Recent US News

Friday September 17, 2010 Pitchfork Politics: the Feds are Targeting Conscientious Doctors Commentary by Dominique Monlezun and Kristan Hawkins September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Get the pitchforks out — America is hunting physicians. Instead of calling off the dogs, President Obama is leading the charge. In March of 2009, Obama called to rescind the conscience protection clause that was implemented by Health and Human Services on January 20, 2009. Then he adamantly backed the passage of the healthcare reform law, which leaves physicians’ conscience rights open for attack from nearly all sides. Why should you care about the conscience rights of […]

Friday September 17, 2010 Phoenix Bishop Excommunicates Pro-Gay Priest Over Woman’s Ordination By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Phoenix has excommunicated a priest who had openly supported the homosexual agenda, but crossed a line by participating in the attempted ordination of a woman to the Catholic priesthood. According to the Arizona Republic , Rev. Vernon Meyer, 58, was excommunicated by Bishop Thomas Olmsted over his participation in last month’s attempted ordination of Elaine Groppenbacher in Tempe. The ordination – which the Catholic Church does not recognize as valid – was performed on Groppehbacher by the […]

Thursday September 16, 2010 Foundering in Polls, Crist Abandons Pro-Family Stance to Court Gay Vote By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s poll numbers foundering in the three-way Senate race between the GOP’s Marco Rubio and Democrats’ Kendrick Meeks, the independent has now abandoned his pro-family positions to court homosexual voters in everything but marriage. Crist’s campaign has just released a position paper that outlines what the governor calls an “appropriate evolution” on giving rights to individuals based on a homosexual orientation. This comes as a new FOX News poll has been released showing Crist […]

Thursday September 16, 2010 Ballot Box: More Pro-life Primary Victories in New York By Peter J. Smith See more primary coverage here: ROUNDUP: Pro-Life Wins Big in Tuesday Tea Party Primary Surge WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life candidates (not all of them Tea Partiers) won big Tuesday night in GOP primaries, putting them in competitive or underdog races against pro-abortion challengers in the upcoming November 2 election especially in New York. Here is a look at some of the political landscape for the pro-life movement in the Empire State. Senate Races: Pro-life Carl Paladino, who won the GOP nomination for New York […]

Thursday September 16, 2010 Diocese of Austin Texas Cancels Planned Parenthood Rabbi Service AUSTIN, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After LSN ran a detailed investigative report yesterday drawing attention to the fact that a Rabbi who is on the board of Planned Parenthood in Austin was to lead Jewish worship services at a Catholic Church, the diocese of Austin in Texas has canceled the event planned for Saturday. Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez has directed that the services of Yom Kippur for the congregation of Temple Beth Shalom not take place as planned at St. Louis Catholic Church on September 17 and 18. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should not require coverage of contraception or sterilization in group and individual health plans as part of “preventive” services for women, said representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week. The HHS is currently deliberating on a final list of required preventive services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). “These drugs, devices and procedures prevent not a disease condition, but the healthy condition known as fertility,” said Anthony Picarello, USCCB general counsel, and Michael Moses, associate general counsel, in […]

Controversy erupts as DADT repeal teeters on brink

By Patrick Craine DENVER, Colorado, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faced with growing persecution from an increasingly secular culture, Catholics must work for a true Christian renewal of America by embracing and living the teachings of the Catholic Church, said Archbishop Charles Chaput in a Friday column for First Things. In the piece, entitled 'Catholics and the Next America', Archbishop Chaput reemphasizes his belief that Catholics, indeed all Christians, are poised to face growing persecution in the coming years. America's public discourse, while traditionally shaped by the country's deep Protestant roots, has been supplanted by a secular ideology that began to […]

Monday September 13, 2010 Manslaughter Case against Massachusetts Abortionist Begins Today By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trial into charges of involuntary manslaughter against a Massachusetts abortionist whose botched abortion killed Laura Hope Smith, 22, begins Monday, exactly three years after the young woman’s death, according to an Associated Press report. Prosecutors charged Dr. Rapin Osathanondh of Cape Cod with manslaughter in July 2008 in connection with the death of Smith, 22, whose heart stopped during an abortion. Osathanondh resigned his license in February 2008, the same day the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine issued charges against him over […]

Wednesday September 15, 2010 Perkins: ‘We must Love People Enough’ to Combat Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservatives’ principled opposition to same-sex “marriage” is based, not on “homophobia” or any animus against homosexual persons, but on a genuine love for homosexual individuals that propels leaders to teach the truth about homosexuality and the damage it causes, said Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins last week. “Conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, realize we must love people enough to be willing to speak the truth – and the truth is that we cannot redefine marriage without opening the door to all […]