Three physician-researchers have found evidence that women using hormonal birth control do conceive children, who are then destroyed by the chemicals in an early abortion.
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 […]
Minister Eduardo Petta lauded 'respect for family and for its participation in the education of its children' as an inviolable 'constitutional principle' in Paraguay.
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Why have American networks and outlets such as Google News almost completely ignored the kidnapping and attempted murder of 50 schoolchildren near Milan?
There is absolutely no way of denying that Catholic Relief Services played a willing role in a project designed to spread contraception to poor people in rural Madagascar.
As part of its 'Made in China 2025' campaign, the Chinese government is embarking on a massive, state-led drive to acquire DNA from both its own citizens and the citizens of the world, including Americans.
The Writers Guild of America argued that a bill to protect unborn children makes the state 'an inhospitable place for those in the film and television industry to work.'
Ryan Bomberger, an internationally recognized pro-life speaker, shares his unique upbringing as an adopted child in a family of 15. He also discusses social justice and where the civil rights movement went wrong on abortion.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of one Chilean bishop accused of covering up clerical sexual abuse, only to pass on his responsibilities to another bishop blamed for mishandling complaints.
Attorney General Dana Nessel has defied the Michigan Legislature, which passed a law allowing religious adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples.
Even though Catholics represent half the victims of hate crimes in Scotland, the bishops believe that new legislation will impinge on freedom of speech and religion.
The left-wing organization that exposes 'hate groups' is actually 'ripping off' donors and engaging in racial discrimination, according to the ex-staff member.
Steven Chase Brigham operated a complicated and illegal abortion scheme between New Jersey and Maryland, killing hundreds of babies and injuring multiple women.
The rarity of these sorts of events at the UN, when compared to the frequency of those advocating against life and family, makes them that much more valuable and irreplaceable.
This represents a subtle shift in support from the Pontifical Academy for Life's previous position, issued before Pope Francis dismissed and replaced all of its members.
Previously, foreign aid recipients that didn't commit or promote abortion themselves could still give money to other organizations that do. No more, per the Trump administration.
The consensus on what a woman is has been 'getting eroded due to the recent phenomenon of gender identity and gender ideology,' said Abp. Bernardito Auza.
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.
In an exclusive interview with LifeSite, Bishop Schneider expands on certain questions which arose in response to his essay on how the Church should handle a heretical pope
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More than 10,000 people protested the archdiocese standing by while retired Cardinal Roger Mahony spoke at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
'We will all answer to the good Lord one day. I will say in this instance, ‘I fought for the lives of innocent babies, even under the threat of legal action.'
The high court deemed Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff's remarks — 'A 56-year-old and a six-year-old? What do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?' — deserving of censorship.
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.
The professor who refuses to use transgender-preferred pronouns says Cambridge University showed 'their solidarity with the diversity-inclusivity-equity mob.'
Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, the convicted priest, told the court, 'Abortion is murder and no law or court decision can make legitimate what is intrinsically evil.'
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 […]
The priest has now responded, calling O'Rourke's comments 'incompatible not only with Catholicism, but also with basic respect for God, His Law, Christian morality, and the truth.'
The ruling left-wing NDP has pushed through a number of radical proposals, while pro-life groups claim that Jason Kenney of the United Conservative Party has abandoned them.
'It is the policy of the Federal Government to...encourage institutions to foster environments that promote open, intellectually engaging, and diverse debate,'
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While pro-life activists and organizations have received their share of threats, more serious attacks take place against pro-lifers with little mention in the press.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property wants to warn attendees of 'dangers to the faith present' at the heterodox educators' conference.
'Andrew Cuomo makes it clear that he doesn't believe Catholic teaching, and therefore he’s ex-communion,' Bishop Joseph Strickland said. 'He's out of communion.'
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 […]
The bishops expressed 'regret' over hospitals demanding that prospective job applicants perform abortions, whereas last year they condemned pro-abortion laws as having 'no moral force.'
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.”
Cardinal Godfried Danneels helped get Jorge Bergoglio elected, but he also will be remembered for telling a clerical sex-abuse victim to remain silent.
“The savage and heinous terrorist attacks on the mosques in New Zealand are being and will be used to try to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Upcoming elections could help advance the party's goals of mandatory sex education and the 'removal of religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.'
The Cardinal's conviction, which 'was 20 years in the making,' isn't surprising given the anti-Catholic sentiment, John Macaulay told EWTN's Raymond Arroyo.
It took an activist group doing its own background check to uncover this information. How many other sex offenders are libraries inviting to read to children?
