Recent Catholic News

Show the Truth presentations will hit Toronto on Thursday August 24 10:30AM – Prayer Vigil – Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic (next door to Aid to Women/Way Inn – 300 Gerard St.); 1:00PM – Prayer Vigil – Scott Abortion Clinic – Gerard St. They will be in Lindsay and Oshawa on August 19, and in Lindsay, Port Perry and H 115/35 again on Sept 4. For more information or to participate call Rosemary at 705-454-1109 [email protected] Conservative News Service reports that researchers in Florida have discovered that adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be converted into immature nerve cells, which […]

On Monday, Yvette Schneider, Family Research Council policy analyst and former lesbian activist, joined members of national ex-gay organizations to participate in a demonstration outside the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, where the American Psychological Association (APA) convention is meeting. “Psychologists in the APA must recognize the real change in my own life as well as thousands of others across the nation,” said Mrs. Schneider. During his speech at the GOP convention George W. Bush said, “I will lead our nation toward a culture that values life—the life of the elderly and the sick, the life of the young, and the […]

WINNIPEG, Aug 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israel (Izzy) Asper, the CanWest Global media baron who recently purchased most of the Hollinger papers including a 50% share in the National Post, was reported today to be a “best” friend of abortionist Jack Fainman. Today’s Globe and Mail reports that “Izzy is the biggest media magnate in Canadian history” and suggests that that is “very bad news for Stockwell Day” since “Mr. Day is obsessed with abortion; one of Izzy’s best River Heights friends is Dr. Jack Faiman (sic), who has been threatened and shot at for performing abortions.” The Globe also notes […]

Catholic World News reports today that after meeting the Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina, Argentine President Fernando De la Rua said he is opposed to abortion and that such a stand will be kept at international forums such as the UN. Doubts regarding De la Rua’s stand came during the “Beijing +5” UN summit held in New York in June, when the Argentine delegation, for the first time in 10 years, did not take an outspoken pro-life stand.  Brook, a UK charity, is republishing a controversial sex advice booklet for teenagers which includes tips on how to grope and how to […]

A Virginia man is asking a court to grant custody of his unborn child, claiming the woman carrying the 8-month-old fetus would be an unfit mother and would raise the child in a neglectful environment.

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2000 edition of the infamous State of the World Forum (SWF) will be held in New York September 4 through 10, timed to coincide with the United Nations Millennium Summit. The SWF, a highly controversial gathering of world political, business and new age religious leaders which proposed in 1996 a 90% reduction in the world’s population and in 1998 slammed the pope for his pro-life views, is convened by Mikhail Gorbachev. The SWF is hoping for a joint meeting of its gathering with the more than 100 Heads of State attending the Millennium […]

TULSA, Oklahoma, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nurses from the Head Start program have entered at least two elementary schools in Tulsa Oklahoma and forced children between three and five years of age to endure genital exams without prior parental consent or notification. In a harrowing report the Asheville Tribune reports that the nurses forcibly removed the children’s clothes on desktops in front of their classmates and ignored their cries, screams and protests. Teachers were not allowed in the room to comfort the children. The paper notes that the genital exams and blood samples were undertaken to search for signs of […]

TARANAKI, New Zealand, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of a 15-year-old Linwood High School student only learned of her daughter’s abortion when she received a hospital receipt in the mail. When the mother complained that the school had taken her daughter to an abortuary and had her grandchild aborted while the mother believed her child to be in school, legal experts revealed the law allows schools to participate in secret abortions for minors at any age. The New Zealand Guardianship Act holds up abortion as a special right for women, even young girls. Section 25a of the act says […]

TORONTO, Aug 4 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a nation-wide survey conducted last month to track Canadians’ views on the state of family life, COMPAS found an intensified concern about the state of family life. Today, 75% of Canadians believe that “family life today is in crisis,” up from 61% two and a half years ago (December, 1997), said a report released Monday. The study, commissioned by the Calgary and Toronto-based National Foundation for Family Research and Education, found that by huge margins Canadians want all childcare subsidies to be directed to parents themselves to decide the best child care arrangements for […]

CHARLOTTETOWN, Aug 3 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSite News has learned that Elaine Murphy, a grade 6 teacher in Prince Edward Island told her class of 11-year-olds how oral sex is performed, supplying graphic details and noting that it could be performed homosexually as well as heterosexually. The instruction came in June during a four-day session covering hygiene, basic reproduction and puberty given at Glen Stewart Elementary School in Stratford. Prior to the session, in a parents meeting on the upcoming program, Vice Principal Allan Fraser assured parents that such questions would not be discussed, but rather that students would be advised […]