The facts about Super Bowl sex trafficking

"The Super Bowl is a huge, huge arena for sex trafficking," said a former victim. And pro-life Congressman Chris Smith has drawn attention to the link between sex slavery and this weekend's championship game.
News
 • 

Five questions for Gavin McInnes (INTERVIEW)

Gavin McInnes is a Scottish-Canadian writer, actor, and creative director, as well as the co-founder of Vice Magazine, which has since expanded into VICE Media. His edgy, no-holds-barred commentary for more conservative outlets like Taki’s Magazine (one of his recent articles was called “This Country Was Not Built By Beta Males”) has resulted in any number of minor tempests in teapots, from McInnes telling a shocked Huffington Post Live Audience that feminism “made women miserable” to the mainstream media widely covering a spoof video he put up of him fake-wrestling his toddler. He regularly appears on shows such as FOX News’ The […]
Blogs
 • 

The Bachelor’s PDA – public display of abstinence

The Question of the Year has been answered: Yes, “The Bachelor” stars Sean Lowe & Catherine Giudici were sexually abstinent until marriage. The couple, who met on the show's 17th season – Giudici was the winner, while Lowe was the show's bachelor – were given a lie detector test by comedian Jimmy Kimmel shortly before their nuptials on January 26. They had claimed abstinence until their wedding day, which Kimmel doubted. According to PEOPLE Magazine, the results were definitive: Kimmel revealed the results on his show Monday night, and – to the host's surprise as much as anybody's – [polygraph […]
Blogs
 • 

The outrage industry is at it again

The outrage industry is at it again. This time, it's about libido. As much of the nation knows, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee called out the Democratic Party last week for promoting policies and strategies that reduce women to helpless dependents of government. He did this at the RNC's Winter Meeting, and received applause. Huckabee's statement was accurate, well-articulated, and on point. But that didn't stop the outrage industry from jumping into action. Within hours, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney slammed Huckabee, reporters Dana Bash of CNN and Kasie Hunt of NBC […]
Blogs
 • 

Uproar over Texas student newspaper’s use of term ‘pro-abortion’

A student reporter for The Daily Texan, the student newspaper for the University of Texas, got it right when calling abortion supporters what they are – “pro-abortion” – five times in an article about a counter-demonstration held during the annual pro-life Texas Rally for Life on January 24. The term even made the article’s headline. But she infuriated those who support abortion but who strangely aren’t proud of it. Complaints poured in: “First, someone who supports reproductive rights and access to abortion is not ‘pro-abortion.’” “The ‘pro-abortion’ label is completely inaccurate. … [O]ne can be personally opposed to abortion for themselves while still being comfortable supporting another […]
Blogs
 • 

25,000 Attend Fourth Annual Walk for Life in San Francisco

25,000 Attend Fourth Annual Walk for Life in San Francisco by LifeSiteNews.com By John Connolly SAN FRANCISCO, January 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 25,000 participants attended the Walk for Life West Coast, an event attached to Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations on Sunday. Those who participated in the walk for life bore signs and banners that read “Abortion Hurts Women” and “Women Deserve Better.” Eight California Catholic bishops were on hand to support the event. An estimated 250 pro-abortion advocates came to counter-protest the police-guarded march. Gianna Jessen, who developed cerebral palsy as an infant after an attempted saline abortion in […]
News
 • 

The belittling and bashing of the pontificate of Pope Benedict is accelerating

The belittling and bashing of the pontificate of Pope Benedict is accelerating in conjunction with the growing adulation of Pope Francis in the secular world and among the “progessive” dissidents within the Church. Benedict did what he was called to do in his position as the earthly leader of the Catholic Church, no matter how much he was criticized both from within and outside the Church. He shouldered and embraced a very heavy cross and suffered a quiet type of crucifixion as a result of his exceptional fidelity and courageous writings and actions. Immediately after becoming pope, Benedict began to […]
Blogs
 • 

71 legal assisted suicide deaths in Oregon in 2013

Oregon's 2013 assisted suicide statistics have been released. Link to the report. This 2013 annual report is similar to prior years. The preamble implies that the deaths were voluntary (self-administered), but the information reported does not address that subject. Oregon's assisted suicide law itself allows the lethal dose to be administered without oversight. This creates the opportunity for an heir, or someone else who will benefit from the patient's death, to administer the lethal dose to the patient without the patient's consent. “Even if he struggled, who would know?” The new report provides the following demographics: – There were 71 assisted […]
Blogs
 • 

The nuns and the priests: our narrow (and temporary) victory against the Obama administration

A lot of attention was given recently to the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the way that the Obama Administration wants to force them to cooperate in its plan to expand access to contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization. They are rightly saying “No,” and, like us at Priests for Life, have said it through a federal lawsuit.    Like the case of Priests for Life, their lawsuit initially resulted in a judgment against them, with the court saying that the mandate did not in fact pose a “substantial burden” to their religious freedom.   And like us, the Sisters […]
Blogs
 • 

What Wonkblog gets wrong about abortion

The anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision usually generates some commentary on the state of the abortion debate from mainstream-media outlets. This year was no exception. Last Wednesday Sarah Kliff had an article on the Washington Post’s Wonkblog entitled “13 charts which show how Roe v. Wade changed abortion rights.” The charts present various long-term trends dealing with the politics and policy of legal abortion. Most of the information is fairly accurate. Kliff is correct that the abortion rate increased after Roe v. Wade but that the number of abortions has been falling since 1990. Kliff is also correct that the number of state-level pro-life laws has significantly increased in recent years […]
Blogs
 • 

Cosmo special: ‘How abortion changed our relationship’

Looks like Cosmo is running out of sex tips – and the end result isn’t pretty. As a “Special Report” for February’s issue, Cosmopolitan published Liz Welch’s piece entitled, “Our Choice: How Abortion Changed Our Relationship.” Welch introduced her article, which profiled couples who chose abortion, by speculating, “Abortion can test a relationship, cement it, or end it as Cosmopolitan discovered in speaking to the four couples here.” Cosmopolitan, a “lifestylist for millions of fun, fearless females who want to be the best they can be in every area of their lives,” boasts more than three million subscribers. “Ending a pregnancy,” Welch […]
Blogs
 • 

LifeSiteNews co-founder Steve Jalsevac on ChurchMilitant.TV

At last week's March for Life, one of LifeSiteNews.com's prominent fans, Michael Voris, had our co-founder and managing director Steve Jalsevac on-air. The two discussed the growth of the news service since 1997 and its mission to help Christians, the Catholic Church, and the world better understand realities the mainstream media won't report. See the full interview here, and below. Steve comes onto the program at 14:20.
Blogs
 • 

Black media shills for big abortion

The Root, a “black media” subsidiary of The Washington Post, claims that “safe” abortion and contraception save women’s lives. Special correspondent Keli Goff presents a free advertisement, posing as news, for Planned Parenthood. Never mind the abortion chain has never reduced the national unintended pregnancy rate…EVER. The CDC reports (since they started tracking this data in 1995) that the national unintended pregnancy rate hasn't been reduced at all. It’s still 49%. But, Planned Parenthood has successfully increased their share of tax dollars (now at over $540 million per year) and nationwide abortions since then, currently aborting nearly 330,000 annually. Abortion doesn't improve women’s health. It […]
Blogs
 • 

Pro-life progress in 2013 bodes extremely well for the future

The week of the March for Life is always a good time to reflect and take stock of the current status of the pro-life movement. Overall, pro-lifers had a very good, if quiet, year in 2013. This is good news because President Obama’s reelection in 2012 was a real setback. There was a great deal of soul searching about the future of the Republican Party and, unsurprisingly, many pundits were all too eager to encourage Republicans to moderate their position on abortion and focus on economic issues. However, every time the media writes the political obituary for the pro-life movement, pro-lifers always […]
Blogs
 • 

Guttmacher study shows success in swing states

Earlier this month, the Guttmacher Institute released its 2013 state-policy review. The report indicates that pro-lifers continue to make very good legislative progress at the state level. In 2013, 70 state-level pro-life measures were enacted — making 2013 the second most productive year on record. The report specifically cites Texas, North Dakota, North Carolina, and Arkansas as being especially active in passing pro-life laws. Overall, according to Guttmacher, there have been more pro-life laws passed between 2011 and 2013 than in the entire previous decade. Guttmacher places each state into one of three categories based on the number of pro-life […]
Blogs
 • 

