Recent Catholic News

PHILADELPHIA, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist Canadian politicians – federal MP Svend Robinson, Ontario MPP George Smitherman and Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray – will be featured guests at an international homosexual activist conference this Spring in Philadelphia. The ‘Equality Forum’, is featuring Canada this year as a model country for homosexual activism.  The executive director of the international forum, Malcolm Lazin, said of selecting Canada, “It was an easy choice, Canada is really a leader when it comes to gay and lesbian civil rights.”  Two of the homosexual activists who were part of the organized campaign of court […]

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case to Protect Children from Internet Porn http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3263777,00.html   Mel Gibson forced to rename The Passion in America after Miramax objects http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-film-gibson-passion,0,7510662.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds   UK Paper claims Plan to Press Pope to Resign revealed by “a very senior church official who declined to be named”  http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=453804 Canada’s MD shortage among worst in Western world http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031016.wdoct1016/BNStory/National/  Author Says It’s Time GOP Fought Back Against Liberal Tactics http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003e.asp   Publisher Fears Canadian Law Could Label Holy Scriptures ‘Hate Speech’  http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/162003a.asp   ‘They Want Marriage to Mean Nothing’  What do you think of the new report from the […]

The duty of bishops to protect life and family raised numerous times

What is "progressive social policy" and how much will life and family be shoved aside?

TORONTO, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Religious groups have come together to sponsor “Marriage on the Rock” as a national event for Sunday, February 8 to Sunday, February 15, 2004 (the week leading up to Valentine’s Day).  “Biblical marriage is important to us all – singles, couples, children, families, communities and society as a whole,” says the joint release by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in partnership with Crossroads Christian Communications; Focus on the Family, Canada; Listen Up TV.com; MarriageCanada.ca; Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops and The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada   Marriage on the Rock will be a week, […]

TORONTO, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “John Paul II is the world’s greatest defender of life and family,” Jim Hughes, President of Campaign Life Coalition Canada and Vice President of the International Right to Life Federation, told LifeSite News. Today, as John Paul celebrates his 25th anniversary as Pope, pro-life groups across the world are reflecting on his valiant leadership.  Since 1995 LifeSite News has covered the Pope’s statements on life and family issues writing well over 400 articles concerning his urgent pleas on behalf of defenceless unborn children.  People of all faith backgrounds who accept the sacredness of all […]

Former Prosecutor of Jack Kevorkian Delivers Emergency Letters Urging Intervention

HILVERSUM, Holland, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bert P. Dorenbos,  President Schreeuw om Leven (Cry for Life) in Holland, has sent a dire warning to the United States regarding the Schiavo case.  “At the moment that, in the Dutch debate on euthanasia, a court ruled that withholding food and fluid is a permissible medical treatment, the road was paved for the Euthanasia Law that is in force in Holland now,” writes Dorenbos.  “It was in the case of Mrs. Ineke Stinissen,” the Dutch pro-life leader explains, “who had been in coma for several years that a Dutch court ruled in […]

LONDON, October 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that women implanted with frozen embryos in an effort to become artificially pregnant face a higher risk of ectopic pregnancy, as the embryo lodges itself in the fallopian tubes, ovary, abdomen or cervix rather than safely in the womb itself.  Researchers at Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island found that of 490 pregnancies from non-frozen embryos, only 9 (or 1.8%) were ectopic, compared to 31.6% rate for women who were implanted with frozen embryos.  According to reports, “The condition is potentially life-threatening. The embryo […]

Must still be ratified in December by various stakeholders