Patrick B. Craine

Patrick Craine is Chief Operating Officer for LifeSiteNews.com. He began as a journalist for LifeSiteNews in 2009, covering all facets of the battle to restore Christian civilization. Patrick lives with his wife Jenna and five young children in a small town two hours west of Ottawa, Ontario.

He did his undergraduate degree at the now Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College and Redeemer University-College, both in Ontario, and an M.A. in Philosophy at Holy Apostles College & Seminary.

Dissident Nun Sister Joan Chittister – The LifeSiteNews Interview

Dissident Nun Sister Joan Chittister – The LifeSiteNews Interview by LifeSiteNews.com (Editor’s note: The following is the full interview with Sister Joan Chittister who is to deliver a Lenten mission for the Canada’s National Catholic Broadcasting Council (NCBC), which airs the daily Mass on Vision TV. LifeSiteNews reported on the upcoming on the mission here) LSN: It’s been reported that you hold positions that are divergent from Catholic magisterial teaching. Would you say that’s correct? JC: Well, yes, I guess it is correct. It’s not an opposition position. It is a position of query, of theological and scriptural commitment and […]
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Free the Children: ‘We do not promote abortion’

The following statement was posted by Free the Children as a reply to LifeSiteNews’ July 5th article ‘Kielburgers’ Free the Children caught promoting abortion for Third World’, available here. Free The Children seeks to correct an incorrect perception created by this article in LifeSiteNews.com written by Patrick Craine. Free The Children does not promote abortion.  To be clear, Free The Children, the organization and its Board of Directors, has chosen to not become involved in the debate regarding abortion. Free The Children’s international projects, carried out through our holistic development model, Adopt a Village, works with communities to help break the […]
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Best quotes from Poland’s June 30 debate on total abortion ban

On Friday, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 254-151 to support a new bill seeking to ban abortion in all cases.  The bill was initiated by a massive grassroots effort that secured 600,000 signatures in two weeks. General MP (Mr) Czesław Hoc, Law and Justice party: ‘The current abortion law allows for abortion in three cases. This is not a success, nor a compromise, it is cruel helplessness and a defeat of the values of the contemporary civilization.’ MP (Mr) Wojciech Kossakowski, Law and Justice party: ‘I cannot understand what motivates parliamentarians and all others who agree to the […]
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