Recent Catholic News

LONDON, August 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Anglican Bishop of Rochester, the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, who is ethics chairman of Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has criticized the about-face of an influential British thinker who once opposed human cloning. The bishop, said to have been second choice for next Archbishop of Canterbury, blasted Mary Warnock’s new human cloning proposals which he said would “let the genie out of the bottle.” In 1984, she achieved a ban on cloning after publishing the landmark Warnock Report on fertility, which formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act six […]

UK ABORTIONIST WORKED IN UK HOSPITALS EVEN AFTER BAN IN CANADA AND UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2165578.stm   COUPLE IN LEGAL FIGHT OVER “OWNERSHIP” OF IVF CREATED EMBRYOS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2167590.stm

Huge downtown crowd reduced to reverent, prayerful silence

Highly organized feminists and pro-abortion groups have caught conservatives off guard

Calls traditional interpretation "a perversion of the message of the Gospel"

TORONTO, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Toronto police have reported that the crime rate in Toronto actually dropped during World Youth Day’s week-long events.  Muggings and street crime were down from the usual numbers, Sergeant Robb Knapper told the Toronto Star.  “There were no crime-related incidents involving pilgrims,” he said. “We had tons of lost passports, knapsacks and other stuff, but no reports of anyone being involved in crime.”  World Youth Day 1993 attendees informed LifeSite that police in Denver Colorado – where the event was held that year – reported a similar crime drop.  See the Toronto Star coverage […]

Major Canadian bank discriminates against any organizations opposed to homosexuality

TORONTO, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Keith Norton has been asked to resign for comparing public funding of faith-based schools to support for apartheid.  Canadian Jewish News reports that Toronto lawyer Joseph Adler with two children in Jewish day schools and Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College are demanding Norton step down.  Norton, also a homosexual activist, commented on the Ontario government’s proposed private school tax credits saying they could lead to educational apartheid and foster hatred. Adler has filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission over Norton’s remarks saying, Norton “has […]

YELLOWKNIFE, August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At least part of the story of an alleged rape victim alleging blackmail by a Liberal Cabinet Minister has proved true.  Last week an 18-year-old girl alleged that Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s adopted son sexually assaulted her. This resulted in the arrest and subsequent release and upcoming trial for Michel Chretien.  Liberal Cabinet Minister Ethel Blondin-Andrew who was accused of blackmail by the mother of the 18-year-old has admitted she called the girl’s mother.  The mother of the girl says she called the Prime Minister’s office before calling police to lay charges.  She says […]

SAINT PAUL, Minn., August 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Jesse Ventura, Minnesota’s staunchly anti-religious governor, has inadvertently proclaimed Oct. 13-19 as Christian Heritage Week. The proclamation, submitted every year by Virginia-based Christian Heritage Ministries, quotes Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George Mason as statesmen “who did not hesitate to express their faith.”“Somehow it got in the wrong pile,” spokesman John Wodele said. “It would not [otherwise] have been approved.” Ventura has always refused to sign religion-related proclamations in the past, although he did sign one from an atheist association. His office tried in vain this […]