Recent Catholic News

VANCOUVER, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabid pro-abortion BC MLA, Joy MacPhail, announced yesterday that she will run for the leadership of the BC NDP party.  Ted Gerk, of the Pro-Life Resource Centre, reported that at a September 29, 1999 Students for Choice rally, MacPhail spoke immediately after APEC-protester Garth Mullins, who told the crowd to commit acts of violence and vandalism against abortion opponents. Gerk told LifeSite that MacPhail, if elected to premier of the province, would be ruthless against pro-lifers.  “MacPhail could have calmed the situation by telling the crowd to cool it; to oppose the pro-life movement in […]

WINNIPEG, Oct 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Winnipeg police Insp. Keith McCaskill, Canadian spokesman for the joint Canadian-American team investigating the shooting of five abortionists, has issued a warning to Canadian abortionists to be on the look out. The joint police team is looking into the shooting of five abortionists since 1994. All incidents having occurred around Remembrance Day, November 11.  At the time of the shootings, the media gave extensive, very biased coverage to abortion promoters, like Henry Morgentaler who accused the pro-life movement of being responsible for the fatal shooting of abortionist Barnett Slepian. In many cases major media […]

CALGARY, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jean-Guy Tremblay, 35, the father of the aborted baby in the infamous Chantal Daigle case, is in court facing trial next Monday on nine charges including assault, unlawful confinement and stalking. Earlier this year while police moved in to charge him with assault, Tremblay slit his own throat.  The Canadian Press, apparently unable to comprehend the motivation of a father trying to protect the life of his child, has politicized the issue by portraying Tremblay as an “abortion foe”. Such tactics, associating Tremblay’s disturbed behaviour to the pro-life movement also conveniently helps to discredit pro-lifers.  […]

NEW YORK, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two extensive studies appearing in this month’s issue of the American Medical Association’s Archives of General Psychiatry confirm a strong link between homosexual sex and suicide as well as a relationship between homosexuality and abnormal mental problems.  A study using 103 pairs of twins, one a practicing homosexual and the other not, found that homosexual behaviour significantly increased the likelihood of suicide even after adjustments were made for substance abuse and depression. The practicing homosexual twin was over 5 times more likely to experience the suicidal symptoms. The study conducted by Richard Herrell et […]

OTTAWA, Oct 19 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After emerging from an hour long meeting with Reform Party Leader Preston Manning yesterday, Opposition Health Critic Keith Martin told the Toronto Star that he was assured that the leader’s comments about abortion in his House of Commons speech last week did not represent a de facto commitment to the pro-life side of the issue. The comments,  though general, had been made in reference to anticipated legislation on new reproductive technologies (NRT).  In an interview with LifeSite this morning, Manning spokesman Jim Armour said that due to the upcoming NRT legislation there will be a […]

Reform MP, Maurice Vellacott, last week reintroduced his conscience clause bill in the House of Commons. It is now Bill C-207, not C-461 as was the case in the previous session of Parliament.  One of the founders of Canadian feminism honoured by Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson Monday was a racist and radical eugenicist. The Calgary Herald reports that Emily Murphy was among five women whose statues were unveiled despite the fact that she “was a racist and anti-Semite who promoted eugenics, and cautioned whites to protect themselves against the black and yellow races.”  China’s commitment to coercive population control […]

TORONTO, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite reported on Friday that Linda Gibbons, a grandmother who has spent most of the last 5 years behind bars for peacefully, quietly and prayerfully picketing outside a Toronto abortuary was arrested again. This time she was treated unusually harshly by police. Linda revealed on Saturday that she had been given no food or water for 24 hours after her arrest. Moreover she was forced to spend the night in a cell in a police station with only a metal bench to sleep on and she was given no pillow or blankets.  Only after her […]

CALGARY, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking in Calgary on Saturday, Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark again indicated his hostility to pro-life, pro-family Canadians. Reacting to the speech given by Reform Party Leader Preston Manning last week, which included an affirmation of the party’s socially conservative policies, Clark said, “I don’t know why (Manning) is going back to his original supporters, but his move is good news for us.” Mr. Clarke is very confident that Canadians who believe that pro-life and pro-family values should be reflected in public policy represent nothing more than a fringe rump of the populace that can […]

Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch reported last week that Wendy’s founder, Dave Thomas, is promoting adoption. When asked if Roe v Wade should be overturned, he at first answered “probably”, but then refused to be drawn into the abortion debate.  The Sept/Oct issue of Family Voice notes that “safe abortion” is a myth and gives evidence of underreporting of casualties caused by abortion.  Evangelical leader Chuck Colson has refused to sell his books through internet book sale giant amazon.com since the company has refused his requests to discontinue the sale of books promoting pedophilia.

TORONTO, Oct 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An effort by the fraudulent organization “Catholics for a Free Choice” (CFFC) to have the Toronto Catholic School Board stop raising money for a pro-life group which aids women in crisis pregnancies, has failed. As LifeSite reported last week, Kathleen Howes of CFFC asked for a hearing from the board under her personal name to contest the replacement of the UNICEF fundraiser with a fundraiser for Aid To Women. The Board decided in favour of Aid to Women three years ago after it was presented evidence showing that UNICEF supports abortion.  At the board’s meeting […]