Recent Catholic News

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A survey of Ottawa-Centre riding election candidates by a homosexual advocacy group has asked, among other things, if they supported the lowering of the age for consensual sodomy to 14 years; all three candidates agreed. The homosexual magazine, Capital Xtra, which describes Stephen Harper as a “bigot” and his party as “extremists on a moral crusade,” posed the questions to Ottawa-centre candidates from the three major parties: NDP candidate Paul Dewar; Liberal Party candidate Richard Mahoney; and Conservative Party candidate Keith Fountain, who the magazine explained “is married to a woman.” […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, United States, January 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –The Supreme Court’s first abortion ruling in over five years has been claimed as a partial victory by life and family organizations. Last week the Court ruled in favor of a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor girl obtains an abortion, but called for further hearings to ensure cases requiring emergency medical treatment are provided for under the law. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England had challenged the law as unconstitutional, since it did not allow immediate abortion access in cases of non-life-threatening health concerns for the […]

Conservatives hold on to lead 36% to Liberals 29%, NDP 19%http://www.sesresearch.com/election/SES%20CPAC%20January%2019%202006E.pdf Harper Will Do Nothing For Social Conservatives – Montreal Gazette Editorial  …a fair-minded observer can see that Harper has little enthusiasm for rolling back the socially liberal status quo. On abortion, the party and leader have promised to change nothing. On same-sex marriage, his position is frankly preposterous, but you can almost see him wink as he advances it: a free vote on the definition of marriage, but no use of the notwithstanding clause, and existing same-sex marriages would never be annulled. It’s not easy to imagine such a […]

ANOTHER crack is forming in the increasingly fragmented world of stem cell technology.http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925353.300&feedId=sex_rss20 Thoughts on the decline of the liberal media monopoly and the future of the GOP – PEGGY NOONANhttp://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007835 Choice, decency and Cable TVhttp://washtimes.com/op-ed/20060118-090831-6463r.htm IRD Exposes Pro-Homosexual Group’s Plan to Invade White House Eventhttp://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/202006b.asp ‘Porn on the Pod’ Just Around the Cornerhttp://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/202006a.asp High court hears pro-life group’s challenge of advertising banhttp://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22479 Winning the abortion battlehttp://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22484 No referendum on same-sex unions, Irish leader says http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41943 India: government minister raps 2-child limits http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41946 Breeding Humans Like Rabbits?http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/103/55.0.html Maryland Judge Strikes Down Marriage Lawhttp://www.christianpost.com/article/society/2202/section/maryland.judge.strikes.down.marriage.law/1.htm On gay rights, abortion, the death penalty, […]

By Steve Jalsevac  Managing Director  LifeSiteNews.com There are some pretty disturbing stories these day about the panicky, mindless voting plans of some normally pro-life, pro-marriage leaning Canadians – people who should know much better than to be doing what they are. This happens every election, some elections worse than others. Pro-life, pro-family Canadians must reign in their emotions, use their reason, seek the very best counsel and information. After that they should vote such that years from now they will feel at peace that they did the right thing at that time. That is, they will have nothing to tell […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Campaign in the Saskatoon-Wanuskewin riding of Saskatchewan has reached a boiling point after the campaign office was caught calling in to a television show falsely accusing the Conservative candidate of sexual abuse. Tuesday night on Shaw Cable, a caller phoned in falsely accusing front-runner Conservative incumbent MP Maurice Vellacott of sexually assaulting his church secretary at North Park Church. Vellacott has never been accused by any woman of sexual assault and was never a Pastor at North Park Church. Bishop Jerold Gliege former long-term Pastor of North Park Church […]

By Hilary White OTTAWA, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of Chris Kempling in what family supporters and free-speech advocates are calling a serious threat to democratic freedoms. Chris Kempling, a teacher and school counselor in Quesnel, B.C., was disciplined in 1997 by the B.C. College of Teachers for writing letters to the editor of the local newspaper denouncing the school’s teaching on homosexuality. In August, 1997, Kempling wrote to the Quesnel Cariboo Observer, “Sexual orientations can be changed and the success rate for those who seek help is high. […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, United States, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court said Attorney General John Ashcroft overstepped his authority in calling for prosecution of physicians who prescribed lethal drugs under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, in a ruling on Jan.17. The Court did not address the constitutional legality of Oregon’s assisted suicide law, which the attorney general was challenging. Attorney General Ashcroft said it was unconstitutional, under the federal Controlled Substances Act, for Oregon to allow physicians to dispense lethal drugs, that assisting suicide was not “a legitimate medical purpose” and that prescribing federally controlled drugs […]

By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the French language leader’s debate on January 10, moderator Sophie Thibault raised the issue of assisted suicide. The issue was raised in parliament last year by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde – her Bloc-supported private member’s bill to legalize assisted suicide died on the table when the election was called. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said that he opposes assisted suicide and has no intention of raising the issue in parliament. He would, however, allow a free vote on the issue if it were raised in parliament. “I can simply say […]

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said Canada’s court system is influenced by Liberal-appointed justices who pursue a social activist agenda, in a statement to reporters yesterday. Asked whether there are activist judges with a social agenda, he said: “Some are and some aren’t.” “I am merely pointing out a fact that courts, for the most part, have been appointed by another political party. But courts are supposed to be independent regardless of who appoints them and they are an independent check and balance,” Harper said. Harper said he would want to […]