Networks covered baby panda 6X more than March for Life

Is it too much to ask for Americans to get their news from serious adults? Yes, there’s always been bias in media reporting, but it’s hard to imagine journalists who once crossed Europe with Patton cooing “Pandas are magic” into the camera while a real story of genocide is being told in the streets.  But that’s where we are. On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands braved freezing temperatures to join the 41st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. to protest and commemorate the 55 million human babies who have been legally killed since 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision. The event featured speeches from […]
Blogs
 • 

Why they marched, in their own words: Cool video from M4L 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Americans who believe in the right to life rarely get to present their motivation, their beliefs, or their personality in their own words. The media brand them as “anti-abortion,” or “anti-choice,” selecting the least representative figures and carefully editing their quotations to fit a preconceived narrative that pro-lifers are zealots, fanatics, and extremists. But pro-life Americans have had a surprising number of opportunities to speak for themselves recently – from Lila Rose's appearance on Crossfire to the video below, produced by the Heritage Foundation. Heritage did what real journalists used to do: Go […]
Blogs
 • 

Meet 7 people who marched for life

“Eight years ago I discovered I was conceived when my mother was raped when she was walking home from work. As devastating as that news was, I began to realize that I’m here because I was protected by her courage and the society that valued life."
News
 • 

I wanted my daughter to meet the man who saved her life!’: why ‘quality of life’ ethic is dangerous

I can’t tell you how many times I have been called by desperate people fighting hospitals and doctors not to give up on their desperately ill or injured loved ones. Sometimes the cases seem beyond effective remedy. But sometimes, it does seem as doctors or bioethicists want to give up because they don’t think the life they can save will be worth living. An anecdote from the noted pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, illustrates the point. From, “A Physician’s View on the Sanctity of Life:” A couple of decades ago, I came into the pediatric Intensive Care Unit on morning […]
Blogs
 • 

Alberta’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Human Rights Commission to Undergo Overhaul

Alberta’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Human Rights Commission to Undergo Overhaul by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alberta government’s Culture Minister, Lindsay Blackett, this week announced the implementation of further changes to the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC), which he characterized as “kangaroo courts.” The AHRC is known especially for its handling of the case involving Christian pastor Stephen Boissoin, who was found guilty of hate speech for writing a letter to the editor to a local paper, in which he criticized the homosexualist agenda. “We had to change the governance of how it’s […]
News
 • 

Video Catches Planned Parenthood Covering Up Statutory Rape

Video Catches Planned Parenthood Covering Up Statutory Rape by LifeSiteNews.com ARLINGTON, VA, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) has released a video exposing two Planned Parenthood clinics in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina covering up statutory rape of young girls. To view the video, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkakpcWSyWY In June of 2008, two college women volunteering for Students for Life of America entered two clinics in North Carolina posing as underage girls, 15 and 14, who just had unprotected sex with their mother’s live-in boyfriend who was in his 30s. Each girl told the clinic workers […]
News
 • 

People of Israel Sharply Divided Over Abortion

People of Israel Sharply Divided Over Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith JERUSALEM, January 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just weeks after Israel’s Chief Rabbis ruled that abortion constitutes “a grave sin,” a new poll shows Israelis themselves are sharply divided over the nation’s liberal abortion laws. Angus Reid Global Monitor reports that a new poll by the Mutagim Institute shows that 39 per cent of respondents think abortion, when necessary, is a legitimate medical procedure, 31 per cent regard it as an especially painful last resort, but 30 per cent say abortion is equivalent to murder. However 32 per […]
News
 • 

Obama Appoints Lesbian Activist to EEOC Board

Obama Appoints Lesbian Activist to EEOC Board by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama appointed lesbian activist Chai Feldblum over the weekend to the five-member board of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the government office responsible for handling workplace discrimination complaints. Obama bypassed the need for a Senate vote, where the appointment had garnered bipartisan opposition, by appointing Feldblum while the chamber was on recess Saturday. The Senate had stalled Feldblum’s appointment, along with that of 14 other nominees, according to the New York Times. Feldblum, a Georgetown law professor who has […]
News
 • 

Augusta State Univ. to Counseling Student: Change Beliefs or Get Out

Augusta State Univ. to Counseling Student: Change Beliefs or Get Out by LifeSiteNews.com AUGUSTA, Georgia, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed suit against Augusta State University Wednesday on behalf of a counseling student who was allegedly told that her Christian beliefs are unethical and incompatible with the prevailing views of the counseling profession. The student, Jennifer Keeton, says she has been told to stop communicating her beliefs and that she must undergo “training” to accept homosexuality in order to graduate from the counseling program. Augusta State ordered Keeton to undergo a re-education plan, […]
News
 • 

New Undercover Video Shows Tucson Planned Parenthood Hiding Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl

New Undercover Video Shows Tucson Planned Parenthood Hiding Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl by LifeSiteNews.com TUCSON, AZ, Feb. 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New hidden-camera footage from Tucson, AZ, implicates a third Planned Parenthood clinic in a multi-state child abuse scandal. In the video, UCLA student Lila Rose and her friend Jackie Stollar enter a Tucson Planned Parenthood clinic where Rose tells the nurse that Stollar, posing as a 15-year-old, is pregnant by her 27-year-old boyfriend. The nurse disregards the age difference and even cautions Stollar not to bring her “boyfriend” before the judicial hearing required in Arizona to waive parental consent […]
News
 • 

Mormons, Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats and More Vandalism for Prop. 8 Support

Mormons, Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats and More Vandalism for Prop. 8 Support by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert OLYMPIA, Washington, November 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexualists are continuing to vent their rage against Mormons for supporting true marriage in California, and are issuing increasingly hostile threats to accompany a steady stream of vandalism. “The Mormon church (just like most churches) is a cesspool of filth,” writes the anarchist homosexualist group Bash Back!, in a statement flaunting the vandalism of an Olympia Mormon stake center over the weekend. “It is a breeding ground for oppression of all sorts and needs […]
News
 • 

Expert Research Finds Homosexuality More Dangerous Than Smoking

Expert Research Finds Homosexuality More Dangerous Than Smoking by LifeSiteNews.com PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Studies have shown that years of smoking shortens the lifespan of the smoker from 1 to 7 years. Recent analysis of the age of death in Norway and Denmark for gays who are legally married suggests that engaging in homosexual behavior reduces lifespan by 24 years! So reported Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association on March 23. “What justification is there for condemning smoking and endorsing homosexuality?” asked Dr. Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, […]
News
 • 

79: More Bishops Condemn Obama Honor in Final Days before ND’s “Day of Shame”

79: More Bishops Condemn Obama Honor in Final Days before ND’s “Day of Shame” by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the final days before the University of Notre Dame honors President Obama at its commencement ceremony Sunday, three more bishops have issued strong condemnations of the decision, bringing the number to 79 U.S. bishops disapproving of the scandal. (To see the list of bishops who have been confirmed as opposing the Notre Dame scandal: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09050607.html) President Obama will be receiving an honorary degree and delivering the commencement address on Sunday, a decision […]
News
 • 

Catholic Organizations’ Support for Health Care Reform Follows the Money Trail

Catholic Organizations’ Support for Health Care Reform Follows the Money Trail by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A clash between Catholic pro-life groups and major Catholic organizations on whether Congress should enact immediate health care reform has drastically muddled the Catholic response to the debate raging on Capitol Hill. But as one Catholic editor has noted, the conflicting messages on whether to push health care reform could be traced to at least one organization’s monetary interest in such reform. The struggle came to a head last week with news of an “action alert” released […]
News
 • 

Teacher, Dismissed from Catholic School After “Sex Change,” Files Human Rights Complaint

Teacher, Dismissed from Catholic School After “Sex Change,” Files Human Rights Complaint by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, October 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alberta substitute teacher, dismissed by a Catholic school board because she was undergoing a sex change, has filed a human rights complaint against the board, and is demanding to be reinstated. Janet Buterman, 39, was told by the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Board in a letter last October that the procedures she was undergoing in an attempt to become a man were in conflict with the Catholic values espoused by the board. “In […]
News
 • 

Ambulance called to Planned Parenthood Aurora during monthly protest

An ambulance raced up to the door of the huge Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Aurora, Illinois, this past Saturday as Pro-Life Action League staff and volunteers conducted a protest nearby. Protests have been held at the site monthly since it opened in fall of 2007, alongside a daily prayer and sidewalk counseling presence. The pro-life group began to pray for the whomever the ambulance had arrived for. After about 15 minutes, paramedics emerged from the front door of the building pushing a gurney with a body on it, and then took off—probably transporting the woman to Rush-Copley Hospital, a […]
Blogs
 • 

Bogus Cloning Researcher Charged with Fraud

Bogus Cloning Researcher Charged with Fraud by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White  SEOUL, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The disgraced Korean researcher, Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk is being tried for fraud, embezzlement and ethics violations. Hwang was indicted on May 12 with five other scientists after their work was revealed to be bogus by an external investigation by a panel of experts at Seoul National University.  Hwang had been hailed as a folk hero in Korea for his claims to have cloned cows and other animals and to have created “patient specific” cloned stem cells, and still enjoys the support […]
News
 • 

Obama’s ‘Religious Freedom Day’ proclamation: hypocrisy or cluelessness?

