Recent US News

By Peter J. Smith PRINCETON, New Jersey, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers of an unusual conference designed to bring abortion supporters and pro-life advocates together for a productive dialogue say they are hoping for greater pro-life participation in the event. So far only a small proportion of the conference’s registered attendees, which will feature prominent pro-life as well as pro-abortion speakers, identify themselves as pro-life advocates. Organizers of the Princeton University conference say the event is intended to initiate a thought-provoking dialogue that will encourage mutual respect, emphasize points of commonality, and bring about deeper understanding of the issues surrounding abortion. […]

Friday September 3, 2010 Texas Court Upholds Ban on Gay ‘Marriage’ By Peter J. Smith DALLAS, Texas, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas appeals court has struck down a trial court’s ruling Tuesday that the state’s ban on same-sex “marriage” violated the rights of a homosexual couple seeking a divorce. The court declared that “the natural ability to procreate” constituted the rational basis to restrict marriage to a man and a woman. The Court of Appeals for the 5th District of Texas struck down the previous ruling that said that two homosexual plaintiffs married in Massachusetts, identified as J.B. […]

Thursday September 2, 2010 Pro-Life Hopes for Illinois Parental Notice Law Dashed by Court By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life attorneys hoping anxiously for a speedy conclusion to the legal battle over the state’s long-delayed Parental Notice of Abortion Act, saw their hopes dashed when the state Supreme Court refused to transfer the case to their immediate jurisdiction. The high court denied a motion by the pro-life legal advocacy group Thomas More Society to bypass the appellate court and hear the case brought against the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995. The act […]

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Missouri Diocese: Axe All Community Organizing Groups from CCHD By Kathleen Gilbert KANSAS CITY, Missouri, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) prepares to receive a report on the controversial funding practices of their anti-poverty arm, one diocese has proposed a plan to cut off the group’s shadier associations. The diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph also suggested in a Monday post on its Catholic Key blog that its plan to reform the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which it has implemented on a local level, could be used as […]

Thursday August 19, 2010 ACLU Targets 2nd Mississippi School over Lesbian’s Yearbook Photo By Patrick B. Craine WESSON, Mississippi, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After pressuring a Mississippi school to give into homosexualist demands last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against another school in the state over their commitment to natural gender norms. The ACLU is supporting Ceara Sturgis, 18, a homosexual student who is suing Copiah County School District after, she claims, her school excluded her from the yearbook due to her decision to pose in a tuxedo for the photo. The school, […]

Pawlenty orders state to reject Obamacare "to the fullest extent possible"

Tuesday August 31, 2010 Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally Draws Tens of Thousands By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned that religion is slipping from its time honored place at the heart of America, tens of thousands of Americans of all different faiths gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The massive crowd gathered in response to conservative icon Glenn Beck’s call for a fundamental restoration of traditional American values. For Beck, the August 28 “Restoring Rally” was an ecumenical call that could serve to make the United States great again by bringing it back to […]

Tuesday August 31, 2010 15,000 Complaints Later, Pro-Abort/Gay Links Remain on Catholic College Site MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alverno College, a Catholic college in Milwaukee founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, has continued to host links to several pro-aborton and pro-homosexuality groups on its website, despite over 15,000 students and parents petitioning the school to remove the links. After the conservative group TFP Student Action started its peaceful protest in June, Alverno College removed some of the objectionable links on the “resource” page for the school’s Research Center for Women and Girls. They also posted […]

Monday August 30, 2010 Fr. Euteneuer Departs HLI, Will Return to Diocese FRONT ROYAL, VA, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After nearly 10 years of service to Human Life International (HLI) as its president, Rev. Thomas J Euteneuer has suddenly and very unexpectedly stepped down from his position after being asked by his bishop to return to his diocese in West Palm Beach, Florida. In a press release announcing Euteneuer’s departure, the board of HLI thanked the priest for his “leadership, hard work and dedication in carrying on the legacy of Fr. Paul Marx.” During his tenure Fr. Euteneuer traveled […]

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although previously willing to speak to LifeSiteNews.com, the University of Notre Dame has evidently implemented a policy against such communication in the future. Earlier this week LSN attempted to confirm the termination of Bill Kirk, Associate Vice President for Student Life, with Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown. Brown: I'm sorry, I have no comment to you. LSN: You have no comment to me specifically? Brown: That's right. LSN: Why's that? Brown: I'd rather not get into that, but no comment. LSN: Is this ND policy that you can't speak […]