In 1049, when St. Peter Damian wrote his treatise to Pope Leo IX, homosexuality and sexual perversion in general were far more openly rampant within the clergy than today.
'Mexico is living a demonic infestation similar to the one these territories lived before the evangelization and before Our Lady of Guadalupe’s apparition.'
The ink was barely dry on last week’s Supreme Court ruling when Father James Martin, SJ, began scolding Catholics who were, from his decorous perspective, too strident in denouncing the decision.
'We are encouraged that the Ohio Department is taking steps to rein in these unsafe abortion facilities, but it is a shame that this wasn’t done months ago,' said Newman
That one courageous man can stand up to this vicious behaviour and nepotistic cohort in a country where euthanasia has become a 'fundamental human right' and expose its raw underbelly is testament to the ‘power of the one’.
Groups like CARE, Population Services International (PSI), and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are still thought of as charities, but have less and less in common with America’s vibrant voluntary tradition.
'I wonder whether you have questioned whether it is the role of a corporation such as yours to be participating in such an important matter that impacts all of Australian society now and into the future,' the letter said.
'Unfortunately, women who do not have abortions at any of the nine operating ambulatory surgical centers that perform abortions will continue to be subjected to substandard medical care,' said Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life.
The European Council's recommendations prompted indignant responses from Brits who say the EU has no business criticizing mothers who choose to stay at home.
The disabled should not be encountered as ‘problems’ to solve or ‘difficulties’ to eliminate but as people who bring a very special gift into the world.
Thank you to uCatholic for the original concept of this graphic to which we have made some changes. The text was written by Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict, and was approved by St. John Paul II. For a high resolution version of this image click here.
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is to the sexual revolution what the execution of Louis XVI was to the French Revolution. It has destroyed the mystique of marriage.
Today's decision of the Supreme Court lacks both constitutional and moral authority. There is no eternal or natural law that allows for marriage to be redefined.
While the Affordable Care Act has multiple problematic implications for religious freedom, the Court got this decision wrong based on an improper understanding of its role and erroneous view of the separation of powers.
The specter of runaway population growth still terrifies India’s elites, and the legacy of the emergency period—population reduction by any means necessary—lives on in modern India.
LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen, who also co-founded the international organization Voice of the Family, released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to require states to uphold same-sex “marriage”. Today, the Supreme Court undermined marriage, effectively making it open season on religious liberty in America — and providing the Court's blessing to a redefinition of marriage that is opposed to the Will of God, basic human nature, and the U.S. Constitution. With its decision, the Court has found a “civil right” where none exists. Thanks to the Supreme Court's majority, LGBT activists and their allies […]
In a 5-4 ruling handed down this morning in Obergefell v. Hodges, the justices ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to offer marriage licenses to homosexual couples.
Once upon a time Catholic teachers would have been censured for preaching homosexuality. Now activists want to see them sacked for preaching Catholicism.
Guttmacher's argument that government entities should collect less data on abortion for fear that it might be used to make abortion look bad is simply disingenuous and smacks of desperation.
Kasper’s path to a sacrament that speaks and makes present the nuptial union of Christ and his Church may be a mercy—but, for the divorced and remarried it may be mercy wrapped in a lie.
As unbelievable as it sounds, this is how we picked up our abortionist on ‘abortion day.' It breaks my heart, because he must have been ashamed of what he was doing.
The ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says, 'Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them.'
Marriage and the family and therefore the Church and civilisation now depend upon the clearest possible proclamation of Humanae Vitae and of Familiaris Consortio if we are to survive and replace a developing one world Culture of Death.
French boards have an opportunity to show Catholic leadership on the issue that will help push back the sexualization of children not just in the English Catholic schools but the public schools as well.
Ohio authorities have chosen to ignore the evidence of unsafe conditions at Preterm even though they have contributed to the death of at least one patient.
Right-thinking people should not -- must not – fail in their duty to teach Biblical sexual morality to their children despite state-sponsored interference.
BATON ROUGE, LA, June 23, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life efforts in Louisiana are facing difficulties after a state agency dropped a pro-life regulation, easing the way for another abortion facility to open in the state. The Department of Health & Hospitals (DHH) rescinded a 2012 regulation that required new abortion clinics to have state approval through a facility need review (FNR). The move, which took place last week, comes after a Planned Parenthood facility was rejected by DHH in January. The decision was subsequently challenged, which led to the rescission. The DHH decision clears a significant roadblock for Planned Parenthood's […]
The language in the document seems schizophrenic with some solid Church teaching and then vaguely-worded statements skirting open confrontation with Church teaching.
'Our goal with this film is to wake women up to the unexposed side effects of these powerful medications and the unforeseen consequences of repressing women’s natural cycles,' said the former talk show maven.
'What will happen when the six or seven additional abortion clinics close? Lives will be saved and women will be protected from exploitation by substandard abortion mills,' said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.
