Recent Catholic News

Concerns That Choice to be Excepted for Moral or Religious Reasons May be Removed NEW YORK, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has backed a program to have obstetrics and gynecology residents in the city’s public hospitals routinely trained to perform abortions rather than having the option available as an elective. Currently the program allows student to opt out for moral or religious reasons. Pro-lifers are concerned that the exemption may soon be made unavailable. Bloomberg’s action comes after lobbying from the National Abortion Rights Action League. See related coverage:  http://www.detnews.com/2002/nation/0204/05/a02-457876.htm

Campaign Life Coalition’s Paul Jalsevac Back Lobbying at the UN NEW YORK, April 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Developments at this week’s meetings of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development have been relatively free of the major tension and controversies of previous meetings. Campaign Life Coalition’s Paul Jalsevac, a Christendom College student who was gravely injured in an auto accident last year the day before he was to leave for another UN meeting, has been lobbying at the UN meetings. Paul reports that the inexperienced new crop of US delegates made […]

PRAY FOR 7 YEAR OLD ANGELA BISSONNETTE The 7 year old daughter of long-time Campaign Life Coalition activists, Joe and France Bissonnette of Mount Pleasant, Ontario has just been diagnosed with the very serious condition Aplastic Anemia. This is similar to leukemia but worse than leukemia. Her white blood cell count is dangerously low. Heavy chemotherapy and radiation and a bone marrow transplant are all necessary treatments for this condition. Prayers are urgently requested. Emails of support may be sent to [email protected] EARLY PUBERTY FOR GIRLS LINKED TO HORMONES IN CERTAIN SHAMPOO BRANDS “Unbeknown to many parents, a few hair […]

Gay Activists Willing to Take Case to Supreme Court TORONTO, April 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – At press conference yesterday, the male 17-year-old Catholic high school student, whose request to bring his homosexual 21-year-old boyfriend to the school prom was refused, threatened to take legal action against the school board. The student, Marc Hall, is to address the Durham Region Catholic School Board Monday April 8 on the issue. “If nothing happens April 8, I’ll probably take legal action,” said Hall at the press conference. Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, Toronto Centre-Rosedale MPP George Smitherman, Councillor Joe Mihevc […]

Final Ratifications to Be Announced April 11 Say Leaders WASHINGTON, April 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The US ambassador for war crimes issues said last week that the Bush administration is considering withdrawing its signature from the 1998 Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court. In related news, the final ratifications are expected to be announced at a UN meeting next week on April 11. Last Thursday, Pierre Prosper, U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues said, “The United States is not and will not be a part of the ICC.” Withdrawing or “unsigning,” he told a press conference, “means that a […]

LONDON, April 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Sex education advisors in East Sussex have lobbied schools against repeat performances by a Canadian pro-abstinence youth group. The Canadian Challenge Team, an Ottawa-based volunteer youth group which travels the world presenting a positive message for chastity till marriage, was “mystified by and disappointed” by the Sexual Health Forum’s disapproval of their work. After Challenge Team presentations at eight schools last year, the Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) team for East Sussex – part of the Government’s Sexual Health Forum, circulated a letter to all schools “in order to preclude visits to East […]

MELBOURNE, April 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Australian Prime Minister wrote to the country’s premiers today proposing that the commonwealth and states allow human embryos left over from IVF treatments to be used for stem cell research. “It is our proposal and our intention to legislate both the ban on human cloning and also the conditions attaching (to) and governing the use of embryos for research purposes, that we should legislate that nationally,” he said. “We will ask the states and the territories to mirror that legislation at a state and territory level so that we have a comprehensive national legislative […]

CONSERVATIVE/ALLIANCE MEETING TO DISCUSS HALTING CONSERVATIVE VOTE SPLITTING   Tory Leader Joe Clark said the meeting would “discuss the establishment of a single, united, national alternative to the Liberal Party of Canada. The discussion that we are proposing would include options to attract Canadians who have in the past not voted for either the Canadian Alliance or the Progressive Conservative parties and to ensure that there will be a single conservative candidate in each riding in the country.”  http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020404/540965.html ONTARIO PREMIER-ELECT EVES TO RUN IN BY-ELECTION   Ernie Eves has decided to run for a seat in the riding of […]

Statement also supported abstinence and families UNITED NATIONS, April 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Speaking on the first day of meetings at the United Nations session of the Commission on Population and Development, a United States delegate spoke against promotion of abortion. On April 1 Sichan Siv said the United States did not accept the use of the term “reproductive health services”, because it could be interpreted to include promoting the legalization or expansion of legal abortion services. According to a UN report on the meeting Siv said: “it was important to focus on sound, evidence-based strategies to improve the lives […]

UNITED NATIONS, April 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A cohort of strongly pro-abortion European delegates used their statements at the United Nations April 2 session of the Commission on Population and Development to speak in support of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). ln response to evidence showing UNFPA’s support for China’s coercive abortion regime the United States has suspended support to the UN organization. Samantha Singson, a UN pro-life lobbyist affiliated with Campaign Life Coalition and reporting on the scene for LifeSite said that a Belgium representative began the litany of virtually identical statements from each of the nations supporting UNFPA. […]