Recent Catholic News

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would hear an appeal in the case of a Colorado law barring all pro-life activity within 100 feet of abortion facilities. In February the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting the free distribution of leaflets, the display of signs, and the expression of educational, counseling, or protest speech near medical facilities in the state of Colorado did not unduly hamper First Amendment free-speech rights.  Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, is representing three pro-lifers in the case. Sekulow said, […]

The National Post reports today that Canadian General Romeo Dallaire will be questioned next week about his part in the failure of the United Nations to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. After multiple reports of UN complicity in the Rwandan massacre the UN has instituted a supposedly independent investigation into the scandal.     Susan Benoff, a researcher from New York University, is complaining of lack of funding for experiments using a blood pressure drug as a male “pill”.  (National Post)   The Catholic League reported yesterday that the new film “Julien Donkey-Boy” attacks the Christian faith with scenes of nuns and a […]

HALIFAX, Sept 29, (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week the New England Journal of Medicine discusses the ethics involved in testing an experimental treatment for Parkinson’s disease involving the injection of brain tissue from aborted babies into the brains of Parkinson’s patients. The research has been plagued with the ethical nightmare around the use of aborted baby parts and is now embroiled in the controversy over its handling of “control group” subjects in its experiments. Control group subjects – those not actually given the treatment are led to believe they are being treated in order to test for placebo effects. They have holes […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A literary panel starring child pornographer John Sharpe is being funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts and the B.C. Arts Council. LifeSite reported yesterday that Sharpe, who created controversy over his successful arguments against Canada’s child pornography laws, is featured this week in a “literary panel” at Simon Fraser University. The panel, Sex, Drugs and the Law: Pushing the Boundaries, is organized by The Small Press Action Network and will run from Thursday to Sunday promoting controversial independent publishers.  The group hosting the panel received $2,000 from the B.C. council and […]

Governor Gray Davis has received a reward for being committed to abortion. Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) is proud to announce that Governor Gray Davis has been selected as the recipient of the 1999 Ades Award, presented to a man who has gone beyond the call-of duty on behalf of reproductive freedom. He will accept this award at Comics Choice 8 on Sunday, October 17, 1999 which begins at 7 PM.  (PR Newswire) The Conservative News Service issued a revealing report today indicating that at a time when the pornography industry is becoming a sophisticated, billion dollar industry, family […]

BATTLEFORD, Sask., Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic parents in Saskatchewan are taking the North West Catholic School Division to court over its decision to commence using the “Fully Alive”  sex education program in its schools this year. The program, developed in Ontario with the approval of the Ontario Bishops Conference, and used in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan has created controversy for many years among Catholic parents who argue that it is too graphic and explicit at too early an age. The program was rejected by the Archdiocese of Washington in 1995 for failing “to integrate the faith perspective in its presentation,” and […]

After a scandal in which it was found that a British hospital removed the hearts of children who had died at the hospital without ensuring informed parental consent or notification the hospital – Diana Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital in Birmingham – will offer to return the hearts of 1,500 dead babies whose organs were to be used for medical research.     Dr. Arthur Leader the University of Ottawa’s chief of reproductive medicine and president of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society is urging Canada to pay for costly fertility treatments.  (National Post)

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of British Columbia (UBC), in the news regularly for the APEC free speech uproar which took place there, is now crushing the free speech rights of pro-lifers. A peaceful pro-life demonstration which was to take place on UBC campus this week called the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is being fought by UBC administration. Politically correct “Pro-choice” demonstrations are permitted at UBC. The University has sought a court injunction barring the pro-life demonstration from campus and has threatened that any GAP demonstrators or even pro-life UBC students demonstrating will be arrested.  On the invitation of […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Writer and broadcaster Susan Martinuk, a specialist in reproductive issues, wrote a column in today’s National Post noting the reasons for the interest in using the ova of aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. Martinuk notes that “the ovaries of unborn females are filled with more eggs than those of a young girl or fertile woman because the number of eggs is maximal prior to birth and then declines from birth onwards.” “Although the eggs are immature, they develop when subjected to the right hormones,” she continued.  Martinuk suggests that scientists will opt for using […]

VANCOUVER, Sept 28 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Child pornographer John Sharpe, who created controversy over his successful arguments against Canada’s child pornography laws, is featured this week in a “literary panel” at Simon Fraser University. The panel, Sex, Drugs and the Law: Pushing the Boundaries, is organized by The Small Press Action Network and will run from Thursday to Sunday promoting controversial independent publishers.  Sharpe’s challenge has led to the BC Supreme Court striking down the section of the Criminal Code criminalizing possession of child pornography, the ramifications of which have been felt in courts across the country. The Supreme Court of […]