Recent Catholic News

TORONTO, Apr 8 (Lifesitenews.com) Reprinted by LifeSite with permission from Michael Coren, a radio and television talk show host and syndicated columnist (first printed in Today’s issue of the Toronto Sun). I seldom devote two columns to the same subject but sometimes events demand a change in policy. The propaganda campaign against the anti-abortion group Human Life International (HLI), currently holding its annual conference in Toronto, has become so intense and so absurd that a response is essential. To summarize the arguments of HLI’s opponents, the organization’s leaders, and by extension its membership of more than 70,000, are hateful,  violent […]

TORONTO, Apr 8 (Lifesitenews.com) – Speaking at a press conference on the opening of Human Life International’s Toronto conference yesterday, HLI president Fr. Richard Welch accused the US and Canadian governments of promoting “contraceptive imperialism.” The western governments promote “the myth of a population crisis” and then use taxpayer money to finance the exportation of contraceptives and population control programs to developing nations,” he said. Fr. Welch noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is a major government funder of abortion and population control organizations such as International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). “In one five year period alone, 1989-94, […]

OTTAWA, Apr 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – In a letter to the Canadian Minister of Health Allan Rock in late March,  the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF), of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) wrote: “We strongly oppose the introduction of RU-486 into Canada because this pill is not a therapeutic drug but one which destroys the unborn child and has serious health risks for women.” Criticizing the governments initiative to contact the manufacturer of RU-486 the letter said:  “Should the Government take an active role in promoting abortion by approving clinical trials of this deadly pill, it will […]

TORONTO, Apr 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – Newspapers in Toronto and Ottawa have deemed it credible to report the charge by pro-aborts that US pro-life activist Joan Andrews Bell who has been imprisoned for peaceful pro-life activism in the US should be barred from Canada because of her criminal record. The pro-life activist is scheduled to speak at the HLI conference in Toronto. Andrews Bell, the Linda Gibbons of the US, is a committed pro-lifer and devout Christian whose only crime is attempting to save the lives of babies and to spare their mothers the pain of abortion and its aftermath. Last […]

WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – New evidence has revealed the bias evident in a study which appeared in the American Psychological Association’s journal, Developmental Psychology, last month which claimed that children whose mothers are employment outside the home are no worse off than those whose mothers stay home. The US based Statistical Assessment Service (SAS) published a report in March entitled,  “Good News For Moms: No One Misses You.” The report noted that the individuals used for the APA sample “were not a cross section of the population. … Instead, the sample was heavily skewed toward mothers who were young, […]

WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – At a press conference on Monday, President Clinton asked congress to include the term “sexual orientation” in hate crimes legislation. In this regard Clinton also announced a “public-private partnership” with AT&T, Court TV, the Anti-Defamation League,  Cable in the Classrooms, the National Middle Schools Association, and the Departments of Education and Justice to “change the mind, the heart, and the habits of our people when they’re young – to keep bad things from happening.” Family Research Council president Robert Knight reacted to the announcement saying “President Clinton’s plan to invade America’s middle schools and colleges […]

TORONTO, Apr 7 (Lifesitenews.com) – Another two articles full of hatred towards the pro-life movement,  Catholicism and Human Life International appeared in today’s Toronto Sun. One article by Heather Bird is a deliberate attempt to divide Catholics using false information to pit them against one another. In “Catholic link to racists unsettling,” Bird falsely claims that “the Archdiocese of Toronto has officially issued a statement distancing itself from the group and this particular conference.” Suzanne Scorsone, spokesperson for the Archdiocese (also interviewed by the Sun)  told LifeSite that no official statement was issued by the Archdiocese. Scorsone said that she […]

TORONTO, Apr 6 (Lifesitenews.com) – The Family Coalition Party, currently the only pro-life, pro-family Ontario provincial party, has been covered on television, radio and in newspapers in recent weeks. A paid political announcement for the FCP has been running regularly on the popular Toronto talk-radio station CFRB 1010. Party leader Giuseppe Gori was featured on the Michael Coren television show. Marie Young, from the administrative office of the FCP told LifeSite that the party is also running television ads on the Crossroads Television Station which is available in the Toronto – Hamilton region. Yesterday, in the Toronto Star the FCP […]

OTTAWA, Apr 6 (Lifesitenews.com) – Official Opposition Critic for Families Eric Lowther revealed today that Canada expects the UN “Rights of the Child” Committee to be critical of Canada’s laws permitting parental discipline. The Reform MP made public government documents obtained by an Access to Information request which identify the UN’s order five years ago that Canada eliminate laws (section 43) permitting parents the reasonable use of spanking as a form of discipline. Lowther publicized a Ministerial briefing note which states: “In 1995, in response to Canada’s first report on its implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of […]