Recent Catholic News

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (LSN) – A LifeStyles condom company is launching a marketing drive that will pervert youth for its own profit, reports American Life League (ALL) this week. The ad campaign begins this fall with posters in thousands of newspapers and college campuses, in Glamour magazine and on TV. The ads reportedly contain photos of scantily clad people in “sexually suggestive poses” with captions such as “How 2 Have More Fun in Bed.”  Commenting on the closing line of a magazine ad by LifeStyles which reads, “After all, LifeStyles never forgets that good sex adds up to two people […]

UGANDA, Aug 26 (LSN) – Uganda’s condom-pushing AIDS program is a “time bomb leading to utter destruction,”  charges the Mothers Union of Uganda, which condemns the so-called “safe sex” message being advocated by the government initiative. American Life League yesterday reported on the group’s opposition to the program. Union spokesman Mary Kasule said that young people are “torn between what the church teaches and what they see on television” and said that AIDS would continue to ravage the country unless teens practiced abstinence until marriage.

LONDON, Aug 26 (LSN) – The Office for National Statistics released abortion statistics yesterday for England and Wales indicating that the number of abortions committed since January was 45,437, an increase of four per cent over last year.

MINNESOTA, Aug 26 (LSN) – The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday on a University of Minnesota study which has shown that babies in utero are exposed to powerful cancer-causing chemicals when their mothers smoke, increasing the children’s likelihood of developing cancer. The Australian Medical Association (AMA)  has commenced a renewed effort to encourage mothers to quit smoking at least during pregnancy. AMA president, Dr David Brand said that this research adds to the growing list of threats to children associated with smoking during pregnancy. They include, “low birth weight, increased foetal, neonatal and perinatal mortality, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, ectopic […]

MANILLA, Aug 26 (LSN) – The Globe and Mail reported Monday on a scientific advancement in rice production which promises to increase both production and health of the staple-food-yielding plants. Researchers at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines are developing a new variety of rice which “can outperform the most prolific current strains by up to 25%.”

REGINA, SASK, Aug 26 (LSN) – Evangeline Godron, 64, who in July won a court case allowing her to go topless in public, was charged Tuesday with assault following her refusal to leave a public pool when asked by the manager and police. Regina police Sgt. Hal Zorn explained that the Criminal Code allows someone to be charged with “assault by a trespasser” if they refuse to leave property when asked by the owner or manager.  The pool’s manager says that the indecency crusader has been at the pool 5 times since the court case to publicize her new “right.” […]

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld., Aug 25 (LSN) – At a meeting of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) yesterday, lawyers discussed their concerns about the absence of Canadian legislation regarding new reproductive technologies (NRTs). Dr. Sheila Martin, a Calgary lawyer and an “expert” in the NRT field, said,  “Canadian law has yet to catch up with numerous complex issues of reproductive technology.” Some of these so-called complex issues that demand legal guidance include the assigning of parenthood given the vagaries of egg and sperm donation, sex-selection, and monetary gain.  Pro-lifers have consistently raised concerns over NRTs and the cavalier way many of […]

CAMEROON, Aug 25 (LSN) – A recent study which found that the spermicide nonoxynol-9 fails to provide “protection” against sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, used as subjects for the experiment poor African women. American Life League exposed the very disturbing nature of this study. Data recorded in the New England Journal of Medicine last week indicates that the researchers exploited 1,292 women working as prostitutes in Cameroon for their experiment.  The study had one group of “female sex workers” use the spermicide while “on the job” and a control group who did not use the product. The researchers concluded that […]

CHICAGO, Aug 25 (LSN) – One of the most gruesome procedures used in treating blindness today is the use of eye tissue from aborted babies. At a meeting Sunday of the Foundation Fighting Blindness researchers acknowledged that there is no conclusive evidence that the “cell transplants” have improved vision.  Nevertheless, Dr. Marco Zarbin and other researchers insisted that they continue to make use of the eye tissue from murdered pre-born children.  Outside of government, the Foundation Fighting Blindness is the largest supporter of research in retinal degenerative diseases. The use of aborted babies in medical research was given a boost […]

BEIJING, Aug 25 (LSN) – Zenit news service reported last week that a genetics conference which met on August 12 in Beijing was boycotted by several nations in protest of Chinese policies which forbid couples to marry who have “genetic defects or limitations of a serious nature.” Zenit notes that the couples are allowed to marry if they are sterilized and those who ignore the law can be forcibly aborted.  U.S., British, Dutch, and Argentine Genetics Associations stayed away from the conference in protest.  A message sent by The International Genetics Federation said that the Chinese law “based on an […]