a constitutional referendum that was sold as the solution to the country’s widely acknowledged corruption and poverty. Without the knowledge of most Kenyans, however, the bill also had a stealth provision that essentially legalized abortion on demand. It was advertised that the constitution protected the right to life of the unborn, and there is language in the constitution that codifies this principle. But what was not widely advertised was the qualifying language that population control advocates use in similar referendums around the developing world: There are exceptions for the “health of the mother,” which in […]
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Latin America pressured to liberalize abortion laws under UN human rights process

By Cristina Gutierrez NEW YORK, August 5, 2011 (C-FAM) Western governments are pressuring Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws, by using a new UN human rights process called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). El Salvador, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Belize, and Argentina are among the top countries recently pressured via the UPR process, as European countries recommend that these nations amend their laws concerning the “rights” to abortion and contraception. The UPR involves an interactive dialogue among the delegations of different States concerning the human rights situations in a particular country, sometimes leading to delegations directly suggesting […]
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São Paulo city council approves Heterosexual Pride Day to confront Gay Pride

SÃO PAULO, Brazil, August 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – South America’s largest city, which hosts what is reported to be the wold’s largest ‘gay pride’ march, is set to have an official “Heterosexual Pride Day” every third Sunday in December. The city council has approved the measure and it awaits the mayor’s signature. The legislation was authored by Evangelical Councilman Carlos Apolinário, a member of the Democrats Party, who said his intent was not to discriminate against homosexuals but rather as a counter to the “excesses and privileges” of the homosexual community, and to “raise awareness and encourage the public to […]
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Aug. 3 News Commentary

The ACLU versus faith-based agencies, Arguments over the display of graphic abortion photos, A caution for US and Canadian bishops in Matthew Hoffman's report from Mexico.
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NewsBytes August 3 – Homosexuality

No Homophobia - George Weigel, ABC: Gay Marriage Economic Stimulus, Military recruiters want gays, More gay-couple households with kids, Indian Minister: Homosexuality Western ‘Disease’, Exposé on Miami Archdiocese, Bishop Hubbard
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NewsBytes August 1 – Life Issues

Why the Internet Will Make the World More Pro-Life, YouTube re-posts pro-life videos, Cardinal Burke on life, Washington Post Profiles late-term Abortionist, Abortion Is Just Like Getting a Tooth Pulled, more...
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