Recent Catholic News

Board Members Need Messages of Support OSHAWA, April 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Oshawa Catholic School Board supporting one of its high school principals’ refusal to allow a male student from bringing his male “boyfriend” to the school prom is under heavy fire from anti-Catholic groups. A press conference to increase media hype against the board is being held tomorrow. Toronto Centre – Rosedale MPP George Smitherman, a self-proclaimed homosexual, is sponsoring the press conference involving members of the Coalition in Support of Marc Hall, the student in question. In addition to Hall, Buzz Hargrove (National President, CAW) and Marilyn […]

VANCOUVER, April 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Canadian researchers appear to have solved a persistent problem with research involving adult stem cells taken from blood. Due to the rarity in blood of hematopoietic stem cells many researchers believed their value to be limited. However, University of British Columbia professor Keith Humphries and his colleagues were able to get the stem cells to reproduce by inserting a gene called HOXB4. “We're getting 40- to 100-fold increases,” said Dr. Humphries who leads his team at the BC Cancer Agency which announced the findings today. The National Post reports that the researchers pointed to […]

FARGO, ND, April 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An international women’s group today condemned the decision of North Dakota state court Judge Michael McGuire to deny life-saving medical information to abortion-bound women. In a lawsuit filed by Amy Jo Kjolsrud against the Fargo based Red River Women’s Clinic, McGuire ruled in favor of the clinic, which in 1999, when the suit was filed, was distributing a pamphlet claiming that there was no medical research associating abortion with breast cancer. Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, said “Judge McGuire’s decision denies women the right to informed consent. Women have […]

Presidential Remarks on Easter, 2002 convey surprisingly strong spiritual message I send greetings to everyone observing Easter this year. During this joyful season of new life and renewal, Christians around the world celebrate the central event of their faith—the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe is the Messiah, the Son of God. The life and teachings of Jesus have inspired people throughout the ages to strive for a better world and a more meaningful life. Jesus’ death stands out in history as the perfect example of unconditional love. The four Gospels of the Christian Bible recount Jesus’ amazing life, […]

LAW ALLOWING EUTHANASIA TAKES EFFECT IN NETHERLANDS http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=759426 STRAHL TORY-ALLIANCE UNITY PLAN: ‘DON’T CHALLENGE ALREADY-HELD SEATS’ http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=  Article&cid=1017442900524&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=News /Canada&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email RESULTS OF CANADIAN ALLIANCE NATIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS http://www.canadianalliance.ca/youralliance/nation_council/elections.html LARGE NUMBERS OF CHINESE STUDENTS GETTING ABORTIONS IN NEW ZEALAND Chinese parents are being warned not to send their children to New Zealand to study after revelations that up to 25 young Asian students a week are seeking abortions.  http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1152943a10,FF.html

CALIFORNIA GOV. ORDERS HMO’s TO COVER ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILLS On Wednesday California Gov. Gray Davis said that he is ordering all HMOs to cover the abortifacients. “I am directing all HMOs in California to provide coverage for emergency contraception,” Davis said. “A women’s right to choose must never be held up by red tape.”  http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=754999

“Catholic” Liberal leader takes strong anti-Catholic position TORONTO, March 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty and admitted homosexual and fellow Liberal MPP George Smitherman have written Durham Catholic District School Board trustees asking them to allow a male student to bring a male date to his prom. In the letter, obtained by LifeSite, McGuinty, a Catholic, accuses the school board of being “unfair” and offending “the freedoms that have made Canada a welcome home for people in all their diversity.” McGuinty alleges the student is “being denied some of his most basic rights as a human being […]

Advances in Prenatal Search and Destroy Techniques Increases Killing Rate OTTAWA, March 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association links a major increase in late term abortions to a decline in infant mortality. Lead researcher Dr. Shiliang Liu MB, PhD of the Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada found infant mortality dropped from 6.4 and 6.1 per 1000 live births between 1991 and 1995 to 5.5 per 1000 in 1997. The rate of infant death from congenital anomalies also declined 21% after […]

COLORADO SPRINGS,CO, March 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In his widely heard radio broadcast today Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson stated “In the state of California, if I had a child there, I wouldn’t put the youngster in a public school…. I think it’s time to get our kids out. And I’m going to get hit for [saying] that.” Marshall Fritz, President of the Alliance for the Separation of School & State, congratulated Dobson and said that the public schools have become government indoctrination centers. Fritz said that approximately 15,000 people have signed a Public Proclamation for the Separation […]

BOISE, March 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Bishop Michael Driscoll of Boise City has defended a pro-life display featuring photos comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust and the lynching of blacks. Rabbi Daniel Fink of Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel in Boise asked the bishop to withdraw the diocesan co-sponsorship of the display at Boise State University scheduled for April 8-12. “Even if one is strongly anti-abortion, the notion that a woman who chooses to abort an 8-week-old fetus (or a doctor who performs such an abortion) is in any way analogous to Nazis or white supremacist lynch mobs is abhorrent. This […]