One of the more absurd traditions in American politics is frequent use of Presidential “proclamations.” George W. Bush made dozens in each year he was in office, and President Obama has followed suit. However, last week's “Religious Freedom Day 2014” (RFD) is in a category of its own: President Obama actually issued a proclamation declaring January 15, 2014 a day dedicated to federal recognition of religious freedom. That's right. The president who is trying to force nuns and priests to violate their religious beliefs is declaring official federal support for religious freedom. The proclamation even included the following phrase: Today, […]
Blogs
 • 

Leaked: ND Prez Comment on USCCB Document Prohibiting Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians

Leaked: ND Prez Comment on USCCB Document Prohibiting Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians by LifeSiteNews.com 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 […]
News
 • 

Pray for good weather at the DC March for Life Wednesday!

The following note came from Fr. Peter West, Vice President for Missions at Human Life International. Bundle up!  I would like to ask everyone to take a few minutes as soon as you see this and ask Our Lord for a special favor this Wednesday, at the March for Life. Currently the forecast is for a high of only 20 degrees, and this after a day of snow and ice. The driving will likely be treacherous, and spending five or six hours outside in this temperature can be very dangerous, especially for children. Please drop what you’re doing and pray that, […]
Blogs
 • 

‘Organs for cash’ hurts the poor

In the spirit of the times, let’s call it organ inequality. If organs are for sale, the rich will buy and the poor will sell. Supply and demand. The Wall Street Journal has an advocacy piece by two economists urging that people be able to sell their kidneys. I don’t want to run long, so let me cut to the hub. From “Cash for Kidneys,” by Nobel Prize winning economist Gary S. Becker and Argentine professor Julio J. Elias: Our conclusion is that a very large number of both live and cadaver kidney donations would be available by paying about $15,000 for each kidney. That […]
Blogs
 • 

Archbishop: I’m joining March for Life for my brother with Down syndrome

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, posted on his blog yesterday the reasons why he is planning to join the Washington DC March for Life this coming Wednesday, January 22.  He said: “We march in memory of those lost to abortion. “We march for the voiceless children to defend their right to life – especially for those like my brother Georgie, born with Down syndrome, whose lives all too often are deemed unworthy to see the light of day. “We march for the women considering abortion, that in our concern for their needs, they […]
Blogs
 • 

US Supreme Court Rescinds Former Rulings on Abortion Laws in Missouri and Virginia

US Supreme Court Rescinds Former Rulings on Abortion Laws in Missouri and Virginia by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court rescinded two federal appeals courts’ rulings overturning partial-birth abortion laws in Virginia and Missouri on Monday in the wake of its recent decision to uphold the federal ban on the procedure. The Court returned Herring v. Richmond Medical Center (No. 05-730) to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Nixon v. Reproductive Health Services (No. 05-1124) to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking them to review their […]
News
 • 

SANCTITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY TOP LIST OF POPE’S CONCERNS

SANCTITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY TOP LIST OF POPE’S CONCERNS by LifeSiteNews.com Pope Urges List To Become “Central Concerns of Political Leaders” VATICAN, January 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In his State of the World address yesterday, Pope John Paul II mentioned the sanctity of life and promotion of family as his top concerns. In the address, officially called the address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, he confided a list of, as he said, “reflections which rise from my prayer as well as from the things I hear from those who visit me” and asked that the list be passed on […]
News
 • 

“Brain Death” is Life, Not Death: Neurologists, Philosophers, Neonatologists, Jurists, and Bioethici

“Brain Death” is Life, Not Death: Neurologists, Philosophers, Neonatologists, Jurists, and Bioethici by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White – Rome correspondent ROME, February 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If a patient is able to process oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, maintain a normal body temperature, digest food and expel waste, grow to normal adult size from the age of four to twenty, and even carry a child to term, can he or she be considered dead? Can a person who is “dead” wake up and go on later to finish a university degree? Can a corpse get out of bed, […]
News
 • 

Quick! Remind your pastor to preach pro-life this Sanctity of Life Sunday – Jan 19

In preparation for the observance of Sanctity of Life Sunday on Jan. 19, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, is reminding every pastor in America that “preaching against abortion does not mean we are judgmental, nor does it mean we are political.”  “It simply means we stand with the weakest, most marginalized members of our society, the children still in the womb, and we stand ready to help their moms and dads welcome new life, despite the fears they may have,” added Fr. Pavone. Describing the significance of the date, the Director of Priests for Life recalled, […]
Blogs
 • 

USA Today: Obama’s contraception mandate ‘foolish,’ ‘suspect’

At least one government watchdog is learning to bark again. USA Today’s Opinion section dedicated “Today’s Debate” to religious freedom – or the fight over Obamacare’s contraception mandate. In a January 13 piece entitled, “Obamacare Overreach Tramples Little Sisters of the Poor,” USA Today rebelled against its own (media) kind to call out the Obama administration for having “picked a fight with Catholics and other religious groups.” Among other faults, the article found the administration’s “position” on the mandate “constitutionally suspect, politically foolish and ultimately unproductive.” The Supreme Court recently consented to hear appeals challenging the contraception mandate, which would force employers to provide or […]
Blogs
 • 

Planned Parenthood: It pays to be a big fat zero

What do you get when you fail to meet stated annual goals, reduce unhealthy outcomes, yet increase the number of deaths of human beings? Rewarded. Yes, Planned Parenthood gets rewarded with taxpayer-funded welfare each year for failing. Despite their Healthy People goals set in states across the country and federally with the CDC (e.g. Healthy People 2010, Healthy People 2020) and grossly missing the mark every single time, they get rewarded. They don’t have to show progress or success in addressing any so-called “healthcare disparity”. They’re accountable to no one and to nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Sometimes it pays to […]
Blogs
 • 

Encouraging arguments at Supreme Court in abortion clinic bubble zone case

Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of McCullen v. Coakley, the Massachusetts “bubble zone” case. In 2007, the state enacted a law prohibiting speech within 35 feet of the entrance to an abortion facility, making sidewalk counseling at these facilities far more difficult. Sidewalk counselor Eleanor McCullen, a 77-year old grandmother who has saved hundreds of babies with her peaceful outreach to women entering Massachusetts abortion clinics, challenged the law, saying it unfairly restricts her freedom of speech. Justices Challenge Assistant A.G. Miller The transcript [PDF] from Wednesday’s hearing suggests that the Court is […]
Blogs
 • 

New video chronicles 41 years of legal abortion in 5 minutes

On Wednesday, January 22nd, America marks 41 years since Roe v. Wade.  A truly nation-defining decision, it opened the floodgates to an atrocity so mindbogglingly grave that it seems trite to even call it the greatest human rights abuse in U.S. history. The murder of over 56 million of its own children, over a sixth of America's citizens, is not a mere “abuse”. Genocide doesn't even cover it. To commemorate the ruling, Texas Alliance for Life has just released this moving 5-minute video chronicling, year by year, the ruling's devastating repercussions and the battle to overturn it.
Blogs
 • 

Int’l Pressure on Uganda to Accept Homosexuality Caused Over-the-Top Sanctions: Christian Activist

Int’l Pressure on Uganda to Accept Homosexuality Caused Over-the-Top Sanctions: Christian Activist by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen KAMPALA, Uganda, November 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While a proposed and much-criticized anti-homosexuality law in Uganda is definitely too harsh, the law comes as a direct response to the heavy-handed pressure from international gay-activist politicians on Uganda to accept homosexuality as normal, according to one Christian expert who was recently in the African country to testify against the current wording of the bill. In fact, as Dr. Scott Lively, the President of Defend the Family pointed out, the preamble to the bill, and […]
News
 • 

Pro-Life Groups Asks Bishop to Stop Sister Helen Prejean’s Fundraising for ACLU

Pro-Life Groups Asks Bishop to Stop Sister Helen Prejean’s Fundraising for ACLU by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen BOISE, September 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Idaho Choose Life (ICL) has issued a public call for Idaho’s Catholic Bishop, Mike Driscoll “to intervene quickly and forcefully in the brewing scandal involving Sister Helen Prejean.” Sister Prejean is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an event to raise money for the Idaho ACLU on Friday, September 28th. (see ACLU website announcement: https://www.acluidaho.org/ ) Speaking of ACLU, ICL Executive Director David Ripley said “This nefarious organization has played a pivotal role in undermining Christian […]
News
 • 

