Recent US News

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 […]

Senate aide: codifying Obama order "wouldn't do the trick"

By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a meeting with the local archdiocese, a Catholic hospital chain in Boston appears to have reversed its earlier position that a newly-acquired secular hospital would be allowed to continue its practice of providing contraception, sterilizations, and abortion referrals. Terry Donilon, spokesman for the Archdiocesan of Boston, referred LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) to an archdiocesan statement in which Cardinal Seán O'Malley said he was “concerned” about statements appearing in the Providence Journal from both the Catholic hospital chain, Caritas Christi, and its prospective new hospital, Landmark Medical Center, indicating that the latter would […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Justice Department is requesting a federal judge stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s embryo-destroying stem-cell research pending an appeal, saying that cutting off the money to scientists would harm their research efforts.   Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last week that embryonic stem cell research projects funded by the NIH violate the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from going to research that destroys human embryos.   Congress attempted to pass a bill permitting […]

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Anglican School Denies Enrollment to Child in Care of Lesbians By James Tillman BEDFORD, Texas, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Vincent’s Episcopal School in Texas has decided not to permit a child raised by two lesbians to enroll for the 2010-2011 school year. “We regret the disappointment the mother feels,” the school said in a statement. “It is clear, however, that enrolling the child in a traditional Christian school, such as St. Vincent’s School, would not foster her own personal values at home.” “And it might undermine the moral instruction of our clergy and teachers […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man was arrested Saturday, August 28, outside a late-term abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after he allegedly threatened to shoot two pro-life women who were offering help to abortion-bound women. According to Operation Rescue (OR), the unidentified man and his wife were escorting their daughter into the abortion clinic when the wife and daughter walked over to the pro-life women to discuss alternatives to abortion. The man became angry and ushered his family members toward the building.   “When we come out, I'm going to put a bullet in your head […]

By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics in New England are raising questions after it was announced that Caritas Christi, a network of Catholic hospitals, would allow a newly-acquired secular hospital in Rhode Island to ignore core Catholic medical practices. The move appears to contradict previous statements by Boston’s cardinal that Caritas Christi would remain Catholic despite being sold by the diocese. Officials from both sides of the agreement confirmed that Landmark Medical Center of Woonsocket, RI, which provides abortion referrals, contraception, and sterilizations, would not be required to alter its medical practices, the Providence Journal […]

By Kathleen Gilbert Update 17:37 01/10/10 – Reports indicate that police have shot and killed James Lee, and released the hostages. SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chaos erupted after at least one hostage was taken at the Silver Spring headquarters of the Discovery Channel by what appears to be a crazed radical environmentalist. The armed man has reportedly demanded that Discovery Channel executives run programming geared toward stopping the propagation of “parasitic human infants” in order to save the planet from global warming and pollution. In a document apparently authored by James J. Lee, identified by law enforcement […]

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 majority ruling filed today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the continued display of a lone cross in California’s Mojave Desert memorializing veterans of World War I. In Salazar v. Buono, the ACLU filed suit to remove the 8-foot cross. Following the lower court ruling, the cross was covered with a cloth and now is boxed in with plywood so it looks like a blank sign. It remained that way pending this final decision. The […]