Recent Catholic News

CANTERBURY, June 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The worldwide Anglican Communion’s drift toward total endorsement of homosexuality has a new and powerful critic. Archbishop Peter Akinola, leader of the 17.5 million Anglicans of Nigeria, warned this week that he will enter formal schism if the British government (which appoints all Church of England bishops) makes Canon Jeffrey John, a flagrant homosexual who claims to be in a life-long same-sex relationship, the suffragan bishop of Reading.  The threat is serious because it is believed that a dozen other churches in developing countries would follow Nigeria’s lead into schism from the Anglican communion. […]

Rep. Greenwood Admits Strategy to Kill Ban On Partial-Birth Abortions http://traditionalvalues.org/article.php?sid=1006   A Media Strategy for Families http://catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=19035&sec_id=#section35889   Democrats Cynical Abuse of Senate re: Conservative Judicial Nominees http://www.frc.org/?i=WU03F16   Kerry says he’ll filibuster Supreme Court nominees who do not support abortion rights   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/20/national1340EDT0606.DTL   The Battle for Sex Education Supremacy May Be Missing the Point The battles being fought in public schools over sex education, while important, may be missing the point. Questions about sex outside marriage flow directly from issues of morality – and those are best handled in the two places best equipped to do so: […]

OTTAWA, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alberta is the only province to say that it would fight a federal law redefining marriage to include homosexual couples.  Premiers from all other provinces indicated either support for Ottawa’s decision or at least that they would abide by ‘the law’ and were unwilling to invoke the notwithstanding clause as Alberta Premier Ralph Klein suggested.  The Globe and Mail reports today that Ministers and Premiers in Saskatchewan, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland indicated they would not fight Ottawa’s vow to change the definition of marriage. Prince Edward Island Premier Pat Binns, a […]

WINDSOR, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. News Agencies are reporting that homosexual activists in the United States are crossing the border to obtain marriage licences in Ontario.  The city licensing clerk in Windsor Ontario revealed that by Tuesday three licences had been handed out to homosexual couples from the U.S. Both the American Family Association and the U.S. based Family Research Council have called for added measures of protection for the sanctity of marriage due to the pressure from Canada.  See the AP coverage from Daytona Daily News:  http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V3210.AP-Gay-Marriage.html

PHOENIX, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the annual general meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) yesterday, delegates voted to undo several resolutions adopted by the convention in the 1970s that expressed support for abortion in cases where the mother’s or infant’s health was in question. Although pro-life since the 1980s, the SBC nevertheless decided to pass a resolution “on thirty years of Roe v. Wade,” saying they “lament and renounce statements and actions by previous Conventions and previous denominational leadership that offered support to the abortion culture.”  The SBC compared its revisiting of the issue and repudiation of […]

AMSTERDAM, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch abortion boat from the pro-abortion group known as “Women on Waves” is ready to set sail from the northern Holland habour of Harlingen to Poland, where a pro-life law protects unborn children from abortionists.  The ship is scheduled to arrive in Wladyslawowo, Poland on Saturday June 21st and will stay in port for two weeks.  A press release from Women on Waves says that the group “can provide safe and legal early medical abortion care on board their ship by sailing to international waters, 12 miles off the coast of any foreign […]

SHENYANG, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese doctors are boasting of having removed live hearts from babies during abortions and then keeping the hearts alive in a culture fluid.  Thought to be a world first, Wang Tong, a doctor associated with the procreation center lab of the Shenyang Women and Infants’ Hospital in Shenyang (the capital of Liaoning Province), said one such heart has survived for thirteen days and another for nine days.  The first heart comes from a baby aborted at 7.5 weeks on June 5.  Wang said he removed the heart and placed it into the culture and […]

TOPEKA, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline is insisting that abortionists and doctors who treat pregnant girls under 16 report the pregnancies to authorities as child sexual abuse.  Abortionists and doctors failing to report such cases will face misdemeanor charges punishable by six months in prison and a fine of $1000 as well as penalties from the State’s medical licensing agency.  The announcement comes after Life Dynamics Inc, a pro-life group, did an undercover investigation revealing that most abortion centers did not report the obvious cases of child sexual abuse evidenced by underage girls seeking abortions. […]

ZURICH, June 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A European Union-sponsored study by the University of Zurich has found that Switzerland, with seven out of ten terminally ill people ending their lives with euthanasia, has the highest euthanasia rate in Europe. Of 3,350 deaths examined in Switzerland, half were found to be by active or passive euthanasia.  Doctors cutting off life support, or passive euthanasia, was the cause of death in one third of the cases. The study also found Switzerland with the highest rate assisted suicide, which accounted for 0.4 per cent of deaths, some 500 per year.  The study, which […]