Abortions are currently performed there only one day a week, but if the past is prologue, we should fully expect that Amy Miller will aggressively work to increase its 'business.'
Whoever would have thought we would have arrived at a place in our society when factually reporting what someone said at a public conference could be deemed “hate”?
'We are calling on all TDs and Senators to support the discontinuation of a label which can lead to lethal discrimination and a lack of best care for devastated families.'
The virtue of chastity is 'very difficult' but it is a genuine and life-giving love 'that does not try to use the other person for one’s own pleasure,' he said.
Kagan graduated from Princeton, class of 1981; my class. Now, one of my own classmates can rule 'unconstitutional' millennia of human history and culture.
LifeSite rejects all of the claims and has responded with demands that the Peel board immediately either withdraw in writing the allegations or immediately provide adequate particulars supporting them.
'Given that contraception and environmentalism so often go hand-in-hand it is deeply troubling that Church teaching on the primacy of procreation is not reaffirmed.'
Pro-life and pro-family leaders are weighing in on what might prove to be the most controversial encyclical released since Pope Paul VI’s landmark 1968 teaching on human sexuality.
It should be clear that the casual comparison between homosexual couples and infertile heterosexual marriages is not only facile and foolish—it is hurtful, callously disregarding the lived experience of infertile couples.
In the light of the latest findings on safe sex belief and risk taking among teenagers, the 'Keep it safe, keep it sexy' approach is scientifically and morally indefensible.
If we are going to reclaim a proper understanding of natural marriage, then we must challenge and confront the ideology and environment in which our youth are being raised.
The 180-page encyclical is an often fascinating read on Christian care for creation, subsumed under emphatic passages on the dire risks of climate change.
Increased technology, medical knowledge, and social support allows traditionally marginalized women—teenagers, minorities, and those with unintended pregnancies—the choice to give birth.
Catholics’ denominational rights are not just 'the bishops’ rights, ... the Catholic institutions’ rights, it is all of the Catholic electors,’ says Mississauga lawyer Geoff Cauchi.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is arguing that to claim sexual orientation is changeable and that counseling can help effect such change is inherently fraudulent.
'This closure is a huge victory for pro-life activists who have worked to save babies from abortion and even suffered wrongful arrests there,' said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.
A Christianity that pretends it can do without marriage while claiming to be acting out of compassion, has taken on the trappings of Christianity while leaving us with an empty shell.
Whoopi Goldberg asked Carly Fiorina, 'Are you going to run as a person who is going to govern for everyone, or are you running on your Christian beliefs?'
God’s mandate to 'fill the earth' starts with those willing to believe that, just as the Lord is faithful to those who develop innovations to feed millions, he is faithful to families trying to feed their children.
The document released by NARAL laments the fact that pregnancy help organizations out-number abortion providers, while accusing the locally funded non-profits of lying to women.
The proposal would also create a 'separation between mercy and conversion, which does not seem consistent with the Gospel,' says Cardinal Ennion Antonelli.
We can no longer afford to deny the hard truth: the threats to the freedoms of Canadians like you and me who believe in the sanctity of life and the traditional family are growing every day.
'Without the stay granted today, we would have been in the position of being fined for failing to comply with the mandate,' Fr. Frank Pavone told LifeSiteNews.
He wrote that the state acted 'with shameless disrespect for fundamental fairness and equality' by not recognizing the gay 'marriages' he and others performed.
'Today, we can say that the City of Philadelphia has heard us. They gave these babies a place to be buried,' said Catherine Foster, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom.
'The thought of high pressure groups like UNFPA swooping into Nigeria to finish what the terrorists started is very troubling,' Fr. Shenan Boquet told LifeSiteNews.
The evangelical leader encouraged Christians to 'fight the tide of moral decay that is being crammed down our throats by Big Business, the media, and the gay and lesbian community.'
Brother Damon Kelly has been arrested at least ten times since he began distributing pamphlets on abortion and homosexuality, without ever being charged.
'When are we going to stop sitting back and allowing our religious freedoms to be violated without consequence?' asks Angela Kennedy, the trustee behind the motion.
Whatever satisfaction some may gain from a same-sex relationship, it can never be a 'marriage' -- because marriage, by definition, is the union of a man and a woman.
While the issue in New Zealand is not going away in the short term we can at least hold out hope that a well considered inquiry will conclude that euthanasia and assisted suicide are never safe and should not be made law.
If you are reading this letter, you already know that truthful news reporting in Canada is a scarce commodity. And when it comes to issues pertaining to life and family - it’s practically non-existent.
'Florida mandates waits of three days before getting a marriage license, 20 days before divorce, and three days before buying a handgun...So, why not a short wait before an abortion?'
Where can pro-life and pro-family leaders, politicians, and pastors on the front lines go to find the accurate and critical news and information that they need to effectively fight abortion and attacks on the family?
