Recent Catholic News

HOLLYWOOD, Nov 17 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New media champion Matt Drudge has been threatened with a lawsuit by Fox News for refusing to tape his show for the network after he was not allowed to show a National Enquirer photo of a 21-week-old fetus to promote his pro-life stance. The Washington Post reports that in a letter, Fox News said “it is necessary for you to apologize to Fox News” to avoid the possibility of a “breach of contract lawsuit.” The Post also notes that network sources say his contract with the TV station is soon to be terminated.  Drudge responded […]

In an article entitled “Seeking your truths about abortion” Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur is asking readers to submit their “truths” about abortion “for another column.” Submit to: [email protected]   BBC news reports that on Tuesday Britain launched a public consultation asking its citizens to help decide whether the government should allow genetic screening of embryos prior to implantation in invitro fertilization, and then for any embryos found to be imperfect to be killed.    The US Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand which stated that a lesbian had become a “de facto” parent of her partner’s child and […]

OTTAWA, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maureen McTeer, wife of federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark and possible PC candidate in the next election, is showing herself to be more fiscally and morally liberal than the Liberal party. In a new book on new reproductive technologies called “Tough Choices: Living and Dying in the 21st Century,” McTeer calls for full public funding for fertility treatments.  McTeer argues that the only way to control the horrors of the new reproductive trade, such as the sale of the human reproductive materials sperm and ova, is to regulate and fully fund the procedure.  With […]

OTTAWA, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Official Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic Bob Mills released a report yesterday articulating Reform’s foreign policy in which Mills calls the United Nations “corrupt and wasteful.”  Mills suggests that Canada should follow the lead taken by the US of withholding funds until the international organization agrees to needed reforms.  “Instead of bad-mouthing the Americans for not keeping up their part of the payments, we should again ask why they’re not paying, and then we’ll get into the corruption, the socialist organization that it is,” Mills told the Ottawa Citizen.  “If it fails to modernize, if it […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A deal was worked out to pay the United Nations nearly one billion dollars in “back dues” after the Clinton administration agreed to a pro-life restriction on the monies.  Spearheaded by Rep. Chris Smith, the bill forbids the money to be used by agencies that promote abortion abroad.  However, the President retains the power to cancel that provision while sustaining a 3% or $385-million cut to the funds.  The agreement was somewhat forced since the UN threatened to remove the US from the General Assembly if it did not pay over half a billion before […]

The National Post reports today that a school district in northern British Columbia has lifted the suspensions it imposed last week on Grade 7 students whose parents refused to let them take part in a mandatory ‘‘cultural awareness’’ course designed to teach them respect for their local native Indian tribe.    Church news reported that Cardinal John O’Connor, writing in the Archdiocesan weekly “Catholic New York”, denounced the indifference of a large number of American citizens towards the loss of respect for life. “How can it be,” wrote the Cardinal “that grown men and women,  highly educated [.] can put millions […]

CARBONDALE, Ill, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, the UN commanding officer in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide has been forbidden by the Canadian Ministry of Defence to speak at a conference in Illinois on how the killings could have been prevented.  The National Post reports that while Dallaire agreed to speak at the conference in June, he canceled on orders from his superiors.  The barring of Dallaire’s firsthand information is becoming commonplace as his revelations strongly suggest the complicity of the United Nations in the Rwandan massacre. During the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Rwanda, Secretary General Kofi Annan […]

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) New media champion Matt Drudge was not allowed to show a National Enquirer photo of a 21-week-old fetus during a Fox Television show program. This prompted Drudge to leave the studio hours before air time. Drudge intended to illustrate the humanity of unborn children by showing the amazing recent photo of an unborn child’s hand reaching out of the womb during a rare operation to correct spina bifida. Fox News President Roger Ailes supported the decision of Fox News VP John Moody who refused to show the picture since “it was a picture of one surgical […]

TORONTO, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) A draft human rights policy set for approval by the Toronto District Board of Education, while it claims to prohibit discrimination, is likely to suppress the expression of traditional religious beliefs held by any students or staff. The board policy says that discrimination based on 14 grounds would be absolutely banned for students, staff trustees and any other individual entering school property. While the ban suggests that discrimination based on “religion” would be prohibited, it also includes a ban on “homophobic behaviour”  Pro-family observers warn that the policy would punish any expression of traditional religious beliefs […]

SEATTLE, WA, Nov 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Hofsess; the controversial head of the Right to Die Society of Canada has invented and unveiled a new device to do yourself in. Ted Gerk of the Pro-Life Resource Centre reported that the device called a “DeBreather”, was unveiled at a gathering of pro-euthanasia advocates in Seattle, Washington, November 13-14. The meeting was held by the Self Deliverance New Technology Group (NuTech) comprising of right-to-die organizations in the USA, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.  Conference organizers say Hofsess invented the “DeBreather”, which allows the user to suffocate from lack of oxygen. Funding for […]