Recent Catholic News

VANCOUVER (LSN) – The UN’s chief prosecutor in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Justice Louise Arbour addressed the International Bar Association yesterday calling for “human rights enforcement.”  Arbour told the assembled conference participants that “In legal terms, the field of human rights is moving seriously into an area of enforcement.”“If enforcement, through the use of criminal sanctions, can be made to work, it will be an extraordinary credit to the international legal community,” she said.  Although her comments came in the context of her recent dealings with war crimes, they are of particular concern to pro-life UN analysts. Campaign […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 14 (LSN) – On Saturday the Vancouver Sun reported that BC Transit has banned the free BC Christian News publication from its property claiming that the paper’s pro-life and pro-family stance “would be deemed derogatory and offensive.” According to BC Transit property supervisor Jim Frank, the publicly owned corporation will not permit religious material which promotes a specific ideology, ethic,  point of view, policy or action, which, in the opinion of BC Transit might be deemed to be prejudicial to other religious groups or offensive to users of the transit system.”  BC Transit willingly permits about 25 other […]

ROCHESTER, NY, Sept 14 (LSN) – The renowned Dr. Joseph Nicolosi is speaking on “The Healing of Same-Sex Attraction” in Rochester NY at a medical ethics seminar sponsored by the St. Luke’s Medical Association and the St. Thomas More Lawyer’s Guild. Other speakers include: Rev. Matthew Temple, O.Carm. “Cloning and In Vitro Fertilization”; Mrs. Beverly Malona, “Contraceptive Use and the Abuse of Women”; Theresa Wagner,  “Legal Trends in Physician Assisted Suicide”; and Dr. Thomas Pingree, “Hospice Care: Care for the Dying.”  DATE: Saturday, September 19, 1998 TIME: 8:45 to 3:00 p.m.  PLACE: Holy Spirit Parish, 1355 Hatch Road, Webster NY.  […]

OTTAWA, Sept 14 (LSN) – On Friday, pro-family Senator Anne Cools announced a workshop on Family Conflict in Marriage and Divorce, and the Consequences for Children, to be held in Toronto on Saturday, September 19, 1998 at St. Cyril’s Orthodox Church Hall, 237 Sackville Street.  Participant speakers will include Erin Pizzey, founder of the world’s first battered women’s shelter in 1971, in Chiswick, England; Dr. Michael Benjamin, an author and researcher in Family Mediation; Thora Espinet, a Toronto family lawyer; Gwen Landolt, a lawyer and National Vice-President, REAL Women of Canada;  Terri Petkau, a lecturer and researcher on Domestic Violence […]

TORONTO, Sept 11 (LSN) – Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) today reported that “Crown Attorney Paul Culver instructed Toronto police, who arrested pro-life protesters September 9, to not charge them with ‘disobeying a court order’”. The protesters were expecting that charge so that they could finally challenge in court the unconstitutional injunction that prohibits protests at Toronto’s abortuaries.  Linda Gibbons, Rev. Ken Campbell and Annaliese Stedan were arrested on Wednesday for peacefully protesting outside Toronto’s Scott abortion mill. They were eventually charged with “obstructing a peace officer”.  CLC is trying to draw attention to a “serious abuse of legal process” in […]

CHICAGO, Sept 11 (LSN) – In a strongly worded letter, the six bishops who preside over the Catholic dioceses of Illinois urged pro-abortion U.S. Senators Carol Moseley-Braun and Richard Durbin to vote to override President Clinton’s veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act on September 18. “We refuse to believe that you cannot see partial-birth abortion as the unfathomable and gruesome act of infanticide that it is,” said the letter.  PRNewswire noted that the bishops praised past humanitarian efforts by the senators but added that “a shadow is cast over these good works, when simultaneously, (a vote is cast) to […]

LANSING, Mich., Sept 11 (LSN) – The Associated Press reported today that former Kevorkian lawyer Geoffrey Fieger threatens the success of neighbouring Democratic campaigns. In August Fieger, notorious for his derogatory attacks and personal slurs against all who oppose assisted suicide, won Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary pitting him against the incumbent Republican Governor John Engler who opposes assisted suicide.  Steve Mitchell of Mitchell Research & Communications in East Lansing told Associated Press that “Geoff Fieger is not an albatross around neck of Democrats, he’s an anchor, and he’s going to bring down Democrats.” However, Democratic big-wigs remain steadfastly behind their […]

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (LSN) – Today Mark DeYoung, Director of the American Life League’s youth division called WhyLife?, condemned the recent UN Population Fund document, State of World Population: 1998, as “an all-  out global assault against youth.” Mr. DeYoung notes that the UN “calls for complete ‘reproductive freedom’  for minors, as well as freedom from parental authority.”“It’s horrifying to think that the UN wants to discourage young people from getting married and having families, while encouraging them instead to participate in unhealthy sexual activities,” said DeYoung,  “all to curb a ‘population problem’ that doesn’t exist.”

BOSTON, Sept 10 (LSN) – Despite the ability of many young people today to sift through the mountains of mythology on population control to arrive at accurate information, the highly respected National Geographic has sadly chosen not to do so. Four of the seven main features in the October edition of the magazine are devoted to the issue,stressing the need to curtail population growth around the globe. Topics include “population,” “women and population,” “feeding the planet,” and “human migration,” and the plea for population control particularly targets poor and ethnic nations.   For the counter-arguments to the overpopulation mythology see […]

PHILADELPHIA, Sept 10 (LSN) – Yesterday Roman Catholic Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, urged the U.S. Congress to support the federal Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act which would enable the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to revoke the licenses of doctors who intentionally prescribed drugs to assist a patient in committing suicide. Reuters reported that the cardinal’s recommendation was given in a letter and aimed at putting an end to Oregon’s law permitting assisted suicide which was enacted last year.