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Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’ Groups Oppose Mother Teresa Honor

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’ Groups Oppose Mother Teresa Honor August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic League has for months been on a campaign to have the Empire State Building light its towers to honor the centenary of the late Mother Teresa on August 26. While the owners of the Building have done so for other anniversaries, including the 60th anniversary of the Chinese communist regime, they have refused to honor Mother Teresa by lighting its towers. Several pro-abortion groups which refer to themselves as Catholic have signed on to a statement affirming the decision by officials from […]
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‘Catholic’ Group Gearing up to Challenge Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Monday August 23, 2010 ‘Catholic’ Group Gearing up to Challenge Church Teaching on Homosexuality By James Tillman WASHINGTON, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cadre of homosexualist activists are preparing to launch a new group, Catholics for Equality, whose self-proclaimed mission is to lead lay Catholics away from the institutional Church’s teaching on sexuality and encourage support for homosexual “marriage.” The Catholic News Agency broke the news of the nascient group Sunday. Although Catholics for Equality will not officially launch until September 14th, and their website is still under construction, their goals are already quite clear. The group proclaims that […]
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Obama Administration Sues West Palm Beach Pro-Life Leader

Monday August 23, 2010 Obama Administration Sues West Palm Beach Pro-Life Leader By Kathleen Gilbert Updated WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A local pro-life leader has claimed innocence after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit claiming that she violated federal law prohibiting individuals from blocking customers from entering abortion centers. Filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, the lawsuit claims that Mary Susan Pine, 58, and another protester violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The administration is seeking an injunction that would prevent Pine from entering any clinic driveway, and […]
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Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception

Monday August 23, 2010 Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception By Kathleen Gilbert NASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Nashville priest who issued a video criticizing the Vatican’s stance against contraception and divorce, among other issues, has retracted his statements and apologized to parishioners and the pope. Rev. Joseph Breen, whose recent conflict with the Church hierarchy comes 17 years after he was first told not to publically criticize Magisterial teaching, also indicated in a letter to parishioners of St. Edward Church that he planned to retire as pastor at the end of the year, according to a […]
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Pro-Abort Law Group Rails against USCCB for Opposing the Pill

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Abort Law Group Rails against USCCB for Opposing the Pill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Women’s Law Center has taken aim at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for saying that a Medicaid waiver offering free birth control to low-income women embodies “a very dismissive view of women.” In a Wall Street Journal article discussing Wisconsin’s implementation of the plan, Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said that the notion of extending only birth control to a wider swath of women otherwise ineligible for Medicaid […]
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Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted

Friday August 20, 2010 Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted By James Tillman BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson dissolved a temporary restraining order that he had placed on the Louisiana “Ultrasound Before Abortion Act.” The order, which had been instituted at the request of lawyers with the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, was dissolved after the involved parties signed a stipulation eliminating ambiguities in the Act. “As we expected, the baseless lawsuit promoted by the Louisiana abortion industry to temporarily stall our ‘Ultrasound Before Abortion Act’ has been cleared […]
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Virginia AG: State Can Force Abortion Clinics to Follow Same Standards as Hospitals

By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews.com) –Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may be about to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare” – simply by making abortion clinics offer women the same standard of care required by other outpatient surgical facilities. Statistically speaking abortion is the number one surgical procedure that women undergo in the United States, and most abortions are performed in the first trimester. However in Virginia, as in many other places around the country, abortion facilities have often escaped the health and safety standards that are mandated for other medical facilities, such as hospitals, that engage in […]
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Obama Memorandum Encourages Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay Partners

Friday April 16, 2010 Obama Memorandum Encourages Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay Partners By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama has encouraged nearly all U.S. hopsitals to provide for visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners, in a memorandum to the Department of Health and Human Services published online Thursday. However, Peter Sprigg of Family Research Council today told LifeSiteNews.com that the memorandum, which does not actually create any new rights or benefits, is a “red herring” in the same-sex “marriage” debate, and that it is a “solution in search of a problem.” The Obama […]
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Endorse Permanent Hyde Amendment

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Catholic Bishops are endorsing a bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would apply permanent Hyde amendment restrictions to abortion funding in federal programs. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, chair of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged Congress to support the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (H.R. 5939), introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Dan Linkinski (D-Ill.) on July 30. “H.R. 5939 will write into permanent law a policy on which there has been strong popular and […]
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U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that encourages adoption of frozen embryonic children, filed the suit last year. Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled in June that the group has standing to sue over the guidelines that the National Institutes of Health developed for taxpayer-funded research that would involve the destruction of living human embryos. The newly-expanded research was made possible by an executive order signed by President […]
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