Recent US News

LEAWOOD, Kansas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — One hundred pastors nationwide will be participating in the Alliance Defense Fund’s third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 26, braving potential challenges to their tax-exempt status by educating their congregations about the candidates in this upcoming election in the light of their Christian faith. The pastors say they are exercising their constitutional right to free religious expression, despite a problematic Internal Revenue Service rule often invoked by activist groups looking to silence churches. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is an event associated with the ADF Pulpit Initiative, a legal effort designed to secure the […]

Monday September 20, 2010 Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Street Roots, a Portland-based non-profit newspaper dedicated to serving the homeless and the poor, has expressed outrage that it is losing the support of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), because it referred people to Planned Parenthood in the health care section of its “Street Root’ Rose City Resource” booklet. “The message from CCHD managers at the Portland Archdiocese, although supportive of the booklet’s overall mission, was made clear in terms of funding: […]

Injunction request filed against gay military ban

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop for U.S. Military Services has responded to a new “Catholic” group aiming to push the homosexual agenda in the Catholic Church, saying the group has not been recognized by Church hierarchy and, as such, “cannot be legitimately recognized as Catholic.” Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in response to a Catholic News Agency (CNA) inquiry after Catholics for Equality sought to confront Broglio over arguments he made when he opposed repealing the military's ban on open homosexuality in a June statement.  Broglio reiterated to CNA that he opposed […]

Monday September 20, 2010 Notre Dame Protesters Win Right to Individual Jury Trials SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 88 pro-lifers (known as the ND88) who were arrested on the campus of the University of Notre Dame last year during President Obama’s controversial visit have won the right to have their own individual jury trials, thanks to the efforts of the Thomas More Society. The prosecution had sought instead to consolidate the cases, and thus expedite the legal process – a request that was denied by Chief Judge Michael Scopelitis. According to the TMS, the longer the […]

Monday September 20, 2010 Senate to Vote this Week on Allowing Abortion on Military Bases By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders of the right to life movement are calling on pro-life voters to contact their senators before the body of legislators votes on a Defense Authorization Bill this week that includes a provision that would allow abortions at military hospitals. Top conservative groups including the Family Research Council (FRC), the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List, and the American Family Association are warning that the FY2011 Defense Authorization bill, if passed, would “turn every U.S. military […]

September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Wednesday issued a sharply worded rebuke of a book co-authored by two Creighton University theologians. “The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology” was published in 2008 and written by Todd A. Salzman, chairman of the Creighton University Department of Theology, and Michael G. Lawler, the department’s professor emeritus. The book attempts to provide moral justification for contemporary sexual behaviors that consistently have been held to be immoral by the Catholic Church. The 23-page statement is titled “Inadequacies in the Theological Methodology and Conclusions of The […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In this Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith warned that an abortion agenda at the United Nations threatens to derail Millennium Development Goal number 5 of sharply reducing global maternal mortality, by diverting life-saving resources away from mothers and into legalizing abortion. Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and global health, said that while health activists and world leaders were convening this week at the UN to discuss the eight Millennium Development Goals and the targets to achieve by […]

By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has been denied again the opportunity to keep closed an abortion facility cited for substandard medical protocols. A state judge has ruled that the abortion business, which performs between 200-300 abortions per month, can remain open while it appeals the DHH decision to shut it down. Judge Mike Caldwell of the 19th Judicial District Court ruled that Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport could continue to remain open and operating while the DHH's case against the abortion facility made its […]

Friday September 17, 2010 Christian Students Suspended for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible Verses ROSWELL, New Mexico, September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Mexico School principal has penalized three Christian students with suspensions for giving fresh Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with Bible verses to each of their teachers, according to the public advocacy group Liberty Counsel. This school is already named in a pending lawsuit filed by Liberty Counsel on behalf of families and students who were bullied, and one suspended, for exercising their freedom of religion by distributing abstinence wristbands and plastic models of babies at 12 weeks gestation […]