Recent Catholic News

Rev. Daryl Orman, a Baptist minister, caused outrage among pro-abortion members of the state House in Florida Thursday. He prayed: “I ask you Lord if you would just instill in their hearts the desire to protect the unborn, those babies being carried by women all over the state of Florida. And Lord, I want to ask you please help them Lord to just continue to follow in the tradition of the sanctity of marriage, in your design from the word of God,  one man, one woman for life.” (Pro-Life E-News)  The New York Times reported yesterday that US presidential hopeful […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court began its fourth session of negotiations on the elaboration of the rules and guidelines for the eventual functioning of the Court. The session runs from March 13-31 and will focus on the texts of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crimes, for which the completion deadline is June 30. The rules cover such issues as composition and administration of the Court, penalties for crimes, obligations of international co-operation and assistance, as well as enforcement of sentences. On the matter of crimes within […]

ROANOKE, VA, Mar 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US Episcopalian parish has severed ties with the US Episcopalian Church since it cannot tolerate the liberal trends in the US denomination which it says are accepting of abortion and homosexuality. Religion Today (RT) reported yesterday that Holy Spirit in Roanoke has joined the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. RT reports that Neff Powell, the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia,  first suggested that the parish consider leaving the denomination. Later he declared the parish “separated from the Episcopal Church” for refusing to attend diocesan meetings or contribute money to the larger […]

NEW YORK, Mar 14 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, March 15, Focus on the Family will join Catholics and Protestant evangelicals in a news conference at United Nations Headquarters in New York to defend the Holy See’s UN status against an attack by pro-abortion organizations. Pro-abortion lobby groups such as Planned Parenthood, Catholics for Free Choice and others have launched a campaign to have the United Nations remove the Holy See as a Permanent Observer of the UN. The term “Holy See” is the official designation for the Catholic Church at the UN. Focus issued a press release noting that it […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations has responded to complaints that UN peacekeepers are engaging in illicit sex overseas with underage prostitutes and spreading AIDS by launching a massive condom distribution program. The London Times reports that the two peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo both contain budget provisions for the supply at the rate of “one condom per man per day” to UN troops. A UN official told the Times, “You could say that the UN is encouraging its men to have sex every day. That is not the case.” “You […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – Speaking in the US Senate on March 8, Chairman Jesse Helms responded to a call to have the Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate consider ratifying the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  Helms said:  “I say dream on because it is not going to happen. Why has CEDAW, the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, never been ratified? Because it is a bad treaty; it is a terrible treaty negotiated by radical feminists with the intent of enshrining their radical anti-family agenda into international law. […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – On Friday, one day after members of the US House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment asked the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into the illegal trafficking of aborted baby body parts and tissue for profit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City, Missouri announced an investigation. “We are investigating possible criminal violations in the marketing of fetal tissue to determine if there is a violation of federal criminal law,” FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza told Reuters. While the ABC 20/20 special was very limited in its coverage, the fact that the issue was […]

LONDON, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – A new set of guidelines on abortion funded by the British Department of Health and drawn up by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists,  is being hailed by abortion activists, but condemned by pro-lifers as “irresponsible.”  Speaking for the College, Gillian Penney, who led the team of senior gynaecologists which drew up the guidelines, said, “Abortion is a safe procedure that should be funded by the NHS and seen as an integral part of a reproductive and sexual health care service.”“The Care of Women requesting Induced Abortion” says that “Women should be offered the […]

BELFAST, Mar 13 (LSN.ca) – Nora Bennis, leader of the Christian Democrats In Ireland, is leading the charge to ban the sex-education materials used in schools. She and a large contingent of parents are seeking to determine if books or videos in use in primary schools would breach censorship laws.  Bennis points out that the Usborne Facts of Life Series book, “Babies Growing Up”, explains to primary school children how mentally handicapped babies may be aborted. It reads: “If the doctors have reason to believe that a baby is likely to be seriously mentally or physically disabled … the parents […]