‘Tolkien’ film likely contains more of ‘wormtongue’ than truth, literature buff warns

March 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Joseph Pearce, a scholar who has written extensively on literature, history, and religion, is warning viewers against ‘Tolkien,’ an upcoming biographical movie that he worries will pervert the memory of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Catholic author of the beloved Lord of the Rings books. In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Pearce admitted that he has not seen the unreleased film. But the antecedents in the works by screenwriters David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford persuaded him to fear how the real-life Tolkien will fare in their hands. Pearce told LifeSiteNews that he does not want Christian parents to be disappointed or […]
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Did Pope Francis promote cohabitation before marriage?

The Church has always condemned cohabitation before marriage, but Pope Francis himself has been ambiguous on the issue to say the least. In this episode, I’m going to show you the Pope’s record on the issue, and explain why his approach to it has been so deeply concerning. You don’t need to take my word for it, because I’m going to show you exactly what he said.
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We’re in our last week!

With Spring around the corner, you might be looking at doing some ‘spring cleaning’ in the near future. Here at LifeSite, we are doing our own form of ‘spring cleaning’ as our mission compels us to expose and sanitize the lies of the mainstream media on their lies or distortions regarding life and family news developments.
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Raising concerns about Pope Francis is hard, but essential. Here’s why…

This is the first episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, a short weekly commentary on the most important news developments in the Church and culture. We are beginning with a series laying out the hard evidence for our concerns with Pope Francis.   We decided to launch today for the feast of the Annunciation, but starting tomorrow it will appear every Tuesday. The show is also available by video on The John-Henry Westen Show Youtube channel, and my LifeSite blog.
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One million Argentinians expected to March for Life

BUENOS AIRES, March 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – More than 1 million pro-life advocates are expected to march in more than 50 cities throughout Argentina on Saturday to show their rejection of abortion in the South American country. In August 2018, Argentina’s Senate rejected a proposal to legalize abortion for unborn babies up to 14 weeks’ gestation, following months of sometimes violent protests by pro-abortion groups and vocal counterprotests by pro-life groups. The proposed abortion law would have also severely limited the right of medical professionals to object to committing abortions. The event comes just two days before International Day of […]
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US bishops’ agency lobbies Congress to give millions to pro-abortion, pro-contraception groups

March 20, 2019 (Lepanto Institute) — Since 2016, the Lepanto Institute has written about the congressional lobbying efforts of both the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). In May of 2016, we provided details regarding a joint letter the USCCB and CRS sent to Congress requesting nearly $6 billion to be allocated for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). At the heart of our concern was the fact that USAID and PEPFAR together consist of the world's largest suppliers of contraception and condoms. The […]
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Episode 9: The Totalitarian Transgender Movement with Nancy Pearcey

In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Nancy Pearcey and Jonathon Van Maren discuss the deeply-rooted philosophical arguments underpinning the transgender movement, how it exploded in less than a decade, and the dangers it poses to our society. Nancy Pearcey has been called America’s “preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual” and she’s the author of “Love Thy Body.”
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‘Beto’ O’Rourke endorses third-trimester abortions as a ‘decision that the woman makes’

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, one of the latest Democrats to enter the party’s 2020 presidential primary, confirmed he’s just as uncompromisingly pro-abortion as the rest of the field Monday when he expressed his support for legal elective abortions in the third trimester. O’Rourke was speaking at a campaign event in Cleveland, Ohio, the Daily Caller reports. An attendee asked him how far he takes his “pro-choice” stance, anticipating how he might respond. “Are you for third trimester abortions or are you going to protect the lives of third trimester babies?” she asked. “Because, you […]
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Will you join the great campaign in support of life?

March 19, 2019 (Human Life International) — “What is urgently called for,” wrote Pope St. John Paul II in the great pro-life encyclical Evangelium Vitae, “is a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life.” (EV, ¶95) The vast and multifarious pro-life movement, with its ever-expanding networks of crisis pregnancy centers, mobile ultrasound units, political activists and lawyers, pro-life student clubs, news organizations, marches, peaceful protesters and medical centers, is the remarkable and, in many respects, unlikely embodiment of this great movement. Against all the odds, and often with little time, money, and […]
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Radical leftist Southern Poverty Law Center fires its co-founder

March 19, 2019 (Daily Signal) — The co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a deep-pocketed, left-wing civil rights organization, was fired on Wednesday. Morris Dees, a prominent lawyer who founded SPLC in 1971, was reportedly forced out due to workplace misconduct, though the organization didn't specify what that misconduct was. The Los Angeles Times reported: “A letter signed by about two dozen employees — and sent to management and the board of directors before news broke of Dees' firing — said they were concerned that internal 'allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of […]
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Episode 8: Abby Johnson’s Pro-Life Conversion

Johnson says that she “essentially coerced women into making a decision for abortion that was sacrificing their children. And I knew that that was incredibly unjust. And I thought, here I am working for this organization that says we’re here to fight for justice for women. But at what cost? I mean there’s no justice when we’re having to sacrifice the rights of someone else.”
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Episode 7: My life as a pro-life activist with Joe Scheidler

91-year-old Joe Scheidler tells Jonathon Van Maren that it was during a speech he attended by Senator Henry Hyde in Chicago in the early 1970s that he became interested in the pro-life fight. “I listened very carefully to Henry’s talk and then I started studying the whole pro-life issue of fetal development,” he says. “I thought this was going to destroy our country because we are taking protection away from the most helpless — the unborn.”
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UK health officials to reconsider rules putting gender-confused men in women’s hospital wards

March 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will re-evaluate its controversial practice of allowing gender-confused men to be admitted to female hospital wards, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed in an interview Monday. Last month, LifeSiteNews reported that despite NHS policy dictating that the sexes are generally to be kept to separate “sleeping accommodations or toilet/bathroom facilities,” exceptions are made for males who claim to be women, regardless of whether they have undergone “transition” treatment or even obtained a doctor’s recommendation. These exceptions occur “routinely,” according to the Daily Mail, provoking outrage over the prospect of sexual assault victims being […]
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Denmark wants to speed up forced adoption process to take kids from birth parents

March 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Denmark’s minister for Children and Social Affairs has authored a government proposal making forced adoptions that would create definitive separations between children and birth parents easier for authorities. Mai Mercado said in an interview with Berlingske that the biological parents’ rights would not be affected by the new rules presented to the Danish parliament on Tuesday. The conservative politician claims that the proposal would cut red tape and legal requirements during the process to provide faster outcomes and significantly reduce costs for municipal services. “This is all with the child’s interest foremost,” she said. Currently, […]
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