Fr. Raymond de Souza of the Catholic Herald struggled to find a precedent for Pope Francis's particular way of handing off St. Peter's relics to a representative of the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch.
PETITION: Tell U.S. libraries to stop pushing 'drag queens' on our kids! Sign the petition here. SPOKANE, Washington, July 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Public libraries in Washington state are distancing themselves from a recent Drag Queen Story Hour event which has library officials concerned that taxpayers will turn against increased funding for their jurisdiction’s library system. A Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) held at a library in the City of Spokane, Washington in June attracted national attention as 200 protestors were met with extreme measures by local law enforcement, with snipers stationed atop the library roof to keep peaceful protesting moms […]
This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show gives us a deep look into the pro-life movement in Northern Ireland as it stands right now, and what the possibilities are moving forward. Jonathon Van Maren has an amazing conversation with Bernadette Smyth, founder of the largest pro-life group in Northern Ireland, Precious Life. She also founded Youth for Life, which is a project of Precious Life, whose aim is to equip the next generation with the skills needed to keep abortion illegal in Northern Ireland. Smyth shares with listeners how she got into the pro-life movement and then dives deep […]
Jonathon Van Maren digs deep into the current status of abortion and the pro-life movement in Northern Ireland with Bernadette Smyth, founder of pro-life organization Precious Life.
Hollywood is thrusting women into the limelight as writers, directors, and film leads for big-budget productions at levels we've never seen before. How is that working out?
By suggesting that they are entitled to special status as 'persons of color,' the women of 'The Squad' are deepening the racial divide in the United States.
This story is now breaking wide open, there will be mutual accusations, and Donald Trump has been preparing for this moment at least since his CPAC speech in 2015.
Michael O’Brien is a Catholic novelist, author, painter, and speaker. He is the author of the best-selling book Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, which has been translated into many languages. On this part 2 of a two-part episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, he explains how hell isn't empty and speaks about the end-times. He also shares what gives him hope amid the massive confusion in the Church and the role of Mary in salvation history.
Markle chose Laverne Cox, a man who considers himself a 'woman', as one of the feature stars in an upcoming edition of the British edition of Vogue magazine.
Cardinal Daniel Sturla exhorted Uruguayan Catholics to follow their consciences regarding the law, which allows 16-year-olds to take transgender hormone drugs without parental consent.
Bishop Joseph Strickland tweeted his support after Cardinal Gerhard Muller affirmed that the Amazon Synod will have no authority to change the sacraments.
"Pornography is a sickness," Mother Miriam says on her daily live show. She tells us we must treat it as one and support those who are struggling to overcome this sickness.
The Arizona scandal of the Biological Resource Center appears as a grown-up variant of Planned Parenthood’s shocking sale of body parts of aborted babies.
The 15-day waiting period, intended to give suicide-minded people the opportunity to change their minds, has been jettisoned in Oregon and the Netherlands.
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) ― Do only half of America’s Catholics know what their Church teaches about Holy Communion? In a recent report called “What Americans Know About Religion,” the Pew Research Center suggested that Catholics are divided in their understanding of Holy Communion. According to Pew Forum, where the research company gave an overview of its findings, 50 percent of Catholics correctly answered the question, “Which of the following best describes Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?” The two options were “Actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ” and “Are symbols […]
'Based on the evidence we have seen, which includes almost a dozen documents and various testimonies from those close to the matter, we stand by our report.'
In the lawsuit seeking a minimum $50 million in damages, the congresswoman calls the tech giant a 'threat to free speech, fair elections and to democracy.'
'I don't have a smoking gun. I've just been coding since I was ten, I have a Ph.D., I have five years of experience at Google, and I just know how algorithms are.'
Anmarie Calgaro has asked the Supreme Court to review her case, in which Minnesota officials provided her son with transgender services and narcotic drugs against her wishes.
