Recent Catholic News

The abortion advocacy movie Cider House Rules has been nominated for best picture and six other awards for next Sunday’s Oscars.  The Conservative News Service reports that pressure from homosexual groups who are trying to shut down the planned Dr. Laura Schlessinger television show – before it even hits the airwaves – seems to have had little effect on the local stations that have agreed to carry the show.  Britain is to break ranks with America and let China off the hook at this week’s UN annual human rights meeting. Though the U.S. said in January that it would sponsor […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) President,  Gloria Feldt, will convene leaders of America’s pro-abortion movement at the PPFA Annual Conference, March 23-25, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. The abortion supporting confab will lobby, run workshops, and praise abortion pushing politicians. Feldt revealed the lobby agenda was to promote forced Insurance coverage of (abortifacient)  contraception and to promote abortion both in the US and abroad. “We will urge Congress to approve the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act (EPICC), increase funding for Title X, America’s family planning program, and restore […]

The judicial override of a parental consent law in Texas has resulted in two of the state Supreme Court justices accusing other members of the bench of “judicial activism” for thwarting the parental consent law by negligently granting abortions to minors. (Pro-Life E-  News)  A federal bankruptcy court judge cleared the way Tuesday for a handful of women’s and abortion rights groups to go after the assets of Randall Terry and his wife in Terry’s ongoing bankruptcy case. (Pro-Life E-News)  The how-to commit suicide with a plastic bag video produced by Hemlock Society co-founder Derek Humphry was aired on Hawaii’s […]

RE: yesterday’s coverage of the Justice Committee voting down the suggestions to allow the committee to travel throughout the country to hear the concerns of Canadians on the homosexual omnibus legislation and the suggestion to televise the proceedings.  The committee voted the traveling suggestion down 6-4 and the vote to televise the proceedings was tied at 5-5 and the chair (Andy Scott, MP) broke the tie by voting against the motion

OTTAWA, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal convention which took place over the weekend passed a resolution to include “sexual orientation” in hate crimes legislation. The delegates also voted to include practicing homosexuals in the definition of “common-law spouse”. However, a move to have the term “marriage” apply to same-sex unions was defeated in a 468 to 365 vote. Also at the convention, Prime Minister Jean Chretien warned party faithful that the next election would be called “very soon.” The Toronto Star notes that senior Liberals believe a fall election is likely. They believe it would catch the Official Opposition […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A United Nations University study released at U.N.  headquarters in New York, said that sovereignty can be forfeited on humanitarian grounds and intervention should not be subject to veto by members of the Security Council. “Kosovo and The Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention” calls itself a “compendium of authoritative viewpoints on many dimensions of the 1999 crisis”. The authors, Tokyo university’s, Ramesh Thakur, and Albrecht Schnabel with contributor Ray Funnel, a retired Australian air marshal, call for “an international consensus about the point at which a state forfeits its sovereignty.” They also recommend the removal […]

OTTAWA, Mar 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), which has long-claimed to represent the vast majority of Canadian women, has been found to consist of “at least” 50% lesbians. With the national average of lesbians in the population running around 2%, the gross misrepresentation is stunning. The Toronto Sun reported today that a NAC official confirmed that “the lobby group speaks for 740 groups representing 3 million women and ‘at least 50%’ are lesbian.” “That’s not very representative of the general population,”  REAL Women’s Diane Watts told the paper.  This admission by NAC […]

VATICAN CITY, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome issued a statement regarding the legal recognition of homosexual unions being treated on par with marriage. The statement applies equally to the Canadian legislation currently under consideration in the House of Commons as it does to the recent suggestion of the European Union for its member countries to eliminate legislation banning same-sex marriage. In a clear and strongly worded comment on Vatican Radio the Cardinal said: “The family based on matrimony, conceived as the union of love between a […]

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who have an abortion are five times more likely to report subsequent substance abuse compared to women who carry their babies to term, according to a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. The study was authored by Elliot Institute director Dr. David Reardon and Dr.  Philip Ney, a British Columbia psychiatrist who specializes in post-abortion counseling.  According to the authors, while the connection between abortion and substance abuse has never been widely publicized, this is at least the 16th published study connecting […]

OTTAWA, Mar 20 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal government has refused to hear from ordinary Canadians on their same-sex benefits legislation, Bill C-23. Last Thursday, Reform MP Eric Lowther moved a motion in the Justice Committee to have the committee travel to every province and hear witnesses on Bill C-23, and to have the committee hearings televised. The Liberal dominated committee voted down both suggestions. The vote to kill the resolution was close,  however, with committee Chair Andy Scott (Lib., Fredericton) being required to cast his vote (against Lowther’s motion) to break a tie and suppress a more democratic resolution to […]