Recent US News

Wednesday November 10, 2010 17 Abortion Victims to be Buried in Catholic Funeral in Michigan By Peter J. Smith LANSING, Michigan, November 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan Catholic bishop will preside over the funeral and burial of 17 aborted children whose remains were found in a dumpster in February. Citizens for a Pro-Life Society announced that Bishop Earl Boyea of the Diocese of Lansing will celebrate a funeral Mass for the unborn victims at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Saturday, November 20 at 11 am. A burial will follow at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Lansing. Back in February, local pro-life advocate […]

Friday November 12, 2010 Study: Intentionally Scripted TV Profanity Up 69% By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of warnings that TV profanity would increase following the July 2010 court decision that struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s broadcast standards, a study by the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that television profanity increased 69 percent in the past five years. In July, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s policy regarding offensive language as being “unconstitutionally vague” and effectively abolished the Commission’s enforcement powers. In the case, Fox […]

By Patrick B. Craine BALTIMORE, Maryland, November 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprise vote that was described as a “seismic shift” by one prominent Catholic commentator, the strongly pro-life Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York today beat out controversial sitting Vice President Bishop Gerald Kicanas to become the next president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Archbishop Dolan’s election is only the second time in history that the U.S. Bishops broke from their tradition of elevating the sitting vice president of the conference.  Bishop Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona had been expected to take the role, but was […]

By Matt Anderson COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Representative Steve Driehaus (OH-1) has requested to withdraw a legal complaint against the Susan B. Anthony List. The former politician filed the complaint on October 6 with the Ohio Elections Commission (OEC) alleging that SBA List was falsely accusing him of voting for federal abortion funding when he voted for the national health care law passed earlier this year. Early in October, SBA List intended to run a series of billboards criticizing Driehaus for his vote in favor of the abortion-funding Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Driehaus, however, […]

Friday November 12, 2010 GOP Senate Minority Leader Joins ObamaCare Lawsuit By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., November 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is set to file an amicus brief on behalf of over 20 states attorneys general battling the new health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama. The Senator warns that unless the Affordable Care Act is deemed unconstitutional, it will mean Congress has no real limits on what it can impose on Americans via legislation. McConnell wrote a letter to fellow lawmakers on Tuesday asking them to join an amicus […]

Matthew Anderson November 15, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting this week to elect its new President, the homosexual “Catholic” Rainbow Sash Movement has announced its pick to lead the bishops. According to a press release from the homosexualist group, it has endorsed Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, AZ to succeed Cardinal Francis George as the leader of the USCCB. The release from the pro-gay organization is likely to feed into the growing agitation in certain Catholic quarters over the possibility of Kicanas’ election. Kicanas has been accused of ignoring the sexual misconduct of a seminarian who […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski November 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups in two of the states where late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart has announced plans to open new abortion facilities are determined to block Carhart’s expansion efforts. Carhart was forced to close his late-term abortion business in Bellvue, Nebraska after that state passed Legislative Bill 1103, a law that prohibits elective abortions after 20 weeks gestation on the basis that science definitively shows an unborn child feels pain at that age. Last week, Carhart announced he plans to have three new abortion facilities up and running by January, with one in […]

By Patrick B. Craine SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, November 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual woman is complaining that she was fired from a Catholic university in Illinois this fall after publishing a wedding announcement of her lesbian “marriage.”  Benedictine University at Springfield, however, insists that Laine Tadlock actually resigned after they reassigned her to another position outside of education, with an offer of full pay and benefits. The university also said that it was aware of Tadlock’s sexual proclivities, but objected to her public show of disobedience to Catholic teaching. “It was not Tadlock’s orientation, but rather the public disregard for fundamental Catholic […]

Wednesday November 10, 2010 Gay Groups Target DOMA with New Lawsuits By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, November 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more lawsuits have been launched against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), bringing even more legal pressure to bear on the beleaguered marriage law. The Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Connecticut on behalf of three homosexual couples and one widower who were denied federal spousal benefits. “DOMA must fall,” said Mary L. Bonauto, GLAD’s Civil Rights Project Director. Bonauto contended that the intent of passing […]

Thursday November 11, 2010 First Gay Anglican Bishop to Retire, Citing Strain of “Controversy” By Peter J. Smith CONCORD, New Hampshire, November 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church, has announced his retirement after seven years leading his New Hampshire diocese due to the strain of the controversy that has consumed the Anglican Communion following his election. The U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated Robinson in 2003 over the objections of traditional members of the Anglican Communion, who said that consecrating an active homosexual man as bishop was a clear repudiation […]