Slapped with $36,000 fine, judge willing to let abortion clinic pay $77 to get off the hook

Imagine you run a shoddy abortion clinic that amasses a $36,000 fine by your state’s health department.  You file for bankruptcy, but your case is dismissed.  Then, you close out your bank account, dissolve your old company, change your name, and move to a different location. When the state comes calling, you say the old company doesn’t exist anymore, so the state’s out of luck. You couldn’t get away with that, could you? Believe it or not, a judge in Chicago is about to let an Illinois abortion clinic do just that by requiring the owner to pay a mere […]
Blogs
 • 

Department of Health officials attempt to bring in nurse and home abortion through back door

Doctors will be able to authorise abortions without seeing women and nurses will be authorised to perform abortions and send women home to abort their babies under new draft regulations from the Department of Health. The proposed wide-ranging changes are currently being rushed through in a ‘consultation’ process of which many key stakeholders are apparently unaware. The consultation, ‘Proposed changes to the procedures for the approval of independent sector places for the termination of pregnancy’, outlines ‘Required Standard Operating procedures’ (RSOPs) which independent sector facilities must follow in order to be licensed and receive taxpayers’ money for carrying out abortions. […]
Blogs
 • 

Media misleads on recent ultrasound study

Earlier this month, the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology published a study which has the media swooning. It analyzed over 15,000 abortion-minded women in California in 2011 — some of whom decided to view an ultrasound image of their unborn child. The study purportedly found that these ultrasound images did very little to dissuade women from obtaining an abortion. This study has received significant attention from a number of media outlets including Slate, Time magazine’s Health and Family blog, and RhRealityCheck. The spin is that this study debunks pro-life claims that ultrasound images are effective in persuading abortion-minded women to choose life for their […]
Blogs
 • 

MRC plans ‘March for Life’ documentary

Each year, the March for Life is by far the largest annual rally in Washington, D.C., and each year, it’s met with a near-black-out from major media. But for 2014, there’s a way for the pro-life movement to change that. In a new initiative to combat media censorship on abortion, the Media Research Center (MRC) is inviting marchers to donate video for a documentary on the movement the media hide.  In 2013, the networks spent a mere 17 seconds on the half million participants at the 40th March for Life (in comparison, they spent 521 times more on the Manti Te’o football scandal). The life censorship […]
Blogs
 • 

Will greens applaud Japan’s demographic implosion?

Radical environmentalists, deep ecologists, and other assorted “greens” yearn for there to be far fewer people in the world “to save the planet.” Having been infected with anti-humanism, the Green Malthusians see us as “bacteria,” a “scourge,” crawling “maggots”–pick your denigration–a profoundly misanthropic view increasingly entering the environmental mainstream in recent years. Achieving that goal will either require a profound genocidal tyranny, or a deeply nihilistic cultural implosion. China’s “one child” policy exemplifies the former–and the numbers of people there are still growing, albeit more slowly. Japan, whose youth are apparently in the grip of a profound existential crisis, exemplifies the latter. From The […]
Blogs
 • 

Belgium protest: Stop the extension of euthanasia to children

On Sunday, January 12, 2014, in the afternoon, organizers of groups that are working together to oppose the Belgian euthanasia law held a protest outside the offices of the Belgium euthanasia Control and Evaluation Commission. Three hundred protesters, wearing yellow jackets, gathered at 1:45 pm at: rue de l’Autonomie, 4 – 1070 Brussels with the message that:  the existing euthanasia law must not be extended to children and to demand better control and enforcement of the existing 2002 euthanasia legislation. The media reported on the event. Media Press News reported that: While Belgium is set to vote on the extension of the law […]
Blogs
 • 

Assisted suicide storyline on Coronation Street – Five myths about death and dying

This morning I took part in a debate on the Radio Four Today programme (listen here) about the assisted suicide story to be screened next Monday in a British television drama (see my previous blog on this here). The ITV Soap ‘Coronation Street’ is running a story centred on Hayley Cropper, a transgender character who has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. According to media reports she declines pain relief out of fear that it might confuse her sexual identity and dies with the help of her partner by taking an overdose of pills.   I am not opposed in principle […]
Blogs
 • 

Court imposes assisted suicide in New Mexico

If you ever wonder why there are so many radical and extreme lawsuits, wonder no more. As I have often said about a variety of issues, it only takes one judge to break down the walls of democratic governance and impose an ideological view. That has now happened in New Mexico where Compassion and Choices brought a lawsuit claiming that a doctor assisting the suicide of a terminally ill patient isn’t breaking the assisted suicide law, but merely providing the state constitutionally protected medical treatment of “aid in dying.” That redefinition gambit did not work a few years ago in Connecticut. […]
Blogs
 • 

Did Ariel Sharon die last week, or eight years ago?

Former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died. But according to some bioethicists who push Personhood Theory, he actually died eight years ago when a stroke put him into a permanently unconscious state. You see, they want to destroy human exceptionalism and the sanctity of human life. In its place, they argue, we should instill a “quality of life” ethic that bases moral value on capacities. In this view, being a living human being is morally irrelevant. To have full moral value, under personhood theory, you have to exhibit minimal capacities–such as the ability to value your own life or self awareness over time. Peter Singer is the most famous […]
Blogs
 • 

Killing gay men with victimology

Building on yesterday’s post regarding CDC’s documentation of the continued rise in HIV, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea among men who have sex with men (MSM), in almost every document on the matter CDC offers the following: Complex issues like homophobia and stigma can also make it difficult for gay and bisexual men to seek appropriate care and treatment. That’s code for the principled stand taken by people of faith. In other words, it’s our fault that many MSM do not seek appropriate medical treatment. It’s because of our deeply held and abiding religious beliefs that MSM do not seek confidential and […]
Blogs
 • 

Pro-Life Conference on “Brain Death” Criteria Will Have Uphill Climb to Sway Entrenched Vatican Posi

Pro-Life Conference on “Brain Death” Criteria Will Have Uphill Climb to Sway Entrenched Vatican Posi by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, February 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An conference set to take place in Rome this week on “brain death” seeks to clarify the position of the Catholic Church on the removal of vital organs from patients. In November 2008, a high-profile conference on organ transplants, held in one of Rome’s most prominent conference halls, steps away from St. Peter’s Basilica, and sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, caused an uproar when it declined to address the ethical problems […]
News
 • 

Vatican in “Firestorm” over Brain Death Criteria for Organ Transplants

Vatican in “Firestorm” over Brain Death Criteria for Organ Transplants by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, November 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Dispute within the Vatican on the approval of so-called “brain death” criteria for organ transplants remains sharp, according to a senior Vatican correspondent. Sandro Magister, a leading Italian journalist and expert on the Vatican, wrote this week of the internal dispute over support and opposition to “brain death” criteria, the definition of death that allows vital organs to be removed from patients while their hearts are still beating. Magister points out that in September this year, L’Osservatore Romano, […]
News
 • 

New England Journal of Medicine: ‘Brain Death’ is not Death – Organ Donors are Alive

New England Journal of Medicine: ‘Brain Death’ is not Death – Organ Donors are Alive by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen BOSTON, August 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an article that is sure to rock the world of organ donation, the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published an article which backs up the objections of various pro-life groups, as well as some scientists and physicians, to certain types of organ donation which involve the removal of vital organs from patients believed to be dead. The problem, say the authors of the NEJM article, is that in many […]
News
 • 

Doctors Who Almost Dissected Living Patient Confess Ignorance about Actual Moment of Death

Doctors Who Almost Dissected Living Patient Confess Ignorance about Actual Moment of Death by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PARIS, France, June 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Parisian whose organs were about to be removed by doctors after he had “died” of a heart attack, revived on the operating table only minutes before doctors began to harvest his organs. The 45 year-old man, whose name has been withheld by the French media, was given heart massage by paramedics after collapsing on a street in Paris earlier this year. He was then transferred to a nearby hospital for further emergency procedures, […]
News
 • 

Conference may Begin to Sway Vatican Opinion Against Brain Death: Eminent Philosopher

Conference may Begin to Sway Vatican Opinion Against Brain Death: Eminent Philosopher by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, February 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While he said that he could not predict the future, Professor Josef Seifert told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) on Friday that a conference on “brain death” criteria last week had possibly opened a door to moving opinion in the Vatican away from support for the use of the criteria for organ transplants. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com the day after the conference, Professor Seifert said, “I’m not a prophet. On the other hand, if one believes in the Catholic […]
News
 • 

