Recent Catholic News

RALEIGH, N.C., June 19 (LSN) – Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported on U.S. Drs Stephen D. Mumford and Elton Kessel, who are using a permanent sterilization drug on poor women in the Third World, with the financial support of population-control advocates in the U.S. Quinacrine, as the drug is known, is inserted into the uterus in two doses one month apart, and irreversibly scars the fallopian tubes. Known side effects include “abnormal menstrual bleeding, backaches, fever, abdominal pain, and headaches.” The drug is banned in the U.S., because scientists fear it causes cancer.  Mumford, head of the Center for […]

KELWONA, June 19 (LSN) – At a meeting of the Okanagan-Similkameen Public Health Region on Wednesday,  vice-chair Ellen McRae announced that Kelwona General Hospital may begin committing abortions on January 1, 1999. Nearly 100 pro-lifers demonstrated outside the hospital on Monday in protest of the coming announcement. The Okanagan-Similkameen was the only district in B.C. in which abortions were not committed. Health officials in the region are considering flying in abortionists, since no local doctors are willing to provide the “service.”

ROME, June 19 (LSN) – The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) reported today from that protests from certain countries has triggered a special debate on the proposal to include “enforced pregnancy” as a war crime in the mandate for the United Nation’s new International Criminal Court.  CAFHRI reports UN feminists said the term “enforced pregnancy” was already entrenched in the document,  and thus could not be debated any further.  The objections arose on Wednesday in the Committee of the Whole, (the body charged with negotiating the final text of the ICC treaty) and caused the issue to be […]

BEIJING, June 18 (LSN) – On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao attacked condemnations of the Chinese one-child policy made last week by a former abortionist in the government’s “family planning” programme. “We oppose some people using this to distort our nation’s birth control policy and politicizing this problem,”  he said. Apparently referring to the myth of “over-population,” the spokesman dismissed widespread human-rights violations in China, saying, “The Chinese government’s promotion of its birth control policy is a dual responsibility for the Chinese people and the world’s people,” he said.  Gao Xiao Duan, a former abortionist in a government […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 18 (LSN) – Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family,  has suffered a mild stroke, and “is now under medical observation and resting comfortably while undergoing a series of tests and procedures to better determine his condition,”  according to Focus spokesman Paul Hetrick. Prayers for his speedy recovery are requested.

TORONTO, June 18 (LSN) – A report on CBC Newsworld Tuesday detailed a study published in yesterday’s Journal of the American Medical Association, which found pain management for nursing home residents with cancer is woefully inadequate. Although the study was undertaken in the US, Toronto cancer specialist Dr. Mary Vachon said her research has uncovered the same problem in Canada.  The host of the segment, Dr. Brian Goldman, said that British research indicates up to 90 per cent of cancer pain can be relieved with proper pain management. Pro-life commentators point out that effective pain management is a crucial factor […]

NEW YORK, June 18 (LSN) – On Tuesday, Olara A. Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, added his voice to the chorus of calls for the International Criminal Court to include “sexual violence” in its jurisdiction.  “The crime of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict should be defined as a war crime, with provision for the severest punishment,” he said.  Recalling that in UN parlance crimes of “sexual violence” include “forced pregnancy” the denial of abortion on demand   the statement takes on an ominous quality.  To […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 17 (LSN) – Yesterday, the 16th Asian and Oceanic Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, taking place in Kuala Lumpur, heard alarming statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the number of abortions being committed in Asia and around the world. It was reported that in India 6.7 million legal abortions are committed every year. The WHO also estimates 150,000 abortions are committed every day around the world, resulting in an annual holocaust of almost 55 million lives.

ROME, June 17 (LSN) – Archbishop Renato Martino, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, addressed the conference on the proposed International Criminal Court yesterday,  saying the I.C.C. should be formulated in such a way as to avoid falling prey to “political concerns and pressures” which “reflect the particular rather than the universal.” The Vatican representative also said the Catholic Church’s principle concern in the conference is to ensure the “protection of the dignity of the human person.”“This dignity is shared by every human person, regardless of his age, race, ethnic origin, status as […]

ROME, June 17 (LSN) – Bill Richardson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, addressed delegates this morning at the UN conference on establishing an International Criminal Court, proposing limits on the reach of the proposed court and the process of triggering prosecutions. Richardson warned the court must not act as “a human rights ombudsman.” He also suggested the U.N. Security Council or a signatory state should be responsible for bringing forward cases for the court to pursue rather than allowing the court’s prosecutor to do so.  Justice Richard Goldstone, the first chief prosecutor of the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals,  […]