Recent Catholic News

TORONTO, Sept 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s largest annual pro-life witness, Life Chain, is fast approaching and pro-life organizers have encouraged local leaders to commence preparations. This year Life Chain Sunday is October 1. Mary-Ellen Douglas, national organizer for Campaign Life Coalition, told LifeSite that local leaders should commence contacting churches to alert them to the upcoming event. She also said CLC is strongly urging grassroots pro-life Canadians to take part. Life Chain Sunday coincides with the first day of the International Week of Prayer and Fasting to End Abortion (IWPF), which runs from Oct. 1-9.

LONDON, Sept 18 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders in England are condemning the presentation of an 18th-century preserved human fetus decorated with beads which forms part of an art exhibit in London. The exhibit, which also includes a scalped head, opens October 19 in London and is entitled Spectacular Bodies: the Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now. Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, told the Times, “We are deeply disturbed by this sort of activity. There are ethical considerations. Things are being overstepped here. We would object to this […]

Catholic and pro-life groups said this week they will protest outside of the cathedral in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday during a Mass celebrating the anniversaries of the diocese and the consecration of the bishop. Leaders of the pro-life group Operation Rescue said they are concerned that Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, has been invited to attend, despite Kennedy’s longtime support of pro-abortion legislation.  After performing a botched abortion that killed a young woman, being tried for murder, convicted of involuntary manslaughter and eventually sentenced to six months in county jail, abortionist Bruce Steir is being released more than […]

OTTAWA, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recent news that Chinese “family planning” officials had killed a newborn, drowning him in a rice paddy in front of his parents, as part of their one-child policy has led to political controversy in Canada. The Canadian Alliance party is demanding parliamentary hearings into human rights abuses in China before Prime Minister Jean Chretien goes there on another trade mission. The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday the objections from Alberta MP and newly appointed foreign affairs critic, Monte Solberg, who said this incident is just one example of many human rights abuses in China, […]

A British study has shown that one in five girls aged 13 to 15 would like the age of consent raised from 16 to 18 to make it easier for them to say no to sex. The survey based on responses to questionnaires completed under exam conditions by 2,250 13 to 15-year-olds at 21 schools from England between November 1999 and March 2000, highlights the difficulties many girls have in fending off unwanted sexual advances from boyfriends and resisting peer pressure to have sex. The report also noted that twenty one per cent thought sex education helped prevent teen pregnancy, […]

LONDON, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study commissioned by a parliamentary group in Britain has revealed that family breakdown is costing $30 billion in direct breakdown costs and perhaps another $30 billion in indirect costs. Direct costs include such things as lost productivity, income support, criminal justice, and domestic violence. Indirect costs include lost income, increased welfare, remedial education, failure to reach potential, and physical and mental health problems. The report, The Cost of Family Breakdown, from the Family Matters organization, says the social consequences of the British “family crisis” are enormous. The report says: “The whole of society is […]

OTTAWA, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite has learned that Liberal Member of Parliament Tom Wappel wrote a letter to Sheila Pellerin, National President of the Catholic Women’s League, last month responding to Pellerin’s July 13 letter promoting the World March of Women 2000 on behalf of the CWL. Wappel wrote: “I think it is a great disservice to Catholicism in Canada, to have the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) associated with the World March of Women 2000. … I believe that by participating, the CWL lends legitimacy to an organization calling for abortion as a right and to equating homosexuality as […]

MEXICO CITY, Sept 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With upcoming elections in the US, Human Life International is reminding Catholic politicians “Catholic doctrine clearly forbids any endorsement of abortion. … That rule applies as much to the legislator voting on the issue as it does to the abortionist trying to drum up more business.” In August, Cardinal Norberto Rivera responded to Mexico City’s push to liberalize abortion laws by stating that “anyone who promotes or practices abortion, including legislators and governors, will be excommunicated by the Church.” Father Matthew Habiger, OSB of HLI said, “The Catholic politician who is wishy-washy on abortion […]

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Actor Michael J. Fox, chairman of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, will testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 9:30 a.m. in room 216 Hart Senate Office Building in support of federal funding for stem cell research.  http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0913-145.html Ted Turner is funding another multimillion dollar effort by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) to mobilize women to vote for Democrat Al Gore in the forthcoming presidential election.