Recent US News

By Patrick B. Craine WATERBURY, Connecticut, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual Connecticut Roman Catholic priest allegedly stole over a million dollars from his parish to pay for various extravagances and illicit activities, including male escorts, report the Waterbury police. Fr. Kevin Gray, 64, former pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Waterbury, has been charged with first-degree larceny after taking $1.3 million out of parish funds to pay for escorts, hotels, meals out, and clothes. He carried credit cards for two men on his account – one whom he met at a strip club, the other from an escort service.  He […]

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly-appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco has in the past criticized Catholic Church policy disallowing politicians who promote abortion from receiving Holy Communion, saying that such a move makes the Church appear too “partisan,” “Republican” and “coercive.” Msgr. Robert McElroy made the statements in a 2005 column for America magazine, in which he criticized Newark Archbishop John Myers for maintaining the policy against public figures who promote the murder of unborn children. Canon 915 of the Church's Code of Canon Law states that “those who have been excommunicated … and […]

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Rights for me, but not for thee” seems to be the theme of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) latest duel with the U.S. Catholic Church. In an effort to get the federal government to mandate abortion as an emergency medical service in certain situations, the group has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services demanding it investigate Catholic hospitals for “potential violations” of U.S. law by failing to provide what the organization asserts are “life-saving” abortions. “The government must ensure that the well-being of the […]

By James Tillman SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reinstating Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, a case alleging that Planned Parenthood defrauded taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars by overbilling government programs for birth-control pills and similar items. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), whose attorneys are handling the case, said that although “this case is by no means over, winning this appeal means we have gotten the federal claim over the threshold hurdles and can now get down to […]

By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  As hundreds of millions of Americans celebrated freedom and the founding of their country on Sunday, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards had something else on her mind – abortion. On July 4, Richards sent out an action alert, in which she urged congress to “stand up for women in uniform,” by allowing health clinics on military bases to perform abortions. The issue of abortion on military bases has been a hot-button topic in the last month, after a U.S. Senate Committee in late May greenlighted an amendment to the FY 2011 […]

By James Tillman Updated 9:34am EST 7.6.10 LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Defying the recommendations of Nebraska's top public health authority, the Nebraska Mental Health Practice Board has approved rules that could force Christian psychologists to refer clients with same-sex attraction seeking relationship therapy to professionals that support homosexuality. However, the chief medical officer has said she would not approve the new rules until a compromise is reached. While still allowing psychologists to decline to offer services, the board followed the state Board of Psychology in rejecting a rules change that would allow psychologists not to refer clients to counseling encouraging immoral behavior. […]

$25 million to support pregnant and parenting teens, billions to promote and pay for abortions

Wednesday June 30, 2010 Kagan Proves ‘The Artful Dodger’ on Abortion, Same Sex ‘Marriage’ Commentary by Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elena Kagan’s confirmation testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday could probably be summed up in her own words written 15 years ago about such hearings: a “vapid and hollow charade” replete with “repetition of platitudes” and “personal anecdotes.” The hearings, as Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) noted, have been largely devoid of “substantive discussion.” Kagan routinely gave so many non-committal and unrevealing answers to direct questions about her judicial philosophy that she could very […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 House Minority Leader Promises to Co-Sponsor Bill Codifying Hyde By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner pledged Tuesday to the 40th annual National Right to Life Convention (NRLC) that he would sign on to legislation, soon to be introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), that would make the Hyde amendment barring taxpayer funding for abortion permanent law. “It’s clear from the health care debate that the American people don’t want their tax dollars paying for abortion, and a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives agrees,” said […]

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Woman Kills Wrongly-Implanted Embryos with Morning-After Pill By Peter J. Smith HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a disastrous chain of events, a set of “wanted” embryos quickly became “unwanted” after an artificially impregnated women was informed by her fertility clinic that they had accidentally implanted the embryos of another woman by the same name. The woman’s solution was to take the morning-after pill (which, ironically, pro-abortion forces insist is simply a form of contraception and cannot cause an abortion) and abort the nascent life within her. The Associated Press reports that the Center […]