Recent Catholic News

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – For the first time in over 25 years, the percentage of mothers with children under 1 year old working or looking for work has declined from 60 percent in 1998 to 55 percent in 2000. U.S. Census Bureau data, reported on today by USA Today, also reveals the percentage of women who worked during their first pregnancy also has shown its first leveling off since 1961. Moreover, the number of working, married women with children under 3 has dropped from an annual average of 4 million in 1999 to 3.9 million in 2000. Demographers […]

Witmer and Clement Being Courted but not Flaherty and Stockwell TORONTO, March 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The National Post reported that the Ernie Eves Ontario PC leadership team now realizes their candidate cannot win on the first ballot and may lose on a second ballot vote to Jim Flaherty. Eves, who is the most well-connected candidate to Bay St. big money, is rumored to be secretly offering generous financial enticements to Witmer and Clement, in addition to promises of significant cabinet postings. The Post reports that John Lashinger, chairman of the Eves campaign, denied the claim. Given the new one […]

LIBERAL AND ALLIANCE MPS DEMAND FREE VOTE ON EMBRYO RESEARCH http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_ PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1015887728073 POPE INSISTS ON “RESPECTING SCRUPULOUSLY THE RIGHT OF FAMILIES TO CHOOSE THE TYPE OF EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN”  http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2002/march/documents/hf_ jp-ii_spe_20020311_ambassador-ecuador_sp.html (In Spanish only) BUSH TO ATTEND UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE GLOBAL TAXATION http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=ForeignBureausarchive

ACLU SPONSORS NATIONAL DAY OF APPRECIATION FOR ABORTION PROVIDERS http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0019941.html US BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE BACKS BROWNBACK/LANDRIEU HUMAN CLONING PROHIBITION ACT http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2002/02-038.htm

Third World De-population has been Official U.S. Strategic Policy since 1974 MELBOURNE, March 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Top-secret files recently declassified from the National Archives of Australia despite government opposition has revealed that one of the fathers of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering advocated using biological weapons against Indonesia and other “overpopulated” countries of South-East Asia. Australia’s The Age reports that world-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, recommended in a secret report for the Australian Defence Department in 1947 that biological and chemical weapons should be developed to target food crops and spread infectious diseases. Macfarlane, who won the Nobel Prize […]

Only Five More Countries Needed to Initiate Court – Implementation Now Inevitable UNITED NATIONS, March 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – As of March 7 there were only five more country ratifications necessary to bring the International Criminal Court (ICC) into force. Mauritius, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Cyprus ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC in March bringing the number of ratifications to 55. Once 60 countries have ratified the treaty, the ICC will assume universal jurisdiction even over countries that have not signed on to the agreement. Procedural consideration may require some months after final ratification before the […]

MEXICO CITY, March 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, the legal arm of the U.S. pro-abortion movement, has filed a suit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, claiming Mexico “violated the human rights” of “a 13-year-old rape victim” since she was refused an abortion. If the Commission accepts the suit and Mexico fails to barter an agreement with the Commission, CRLP is threatening to take the case to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. Rebecca Cook, CRLP board member and professor of human rights and international law at the University of Toronto, said, “This […]

FRANKFURT, March 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II has displayed a rarely-used papal power by stripping a German bishop of the control of a portion of his diocesan authority. On March 8, the Pope stripped Bishop Franz Kamphaus of the Limburg diocese of responsibility for abortion counseling and assumed personal responsibility for this area of pastoral activity. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that the Pope was forced to this drastic action after Bishop Kamphaus for years repeatedly refused the Pope’s orders to put an end to the handing out of counselling certificates to pregnant women who can use […]

Pro-Life Leader Challenged Pro-Abortion Group To An End Its Terrorism On The Unborn Child WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International, has called on Planned Parenthood Federation of American (PPFA) to end its “ever-increasing terrorism on the unborn child.” Citing PPFA’s own statistics that show it committed more abortions in its last reporting period than ever before, Scott said it’s time for a cease-fire to protect those in the womb. “PPFA and its legions admits to having committed 197,070 in 2000, a 7.8 percent increase from the 182,792 killings it did in […]

ONTARIO LIBERAL LEADER MCGUINTY WOULD END INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TAX CREDITS http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/  Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1015628572103 NATIONAL POST EDITORIAL FAVOURS ADULT STEM CELL RESEARCH http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?f=/stories/20020311/298825 .html THREE DISABLED CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIA TO SUE FOR “WRONGFUL LIFE”  Will argue that they are due funds since they should not have been born.  http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/10/1015365756982.html SOUTH KOREAN RESEARCH PRODUCES HUMAN CLONES FOR RESEARCH WITH COW OVA http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,107320,00.html? AUDI WILL BECOME THE OFFICIAL AUTOMOTIVE SPONSOR OF HOMOSEXUAL NY TIMES SPEAKER SERIES http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020308/82218_1.html