Recent Catholic News

COLORADO SPRINGS, March 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Following the promotion of homosexual adoptions by the American Academy of Pediatrics and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family countered these views. Dobson, heard by 7.5 million listeners each week, emphasized the important role mothers and fathers play in parenting on his national daily broadcast this week and discussed the facts surrounding this critical matter. He said: —The AAP’s endorsement of homosexual parenting is NOT supported by the research. Drs. Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai, professionals in the field of quantitative analysis, examined 49 empirical studies […]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Over 100 liberal constituency leaders, health experts, and others have issued an “Open Letter on Human Cloning and Eugenic Engineering” calling on the United States Senate to pass legislation imposing a strong ban on the creation of human clones and a moratorium on the creation of clonal human embryos for research. “We need to ensure that these powerful new genetic technologies don’t spin out of control and undermine social justice and democracy,” said Dr. Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, which released the letter. “Human cloning could […]

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – On Monday the Oklahoma House overwhelmingly passed a bill to allow a woman to sue a doctor after an abortion if the doctor does not provide enough information before the procedure. The Oklahoman reports that House Bill 2677, which passed 95-1, would grant women a “cause of action” against physicians who fail to provide information before the surgery about the physical and emotional risks of abortion. Rep. Kevin Calvey, R-Del City, said the bill is necessary to keep doctors from “tricking” or coercing women to have abortions without telling them the ramifications. See […]

HERITAGE MINISTER SHEILA COPPS HOLDS PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS   http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=F93E3259-3886-485B-BB23-5387E0C8F620 HARRIS CONFIRMS HE WILL NOT ENTER FEDERAL POLITICS   Bourque News quoted remarks outgoing Ontario Premier Mike Harris made on Ottawa radio this morning. “I never wanted to be a full time politician …. there are other challenges in life … I’m always going to speak out … there’s a problem with a lack of a united opposition … but I’m going to leave federal politics for others,” said Harris. STUDY: BRITAIN SPLIT ON WHETHER ABORTION IS IMPORTANT ISSUE   Half of all British voters don’t consider a […]

CLINTON APPOINTED SURGEON GENERAL TO GIVE ADDRESS AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONFERENCE   http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0320-109.html CATHOLIC TEACHER SUING UNION FOR REQUIRING FEES WHICH SUPPORT ABORTION   http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48206,00.html CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE ABORTIFACIENT MORNING AFTER PILL LAUNCHED TODAY   http://www.backupyourbirthcontrol.org MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BLAST ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘FETUS’ STORY   Several members of Congress are criticizing the Associated Press for its use of the term “fetus” in a news story to describe a fully-born human infant, completely outside his or her mother’s womb.  http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=Culturearchive

Ford, Rockefeller, Turner, Playboy Anti-Catholic Front Organization Exposed Again OTTAWA, March 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Catholic Bishops Conference (CCCB) has denounced the group ‘Catholics For a Free Choice’ (CFFC). In a letter written March 15, and addressed to World Youth Day 2002 National Director Rev. Thomas Rosica, CCCB President Bishop Jacques Berthelet wrote that CFFC is “usurping the Church’s name; indeed, it is in no way recognized as Catholic.” The letter, concerning the slanderous anti-Catholic Billboard Campaign by CFFC, notes that the “roots and funding of Catholics for a Free Choice are found in the United States.” By […]

OTTAWA, March 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Senator Anne Cools has reacted to a Senate speech by Senator Laurier L. LaPierre calling it “blasphemous against the Catholic Church and the Senate.” On March 6, LaPierre compared the Catholic Church to the Taliban during a speech advocating homosexual marriage. On March 14, Senator Cools told the Senate: “I have been troubled that the Senate seems to have been overtaken by self-indulgent, egocentric rants and outbursts which seem to have replaced sound and reasoned argument, as juvenile histrionics, puerile theatrics and other antics seem to have overtaken logic, rational formulation and reasonableness. Such […]

LISBON, March 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Last Sunday’s election results in Portugal are sure to be a celebration for the pro-life movement. The centre-right Social Democratic Party (SDP) defeated the incumbent Socialists by three percent in the election. Better still, the pro-life Popular Party came in third place giving the SDP a partner for a conservative coalition. The defeat of the Socialists brings to an end six years of rule which which was economically ruining the country and brought new heights of moral decay. In February 1998 the Socialist-majority government passed a law to legalize abortion on demand in the […]

STRASBOURG, March 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Diane Pretty, a 43-year-old UK mother of two had her case for assisted suicide presented today at the European Court of Human Rights. Last November, the UK House of Lords rejected an appeal by Pretty, who is suffering from motor neurone disease, asking the courts to allow her husband to assist in her suicide without facing criminal charges. Jonathan Crow, the lawyer representing the British government, argued that UK “Domestic law simply does not allow one person to intervene deliberately to bring about another person’s death.” He noted also that assisted suicide was an […]

REGINA, March 19, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Robert Latimer of Saskatchewan, who is serving a minimum 10 year sentence for the murder of his disabled daughter under the pretext of an act of mercy, is seeking publicity to promote his application to have the sentence overturned. The Canadian Press reported yesterday that the Supreme Court of Canada is treating a number of letters sent to the court by Robert Latimer as a motion on his part to re-hear his case. CP quotes York University Law professor Patrick Monahan as saying that the Supreme Court’s action suggests there is something more to […]