Recent Catholic News

PRINCE GEORGE, BC, Aug 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both Bishop Gerald Wiesner of Prince George and Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary have publicly reiterated their support for the pro-abortion World March of Women. Bishop George was interviewed in the Prince George Citizen last week, and Bishop Henry used his column in the Calgary Sun (July 30) to publicize his views on the March. Both bishops acknowledge in their articles that one of the March planks is support for abortion, but they say that they support the March nonetheless for the good that it proposes in terms of eliminating violence against women […]

*Dr. Laura Schlessinger is asking for support. In a letter on her website she notes that her advertisers are receiving demands from activists to reject her sponsorship. *Britain to Clone Human Embryos for Research This week British Prime Minister Tony Blair will ask members of Parliament to decide whether scientists should be allowed to clone human embryo cells for medical research. In a move that will present Parliament with its most difficult moral dilemma in a decade, the government will announce a free vote on an issue that has set scientists against religious groups. National Post August 14, 2000: *UK […]

WASHINGTON, AUG 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Yehuda Levin, one of the most outspoken pro-life rabbis in North America criticized Gore vice presidential pick Joe Lieberman as someone who doesn’t live up to the standards set by his Orthodox Jewish faith.  The criticisms were made on Levin’s “Jews for Morality” website. Only hours after publicly announcing the website’s contents to NewsMax.com the site was attacked by hackers and disabled. In comments to NewsMax regarding Lieberman, Rabbi Levin said “It’s very ironic that the liberal media is spinning Joe Lieberman as ‘Mr. Morality’ because he has made a few nice sound bites.” […]

*Public Funding for Human Embryo Experimentation Reviving a debate over how society should treat the earliest stages of human life, the National Institutes of Health is close to authorizing a plan to fund medical research that relies on the destruction of human embryos. The NIH plan, in the works for more than a year, would clear the way for the first public funding of potentially groundbreaking research on embryo “stem cells,” which scientists first isolated only 21 months ago. LA Times August 13, 2000: *Partial-Birth Abortionist Supports Hillary:  One of the nation’s most notorious abortionists, the Ohio doctor who co-invented […]

BALTIMORE, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal William H. Keeler, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop of Baltimore, lead over 700 pro-lifers in prayer outside a Planned Parenthood abortuary Saturday. The event began with the Respect Life Mass at St. Alphonsus in downtown Baltimore during which the Cardinal prayed, “that the day will come when every unborn child in America is welcomed in life and protected by law.” Prayers were offered at the abortuary for an end to the barbaric practice of abortion and also for the conversion of all those involved in abortion, and to […]

MEXICO CITY, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, Mayor Rosario Robles signed a bill that would decriminalize abortion for severe birth defects or if the mother’s life is at risk. The measure would also decrease the maximum penalty for procuring an illegal abortion from five to three years. The Mexico Legislature must still approve the proposal. Last week LifeSite reported that the ruling National Action Party in Mexico’s northern state of Guanajuato passed legislation prohibiting abortion for unborn babies conceived during rape.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first arrest and imprisonment at the Democratic National Convention was abortion related. An abortuary worker from the Her Medical Clinic was arrested in front of the abortion center and taken into custody by LA Police Officers.  She was charged with assault and battery for attacking Operation Rescue director, Troy Newman, while he demonstrated on a public sidewalk. Ironically, the attack occurred just minutes after Operation Rescue held a press conference contrasting the difference between peaceful pro-life protests and other protest groups which use violence to get out their messages. “I can think of […]

MEXICALI, Aug 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The diocese of Mexicali, Mexico has been given special recognition by the Vatican for its firm and decisive pro-life action. The Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission reports that the diocesan cathedral has been designated ‘a cathedral of life’ by the Vatican, according to an announcement by Bishop José Isidro Guerrero Macias on May 10. The designation comes as the diocese encouraged a ‘Paulina,’ a teen-age rape victim, to reject abortion. Silvia Reséndiz, a long-time pro-abortion activist in Mexico, was one of several feminists who lodged complaints with the government after doctors at Mexicali’s General Hospital […]

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Millennium Summit, which according to the UN will be “the largest single gathering of Heads of State/Government ever held in the world”, is a mere 22 days away and has not yet received significant mention by media or government. The agenda of the historic meeting, to be held Sept 6-8 at UN headquarters in New York, is stacked with alarming proposals seeking to strip national autonomy and to ensure UN world governance. The Summit entitled, “The Role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century” is officially “to articulate and affirm […]

In a landmark decision, the state probate court in Boston ruled that a lesbian couple can list both of their names on a birth certificate under the category of “mother” as long as the women are connected to a child by birth or biology and are the intended parents. “This decision protects the best interests of the child by protecting the rights of the two legal parents,” said Joyce Kauffman, the attorney representing Mary Jane Knoll and Christine Finn, the lesbian couple who brought the action. Breaking with recent precedent, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony agreed Wednesday to deliver the invocation […]