Recent Catholic News

Canadian pro-lifers are reminded to tune in to CBC’s the Nature of Things Monday (25th) at 9pm. The show is expected to glorify the use of brain tissue from aborted babies as a successful treatment for Parkinson’s Disease.  For more see: CBC to Urge Use of Aborted Baby Brains for Research Catholic World News reported Wednesday that the US bishops’ conference will release a pamphlet, “Faithful Citizenship: Civic Responsibility for a New Millennium,” early next year to every Catholic in America urging them to consider life and family issues when electing leaders.  Canadian farmers and other land owners are pressing […]

TORONTO, Oct 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The throne speech of the Ontario government yesterday indicated that the province would be developing a high pressure campaign to increase organ donation.  The program fails to address unresolved issues of concern over the donation of certain organs, such as the heart, which require the donor to be alive for the organ to be useful for transplant.  The government proposes a quota for increased organ donations which is telling of their results-oriented rather than people-oriented approach. The throne speech promised to double organ donor rates by 2005. It has employed outspoken hockey commentator Don Cherry […]

LONDON, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A thoroughly documented editorial in the current issue of the Postgraduate Medical Journal of the British Medical Association indicates that the effectiveness of sex-education and condom distribution programmes has been much and dangerously exaggerated by the media. Professor Trevor Stammers, a tutor in General Practice,  at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the UK suggests that “enabling parents to be more involved in sex education is preferable to professionals taking over this role completely.”  Stammers notes that “concentrating on preventing conception” as most school programmes do, “is treating a symptom rather than a cause.”  Studies […]

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maryland-based Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF), a baby parts harvesting company, was founded and is currently headed up by Brenda Bardsley and her husband Jim. In an interview with World magazine Mrs. Bardsley complained about being “painted as a monster” for her dealings in baby body parts. She insists that her non-profit business is acceptable to God. World reports that Mrs. Bardsley says her family attends a Southern Baptist church, and that she homeschools her children with a Christian curriculum and teaches them that abortion is wrong. Bardsley, who says she reads the Bible […]

As the Senate debates partial-birth abortion today both American Life League and Concerned Women for America intervened to note that the late term abortion procedure is protected since it is useful for the baby parts market. (PR Newswire) CBC news reported today that British Columbia-based Chromos Molecular Systems, a Canadian bio-technology firm has made a breakthrough that could spark a revolution in gene therapy. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in getting mice to pass an artificial chromosome on to their offspring.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest and most extensive coverage of the story of the sale of aborted baby parts, World magazine reveals that one of the companies involved left town after their operation was exposed. Opening Lines, one of the companies which orchestrates the harvesting of baby parts from abortuaries and the sales to researchers, was forced to close up shop in the small town of West Frankfort, Illinois after the pro-life group Life Dynamics Inc. released its story to West Frankfort’s newspaper.  According to World, The Daily American ran a front-page story under a […]

TORONTO, Oct 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Diane Francis, editor of the Financial Post section of the National Post is proving herself a strong opponent of Canadians holding traditional beliefs.  LifeSite reported Sept 7 that she attacked social conservatives within the Reform Party as “fringe” and expressed the need to rid them from the United Alternative. Three weeks later she continued her drive to silence those with views opposite her own by calling on the government to rescind the tax exemption held by churches.  While she argues that the exemption is no longer valid since “the role of the ‘church’ has been […]

Homosexuals Ontario MPP George Smitherman and Toronto Councillor Kyle Rae are protesting a Toronto public-health department request for the John’s list from an escort agency whose prostitutes were found to be HIV positive. The pair admitted to having had sex with HIV infected men but said it was of no consequence since they wore condoms.  http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-10-20-0032.html   One of the “moderate” (read non-pro-life) Republicans is quitting the US Presidential race. The Washington Post reports today that Elizabeth Dole has decided to drop out of the race today.  The Conservative News Service reports today that in the face of a burgeoning […]

OTTAWA, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just as LifeSite predicted on October 7, Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs will introduce a bill allowing euthanasia. Carstairs revealed to the Vancouver Sun yesterday that her private members bill will be introduced November 2 and will be seconded by Liberal Senator Michael Kirby. The Medical Decisions Facilitation Act, proposes not to legalize euthanasia but to allow doctors to give medication which will knowingly end life without facing penalty. Furthermore, the legislation would allow physicians to withhold life-  sustaining “treatment” which would undoubtedly include nutrition and hydration.  LifeSite reported two weeks ago that Carstairs had unexpectedly […]