Recent Catholic News

Lisbon, Jun. 6 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls has characterized the draft version of a new European constitution as “ridiculous.”  The director of the Vatican press office, interviewed on Portuguese radio, offered the sharpest criticism to date of the draft constitution that was unveiled on May 28. Echoing the critiques put forward by other Church officials, but using stronger language, Navarro-Valls argued that there is no excuse for the omission of Christianity from a list of the factors that have contributed to a common European culture.  Navarro-Valls said that Vatican diplomats are vigorously involved in efforts to correct that […]

London, Jun. 6 (LifeSiteNews.com/CWNews.com) – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is under heavy fire from Anglican traditionalists after a newly appointed bishop—a personal friend of the Anglican leader—revealed that he is an active homosexual.  Canon Jeffrey John, who was appointed in May to head the Anglican diocese of Reading, revealed that he has been involved in an active homosexual partnership for 20 years. At the time of his appointment, spokesmen for the Church of England said that, although he was admittedly homosexual and an advocate of gay rights, John was not engaged in any same-sex relationship. However, the London […]

Wal-Mart Will Cover Up Cosmo, Other Magazines in Checkout Lanes http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/62003a.asp   Roll Call of the Unfit – Those Who Voted Against U.S. Partial Abortion Ban http://www.frc.org/?i=WU03F05   Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard address turns 25.  http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document060603.asp   Country Song Mentioning Jesus Dropped From Stations   http://www.mcjonline.com/news/03a/20030603a.shtml   Is ‘Matrix’ Co-Producer Getting A Sex-Change Operation?  http://traditionalvalues.org/article.php?sid=966   Cy’Gay Pride’ Event Cancelled at Justice Dept Cybercast News reported today that “The U.S. Department of Justice has told a group of homosexual employees it cannot hold a ‘gay pride’ event at the agency’s headquarters this year…the event – which has been held each year since […]

OTTAWA, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist MP Svend Robinson is once again drawing the ire of family supportive Canadians.  Just as his hates crimes Bill C-250 is in its final stages of consideration in Parliament, he has introduced a motion seeking total abortion on demand in Canada.  Motion 440, introduced by Robinson Monday, calls on the government to “establish a task force on the integration of abortion into the health delivery system as a medical procedure in accordance with the five principles of the Canada Health Act and ensure Medicare-funded hospital and clinic abortion services exist in all […]

OTTAWA, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the first hour of debate on hate crimes bill C-250 set to take place Friday, one amendment to the bill has already been placed on the Notice Paper.  While this is the only amendment identified thus far, Parliament Hill sources told LifeSite that more amendments are expected.  Liberal MP Derek Lee (Scarborough-Rouge River) has submitted an amendment seeking to protect freedom of religion.  The amendment seeks to protect religious expression or expression of “opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”  See the amendment online at:  http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/orderpaper/112_2003-06-05/ordrs112-E.htm (scroll to bottom)  See related […]

UNFPA still deviously covering for China's brutal, enforced, one-child policy

NEW YORK, NY, June 5, 2003 (C-Fam/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute reports that “on Tuesday, a high ranking UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official called for the legalization of prostitution and for UNICEF to make condoms available ‘for everybody, everywhere and at all times.’ Speaking at the annual session of UNICEF’s Executive Board, Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Director, said that UNICEF would need to pursue such ‘controversial ideas…in the near future if we are to win the war against HIV/AIDS.’”  C-FAM reports that “Johsson urged that UNICEF take actions to ‘de-criminalise sex-work and […]

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives, by a two-thirds vote (282-139), yesterday joined the Senate in approving a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. The bill (H.R. 760) legally defines a partial-birth abortion as any abortion in which the baby is delivered alive until “in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother,” or if the baby is delivered head first, “the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother,” before being killed.  H.R. 760 would allow the method if it […]

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study shows that sexual activity among high school age boys and girls often has harmful emotional and psychological consequences. Sexually active teens are less likely to be happy, more likely to be depressed and more likely to attempt suicide. The majority of sexually active teens state that they regret their initial sexual activity and wish they had waited until they were older before becoming sexually active.  Family Research Council’s Bridget Maher, policy analyst on marriage and family issues, said, “This study is one more reason why abstinence education is a more compassionate […]

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