Pope and Westminster Archbishop at Odds on ‘Gay Marriage’

Pope and Westminster Archbishop at Odds on ‘Gay Marriage’ by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White ROME, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Pope Benedict XVI prepares for his historic state visit to Britain later this week, his unequivocal message on the inviolability and sanctity of natural marriage is clashing sharply with the approach of the country’s top Catholic cleric to the issue of homosexuality. Speaking on Sunday to Neil Tweedie of the Daily Telegraph, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster was asked, “Should the Church one day accept the reality of gay partnerships?” He replied simply: “I don’t know.” “There is in […]
News
 • 

Archbishop Nichols’s Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children

Archbishop Nichols’s Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by John Smeaton, Director of SPUC LONDON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – These are dangerous times for families in Britain – and they are dangerous times too for Catholic families in Britain. In today’s Telegraph, Archbishop Nichols, the archbishop of Westminster, described as the “leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales” is interviewed by Neil Tweedie. He asks the archbishop whether the Catholic church should one day accept the reality of gay partnerships, who replies: “I don’t know … “ Now this is not […]
News
 • 

Obama to Immediately Abolish Mexico City Policy, Likely Fund Embryo Research, Aides Confirm

Obama to Immediately Abolish Mexico City Policy, Likely Fund Embryo Research, Aides Confirm by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., January 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the hours before Mr. Obama was to take the oath of office, anonymous reports confirmed that the new president intends to immediately open U.S. foreign aid funding to abortion proponents, and begin the process of opening funding to embryonic stem-cell research. Before the week of his inauguration is over, Obama is expected to issue an executive order repealing the Mexico City Policy, a Reagan-era policy that restricts overseas funding to groups that offer or […]
News
 • 

INFERTILITY CAN BE CAUSED BY ABORTED BABY BONE FRAGMENTS LEFT IN UTERUS

INFERTILITY CAN BE CAUSED BY ABORTED BABY BONE FRAGMENTS LEFT IN UTERUS by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, May 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers Kimberly Elford and Paul Claman at the University of Ottawa have revealed a gruesome circumstance explaining one reason why some otherwise healthy women are left infertile after abortions. In a case study published in the April issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the researchers note that fetal bone fragments can lodge into the muscular tissue in the uterus concealing them from hysteroscopes (tube cameras) which are normally used to detect remaining baby parts after abortions. With the use […]
News
 • 

Alliance Leadership Candidates Responses to CLC Survey

Alliance Leadership Candidates Responses to CLC Survey by LifeSiteNews.com Abortion 1. In terms of your personal views, do you consider yourself: a) pro-life b) pro-choice c) pro-abortion d) pro-life with exceptions (for life of mother, rape, incest) Day: pro-life Manning: pro-life 2. When does human life begin? a) fertilization b) implantation c) when brain waves are detected d) when the mother decides to carry to term e) other (specify) Day: fertilization Manning: fertilization (that is, conception) 3. Would you like to see restrictions on access to abortion in Canada? Day: Yes, I would like to see legal protection of all […]
News
 • 

Columnist, author George Jonas decries intellectual dishonesty of pro-abortion arguments

Columnist, author George Jonas decries intellectual dishonesty of pro-abortion arguments by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White TORONTO, May 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writing in this weekend’s National Post, columnist and author George Jonas decried what he identified as the intellectual dishonesty of the abortion movement’s arguments for “choice” and abortion as a woman’s right. Comparing modern abortion supporters to the ancient warrior city state of Sparta, whose law allowed infanticide for unwanted children, Jonas wrote that the difference now is that while for Spartans ‘unwanted’ meant ‘substandard’, “for us it means ‘inconvenient.’ “We don’t want standard or even superstandard children if […]
News
 • 

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion – Part 2

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion – Part 2 by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac To read part 1 of the 3 part series click here. LAKEFIELD, Ontario, August 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It is astonishing how much you can learn about someone in only a few hours, if only you ask the right questions, and, of course, if they are willing to answer. As my afternoon interrogating Donnell and Maria Leahy – of the world-famous Celtic band Leahy – progresses, I feel like I have been given a privileged look […]
News
 • 

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac See Part II of this series here. Introduction LAKEFIELD, Ontario, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some stories just seem too good to be true. Take the Leahys, for example. A family of 11 children who grew up working hard on the family farm, every one of them learning to play any number of instruments and mastering the art of Irish dancing in their spare time, who go on to form one of the most popular Celtic bands in music […]
News
 • 

EU Poll Shows Europeans Divided on Homosexual Marriage, but Reject Homosexual Adoptions

EU Poll Shows Europeans Divided on Homosexual Marriage, but Reject Homosexual Adoptions by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith BRUSSELS, December 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The majority of citizens in the European Union do not approve of legalizing homosexual “marriage” or the adoption of children by homosexual couples according to a recent poll. The Eurobarometer 66 examined the political and social opinions of 30,000 citizens of the EU member nations, incoming nations, and potential member states at the request of the European Commission. Although Europe’s elites have aggressively campaigned to impose same-sex “marriage” and adoption by homosexual couples, Europeans remain closely […]
News
 • 

Denver Coroner Rules “Homicide” in Organ-Donor Case

Denver Coroner Rules “Homicide” in Organ-Donor Case by LifeSiteNews.com DENVER, Colorado, October 12, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A Colorado coroner has ruled that a hospital removed vital organs from a donor before he died, and therefore his death was a homicide. The ruling raises serious questions about the definition of “brain death” that is used in organ-transplant cases. Mark Young, the coroner of Montrose County, Colorado, said that two hospitals—Montrose Memorial and St. Mary’s—failed to follow “accepted medical standards” to determine that William Rardin was actually dead. Rardin, who had been declared “brain dead” after he shot himself in September, was […]
News
 • 

Russian Surgeons Removing Organs Saying Patients Almost Dead Anyway

Russian Surgeons Removing Organs Saying Patients Almost Dead Anyway by LifeSiteNews.com MOSCOW, September 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organ donation is causing more ethicists to worry about abuses. Ten years ago, rumours circulated that homeless people in Brazil were being used as involuntary organ farms, but the stories were difficult to substantiate. More recently debates over the exact nature of “brain death” have highlighted the very real dangers of exploiting vulnerable patients in the effort to provide organs in what has become an extremely lucrative trade. The Courier Mail reports that surgeons in Russia are removing kidneys from homeless people in […]
News
 • 

Nurse Who Testified Against Michael Schivo Has Nursing Licence Revoked

Nurse Who Testified Against Michael Schivo Has Nursing Licence Revoked by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith Florida, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Country Gazette exclusive reveals that Florida’s Department of Health has demanded the nursing license and nearly $1700 dollars in fines and administrative costs from a nurse who gave public testimony in the case of Terri Schiavo. This comesÂat the same time that the Department of Health has dropped action against Michael Schiavo, also a registered nurse, for falsifying his guardianship papers. Carla Sauer Iyer, a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo until 1996, has given numerous […]
News
 • 

Why HIV, syphilis, and gonorrhea are rising among homosexuals

January 10, 2014 (LifeSiteNews) – This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report, Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2012, to whining among journalists that the reason for the documented continued rise in syphilis (primarily affecting homosexuals) has more to do with homophobia than anything else. Consider the following from Bloomberg News: Gonorrhea and syphilis are on the rise in the U.S., mostly in men who have sex with men (MSM), a trend the government said is linked to inadequate testing among people stymied by homophobia and limited access to health care. The rate of new gonorrhea cases rose […]
Blogs
 • 

Seeing is believing: ‘forced confrontation’ and the Holocaust

Seeing is believing, the old adage goes. Often the only thing capable of denting humanity’s monumental ability to bunker down in a state of denial is indisputable, visual evidence. When cruel things take place on a massive and institutionalized scale behind closed doors and out of sight in societies clinging to the tattered mantle of “civilized,” only jarring confrontation, history tells us, can shatter the delusions we cling to. If the ear won’t listen, tell it to the eye. That was the topic of a Slate article that came out some time ago, featuring a photo of German prisoners of […]
Blogs
 • 

Former Abortionist Bernard Nathanson Exposes Lies of American Pro-Abortion Movement

Former Abortionist Bernard Nathanson Exposes Lies of American Pro-Abortion Movement by LifeSiteNews.com By Tim Waggoner TORONTO, ON, July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On July 9, 2008, CFRB talk show host, Spider Jones, interviewed former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson about his past involvement in the abortion movement and his conversion to the pro-life viewpoint. At one time Nathanson was deeply entrenched in the American pro-abortion movement, having co-founded the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and overseen 75,000 abortions as director of an abortion clinic. During the CFRB program Nathanson recalled the deceitful and dishonest tactics that he and NARAL relied […]
News
 • 

Update: Prayers answered! Missing son of pro-life columnist found alive and well

Caleb Jacoby, the 16-year-old son of the heroically pro-life Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby has been found by police alive and well in New York’s Times Square after being missing since the afternoon of January 6.   Jeff Jacoby, an observant Jew, has used his formidable skills to serve the pro-life cause. Police have not released further details. Jeff Jacoby took to Twitter to relay his joy and thanks: “Our prayers have been answered. We are thrilled to hear from the Brookline Police that our beloved son Caleb has been found and is safe. Words can't express our gratitude for the […]
Blogs
 • 

Wal-Mart: No More Corporate Contributions to Support Or Oppose Controversial Issues

Wal-Mart: No More Corporate Contributions to Support Or Oppose Controversial Issues by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retail giant Wal-Mart announced Tuesday afternoon that the company will no longer use corporate money to “support or oppose highly controversial issues” such as homosexual activism. Wal-Mart had outraged pro-family groups for its financial support to homosexual activists, and for the recent promotion for sale of a graphic sex-ed manual promoting teen lesbianism, recalled shortly after a LifeSiteNews.com exposé. “Wal-Mart will not make corporate contributions to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they directly relate […]
News
 • 

UK Christian Couple who Refuse to Promote Homosexuality Forced out of Child Foster Care

UK Christian Couple who Refuse to Promote Homosexuality Forced out of Child Foster Care by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White CHARD, UK, October 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian couple in Somerset, UK, have been told by child services that they would be required to take teenaged foster children to homosexual support groups and teach the children placed in their care that homosexuality is normal. When the couple told officials at social services that it would violate their conscience to do so, the eleven year-old boy who had been placed with them was removed. Somerset Council officials cited the recently passed […]
News
 • 

Astonishing 88% of Americans Believe in Creation or God-Directed Evolution

Astonishing 88% of Americans Believe in Creation or God-Directed Evolution by LifeSiteNews.com PHILADELPHIA, October 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll reveals that 88% of the US population believes that God had at least some hand in the creation of life. The poll also shows a distinct educational bias towards the atheistic view that God could have had nothing to do with the creation of life. This supports complaints by many that most institutions of higher learning are heavily biased against any religious understanding of the origins of life. The poll says that although only 12% believe in the […]
News
 • 

Boycott Successful: McDonald’s Abandons Homosexual Activism

Boycott Successful: McDonald’s Abandons Homosexual Activism by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert OAK BROOK, Illinois, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Family Association (AFA) announced the end of a successful boycott yesterday against McDonald’s Corporation. McDonald’s has severed its ties to a homosexual business group and declared neutrality in the culture wars as per AFA’s request. AFA’s five-month boycott ended after Richard Ellis, former McDonald’s vice president of U.S. communications, left his seat on the board of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). McDonald’s, which was offered the seat after donating $20,000 to the NGLCC, […]
News
 • 

A Tribute to Outgoing HLI President Fr. Tom Euteneuer

A Tribute to Outgoing HLI President Fr. Tom Euteneuer by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary By John-Henry Westen FRONT ROYAL, VA, September 1, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the recent announcement that Fr. Tom Euteneuer has left Human Life International to return to his diocese, it seems appropriate to comment on his years of dedication to the pro-life cause. For many of us at LifeSiteNews, he has been one of the most outspoken and courageous leaders in the pro-life movement. This short commentary and accompanying video is a tribute to a friend and colleague for whom I have great respect. And like any tribute […]
News
 • 

Free Speech Concerns Ignored as “Hate Crimes” Bill Passes Fed. Judiciary Committee

Free Speech Concerns Ignored as “Hate Crimes” Bill Passes Fed. Judiciary Committee by LifeSiteNews.com 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 […]
News
 • 

The lessons of Bill C-43

The January 2014 Issue of the Interim contained this editorial further expanding upon the historical significance of recently obtained, 20-year-old cabinet meeting minutes on the Mulroney abortion bill, C-43 that followed the striking down of Canada's previous abortion legislation.
Opinion
 • 

First publication of documents on Gravel lawsuit against LifeSiteNews is important development

On Dec. 31, we brought LifeSiteNews readers up-to-date on the long running and still on-going lawsuit action against the Canadian branch of LifeSiteNews (LifeSiteNews, US is a separately incorporated organization, but this action has affected the entire organization). The Dec. 31 report was significant in that it included for the first time on LifeSiteNews the full text of the initial Fr. Gravel legal action in both French and English. The original legal action was written in French only and  was received at our Toronto mailing address (we do not actually work out of that address) during our staff Christmas break three […]
Blogs
 • 

Govt loses bid to conceal documents showing AIDS-Depo Provera link

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2014 (C-FAM.org) – Lawyers for U.S. government agencies have failed in an initial attempt to force a watchdog group to remove leaked documents from the group’s website. The documents describe studies showing complications of a long-lasting contraceptive heavily backed by the agencies and the Gates Foundation for use by African women. The U.S. agencies are accused of attempting to conceal their knowledge of studies showing women using the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera are at higher risk of getting HIV/AIDS. Allowing The Rebecca Project to publish the information means “this issue of Depo Provera’s harm now has […]
News
 • 

In Munoz case, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell a lone media voice for life

In bioethical matters of life and death, the liberal media can generally be counted on to come down on the side of death. But once in a while, exceptions arise. CBS’s Norah O’Donnell joined a panel with her “This Morning” co-anchor Charlie Rose and legal analyst Jack Ford on January 6 to discuss the heated controversy of brain dead Marlise Munoz, a Texas woman who remains on life support because of her unborn baby. Predictably, many liberals believe Munoz should be taken off life support and allowed to die – along with her now 18-week-old unborn infant.  But O’Donnell argued […]
Blogs
 • 

STD epidemic: MSM and CDC suffer from factophobia

A news report shouldn’t typically evoke laughter, especially if it’s not meant to be funny. Bloomberg news reporter, Elizabeth Lopatto’s take on the CDC’s latest, and alarming, report on escalating STDs is not meant to make anyone laugh. But the typical liberal approach to facts has gotten to be absurd. The CDC’s 2012 report (just released on January 8, 2014) indicates that syphilis, which can lead to blindness and strokes, has risen 11.1% in one year. All of these cases are among men, and mostly homosexual males who comprise 75% of all syphilis cases. Gonorrhea has increased as well since […]
Blogs
 • 

Wednesday begins two days of expert testimony in case of man who slipped abortifacient to girlfriend

It seemingly came out of the blue. John Andrew Welden admitted tricking his then-girlfriend Remee Jo Lee into taking misoprostol (Cytotec)last March with the intention of causing Ms. Lee to miscarry her 6-7-week-old unborn baby. His lawyers had worked out a plea bargain so that Welden pleaded guilty to lesser charges of consumer product tampering and conspiracy to commit mail fraud as part of a plea bargain to avoid first-degree murder charges under the NRLC-inspired Unborn Victims of Violence Act. The September agreement between prosecutors and defense attorney Todd Foster recommended a prison term of 13 years and eight months […]
Blogs
 • 

Doctor to Tell Brain Death Conference Removing Organs from “Brain Dead” Patients Tantamount to Murde

Doctor to Tell Brain Death Conference Removing Organs from “Brain Dead” Patients Tantamount to Murde by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, Italy, February 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Paul Byrne, a physician and one of the organisers of a conference on “brain death” set to take place in Rome this week, has provided LifeSiteNews.com with an exclusive advance copy of his presentation to the conference. (To find out more about the conference, see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021607.html) According to the prepared text Dr. Byrne will tell the conference that the use of “brain death” criteria, which is currently widely supported, even […]
News
 • 

Urgent prayer needed as son of pro-life Boston Globe columnist missing

Caleb Jacoby, the 16-year-old son of the heroically pro-life Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby has been missing since the afternoon of January 6.   Jeff Jacoby, an observant Jew, has used his formidable skills to serve the pro-life cause. Most recently here. Caleb’s parents and their school community in Brookline MA have been searching for the teen without success. Commenting on twitter Jeff Jacoby said “We are so deeply, deeply grateful for everything being done to reunite us with our beloved son Caleb.” Please see the information below for more details.
Blogs
 • 

Melissa was being pressured to abort: what she found on Google saved her unborn baby’s life

