Recent Catholic News

VANCOUVER, May 26 (LSN) – A US abortionist charged with murder was allowed into Canada to attend the National Abortion Federation’s annual conference in Vancouver, May 17-20. A report detailing the charges against Bruce Steir of Chico, California and his attendance at the conference was sent to the Reform Party’s immigration critic, Randy White.  BC pro-lifers held a 96-hour Vigil for Love and Life outside the abortionist conference. The theme of the vigil was, “Love abortionists, stop the child killing.” Among other notable events, Canadian pro-life hero Jim Demers was able to have a twenty minute talk with an Atlanta […]

HALIFAX, May 26 (LSN) – The Nova Scotia government has capitulated to pressure from gay activists to award spousal survivor benefits to homosexuals. Wayne MacKay, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, called the decision a “step forward for all Nova Scotians.”“The commission is pleased to have played a pivotal role in reaching this broad-based settlement, which is of benefit to everyone,” he said.  The agreement stipulates that, as of July 1 of this year, both the civil service and the teacher's pension plan of the province will give the same survivor benefits to homosexual couples as to […]

PERTH, Western Australia May 25 (LSN) – Perth’s Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey has offered aborted women help in suing abortionists who violate informed consent laws. “Women who have been misled and poorly informed about abortion and its consequences may count on the Church’s help to seek damages against the doctor who performs the abortion,” the archbishop said. He also offered unlimited monetary assistance for those mothers considering abortion because of financial insecurity.  Abortion has been the subject of great controversy in Western Australian in recent months, as abortion supporters have been waging a campaign to repeal the state’s widely-flouted abortion […]

VAN NUYS, Louisiana, May 25 (LSN) – A jury has found Alfred E. Smith guilty of second-degree murder in the death of ex-girlfriend Denna Moody. Smith killed the 39-year-old mother last April, because she refused to abort their preborn child.  Sentencing is scheduled for June 11. The jury heard evidence that Moody had been pregnant by Smith before,  and that he had pressured her to have an abortion in that case as well. Moody adamantly refused.

NEW YORK, May 25 (LSN) – Julia Alvarez, the Dominican Republic’s highly-regarded ambassador to the United Nations, shocked delegates at a UN conference last week by denouncing population-control programmes as inspired by racism and eugenics. According to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the ambassador said such programmes have had disastrous effects on women and poor people in developing nations. She also showed the stunned audience, included delegates from Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute among other leading population-controllers, how groups like Planned Parenthood have targeted poor and dark-skinned people from the beginning.  Another participant in the meeting, Dr James […]

OTTAWA, May 25 (LSN)  In an official response to a question by Human Life International, Joseph Speranzella of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says that “Mr. Graham believes that the spiritual condition of man is at the root of the abortion issue….It is sin that produces the problem of most unwanted pregnancies, as well as the misbelief that women have a “right” to take the lives of unborn babies.”  Mr Speranzella indicated Mr Graham is “strongly opposed” to abortion on demand, and that protection for life from conception till natural death is needed. He also noted Mr. Graham’s founding work […]

ANTIGONISH, NS, May 25 (LSN) – Mr Justice Ron Pugsley of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled last week that an Antigonish County couple pose a danger to their children, because they use corporal punishment to discipline their children. The father has said he disciplines the children with a stick about the size of a wooden spoon, for serious matters such as lying and fighting.  The couple testified that corporal punishment is in accord with their Christian religious beliefs. In spite of a lack of evidence showing the children had suffered any harm, the judge sided with local social […]

NEW DELHI, May 22, 1998 (LSN) – The response of the IMF and World Bank to the recent   Asian crisis is seen by many to have worsened the situation for these nations and placed them under greater control of giant international financial interests. It would be reasonable to assume that the strong population control agenda of the IMF and World bank is playing some   role in the severity of demands on these vulnerable nations.  The recent special synod of Catholic bishops for Asia concluded by stating that ” While there are beneficial effects of globalization, we are concerned […]

MIAMI, May 22, 1998 (LSN) – A total of eight Florida abortuaries have been subjected to butyric acid   fume attacks in the past week. Three women were slightly injured and patients and staff were forced to avacuate the centers. As a result of the action, it was discovered that one of the abortuaries may have been performing illegal abortions. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.  The attacks began the day after Gov. Lawton Chile vetoed the “Choose Life” licence plate approval   won by a campaign that raised the necessary 10,000 signatures for such initiatives.

AUSTRALIA, May 22, 1998 (LSN) – Previously reported changes to West Australian abortion laws   repeal criminal sanctions for women obtaining abortions and require informed consent before   abortionists can legally perform an abortion.The “stinker”, according to abortion providers, is that the law still allows for criminal sanctions against abortionists who do not properly follow the informed   consent provision which was included by pro-life MPs.  Pro-lifers are offering support to women who wish to take legal action for wrongful abortion under the   new law.