Recent Catholic News

Teens specifically targeted for extreme sexual liberalization by program

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, Great Britain, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain has announced a new fund providing money to organizations that promote “safe abortion” services in the developing world. The Department for International Development (DfID) will contribute £3 million over two years to the fund, as founding donor. The fund is a direct attempt to combat losses from the withdrawal of US financial support. The US will not contribute funding to any group that is involved in promoting abortion. That policy dissolved under Clinton, who authorized funding of international abortion organizations, but was reinstated by George Bush in 2001. […]

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stacy Zallie ended her life at age 21, one year after undergoing a secret abortion. Although her family was close, Stacy never told them she had been pregnant and never talked about the abortion. Her father believes it was pain over the abortion that led her to take her life. He has started a Web portal and foundation in her memory, the Stacy Zallie Foundation, that offers counseling and support to women who have had abortions. “I knew it was a life event for her,” Mr. Zallie told the CourierPost. “It […]

SYDNEY, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Australia, has called upon the Worldwide Anglican Communion unequivocally to condemn homosexual behavior as sinful. Jensen warned of a slippery slope toward acceptance of homosexual practice among Anglicans. To bless homosexuality, said Jensen to the Sydney Morning Herald on February 3, “would be to call holy what God calls sin to be repented on.” Jensen’s call comes at a time in the Anglican Communion that concessions are being made not only to civil laws legitimizing homosexual partnerings but in which the official US and Canadian Anglican churches […]

By John-Henry Westen and Gudrun Schultz  TORONTO, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Toronto’s Sick Children’s Hospital (SickKids) conducts stem-cell research on human embryos, LifeSiteNews has learned. In response to an inquiry on stem cell research, Christine Cleland, who handles donor information at SickKids, sent an FAQ regarding Stem Cell Research at SickKids. The FAQ reveals the hospital’s participation in, and open support of, embryonic stem cell research. Stem-cell research using human embryos involves killing the embryo in the very earliest stages of development, in order to use its cells for another purpose.   LifeSiteNews contacted SickKids for comment, but the hospital […]

Racism Results in High Rate of Abortion among African-Americans

By Terry Vanderheyden MILLGROVE, Ontario, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homeschooling group is concerned by an Ontario Liberal government proposal to change the Education Act, raising the compulsory school attendance age in Ontario to 18. The Homeschool Legal Defence Association of Canada (HSLDA), in a release from Executive Director and Legal Counsel Paul Faris Monday, warns that the change to the law may restrict the freedoms of homeschoolers in several ways. The new law proposes requiring proof of school attendance before obtaining a drivers license, and imposing fines against parents and children who are not in school and legitimately […]

By John-Henry Westen SAN FRANCISCO, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that so-called “emergency contraception” (EC) can cause early abortions; a new study has found that only 35% of the Catholic hospitals surveyed indicated that EC is not available at the hospital. The study was conducted in four states in which the law discriminates against those do not wish to participate in abortion by requiring the abortion-causing drugs be made available or suggested in emergency rooms for sexual assault patients. The study was carried out by Ibis Reproductive Health and commissioned by the pro-abortion anti-Catholic group misnamed “Catholics […]

By Gudrun Schultz GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law forcing the government to promote contraception and offer sex education classes has been pushed through by congress in Guatemala, despite opposition by the country’s president. President Oscar Berger vetoed the family planning bill when it was initially presented. A vote in congress did not produce sufficient support for the bill to overturn the president’s veto—only 80 legislators voted against the veto, out of 106 needed. Despite the results, congress went ahead with revoking the presidential veto and enacted the law. President Berger said that process was “irregular,” […]

By Hilary White  HARYANA, India, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The father of Kalpana Chawala, India’s first woman astronaut who was killed in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, told Vancouver’s Georgia Straight paper that he is working to stop the killing of girl children in India. He said he wants to educate people in his home country that girls can grow up to be brave and intelligent.  A recent report by the Lancet, a British medical journal, shows that India kills by abortion and infanticide as many as half a million of its girl babies a year, a practice […]