This is the same old story of corrupt, amoral people being in power and the churches and similar institutions caving in, compromising their principles, and abandoning the battle.
Many groups oppose the assisted suicide bill because it gives physicians, the right in law to cause the death of their patients when their patients are at the most vulnerable time of their lives.
The notion that hormonal contraceptives are safer than aspirin is an outdated statistic that relies on apples-to-oranges comparisons, and is not a good rationale for dispensing the pill via vending machines.
The British Court of Appeal has effectively ruled that homosexual advocacy trumps the free speech of Christians not only in government but in jurisprudence.
By rescuing sex from liberalism, we can restore sex to its rightful place—not as bargained recreation between Lockean rights-bearers, but as the complete gift of mind, body, and soul to another person, and the reception of the complete gift of the other.
'This report is further demonstration that billion dollar Big Abortion’s tentacles reach through some California lawmakers into taxpayer monies to benefit their abortion business.'
The reality of abortion is perhaps at its clearest when a medical waste van arrives to collect the body parts of children whose lives are lost to abortion.
What the birth-control/abortion numbers reveal is that abortion is the backup for failed birth-control and Planned Parenthood is the leading provider of both.
'Medically speaking, this push to implant IUDs immediately after delivery is a travesty,' Rita Diller, the national director of the American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood Project, told LifeSiteNews.
TORONTO, June 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Dressed in clerics and holding a rainbow-colored flag, NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo showed up at the June 7 sex-ed rally claiming she was there to show support for LGBTQ children, and that there are “six-year-old gays, lesbians and trans” children. The United Church minister who self-identifies as a “queer woman” and is MPP for Parkdale-High Park sponsored Bill 77, banning reparative therapy for minors and declassifying it as an insurable medical service under OHIP. Bill 77 passed on June 4. DiNovo, who said the majority of United Church members supported the Liberal government’s sex-ed […]
North Carolina Right to Life's Natalie Votipka credited the 72-hour waiting bill's victory to 'the ordinary North Carolinians who are willing to stand for life in the legislative and political realms.'
'The differences between men and women are not of the order of opposition or subordination, but rather communion and generation,' he told Puerto Rico's bishops Monday.
He was never afraid about the possibility of losing all insurance coverage, because 'I never was afraid of the risk to my health, because I know Who creates and sustains life,' the Rhode Island man told LifeSiteNews.
'The defense and promotion of human life and of marriage and the family is at the foundation of a Christian culture, and indeed, of any viable human culture,' he told the NET Canada gala.
There are more than 1,700 religiously affiliated colleges and universities in the U.S. There are also 29,000 Christian preschools, elementary and high schools, all of which will be affected by the Supreme Court decision
His statement came as the Russian Orthodox Church announced that it is ending 'formal contacts' with two Protestant churches in Europe for rejecting Christian sexual morality.
The decision whether a soldier is fit to serve will be removed from doctors and unit commanders and transferred to the Air Force's national headquarters.
'Please pass on to your readers how appreciative Karen and I – and the whole family – are for the prayers for Bella,' Santorum told LifeSiteNews. 'But....'
The pro-life women are specifically protesting a measure presented by the government and supported by the president to decriminalize abortion in the country.
The pope 'knows there are those hoping that the next pope will turn everything back around," said Archbishop Fernandez. 'If you go slowly it's more difficult to turn things back.'
As the debate over same-sex marriage proceeds, let’s drop the pretense of scientific disinterest and focus on the competing values that are really at stake.
The Canadian Pediatrics Society is under fire for its official policy that babies at 22 weeks and younger should receive only palliative care to die painlessly.
'Government is supposed to protect freedom, not intimidate citizens into acting contrary to their faith and conscience,' said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco.
Regrettably, it is considered a human right in many nations to kill the weakest of us– the unborn children, the sick, the handicapped, and the elderly.
The New Abortion Caravan has been successful in impacting not just the present discussion, but the discussion of past historical events regarding abortion rights as well.
'The federal government has a responsibility ... to ensure that agenda-driven, anti-family provincial governments don’t have the ability to weak havoc.'
A Vatican academy president is accusing a pro-life leader of ignoring trafficking victims after he criticized the Vatican for hosting major population control advocates.
'The Catholic Health Association and other so-called Catholic groups provided cover for those on the fence to support Obama and the administration,' Cardinal Francis George said at the time ObamaCare passed.
'What we need to do is help people from the inside out, not turn society on its head because of the very real struggles of perhaps seven out of 1,000 people,' Dr. Michael Brown told LifeSiteNews.
The German Catholic journalist and pro-life activist explains the significance of the recent stir caused by prominent Catholics in Germany calling for change on Church moral teaching.
The reason the Irish are celebrating is that they have with this referendum delivered a decisive and final blow to their venerable image as a Catholic nation.
Gov. Pat McCrory announced he would veto the bill the same day a business leader threatened to pull $20 million in business out of the state if it became law.