Recent Catholic News

TORONTO, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Canadian Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has urged Catholics around the world to respond to the targetting of World Youth Day by the pro-abortion group “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC). As LifeSite reported earlier, CFFC has launched a campaign in Toronto to target the 750,000 youth expected at the upcoming World Youth Day. The campaign includes billboard and public transit advertising as well as a planned condom and propaganda distribution at the Catholic event featuring Pope John Paul II, the world’s most renowned pro-life and pro-family advocate. CCRL is currently focusing on […]

VATICAN, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, in his message released for Lent 2002, Pope John Paul II warned against abuses of biotechnology. “The achievements of medicine and biotechnology can sometimes lead man to think of himself as his own creator, and to succumb to the temptation of tampering with ‘the tree of life,’” he said. The Pope touched on issues surrounding the human embryo. “The beginning of life and its marvellous development: this is a gift. And because it is gift, life can never be regarded as a possession or as private property, even if the capabilities we now […]

UNITED NATIONS, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has entered into collaboration with a global student union to promote population control. On January 29, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of AIESEC International Student Network – which claims to be “the largest global student organization”. AIESEC bills itself as “a unique and growing network of 50,000 students, typically studying business and technical subjects, in over 800 higher education institutions in 83 countries and territories.” Observers suggest that the UNFPA outreach to student organizations comes as its ranks are […]

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has collaborated on a powerful new made-for-television commercial informing women about the existence of abortion-breast cancer research. The commercial features an attractive women’s basketball coach in a gym coaching her team. There is a voice over which says: I wish I’d known. I’ve got breast cancer and wish someone had told me earlier that abortion could increase the risk of breast cancer by 50% or more. Learn the facts today. Contact information is provided at the end of the commercial for the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute which […]

LONDON, February 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Last week, on the basis that the morning after pill can cause an abortion, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) was given leave to proceed with a judicial review of the decision to reclassify the drug as one available from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. SPUC argues that the Offences Against the Person Act, in place since 1861, prohibits supply of any “poison or other noxious thing” with intent to cause miscarriage. Pro-abortion groups however are alarmed since they say a ruling on the abortifacient nature of the morning after […]

PETITION AGAINST PRO-ABORT NY ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ASSAULT ON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS http://www.catholicpetitions.com/petition.html?name=new_york_preg_ctrs

TORONTO, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – An investigation by the Globe and Mail has revealed that Canadian women are offering rent-a-womb contracts on the Internet and thanks to Canada’s lack of legislation on the matter business is booming. A reporter from the paper who posed on the Internet as a surrogate offering “to make babies with donor sperm for a fee” received eight e-mails within a week expressing interest . The Globe uncovered one completed surrogacy transaction, where the woman, named only as Trish says she gave birth after being impregnated with the sperm of an Ontario man – the […]

CHICAGO, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a press release issued yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revealed their new policy statement in support of homosexual adoptions. The release notes that “new AAP policy statement, ‘Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents’ supports legal and legislative efforts that provide for the possibility of adoption of those children by the second parent or coparent in same-sex relationships.” The February issue of the AAP publication Pediatrics also contains an article entitled “Technical Report: Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents” which claims to cite evidence that “children who grow up with […]

LONDON, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The largest investigation into homosexual parenting to be published in Europe finds that children raised by homosexual couples suffer serious problems later in life. The study, by sociologist Patricia Morgan, is released with the launch of her book on the subject, “Children as Trophies?”. The book reviews 144 academic papers on homosexual parenting and concludes that the healthiest way to bring up a child is within traditional marriage. See the coverage in the Herald:  http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3709157%255E912,00.html

CAPE TOWN, February 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In response to South African President Thabo Mbeki’s call for religious leaders to help address the nation’s “moral decline,” the head of the Catholic Church in South Africa, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier called on the government to halt abortions. The South African Press Agency reports that the Cardinal said halting abortions would be a gesture of the President’s seriousness in calling for a moral renewal in South African society. See the SAPA coverage:  http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1016799-6078-0,00.html