Recent Catholic News

POLL SAYS OVER 70% OF CANADIANS SUPPORT PARENTS’ RIGHT TO USE SPANKING AS DISCIPLINE Only 21.9% of 1,516 respondents in the Leger Marketing survey answered in the affirmative when they were asked: “Should the government pass legislation to ban parents from spanking their children?” Seventy per cent said No and 8.1% didn’t know or refused to answer.  http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020211/17422.html HUMAN ADULT STEM CELLS REGENERATE HEART TISSUE IN MICE http://newsstand.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?fname=2002-02/20020207.124838&time=13:58+Pacific+Time&year=2002&public=1 CLONED MICE HAVE SHORT LIFE SPAN http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1142809,00.html

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – This week President Bush submitted his budget request for next year’s Foreign Aid bill (FY2003). While the budget tops $16 billion, UNFPA funding for FY 2003 is yet to be determined. Last month—in light of evidence presented to Congress showing UNFPA’s support of coercive abortion and coercive sterilization programs in China – the President withheld $34 million for UNFPA for 2002. Reacting to the news, Steve Mosher, president of Population Research Institute – the leading group in exposing the UNFPA’s support of coercive abortion – told LifeSite, “President Bush is a man of principle […]

STOCKHOLM, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Swedish study published in the current edition of The Lancet medical journal has found that children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF) have an increased risk of severe brain disorder requiring treatment at a childhood disability centre. Dr Bo Strömberg, a paediatric neurologist at University Children's Hospital and his collegues found that there was a three to four-fold increase in risk of having cerebral palsy in children born after IVF. The risk of suspected developmental delay was two to four times higher in children born after IVG than in normally conceived children. The […]

LIFESITE, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – To assist pro-life, pro-family members of the federal Canadian Alliance and Ontario PC parties, LifeSite has put together an information page on each race. Included is a link to each candidate’s web page and a list of LifeSite, Interim and CLC National News articles on the two races.   The Canadian Alliance leadership page is at https://www.lifesitenews.com/clc/elections/allianceleadership2002/index.html Ontario PC page is at https://www.lifesitenews.com/clc/elections/ontpcleadership2002/index.html

SALT LAKE CITY, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – News reports indicate that sponsors of “SafeGames 2002”—including Planned Parenthood and the American Red Cross—intend to distribute 250,000 condoms in Utah during the winter Olympic Games. Judie Brown, president of American Life League (ALL) slammed the “SafeGames” initiative saying, “Why don’t they tell the truth? – Condoms have a nearly one-in-six failure rate. That’s the same odds as Russian Roulette. And considering one of the risks of a faulty condom is HIV transmission, the results could be equally deadly.” Bryan Kemper of the ALL sponsored youth group Rock for Life will join […]

SAN ANTONIO, February 8, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Claims by birth control pill proponents that the newest version – third generation – of the pill has overcome safety issues proved hollow today according to findings from a new Dutch study. The study found women who take the newest form of the pill have a stroke risk 2.2 times higher than women who are not taking the pill. The risk is similar to that of the risk with the second generation pill which has a stroke risk 2.4 times higher than non-pill takers. The study, presented Thursday at a conference of the […]

QUEBEC JUSTICE MINISTER SUGGESTS HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS WILL INCLUDE ADOPTION RIGHTS http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id={C7343A1C-04ED-4AFA-B49A-F44A650074D4} UK WOMAN PREGNANT SECOND TIME USING DEAD HUSBAND’S SPERM http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1809000/1809296.stm UK PRO-LIFE GROUP EXPRESSES SYMPATHY AND CONCERN OVER CONJOINED TWINS CASE http://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20020204.htm

QUEBEC JUSTICE MINISTER SUGGESTS HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS WILL INCLUDE ADOPTION RIGHTS http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id={C7343A1C-04ED-4AFA-B49A-F44A650074D4} UK WOMAN PREGNANT SECOND TIME USING DEAD HUSBAND’S SPERM http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1809000/1809296.stm UK PRO-LIFE GROUP EXPRESSES SYMPATHY AND CONCERN OVER CONJOINED TWINS CASE http://www.spuc.org.uk/releases/20020204.htm

WASHINGTON, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Department of Justice has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to support Ohio’s restriction on partial-birth abortion. The brief argues that Ohio’s law restricting partial-birth abortion is different from the Nebraska law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stenberg vs. Carhart, and therefore should be upheld. “Forced abortion,” Smith said, “as we all know, was properly ruled a crime against humanity at the Nazi War Crimes Tribunals that were held in Nuremburg. Enablers like the U.N. Population Fund, have white-washed these crimes […]

Remaining Ratifications Expected “In The Next Eight To Twelve Weeks” UNITED NATIONS, February 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Four ratifications of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this year have brought the total ratifications to 52, eight short of the number needed for the ICC to enter into force. In January Benin and Estonia became Parties to the ICC with Portugal and Ecuador joining February 5. William Pace, Convenor of the more than 1,000 member NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court stated, “Due to the defining role the first sixty countries will play in shaping the future of […]