The anti-cop, pro-Marxist, and homosexualist Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition is now receiving $60,000 per year from the U.S. bishops through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
CityBus told Tippecanoe County Right to Life that accepting their ad would mean 'it might have to accept ads from other organizations — like ones that wear hoods and burn crosses.'
Cardinal Marx signaled today that the German Church is open to revisiting Catholic teaching against contraception, cohabitation, and homosexual relationships.
'I think that the real shame in all of this is that Democrats are perfectly capable of coming together and agreeing on the fact that they’re comfortable ripping babies straight from a mother’s womb or killing a baby after birth.'
‘The truth needs to be made known about this sordid history and it is my goal to see that is done, and ultimately to put an end to this barbaric practice.’
It means accepting that the State can interfere in the life of the Church to the point that judges may interfere in the choice of bishops and the pope.
'The end of the law of celibacy for all [priests] will also be a way to bring us back to ordinary humanity,' said Archbishop of Poitiers Pascal Wintzer.
'HR is not impartial, their actions provide clear and convincing evidence of favoritism, and they have abused their power and authority,' a Google software engineer says.
The transgender movement loved me when I was changing the law on birth certificates. Now that I want to live again as the man I always was, I'm an outcast.
'There is an orchestrated, globalist plot utilizing mass migration to de-Christianize the West and to create a blended, post-national, one-dimensional world.'
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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John Henry Cardinal Newman at one time hoped the current problematic pope would be 'driven from Rome, and will not continue the Council, or that there will be another Pope.'
The upcoming digital generation are serving as guinea pigs in our cultural experiment with the near-universal availability and accessibility of hardcore pornography. It is high time that governments noticed.
After intense scrutiny and 'announced and unannounced visits,' CPS ruled that child abuse allegations against the mother of 'drag kid' 'Desmond Is Amazing' are unfounded.
The ambulance was dispatched with a 'charlie response,' which is an order for an ambulance with advanced life support capabilities to run 'cold,' or without sirens.
Inspired by the arrest of one Twitter user for calling a prominent transgender activist by his real sex, Nicolas Carnogursky tweeted that the same activist is indeed a man. He was promptly banned.
Nick Sandmann's lawyer says 'he was the only adult in the room,' but 'CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy, that Make America Great Again cap on.'
Once an idea is preached into impressionable minds, reiterated throughout the echo chambers of social media, and proselytized to the masses, it becomes a mainstay of mainstream culture.
Former Kansas governor Sam Brownback, speaking in Hong Kong, brushed off Pope Francis's agreement with the Chinese government to legitimize communist-appointed bishops in exchange for reduced persecution of Catholics.
Many Protestants and at least one Catholic church offered 'drive-thru ashes' for Ash Wednesday, allowing parishioners to receive the mark of penitence without even leaving their cars.
'It is important for children to experience consistency between what they are taught in school and what they see lived at home,' Archbishop Joseph Naumann explained.
In new wide-ranging interview with LifeSite, Bishop Athanasius Schneider discusses the recent meeting of Pope Francis with Kazakh bishops, Vatican abuse summit fallout, and anticipated attacks on clerical celibacy at the forthcoming Amazonian Synod
If we wish to address the problem of clergy sexual abuse, we should begin by expecting the same fidelity from our priests that we expect from everyone else.
Parents said their children were being 'brainwashed' by lessons that were undermining their parental rights and 'aggressively promoting homosexuality.'
Legislators rejected proposals to counteract "the most extreme bill in the nation" and protect medical professionals from having to participate in abortions.
LifeSite’s latest petition calls on 'every Representative in the House, no matter what party, to publicly reject infanticide and support a vote on this bill.'
The Vatican spokesman and plagiarist's academic credentials are now in doubt after a Jerusalem college revealed that Rosica has no degree from them, despite his claims.
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.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke, Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Fr. John Saward criticize shocking proposal to change matter of Eucharist from wheaten bread to yuca at Amazonian Synod
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 […]
David Mulroney, former president of the University of Saint Michael College, said Fr. Rosica used to be a personal family friend...until Mulroney started making the college more Catholic.
Dr. Watson, member of Planned Parenthood’s National Medical Council and on the board of the National Abortion Federation, is scheduled to speak at Notre Dame.
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, […]
According to a former employee, Facebook has downranked and suppressed live content from conservative creators, as well as developed ways to censor 'trolls' who share 'toxic memes' and 'red-pill normies.'
The information offers an idea of how costs could increase with further recruitment of the gender-confused and cultural normalization of gender fluidity.
'If she's trying to accomplish unintended pregnancies and a reduction of abortion, I just don't think this is the right strategy to go about doing that.'
Edward Feser on Pope Francis’s new death penalty statement: ‘There is one element that is not only new but possibly even more problematic than his previous remarks.’