Where does a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy turn for support?  Most people assume she would turn to a friend, a confidant or perhaps her doctor.  The truth is every day in America, thousands of women turn to the Internet to find answers about pregnancies and reproductive options.  In fact, each month, there are nearly 2.1 million Google searches on abortion and abortion-related terms.  So it stands to reason, if we are to reach abortion-determined women in hopes of helping them choose life, we must connect with them through the Internet.  And that’s where Online for Life comes in.  Based […]
Blogs
 • 

Skeptical panel hears arguments against portions of pro-life Texas bill

A three-judge federal appeals court panel Monday heard an hour-long debate over the constitutionality of two sections of HB 2, a pro-life 2013 Texas law. The consensus, for what it’s worth, among media accounts is that judges Jennifer Walker Elrod, Catharina Haynes, and Edith Jones were skeptical of the plaintiff’s arguments made on behalf of Planned Parenthood and a number of abortionists by Janet Crepps, a lawyer for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel did not indicate when a decision would be rendered on U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel’s October ruling […]
Blogs
 • 

Belgium’s oldest athlete killed at his ‘euthanasia party,’ complete with Champagne toasts

Euthanasia in Belgium is becoming a celebration. Now, the nation’s 95-year-old “oldest athlete” was killed at his euthanasia party–complete with Champaign toasts for the about to be departed–and Belgian ethicists swoon. From the DH.be story (Google translation): A ’staging’ of death that has the gift to challenge Olivier Descamps, the chairman of the ethics committee of the hospital Jolimont. ” This trend is very curious and beautiful at once. We are facing a new definition of what it is to die. It really is the emotional culture of today’s societies. We need the death penalty contributes to experience emotions and shared joys.” Coming […]
Blogs
 • 

A memorable interview in the papal palace

When I look back at all that we reported on and did this past year, it takes my breath away and leaves me almost shaken.  So many large developments have occurred. We have covered more than I ever thought it was possible for LifeSiteNews to do so consistently on a daily basis over a whole year. We have gone up to an entirely new level of reporting and news distribution that has been a major and exhausting, but also exciting adjustment. It was like a lifetime lived in one year. We have never had to do so much travelling. Much […]
Blogs
 • 

Hassan Rasouli to be transferred from Sunnybrook Hospital

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is pleased that Hassan Rasouli will soon be transferred out of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre to the Toronto West Park Healthcare Centre. Mr. Rasouli was at the center of a precedent setting case that was decided by the Supreme Court of Canada, concerning the issue of whether doctors in Canada are required to obtain consent before withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment. Doctors at Sunnybrook argued at the Supreme Court of Canada that they were not required to obtain consent before withdrawing life-sustaining treatment (the ventilator) from Mr. Rasouli. The Sunnybrook doctors also argued that Mr. Rasouli was […]
Blogs
 • 

Will the Supreme Court strike down ‘bubble zone’ laws? Pray that it does.

The Pro-Life Action League is calling on all pro-life Christians to pray the Lord’s Prayer each day from January 7 through 15, for the intention that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down all of the restrictive “Bubble Zone” laws that have been enacted to muzzle sidewalk counselors. On Wednesday, January 15, the high court will hear oral arguments in the case of McCullen v. Coakley. Pro-life activists in Massachusetts are challenging that state’s recently enacted Bubble Zone, the most restrictive in the country. Under the law, pro-lifers may not speak to abortion clinic clients within 35 feet of the […]
Blogs
 • 

LifeSiteNews’ top 5 news events of 2013

2013 was a big news year for pro-life and pro-family issues, but after putting our heads together, LifeSiteNews’ editorial staff have narrowed the list down to what we believe were the biggest news events of the year.
News
 • 

Samuel Golubchuk Dies Naturally, ‘Peacefully’, after Family Fought Hospital’s Dehydration Plans

Samuel Golubchuk Dies Naturally, ‘Peacefully’, after Family Fought Hospital’s Dehydration Plans by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The daughter of 84-year-old Manitoban Samuel Golubchuk informed friends and supporters earlier today that her father had passed away peacefully in hospital. Mr. Golubchuk, whose family has been waging a court battle to keep him alive since late last November, was hospitalized for pneumonia in October of 2007. Neil Kravetsky, the Golubchuk family lawyer, said today, “Mr. Golubchuk won. He didn’t die because they pulled him off life support. He died when his time had come.” Prior […]
News
 • 

Boy in “Hopeless” Vegetative State Awakens and Steadily Improves

Boy in “Hopeless” Vegetative State Awakens and Steadily Improves by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White GRESHAM, Oregon October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young boy, who had previously been diagnosed as being in a “persistent vegetative state,” has awakened from a 22 month-long coma and is breathing on his own. Devon Rivers collapsed in a seizure during a phys-ed class in 2004 and his condition was never explained, though some doctors suggested it was caused by an unknown viral infection. Doctors agreed, however, that he had little hope of recovery. His mother, Carla Rivers, visited him regularly and, in addition to […]
News
 • 

Pope Benedict XVI: “Euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering.”

Pope Benedict XVI: “Euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering.” by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VATICAN, February 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Before praying the Angelus yesterday with the multitude gathered in Saint Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Christ’s suffering and crucifixion as an essential part of His mission of salvation. He reminded the faithful that “The cross of Christ will be the demon’s ruin, and this is why Jesus does not cease to teach his disciples that in order to enter into his glory he must suffer much, be rejected, condemned and crucified. Suffering […]
News
 • 

When you’re accused of being ‘divisive,’ remember Jesus was too

The beauty, wonder and innocence of Christmas throws into sharp relief the darkness alive in our world.  We are called to fight the darkness and strive toward the light. But if we don’t recognize the darkness for what it is and we suggest everything is rosy, we are deceiving and actually aiding the darkness.  Remember Screwtape, the demon in the famous Lewis novel The Screwtape Letters, advising Wormwood to get men to disbelieve the existence of demons? It is an effective means of promoting evil to suggest that all is fine and good where there is in fact major trouble.  […]
Blogs
 • 

Ring out the old

Some clichés are impossible to avoid because they are born of tradition, and thus I hope you will forgive me if I use my first column of 2014 to engage in a little reflection. A frantically busy year has gone by, after all, and the New Year (from the narrow vantage point of the present, anyhow) promises to surpass the last. I spent the last night of 2013 in church with my family, where we heard a solemn message of self-examination and looking forward. At the end of the service, our church has a tradition in which the pastor reads […]
Blogs
 • 

Jahi moved from Children’s Hospital Oakland!

Jahi McMath has been removed from Children’s Hospital Oakland. From the San Jose Mercury News story: Jahi McMath was quickly and quietly moved from Children’s Hospital of Oakland Sunday evening, the hospital confirmed… David Durand, chief of pediatrics at the hospital, sent a news release just after 8:30 p.m. confirming she was moved. “A short while ago, the body of Jahi McMath was released by Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland to the coroner,” he wrote. “The coroner has released her body to the custody of her mother, Latasha Winkfield, as per court order, for a destination unknown. I admit, I never thought that […]
Blogs
 • 

Study: Female Students More Promiscuous at Catholic Colleges

Study: Female Students More Promiscuous at Catholic Colleges by LifeSiteNews.com March 1, 2010 (CNSNews) – A new study concludes that women at Catholic colleges are more promiscuous than their peers at secular colleges, raising new alarms about the state of Catholic higher education. Another study finds that colleges with strong “moral communities” have a positive influence on students’ religious practice — but Catholic colleges generally lack clarity about the Catholic faith and have the same impact on Catholic students as do public universities. “The evidence is clear: there is a serious crisis in much of Catholic higher education, and the […]
News
 • 

NY Archbishop on Outspoken Abortion Teaching: I’m Just Doing My Job

NY Archbishop on Outspoken Abortion Teaching: I’m Just Doing My Job by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a period of relative silence since his installation last year, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan eagerly took an opportunity to set forth Church teaching on controversial points, including the forbidding of public honors for pro-abortion politicians, in a recent interview with NY1. The bishop also asserted that his outspokenness on such issues was simply part of his job as shepherd and teacher of the faith. When NY1 News reporter Roma Torre asked whether a pro-abortion Catholic […]
News
 • 

Major Catholic Organizations Push for Healthcare Overhaul Despite Abortion Mandate

Major Catholic Organizations Push for Healthcare Overhaul Despite Abortion Mandate by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three major Catholic organizations have issued a video and an action alert urging constituents to tell their legislators to immediately enact health care legislation, despite the vast abortion expansion embedded in the bills currently under consideration. “Please call and e-mail your Representative in the next 24 hours expressing your support for Congress to enact health care reform now,” the groups urge in an alert released last week. The page hosted by St. Vincent De Paul offers contact information […]
News
 • 

When is an abortion not an abortion? When the media says so.

