Recent Catholic News

NEW YORK, June 22, 1999 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A joint venture by all of the United Nations organizations most heavily involved in population control has received funding from Bill Gates. Last week the Microsoft billionaire added another $10 million donation to his to his legacy of financing population control efforts. The recipient of the money was the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP),  located at WHO Headquarters in Geneva. According to its own literature, the HRP has an “emphasis on the needs of developing countries” and lists as its first priority “fertility regulation” […]

VANCOUVER, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the 25 year-old BC pro-lifer imprisoned three months ago for handing out roses and offering help to women entering a BC abortuary, was released from jail Saturday despite not signing or even verbally agreeing to stay away from the abortuary. On Friday the judge that had given her a suspended sentence of imprisonment till December 31, 2000 dropped the condition that she sign a recognizance order promising not to go near the abortuaries. Since signing of the order would have violated her conscience Mary would have remained in prison till her sentence expired. […]

TORONTO, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Planned Parenthood’s website, “Voice for Planned Parenthood” (VOX), the pro-abortion organization will be using concert festivals by abortion-friendly rock groups to push their disinformation on youth. Catholic Parents Online has sent an alert to its members to “warn your friends, relatives and young people not to go to these concerts or spend money on these bands.” The bands and organizations involved are: Barenaked Ladies, Ani DiFranco, Lilith Fair, Santana, the Vans, Warped Tour and the Woodstock Festival. The concerts are taking place throughout the summer at major cities in Canada and the US.

NEW YORK, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “There are various and powerful interests of a global character struggling to move these nations away from the true path,” said Argentine President Carlos Menem last Thursday in an address at the “Forum on Life and Family” organized by Cardinal John O’Connor of New York. Argentina has been a fearless defender of life on the international scene – a burr in the saddle of the United Nations as it attempts to advance its pro-abortion agenda. In December of 1998 president Menem declared March 25 as the “Day of the Unborn Child,” in Argentina. The […]

The BC NDP government, arguably the most openly pro-abortion, anti-family provincial government in Canada, is headed for demise according to political analysts.  (National Post) Planned Parenthood’s research arm, the Allan Guttmacher Institute, continues to deny scientific facts as it spreads its disinformation on the abortifacient nature of oral contraceptives.  (American Life League) The Timothy Plan, a pro-life and family investment company has expanded to include a Large/Mid-Cap Value Fund, a Fixed-Income Fund, and a Money Market Fund.  [email protected]

MEXICO CITY, June 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter from Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, condemns genetic experimentation on human embryos and genetic manipulation. A report from Church News indicates that the letter concluded with the declaration ” that there is no reason whatsoever that justifies the intention to manipulate or to interrupt the natural processes of life established by God from the beginning of creation.”

VANCOUVER, June 18 (LSN) – Mary Wagner, the 25 year-old BC pro-lifer sentenced to spend till New Year’s Eve in jail Wednesday for handing out roses and offering help to women entering a BC abortuary, was offered a deal in court for her freedom. A promise not to go into any abortion Bubble Zones would have resulted in Wagner’s release on recognizance but would also have violated her conscience.  According to John Hof President of Campaign Life Coalition BC, Mary knows that children die in abortion clinics every day and she feels compelled to speak for those smallest members of […]

OTTAWA, June 18 (LSN) – In a surprising move, some courageous Liberal Senators refused to vote for the $30 billion dollar pension appropriation bill which included a controversial same-sex pension benefits clause. The controversial bill was recently passed in the House of Commons. Among the Liberal abstainers was Anne Cools, again proving herself to be a fearless example of a politician of integrity who sees her obligations as being first to nation and family, rather than blind allegiance to party dictates.  In the Senate on Wednesday Cools explained her objection to bill C-78’ s same-sex benefits clause noting “it fails […]

WORCESTER, Mass., June 18 (LSN) – Major news media, which only today are reporting on the human cloning story reported by LifeSite this past Monday, have revealed more details on the procedure and its proponents.  The National Post reported today that six private companies in the US and Britain are working on cloning human embryos for “stem cells” and US scientist Richard Seed’s Japanese clinic, promising to produce 500 cloned babies a year, is set to open in August.  The first claim of successful human cloning took place in November and brought fears of animal-human hybrids since the nucleus of […]

BONN, Germany, June 18 (LSN) – Bringing to an end a heated debate among Catholic Bishops in Germany, John Paul II has, according to a report on German radio, told the Catholic Church in Germany to get out of the state’s abortion counselling. For at least 6 years a debate has raged among Catholics in Germany over their involvement in offering counselling to women seeking abortion. The controversy centers around the fact that institutions offering counselling must afterwards issue a certificate which is required to obtain a legal abortion.  The pope’s unwillingness to allow the Church in Germany to cooperate […]