In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Judith Reisman, a research professor at Liberty University School of Law and Director of the Child Protection Institute. Dr. Reisman is a giant in the science and sexology community with many accolades and accomplishments. Today, he speaks with Reisman about her pioneering work in exposing the fraudulent sex ‘research’ work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey. For those unfamiliar, Dr. Kinsley’s science played a role in bringing the sexual revolution to America, in modern LGBT laws, inflated LGBT propaganda statistics, and in a way responsible for the […]
Conservative senators have floated breaking up companies like Facebook and Google as one of several possible remedies to widespread discrimination against and suppression of certain consumers.
Van Maren speaks with Dr. Judith Reisman about her work in exposing the fraudulent research behind the work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a man largely responsible for the sexual revolution.
The Code of Canon Law states that baptism 'should be delayed' if there's a 'founded hope' that the infant will not be brought up in the Catholic faith.
Cardinal Brandmüller said the 'Amazon' is 'merely a label' that signifies a 'radical re-structuring of the Church' according to a 'well-known program.'
Michael O’Brien is a Catholic novelist, author, painter, and speaker. He is the author of the best-selling book Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, which has been translated into many languages. On this part 1 of a two-part episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, he talks with me about the mass apostasy in the Church, the anti-Christ, and why so many Catholics are falling away from the faith.
They were trying draw attention 'to the daily mass murder of preborn children that is sanctioned, protected, and funded by our government,' the priest said.
A number of alarming realizations spurred the investigation, such as a significant increase in suicidal thoughts among children to whom the drugs were administered.
'Wherever there is confusion, ambiguity…we have at least a factor that will contribute to the ultimate delusion which Satan and the anti-Christ will bring upon mankind.'
AUSTIN, Texas, July 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a new law barring the state or local governments from acting against businesses on the basis of the owners’ religious beliefs, sending a message to the City of San Antonio and others who have all-but declared war on companies such as Chick-fil-A. Senate Bill 1978 forbids any branch or agency of the Texas government, as well as lower jurisdictions, from taking any “adverse action” pertaining to any “grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, loan, scholarship, license, registration, accreditation, employment, or other similar status” on the basis of someone’s […]
Neuralink’s new technology, Musk promises, will in the near future enable paralyzed individuals to control a computer or smartphone with their thoughts.
Public school children will be exposed to content regarding sexuality in all courses dealing with civics, economics, geography, government, and history.
The GOP must elect nationalist politicians with a more tradition-minded, solidarity-focused outlook passionate about protecting middle-class American workers.
'You've been through a lot — more than most people could ever endure. ... I will stand side by side with you forever,” Trump told the visitors to the Oval Office.
Alaska's Supreme Court ruled that the state couldn’t cut tax dollars to abortion. Republican Gov. Dunleavy then reduced the state judicial budget by the annual taxpayer price tag of elective abortions.
The American Library Association is actively providing librarians with tactics to subvert parents who oppose drag queens reading to, hugging, and rolling around on the floor with their young children.
GENOA, Italy, July 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian hospital has offered to treat a little girl who suffered a sudden stroke and is now fighting for her life against doctors who have taken legal steps to remove her from life support and let her die. According to Italian news site Genova 24, the Giannina Gaslini Institute, a world-renowned children’s hospital in Genoa, has confirmed that it received a request at the end of June from the parents of five-year-old Tafida Raqueeb for a “second opinion” regarding her condition. Tafida suffered a ruptured blood vessel in February 2019, and is […]
Religious leaders 'were very concerned that this goes too far because these raids were not what they signed up for with President Trump,' Pelosi told reporters.
Pro-abortion peers insisted that abortion is a 'human right'...and also that abortion should be imposed on Northern Ireland, even if it is against the will of the people.
A Republican county commission in Maryland could defund the library but will do nothing, even as the library brings pornographers and pole-dancers to interact with children.