Co-authored with Drew Belsky Shortly before the new year, a number of religious organizations were given protection from the HHS abortion and contraception mandate.  While social conservatives and defenders of the First Amendment cheered, numerous prominent media organizations manipulated basic scientific facts to deny that the mandate – required by federal law – forces people to fund abortion-inducing drugs. Media Matters did this at least twice, on January 1 and January 2, with the The New York Times and NBC News doing likewise.  While Pew Research did not deny that the mandate requires abortion funding, its weaselly assessment of the debate surrounding the mandate was almost as […]
Blogs
 • 

Catholic School Board Faces Human Rights Complaint for Limiting Teachers to Catholics

Catholic School Board Faces Human Rights Complaint for Limiting Teachers to Catholics by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine GUELPH, Ontario, September 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Wellington Catholic District School Board has recently had a human rights complaint filed against it because of their policy of only hiring teachers who are active Catholics. The complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal by Mr. Jesse Lloyd, 36, an out-of-work non-Catholic teacher whose application to the board was unsuccessful, reports the Guelph Mercury. Mr. Lloyd, who has lived in Guelph for four years, graduated with a teaching degree in 2006 […]
News
 • 

Tony Blair, Architect of Britain’s Anti-Christian Culture, Complains Christians Are Being Marginaliz

Tony Blair, Architect of Britain’s Anti-Christian Culture, Complains Christians Are Being Marginaliz by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Britain and leader of the ruling Labour Party for ten years, has decried in an interview the “ludicrous” recent decisions by which the religious expression of Christians is being suppressed in Britain. “I hope and believe that stories of people not being allowed to express their Christianity are exceptional or the result of individual ludicrous decisions. My view is that people should be proud of their Christianity and able to […]
News
 • 

Michael Schiavo Threatens to Sue Terri’s Foundation for Using Wife’s Name

Michael Schiavo Threatens to Sue Terri’s Foundation for Using Wife’s Name by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman TAMPA BAY, Florida, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation for using his wife’s name, to which he claims to have an exclusive right, according to a Tampa Bay CBS affiliate, WTSP-Channel 10. Schiavo also accused the Schindlers, who began the Foundation during the battle to care for their disabled daughter before she was starved to death at Michael’s behest, of profiteering off Terri’s name. Michael Schiavo first engaged in legal battles with the Schindler family in […]
News
 • 

Spain’s New Abortion on Demand Law Takes Effect Amid Controversy

Spain’s New Abortion on Demand Law Takes Effect Amid Controversy by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new abortion law which will allow the deadly procedure to be provided on demand during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy came into effect in Spain yesterday amid controversy about its constitutionality. The governor of the region of Murcia, as well as other regional and provincial governments, have implied that they will not fully comply with the law unless it is confirmed as constitutional by the nation’s Constitutional Tribunal. The President of Murcia, Ramon Luis Valcarcel, said […]
News
 • 

At nine months pregnant former ballerina “dancing a lovely pas de deux with her unborn baby”

January 3, 2014 (National Right to Life News) – Here is a nice story to usher in the new year, courtesy of a friend who passed the account along to me. By now, Mary Helen Bowers has no doubt delivered her baby, always an uplifting story. But in this case there is a wrinkle. A former ballerina she has used her Instagram account (balletbeautiful) to chronicle the growth of her unborn baby. And (as of December 19) at nine months pregnant Bowers was “dancing a lovely pas de deux with her unborn baby’! “I just love knowing that when I’m […]
Blogs
 • 

E-mail intro

Today's blog posts: We won’t kill anybody: overcoming the civil rights disconnect – Fr. Frank Pavone At nine months pregnant former ballerina “dancing a lovely pas de deux with her unborn baby” – Dave Andrusko Australia’s Dr. Death is exporting suicide kits to the U.S. – Alex Schadenberg Chinese doctor caught buying/selling newborn babies – Wesley J. Smith
News
 • 

We won’t kill anybody: overcoming the civil rights disconnect

Our nation again approaches the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, and I will again be with Dr. King's family on that day.   Many people understand the connection between the civil rights movement and the pro-life movement thanks to the work of Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. Her father, Rev. A.D. Williams King, was Martin's brother. She began working with me fulltime at Priests for Life as our Director of African-American Outreach in 2004.   She and I have been together with her family at many events both happy and sad, including the annual observances […]
Blogs
 • 

Australia’s Dr. Death is exporting suicide kits to the U.S.

January 3, 2014 (Alex Schaenberg) – In his most recent newsletter, Philip Nitschke, Australia's Dr Death, claims to have found a way to import suicide kits into the United States, starting in January 2014, under the cover of his Max Dog Brewing kit. Nitschke admitted that his Max Dog Brewing kits are in fact Suicide kits. He send the kits to people who pay by credit card. The kit is used for an “undetectable” death. On June 30, 2011; Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed into law a bill outlawing the sale of “suicide kits” in Oregon. The Oregon bill was in response to the […]
Blogs
 • 

New On-the-Ground Investigations Confirm UNFPA Complicity in China’s Coercive Population Policy

New On-the-Ground Investigations Confirm UNFPA Complicity in China’s Coercive Population Policy by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) is turning up the heat on the Obama administration for handing $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with news of yet another investigation confirming the UN group’s complicity in China’s coercive birth control policies. In March and May of 2009, PRI carried out two separate investigations, covering 6 UNFPA “model counties.” These are counties where the UNFPA claim that their efforts have “removed birth targets and quotas and […]
News
 • 

Bill Gates Among Investors with $26 Million Share in Homosexual Activist Publishing Company

Bill Gates Among Investors with $26 Million Share in Homosexual Activist Publishing Company by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, July 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Independent revealed today that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has acquired a major stake in a homosexual activist publishing company. SEC Filings reveal that Cascade Investment, which invests Gates’ money, is among a group of investors that has bought a $26.2 million share in PlanetOut, a publishing company which runs Out magazine as well as the dating website Gay.com which is used primarily for sexual “hook-ups” and all-gay RSVP Cruises. According to Pink News, […]
News
 • 

Bishop Vasa: Individual Bishops Trump Conference Every Time

Bishop Vasa: Individual Bishops Trump Conference Every Time by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The authority of the Catholic bishop within his own diocese trumps the national bishops’ conference and “no bishop has an obligation” to adopt the conference’s documents, asserted Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon in a landmark talk last week. “Such documents do not become normative for a particular diocese unless the bishop, either explicitly or implicitly, recommends them,” he told the 2010 InsideCatholic Partnership Award Dinner last Thursday. Catholic bishops who boldly promote life and family in their diocese have often […]
News
 • 

PRIEST SAVED CELINE DION FROM BEING ABORTED

PRIEST SAVED CELINE DION FROM BEING ABORTED by LifeSiteNews.com MONTREAL, Jan 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Famous Canadian pop star Celine Dion, the fourteenth child in her family, admitted that her mother was convinced not to abort her by a priest. Catholic World News reports today that Dion said her mother asked the parish priest if she could have an abortion. “He told her that she had no right to go against nature,” said Dion. “So I have to admit that in a way, I owe my life to that priest.”
News
 • 

No-Fault Divorce a Greater threat to Marriage than Gay ‘Marriage’: Expert

No-Fault Divorce a Greater threat to Marriage than Gay ‘Marriage’: Expert by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, professor of political science at Patrick Henry College and author of “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” the government “is engaged in a direct assault on the family” that is causing family breakdown – which in turn allows government to reach into yet more areas of civil society under the pretext of solving the problems that the breakdown of the family creates. “I would go so far as to […]
News
 • 

U.S. Dept. of State Announces $50 Million Contribution to UNFPA

U.S. Dept. of State Announces $50 Million Contribution to UNFPA by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for the U.S. Department of State earlier this week stated that this $50 million in federal funds this year will go to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). While the UNFPA says its activity in China has mitigated the country’s coercive one-child policy, a recent on-the-ground investigation by the Population Research Institute (PRI) has confirmed the conclusion of a 2001 federal investigation that UNFPA is complicit in China’s coercive population control tactics. State Department Spokesman Robert […]
News
 • 

STDs two and a half times More prevalent in lesbians than Normal Women

STDs two and a half times More prevalent in lesbians than Normal Women by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White December 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a sexually transmitted disease that a new study has found has a higher than normal prevalence among practicing lesbians. The peer review journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, is carrying a small study comparing the instances of BV among lesbians with that among heterosexual women. The result was that of 189 heterosexuals and 171 lesbians recruited, 25.7 per cent of lesbians compared with 14.4 per cent of heterosexuals carried the disease. The study concluded that […]
News
 •