Recent Catholic News

WINNIPEG, Mar 12 (LSN) – New reports on the story of Winnipeg Child and Family Services (CFS) flying a 16-year-old girl to Toronto for an abortion on   Monday despite the vehement objections of her other, indicate the agency’s role   in the affair is even more objectionable than it first appeared to be.  When the mother suspected last week that workers in the CFS agency were pressuring her daughter into procuring an abortion, the mother terminated the voluntary agreement that placed her daughter in temporary custody of the CFS. When the agency learned that the mother was against the […]

TORONTO, Mar 12 (LSN) – Maurice Genereux, the first doctor in Canada convicted of assisting suicide, pleaded guilty today to four charges of professional misconduct before a disciplinary hearing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The regulatory body may permanently strip Genereux of his license to practice medicine in the province.  Critics of the College note that the police charged Genereux with assisted suicide in June 1996 and the College is just now considering punitive measures. Euthanasia activists have been slow to come to the support of their first Canadian hero due to other legal entanglements. In […]

WEST AUSTRALIA, Mar 11 (LSN) – MPs in Australia are to begin debate next week on amending current abortion laws that prohibit abortion except for the “preservation of the mother’s life”. Intense lobbying by pro-life and pro-abortion advocates continues and prayers are requested from the pro-life community the world over.  While opposition parties have proposed a number of bills including one for abortion on demand, the ruling party has proposed a bill to allow abortion in the case of “serious genetic defects.” Pro-life activist Richard Egan, accused the Government of trying to “weed out Downs syndrome and undesirable children”.

LYNCHBURG, Va., Mar 11 (LSN) – Rev. Flip Benham, the director of Dallas-based Operation Rescue, will turn 50 behind bars in April while serving a six month jail sentence for organizing a protest at a public high school in Lynchburg.  Rev. Benham and his attorney were astounded by the unprecedented severity of the sentence for trespassing.  Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Bill Petty described the incident as an “almost-assault on the school” in justifying the sentence.  A federal judge in Dallas last month upheld a $10 million judgment against Rev. Benham and other anti-abortion protesters for picketing outside an abortionist’s home for […]

TORONTO, Mar 11 (LSN)—Yesterday, Chrysler Canada was ordered to provide same-sex spousal benefits to its employees by arbitrator Ross Kennedy.  The case against Chrysler was brought forward by the Canadian Auto Workers union headed up by Buzz Hargrove.  The granting of homosexual benefits by Chrysler leaves only one of the “big three” car companies free from pandering to homosexuals.  General Motors offered same-sex benefits in 1996. Ford does not provide same-sex benefits but is currently being challenged on their stand.  “I would hope that Ford Motor Company of Canada would now follow suit as well,” said Hargrove.

EDMONTON, Mar 11 (LSN) – Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has opted for the extreme measure of invoking the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to restrict compensation for 700 people who were made infertile under government sterilization policies between 1928 and 1972. The legislation unveiled yesterday would force the courts to limit possible future court awards to a maximum of $150,000 for each of the 700 victims who were classed as “mental defectives”. They were made sterile on the order of a government-appointed   eugenics board to ensure they could not produce “defective children.” This very rare use of the notwithstanding clause would […]

WINNIPEG, Mar 11 (LSN) – Today, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Winnipeg Child and Family Services (CFS) flew a 16-year-old, 19-week-pregnant girl to Toronto for an abortion on Monday despite the vehement objections of her mother.  “I want her to have it and give it to me or put it up for adoption,” the mother of the girl pleaded.  The mother and stepfather suspect that the CFS pressured their daughter into an abortion telling her the baby would be taken away since she could not raise it. According to the parents two weeks ago their daughter said she […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Mar 10 (LSN) – Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, has reissued his warning to Republicans to be true to pro-family principles or face the abandonment of pro-family supporters.  Finding the Republican Party still inconsistent on issues around abortion, homosexuality and condom programs, Dobson was prompted to once again warn Republicans.  Given that his daily radio listening audience is estimated at 5 million, the reproof is likely to be given careful consideration.

WASHINGTON, Mar 10 (LSN) – In an address to the American Medical Association yesterday,  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Congress, rather than the Supreme Court should decide on issues such as abortion and physician-assisted suicide. “You want a right to abortion, create it the way most rights are created in a democracy: pass a law,” he said. “If you don’t want it, pass a law the other way. And if you want a right to (physician-assisted) suicide, the same.”  Emphasizing that it is not the role of the justices to make good interpretations of bad legislation, Scalia noted, “the […]

OTTAWA, Mar 10 (LSN) – Pro-family activist Tim Blaedow, has issued an alert regarding the “outrageous” homosexual activism of Yahoo/Reuters. In a recent browsing of their web site, Mr. Blaedow discovered a link to the very offensive anti-family, anti-  Christian “news” site, PlanetOut in the Yahoo section on “Community” News.  See: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/  Blaedow suggests that pro-family Internet users write Yahoo/Reuters to express their dismay and advise them of their discontinued patronage.  Send letters to:  [email protected]