Recent US News

Thursday April 15, 2010 Chicago’s Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women’s Ordination By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has issued a statement from Fr. Michael Pfleger responding to criticism over his professed support for women’s ordination in a homily last Sunday. In the statement, the priest apologizes, but reaffirms his position against Church teaching. In separate remarks he has criticized the reaction against his dissent. On Sunday, only days after having received a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George, Fr. Pfleger told his congregation at […]

Pro-abort U.S. Soliciter General Elena Kagan is one potential nominee who has been criticized for the lack of a judicial record

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Expert Debunks Claim that Anti-Contraceptive Conservatism Advances Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent attempt by pro-abortion law professor Andrew Koppelman to blame abortion rates on the conservative movement itself fails in all three of its arguments, according to Michael New, a University of Alabama political science professor and pro-life statistics expert. Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University, sought to discredit the pro-life, anti-contraceptive, and pro-family ethos in an essay entitled “How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion.” Following the thesis advanced in the book “Red […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 234-194 to include a repeal of the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” (DADT) policy banning open homosexuals from service in the armed forces to a defense spending bill Thursday night. Hours earlier, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 16-12 to approve the repeal for their version of the must-pass bill. Only five House Republicans voted in favor of the repeal, while 26 Democrats voted against. In the Senate committee, the only Republican to support the repeal was Sen. Susan Collins of Maine; Democrat Sen. […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a closed committee mark-up Thursday, Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) successfully offered an amendment that would break with current longstanding policy and permit the performance of abortions in both domestic and overseas military facilities.     The amendment, which  passed by a vote of 15-12,  would strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code, which states: “No medical treatment facility or other facility of the Department of Defense may be used to perform an abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were […]

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Knights of Columbus Respond to Complaints about Pro-Abort Members By Kathleen Gilbert NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Patrick S. Korten, the vice president for Communications of the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, has issued a statement explaining why officials rejected a proposal to facilitate expulsion of pro-abortion and pro-same-sex “marriage” members. Korten said that the Catholic fraternal order would not second-guess the authority of bishops who have not excommunicated such individuals from the church. Pro-life members of the Catholic fraternal order had proposed a resolution that officials grant power to local chapters to […]

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Prop. 8 Judge Pulls Plug on Televising Closing Arguments By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has disallowed televising the closing arguments of the trial against Proposition 8, California’s constitutional definition of traditional marriage, shooting down the request of media and same-sex “marriage” supporters. In a notice submitted Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared that the arguments would not be televised beyond the courthouse where the case is being heard. Closing arguments are scheduled for June 16. In January, the same judge had allowed video broadcast of the […]

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Pro-Life Coalition to Launch “The Pill Kills” Day June 5 By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A large coalition of pro-life groups has announced plans to protest the damage wreaked by the morning-after pill, the “hormonal bomb” whose effects on women, their unborn children, and the environment have gone largely unreported by the mainstream media. “This year, birth control advocates are celebrating 50 years of decriminalized hormonal contraceptives,” announced the coalition in a press release Tuesday. “American Life League and our co-sponsors don’t think half a century of contaminating our waterways is […]

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Feds Demand Court Toss Virginia Lawsuit Against Health Care Law By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal government has requested a U.S. District Court toss out Virginia’s lawsuit against the health care reform law, which the state says conflicts with a statute declaring Virginia residents will not be forced to carry health insurance, saying that the state lacked standing to invoke federal jurisdiction. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department filed the motion to dismiss on Monday just hours before the midnight deadline to respond to Virginia’s legal challenge. […]

Thursday March 25, 2010 Chaput Rebukes CHA & “Catholic” Groups for Pro-Abort ObamaCare Triumph By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput took aim at the Catholic Health Association (CHA) and other “Catholic” groups that he said are ostensibly committed to social justice – so long as the rights of unborn are excluded – for damaging the pro-life coalition that was struggling to hold together before this past Sunday’s momentous vote on President Obama’s health care reform. “How did we get here?” Chaput asked in a column for the Denver Catholic Register. He […]