Recent Catholic News

NEW JERSEY, Dec 8 (LSN) – New Jersey lawmakers voted Thursday 60-15 to override “moderate” Republican Governor Christine Whitman’s veto of a state ban on partial-birth abortion. “It is a wonderful victory for life,” said Marie Tasy, director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee. The legislation is expected to be presented in the Senate in December by Senate President Donald T. DiFrancesco. Tasy said she is confident the Senate will override the governor, thus making New Jersey the 18th state to outlaw this most barbarous form of baby-killing.

ATLANTA, Dec 8 (LSN) – US federal health officials announced Thursday that in 1995 there were 311 legal abortions committed per 1,000 live births, thus nearly one in 4 American babies were killed in their mothers’ wombs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that there were 1,210,883 reported legal in-uetero baby killings in 1995.

NEW YORK, Dec 8 (LSN)—In a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan predicted the enforcement of “human rights” as defined by the UN. The UN has long pushed to have women’s rights—including the “right” to abortion—recognized as human rights, and thus to make abortion a “universal human right.” In light of this, the Secretary General’s remarks are ominous indeed. “It is the universality of human rights that gives them their strength,” he said. “It endows them with the power to cross any border, climb any wall, defy any […]

The December issue of CLC National News is now available on line at https://www.lifesitenews.com/

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (LSN) – It was reported today that the major stumbling block to the establishment of a permanent international criminal court was the US government's insistence that the Security Council must first approve prosecutions. The revelations came in a response to criticism aimed at the Clinton administration from the group “Human Rights Watch” which claimed the US was trying to undermine attempts to create a permanent independent criminal court. In a related report, the U.S. Secretary of Defense said Tuesday that there was “a need for some kind of international police force. Yes, there should be an international […]

TORONTO, Dec 5 (LSN) – Pro-life Ontario MPP Jim Brown has submitted a private member’s bill seeking to protect Ontario children from pedophiles. The bill has received initial support from all three parties in the legislature, which means it has headed to committee for further debate. The bill would require anyone wishing to work in a position of trust with children to be screened for criminal sex offenses.

DUBLIN, Dec 3 (LSN) – In an announcement that sounded the death-knell for an Irish baby, Irish national broadcaster RTE reported on Wednesday that the 13-year-old alleged rape victim at the centre of a two-week abortion case had left the country. “The 13-year-old pregnant rape victim has travelled to England for an abortion,” RTE said. The news emerged when a lawyer for the Eastern Health Board, the local authority which had held the girl against her parents’ wishes since she was allegedly raped, told the High Court she was no longer under its jurisdiction. On Monday, following two weeks of […]

DETROIT, Dec 4 (LSN) – Martha Wichorek of Detroit is the latest victim of assisted-suicide killer Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian’s attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, said Mrs. Wichorek was not terminally ill, but suffered from unspecified medical ailments. In a new twist to his sinister deeds, Kevorkian has enlisted the assistance of retired psychiatrist, Georges Reding of Kalamazoo. Fieger told reporters on Thursday that Kevorkian has “decided that other doctors are going to be involved.”

BOSTON, Dec 4 (LSN) – In a disgusting affront to Christianity, Sony Music, Inc. has released a “Christmas Album” the proceeds of which are to be used to promote abortion. Cardinal Bernard Law, the head of the Catholic Church in Boston, sent a letter to Sony’s president calling the move “appalling. This mockery of Christmas is offensive to every Christian and to Christianity itself,” the Cardinal wrote. “In the very season in which Christians celebrate the birth of the infant Jesus and his mother Mary’s yes to life under most difficult circumstances, Sony markets music promoting a right to destroy […]

DUBLIN, Dec 3 (LSN)—The saga of the 13-year-old Irish girl who is pregnant and claims to have been raped took on a new life as her father revealed the circumstances around his daughter's removal from her parents care. In an interview on Radio Ireland the father said that his daughter was “kidnapped” by the Eastern Health Board without any permission from her parents. The child was taken on an interim care order. “It was not a care order, we signed no forms, not even voluntary forms. My child was kidnapped from us. The EHB just came and snatched her and […]