Recent Catholic News

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American Life League, held a press conference today to unveil its newest ad: No More Dodgeball During Recess!  “We hope the president will heed our call for action on this very important matter,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “Bush should use his power to make recess appointments to ensure that pro-life judges are appointed to the courts. This is his best option for breaking the deadlock created by pro-abortion zealots in the Senate.”  The ad will run Oct. 14 in The Washington Times, and will also appear in several other national […]

GUANGZHOU, China, October 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BBC reported Tuesday that scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University, in Guangzhou, China say they have created embryos using eggs from two women and sperm from one man.  The embryos were implanted into a 30-year-old Chinese women who later miscarried the embryos. The technique used by the Chinese scientists was developed in the United States but was outlawed in 1998 and is also banned in the UK.  The BBC reports that Dr Mohammed Taranissi of the Assisted Reproduction & Gynaecology Centre in London said the technology had been around for a while.  He […]

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (a Catholic) has vetoed legislation to ban partial birth abortion http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/10/national2201EDT0778.DTL   French ministry opens euthanasia debate http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=34889   Australian MP decries lowering of homosexual sexual consent age from 18 to 16 “rent-boy legislation”  http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7551036%5E13569,00.html   British Columbia University of Victoria Hosts Bondage Rope Class http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35039

LifeSite, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite’s Oct. 2 Ontario election pages have been updated to identify the winning candidates in each riding and the votes received by all candidates. Winning candidate names are in bold red.  See https://www.lifesitenews.com/elections/provincial/Ontario/2003/index.html

EDINBURGH, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scottish Bishop Keith O’Brien, created a media frenzy a few days ago after being publicly selected by Pope John Paul II to be made a Cardinal. He used the occasion to broadcast his unorthodox views on birth control and homosexuality. However, later, on October 7 Cardinal Designate O’Brien made the customary “Profession of Faith” but added an unusual extra promise of fidelity to Church teaching on the very issues he questioned only days earlier.  O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, said in the ceremony at St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh on Tuesday, “I further […]

South Carolina Court rules cocaine addict guilty after child dies in utero

TORONTO, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Focus on the Family Canada has pointed out that the widely reported survey showing a majority of Canadians opposed to spanking was biased.  The survey which was commissioned by Toronto Public Health and carried out by Decima research asked just over 2000 Canadians if Section 43 of the criminal code which permits spanking should be repealed.  However, rather than asking the question straight, all those surveyed were read the following loaded statement before being questioned:  “Canada’s Criminal Code no longer allows physical punishment of adults, but Section 43 of the Code allows physical punishment […]

VATICAN CITY, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II met with participants in the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today.  He stressed the “right to religious freedom” reminding legislators that “the respect of every expression of religious freedom is therefore seen to be a most effective means for guaranteeing security and stability within the family of Peoples and Nations in the twenty-first century.”  The Pope said, “just as damage is done to society when religion is relegated to the private sphere, so too are society and civil institutions impoverished when legislation […]

WASHINGTON, October 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) has released a report outing a pro-abortion group which is contravening the U.S. (Mexico City) policy barring abortion-promoting international groups from receiving U.S. government funding.  In April of 2002, USAID announced that it was awarding nearly $162 million to Family Health International (FHI) and its partners over the next five years. This award followed a 1997 five-year grant to FHI for $148 million. Ostensibly, the grants have been provided to help fight the global AIDS pandemic. USAID HIV/AIDS funds are not subject to the Mexico City policy.  However, PRI […]

Investigators Infiltrate Raelian Cult – Find Evidence of Cloning Hoax http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=2b63541f-0154-4454-94d4-cea6037f954c   Ugandan Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala Warns Condoms Promote Immorality http://allafrica.com/stories/200309290586.html   Judge Blocks Missouri Law Requiring 24-hour Cool-Down Wait Before Abortion http://www.darnews.com/articles/2003/10/09/news/news6.txt   Russian Orthodox Church Demolished after being ‘Defiled” by Homosexual ‘Marriage’  http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031009-093905-1734r.htm   Decline in Down Syndrome Tied to Abortion More than 8 in 10 babies diagnosed with the disease in the womb are killed.  http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028329.cfm   Limbaugh Admits Drug Addiction http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive