Recent Catholic News

LifeSite has produced a special page entitled “The Moral Obligations of Voters and Politicians” covering statements by religious leaders on voting pro-life. Please use this reference page for reminding others that the right to life is the most important issue in deciding where to place your vote.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/interim/election2000/moralobligations.html The National Post reports that the Liberal strategy to defeat Stockwell Day will be by “‘carpet-bombing’ the electorate with harsh references designed to inspire fear of the Canadian Alliance leader and his party’s policies.”“You have to keep them in the box,” one Liberal insider said. “We’re carpet-bombing them because Stockwell Day is […]

Zenit News reports that the German Catholic lay organization Donum Vitae, which took over the crisis pregnancy counselling centres after the pope urged the German Bishops to halt the practice of handing out abortion counselling certificates, has been condemned by the Vatican. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, papal nuncio in Germany, revealed the contents of a letter in which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explains that “whoever continues to operate in the system of counseling centers is placed in open opposition to the Pope.”  http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0011/ZE001108.html#item6 Reuters reports that the first wrongful-birth suit in […]

On Tuesday Maine rejected assisted-suicide on a ballot measure by a narrow margin of 52 percent to 48 percent. The ballot question read: “Should a terminally ill adult who is of sound mind be allowed to ask for and receive a doctor’s help to die?”  http://www.portland.com/news/state/001108suicide.shtml On a ballot measure in Colorado, voters decided against a pro-life informed consent measure which would have required a 24-hour waiting period before abortions and a disclosure on paper and on video detailing the procedure’s risks, the local adoption agencies available and the feeling a fetus might have. (Pro-Life E-News) A 24-year-old newspaper intern […]

OTTAWA, Nov 9 (LSN.ca) – Today the Liberal Party of Canada has officially announced it “supports a woman’s right to choose.” This sudden declaration by party headquarters, concurring with Jean Chretien’s recent pronouncements on the issue, will place its many pro-life and pro-life leaning MPs in a difficult situation. They have often emphasized in the past that the Liberal party did not have an official pro-abortion position, despite its many actions that have advanced the abortion agenda in Canada. The late Joe Borowski, when he was a Manitoba NDP MP, left his Party when it officially declared itself pro-abortion. The […]

Decision Against University Would be Active Anti-Christian Discrimination OTTAWA, Nov 9 (LSN.ca) – An extremely significant case is being heard today by the Supreme Court of Canada. The case concerns the refusal by the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) to approve the teacher education program at Trinity Western University because its code of conduct requires students and teachers to refrain from homosexual behaviour. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Seventh Day Adventist Church are intervening on behalf of the university while the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation and Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere are supporting the […]

TORONTO, Nov 9 (LSN.ca) – Canada’s leading advocate of “intergenerational sex,” or pedophilia, Gerald Hannon, has said that the Archdiocese of Toronto has ordered that he be removed from the choir or it will not be allowed to use the church facilities. The news comes only one week after LifeSite exposed the presence of Hannon who was featured in a musical presentation in St. Basil’s Church under the direction of the church’s music director. Hannon was personally applauded after his musical piece was sung. The Archdiocese would not confirm the news with LifeSite saying that it does not comment on […]

VANCOUVER, Nov 9 (LSN.ca) – Focus on the Family Canada has released a list of five key issues to consider when selecting candidates for election. A list, which was not ranked in order of priority according to statements by Focus to LifeSite, included the definition of marriage, parental authority, tax fairness for families, abortion and value-of-life issues, and child pornography. The strongest statements made on these issues come in relation to abortion. On abortion, Focus notes “Canada is the only nation in the Western world that has no abortion legislation protecting unborn human life. This means that unborn Canadians have […]

OMAHA, Nov 9 (LSN.ca) – In a dramatic display of pro-family support, a ballot measure which bans homosexual marriage and domestic partnerships in Nebraska was passed by 70% of voters. Initiative 416, read: “Only a marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in Nebraska. The uniting of two persons of the same sex in a civil union, domestic partnership or other similar same-sex relationship shall not be valid or recognized in Nebraska.” The Conservative News Service reports that Nevada passed a similar measure. Also, Maine voters rejected adding “sexual orientation” to the state’s anti-bias laws. […]

Another US bishop has stressed the importance of the protection of the unborn as a election consideration above all others. On October 30, Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington wrote “Obviously, protecting human life is the most basic of these four priorities, since the other three would be rendered meaningless without the first. If we do not uphold and protect human life in its beginning at conception, there will be no life to uphold and protect thereafter. . . . To be a faithful and serious Catholic necessarily means that one is pro-life and not pro-choice. To be […]

Urgent prayer is requested for an outcome in the US elections that will favour cause of the unborn. A victory for current VP Al Gore would ensure the continuation of the onslaught against the unborn and family.