Recent Catholic News

FARGO, ND, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fargo resident Amy Jo Mattson, has launched a lawsuit against a local abortion facility seeking to stop the abortuary from misleading clients about the abortion-breast cancer link. According to the Red River Women’s Clinic pamphlet, distributed to prospective abortion patients in Fargo, North Dakota, “Anti-abortion activists claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer and endangers future childbearing. None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations.”  The suit alleges that this statement is misleading and constitutes false advertising.  It is being brought on behalf of […]

The National Post reported yesterday that the Supreme Court of Canada ruling allowing lap dancing at strip bars will likely be negated by health bylaws as most municipalities have enacted rules forbidding such activity at strip clubs.  Church News reported Wednesday that the Catholic Church in Cuba announced that the third Archdiocesan Bioethics Day will be held next January. The event aims to oppose the increasing number of abortions in Cuba, as well as the common use of contraceptive methods. (EWTN) Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, and the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration has dedicated the Church built next to […]

OTTAWA, Dec 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The absence of a bill regulating new reproductive technology which the government promised to introduce by the fall of 1999 has been highlighted recently by a Senator and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC).  Last week Senator Lucie Pépin, pointed out to her colleagues in the Senate that the 1993 recommendations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive and Genetic Technology have not yet been acted upon, leaving Canada in a dangerous position. Pepin urged the government “act as quickly as possible” on the matter “in order to protect the health and well-being of Canadians.”  […]

TORONTO, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Post columnist Terrance Corcoran has given LifeSite News permission to reprint his recent column on David Suzuki. Corcoran exposes Suzuki as a extremist environmentalist who uses his television program to propagate his earth-worshipping religion.  See today’s special report at:  David Suzuki's gloomy world of nothingness

On Tuesday, France’s Deputy Education Minister Segolene Royal explained the rules regarding his government’s introduction of the abortifacient morning-after pill in schools. AP notes that school nurses will only be allowed to prescribe the pill in exceptional cases and only if a doctor or family planning center cannot be reached immediately. (Washington Post) In public consultations in Hobart Australia Monday, the Australian Dr. Death, Philip Nitschke,  revealed that he would offer his murderous services in Hobart in the coming year. A Naples news report circulated by Pro-Life E-News notes that Tasmanian doctors slammed Dr Nitschke’s advice and right-to-life campaigners said the […]

OTTAWA, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday REAL Women of Canada called for an end to the Canadian government’s Federal Status of Women, noting that the “antiquated agency, with an annual appropriation of about 18 million dollars, has become a tool to ridicule and silence women who do not support its propagation of the radical feminist/lesbian ideology, and the infiltration and forcing of this biased viewpoint on the national agenda.”  Referring to a meeting of the group in Alymer Quebec last week, one attendee from REAL Women reported that the radical feminists ridiculed, jeered, and shouted at an attending panel […]

VANCOUVER, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Ted Gerk, of the Pro-Life Resource Centre reported that the president of a major baby parts marketer in the US was caught on tape saying that he expected Canada to be the leading source of fetal body parts, especially for “late” abortions, thus “larger” babies).  Dr. Miles Jones, president of Opening Lines, a U.S.-based firm providing fetal body parts to medical researchers, has been recorded on tape stating about Canada: “We’re actually going in there and saying to the clinic, we’re going to cover some of your processing costs, and your overhead. We become a […]

SICILY, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The proposed forced abortion of a mentally disabled 13-year-old in Italy has brought not only the condemnation of the Church as reported by LifeSite Monday but also numerous offers to save the baby.  The Noto diocese in which the girl, Laura, lives has offered to take economic responsibility to help Laura and her baby in any way for as long as necessary. Zenit News reports that the “Oasis of Mary Most Holy” of Troina, a center for the care of handicapped and mentally ill persons has offered to help, and the diocesan office for Health […]

* In yesterday’s news on the Supreme Court’s legalization of lap dancing LifeSite noted incorrectly that Louise Arbour is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.  While Arbour did present the ruling, the Chief Justice is Justice MacLachlin. Arbour was recently appointed to the Supreme Court, after serving as Head Prosecutor for the UN War Crimes Court.  * Also in last Wednesday’s news LifeSite erroneously reported that donations to support lawyer Charles Ligousi in his bid to overturn the bubble zone law could receive tax receipts from the Christian Heritage Party. Such a policy is under consideration, but […]

VATICAN CITY, Dec 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Media reports covering statements made by Pope John Paul II Sunday with regard to the death penalty failed for the most part to mention an essential proviso to his call for abolition of the death penalty. The official Vatican Information Service noted that, while the pope did renew his “appeal to all leaders to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty”, he based this position on the view that “the cases of absolute necessity for executing malefactors are by now so rare, if not practically non-existent.”  The Catechism of the Catholic Church […]