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT NOT SUITED FOR CHILDREN. In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, former porn star Deanna Spangler shares how she rose to fame in the pornography industry and why she finally got out. Van Maren and Spangler speak about her difficult childhood, which included her parents introducing her to pornography when she was just six years old. Spangler explains that after her early exposure to pornography and the death of her mother when she was 10, she began engaging in prostitution. She easily slid into pornography from there, she tells Van Maren. They […]
'We are going to allow minors to go into a doctor's office and consent to these services. Because they are just that important and students need to be able to access them.'
The National Education Association passed policies at its recent convention that included support for abortion, sodomy, open borders and gender distortion.
We can exercise political power to protect our children from dire threats such as the septic sexual material now oozing from every screen in America, he said.
To go by the comments published after the draft started making the rounds, it must be radically revised in order to satisfy the critiques that have torn it to shreds.
Influential medical bodies seem to be biding their time to classify pedophilia not as a disease, but as just another sexual orientation. One that is unchangeable, you understand.
Billionaire hedge fund–manager, former coal king, and all-time top Democrat contributor Tom Steyer launched his own $100-million presidential campaign to take control of America.
'If the FTC is seen as traffic police handing out speeding tickets to companies profiting off breaking the law, then Facebook and other will continue to push the boundaries.'
Canada's abortion activists and Liberal politicians are reacting to a film that presents an alternative point of view much the way a vampire reacts to a mirror.
We can be thankful that millions of people, finally including those north of the border, have the chance to see the truth about abortion presented so vividly.
Amazon claims to fear that books designed to remove unwanted same-sex attractions will cause people to commit suicide. Amazon is also promoting at least ten books that facilitate suicide.
Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Daniel K. Williams, author of two books published by the Oxford University Press. The first, “God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right” and also, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade.” This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show and the second book are absolutely filled with information that everyone in the pro-life movement needs to know about. There is a broad understanding that the pro-life movement was simply a reactionary movement to Roe v. Wade being legalized in the United States in 1973. In reality, this […]
If the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly is not restored by October 21, British M.P.s will impose radical abortion and marriage laws through amendments.
It's time for America to wake up and object to the mutilation of children's bodies, minds, and spirits as 'transgender' clinics betray exploding numbers of teens and children.
In the movies, life is cheap, and violence is good entertainment. Should we be surprised when moderns are prepared to throw away the lives of unborn children or the elderly?
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints confirmed a miracle healing attributed to the Diocese of Peoria native not long after the body arrived there.
The annual Rally for Life is meant to emphasize that 'no vote, no act of parliament can ever make it right to kill a child,' according to the Life Institute.
Marian Leonard is being held against her will at a hospice known for health code violations, where her daughter says she's not receiving proper nutrition.
Jonathon Van Maren discusses the pro-life movement with Jason Jones on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Jones began working in the pro-life movement while attending the University of Hawaii. His work within the movement progressed from forming the Pro-Life Student Union to include Director of Hawaii Right to Life and Public Relations Director for Human Life International. He is the president and founder of HumanRights Education Organization and Movie to Movement; both organizations promote the dignity and beauty of the human person.
On this edition of the John-Henry Westen show we are pleased to bring you the second in a two-part interview with Professor Roberto de Mattei. Described as the greatest historian on the Catholic Church alive today, Professor de Mattei explains how Catholics must respond to the crisis in the Church. “A respectful resistance” is what Catholics need to have at this time in Church history, he argues. Now “is a time for speaking” and to have a “militant spirit” filled with prayer and example.
July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – On Saturday, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the German Bishops' Conference published a 19-page letter written by Pope Francis, in which he touches upon matters such as evangelization, synodality, and conversion in light of the German “synodal path” as it is currently being set up. The letter is not addressed to the German bishops, as is usually the case, but to the “pilgrim people of God in Germany.” However, since Pope Francis wrote in a more general manner and chose not to mention any specific topics of the new “synodal path” – such […]
'The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to state-funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on state-funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court.'
The petition supports Selina Soule, whose sporting career has been jeopardized by a state policy requiring that boys who call themselves girls be admitted to girls' sports competitions.