Recent Catholic News

WASHINGTON, February 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michele Ridge, wife of U.S. Homeland Security director Tom Ridge, is national spokesman for the Communities That Care (CTC) program, which is sending a survey to 400 schools asking teens if they engage in oral sex, use drugs or have considered suicide. The survey is used to collect personal information from students to help local governments claim their share millions of dollars of federal and foundation grant applications.  The survey asks of 15- to 18-year-old high school students: “How old were you when you first had sex?”“Have you ever had oral sex?”“The last time […]

RICHMOND, February 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Virginia state Senate has passed the partial birth abortion ban by a 29 to 11 margin without debate. It had previously passed the Delaware House by 72 to 27, also strong enough to override a veto by pro-abortion Democratic Gov. Mark R. Warner.  Gov. Warner vetoed a similar bill last year because it provided for no exception to protect the health of the mother.  For local coverage:  http://www.pilotonline.com/breaking/br0218abo.html

GLAMOUR MAGAZINE CARRIES STORY ON SEX-ABUSER ABORTIONIST “Every Woman’s Ob-Gyn Nightmare” covers the case of Arizona abortionist Brian Finkel who is charged with 67 counts of sexual molestation of his patients.  http://us.glamour.com   KKK LEADER ACCUSED IN PLOT TO BOMB ABORTUARY http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030214grenadereg5p5.asp   LESBIAN SUING CHRISTIAN DOCTOR FOR REFUSAL TO ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATE http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200302/CUL20030219c.html

HANOI, February 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vietnamese government has approved a ban on all human cloning.  The law which will take effect May 1 also bans surrogacy and sex screening of embryos. The law does permit in vitro fertilization.  The Thanh Nien newspaper reported that one million couples seek fertility treatment in the country each year.  See the Hoover coverage:  http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20030215670.4_d042000277c80640

Politicians taking moral stands are often left hanging by benign church leaders

KAMPALA, February 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ugandan Cardinal Emmanual Wamala has challenged women to fight divorce, abortion, contraceptives and euthanasia.  He urged the women to engage in the battle for life noting that God has entrusted women with the future of humanity.  “Life is being threatened by false doctrines. One front is through contraceptives, abortions and euthanasia, under the cover of scientific development and economic progress,” he said.  “The second area is the family where divorce and separation are being sung under the guise of women’s emancipation.  The third front is through the church. Christ founded one church and not […]

LONDON, February 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 58-year-old woman has become Britain’s oldest mother of twins after undergoing IVF intervention. Janet Bosher, a retired nurse, gave birth to twins named Sarah and James last September using donated embryos.  The treatment was overseen by Dr. Ian Craft, whose London clinic created Europe’s first IVF twins in 1982. He last made headlines in 1997 when 60-year-old Welsh farmer’s wife Liz Buttle became Britain’s oldest-ever IVF mother.  Ms. Bosher’s twins currently lack a father figure after Martin Maslin, the man identified as her “partner,” died two weeks ago of a heart attack. If […]

'Regional differences' given as reason 13-year-olds have access to soft porn

LONDON, Ont., February 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A London boy’s natural mother, who is now a practising lesbian, is applying to have her lesbian partner made a third legal parent. The two lesbians, apparently with the natural father’s support, made the request of Justice David Aston of London Family Court.  The boy, who is 2 years old, appears set for a confused and possibly tragic upbringing. “I have two momses and a daddy,” said the boy, as he pushed a toy truck outside the courtroom. The evidence is overwhelming that a stable mother-father household is the best environment in which […]

OTTAWA, February 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has dismissed a complaint against a television station for ridiculing Catholic priests as being pedophiles.  In 2000, however, the CBSC found a radio program in violation of its code of ethics since it associated pedophilia with homosexuality.  The CBSC ruling explains the incident on the show noting that the CTV program Open Mike with Mike Bullard aired a criticized episode last year.  The CBSC said, “as part of a conversation between Bullard and the show’s resident band leader, Orin Isaacs, who asked Bullard how he had been able […]