Recent Catholic News

SOUTH BEND, IN, February 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a stinging example of the need for vigilance, administrators at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend are now saying that the $1,700 used to send four students and one faculty member to a pro-abortion rally was wrong.  St. Mary’s, which bills itself as “the nation’s premier Catholic women’s college”, has its pro-life students in disbelief. “As a pro-lifer, I didn’t personally agree with them. When I found out the college paid for it. I couldn’t believe it,” said one senior.  The College’s Center , under the direction of Dr. Meredith Reid […]

TORONTO, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The court case of a woman charged after Aid to Women counsellor Robert Hinchey was pepper-sprayed in the eyes last August seems to be nearing its close. A Crown attorney met with Hinchey this morning before Carol Ann Trueman, 43, appeared in court for her latest hearing on a charge of assault with a weapon. He indicated to Hinchey that a plea bargain deal was being struck, with acceptance of a plea and sentencing set to take place during Trueman’s next appearance at the College Park provincial court at 10 a.m. on March 24.  […]

AUSTIN, February 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teresa Britton calls herself a former lesbian, and credits a pentecostal religious conversion with her ability to combat deviant urges and abandon homosexuality as a lifestyle.  Ms. Britton, 40, says that she suffered an emotional breakdown when her last sexual relationship with another woman collapsed after nearly four years. After a spell during which she relied on drinking and smoking to keep up her spirits, Britton started going to church with a roommate. “One night she was crying in bed when she felt God touch her,” one report said. She did not seek help […]

OTTAWA, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council (CBSC) okayed the use of anti-Catholic profanity.  The Quebec Panel of the CBSC received a complaint after a comedian on radio used the terms “tabernac’”, “calice” and “hostie” as curses.  Translated the words mean ‘tabernacle’, ‘chalice’ and ‘host’. The terms refer to sacred objects in the Catholic Church.  In justifying their ruling to say the broadcast did not violate the CBSC ethical standard, the CBSC quoted an earlier ruling regarding blasphemy: “At this point in the 20th century, the CBSC expects that comedians are […]

NEW EVIDENCE THAT MOTHER’S EMOTIONS AFFECT FETAL DEVELOPMENT http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20030217/hl_nm/mom_fetus_dc   WOMAN, 58, BECOMES UK’s OLDEST MOTHER OF IVF TWINS http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=5&u=/nm/20030217/hl_nm/britain_ivf_dc

PHILADELPHIA, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The politicization of the judicial nomination process is, by definition, the result of the philosophy of left-wing judicially-active judges and their supporters in the legislative and/or executive branch, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  Scalia said his judicial philosophy is that the Constitution means the same thing now as it did when it was first drafted, and that it should be read literally for the most part. This “originalist” doctrine is not a politically conservative interpretation, he explained, but the proper way for a judge to do his job. Judges on the left, […]

EDINBURGH, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult original, has been put down after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease, just six months after she was found to have arthritis.  Dr. Harry Griffin at the Roslin Institute, where Dolly was created in 1996, said that a sheep’s normal life-span is 11 or 12 years and that lung infections usually occur in older sheep. In 1999, Dolly’s cells already began to look more like those of an older animal.  “Many attempts to clone animals have ended in failure,” the Washington […]

Criticize principal of prominent Canadian Catholic college for undermining free speech

SUDAN, February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – WorldNetDaily reports today that an evangelical relief group has exposed a recent mass killing of about 3,000 mostly Christian civilians in the Sudan. The country’s radical Islamist government is the likely culprit as it continues its almost 15 years bloody Jihad against the country’s minorities.  The Christian group, called Servant’s Heart, included Mel Middleton, president of Alberta based Freedom Quest International. Middleton is fondly remembered by veteran Toronto pro-life activists for his deep commitment to save the lives of the weakest and most vulnerable persons.  While he lived in Toronto in the 1980’s he […]

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