By John-Henry Westen
January 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following is a review of the LifeSiteNews.com stories from 2006 pointing out scandals on life and family issues within the Catholic Church. The great number and gravity of the offenses call for a stronger approach by the Church to bring its own leaders and institutions into line with Catholic pro-life and pro-family teachings.
While sex abuse scandals have rocked the Church, scandals on life and family issues also took their toll in 2006. Topping the list was the scandal that Michael Schiavo was permitted to ‘marry’ in his local Catholic Church despite the fact that the Vatican condemned as murder his order to have his disabled wife Terri Schiavo starved to death. Michael remained staunchly unrepentant for his actions at the time of his second ‘marriage’. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06012306.html
As Rabbi Yehuda Levin indicated in yesterday’s LifeSiteNews interview story, “in Western Civilization and perhaps in World Civilization” the Catholic Church is key to a much-needed “moral counterattack” against those who are trying to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization. However the Rabbi, fresh from an emergency meeting with Vatican officials, says Catholic religious leaders have shied away from their leadership and need to take much stronger actions.
INSTITUTIONAL DISSENT
Organization Representing Canadian Religious Orders Publicly Takes issue with Church teaching on divorce, contraception, condoms, assisted suicide, women priests, homosexuality
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030801.html
American Nuns’ Group Voter’s Guide Favours Abortion, Homosexuality
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06110306.html
Study Finds Many US Catholic Hospitals Hand out Abortion Drugs – Names Them
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06020304.html
Official Canadian Catholic Bishops’ Charity Development and Peace Lenten Calendar Links to Abortion Groups
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030207.html
Leading United Nations Abortion Advocate a Prof at a Pontifical Catholic University
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06020802.html
Name and Shame: Catholic College Sites Linking to Abortion Centers Exposed
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031701.html
London England Catholic Hospital Fighting Cardinal for Right to Continue Abortion Referrals
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032007.html
San Francisco Catholic Charities Head an Active Homosexual
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032201.html
Official Catholic Church Women’s Group Involved in Legal Prostitution Scheme in Germany
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06050408.html
Former US President Clinton Speaking at Another Catholic Fundraiser in Canada
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jul/060704.html
Clinton-Inviting Catholic Family Centre Used For Gay Activist Meetings
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06082404.html
Ontario Catholic Teachers Association Feminist/Lesbian speaker charges “Christianity threatens to plunge the world into a new age of war”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031409.html
In Canada Objection to Apostate Catholic Now Muslim Speaker Gets Catholic Women’s League Exec Booted
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06102504.html
John Paul II an “Unbelievable Misogynist” ~ New Editor of Anchorage Catholic Paper
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06092710.html ****** But she was soon-after our expose no longer in the position https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111405.html
DISSENTING CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO BROKEBACK HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA FILM
Prominent US Dominican Leader Fr. Tom Condon “Highly Recommends” Homosexual Cowboy Film
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06020703.html
New San Francisco Archbishop Niederauer Thinks Gay Propaganda Film Brokeback Mountain is “Very Powerful”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021306.html
Canada’s Largest Catholic Paper Lauds Gay Propaganda Film Brokeback Mountain
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021508.html
The USCCB Movie Review website also altered its glowing review after a LifeSiteNews.com expose
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121607.html
Boston Priest Advises a “Brokeback Lent”, Homily Encourages Propaganda Film
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030707.html
PUBLIC DISSENT BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS
Quebec Priests Bash Church on Homosexuality – LifeSiteNews Publishes All Names of Rebellious Priests
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06022706.html
27 Minneapolis Priests Sign Petition Against Bishop’s Opposition to Homosexual ‘Marriage’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031006.html
Prominent Minneapolis-St. Paul Priest a Leader in National Homosexual Lobby Group
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032009.html
Renegade Toronto Priest Running for Catholic School Board Trustee
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111304.html
Pro-Abortion, Pro-Homosexual Marriage Catholic Priest Elected to Canadian Parliament
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06112804.html
SCANDALOUS ‘CATHOLIC’ POLITICIANS
Kansas Governor Sebelius Cites Her Catholic Faith While Vetoing Bill Limiting Late-Term Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06091401.html
Catholic Church Made Them Do It Say Ontario Catholic Same Sex Marriage MP’s
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06092607.html
55 ‘Catholic’ Democrats Out Themselves as Pro-Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030202.html
BISHOPS AND CARDINALS CREATE SCANDAL
Controversial Retired Cardinal Martini Calls Legal Abortion “Positive”
Contradicts Church on Abortion, Embryo Research, Condoms, IVF
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042108.html
Minneapolis Bishop Silences Faithful Priest for Objecting to Graphic Sex-Ed Program
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030602.html
No Sanctions by Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis Against Priests for “Consensual” Sex?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042008.html
Lay Catholics Go After Tuscon Arizona Bishop For Support Of Pro-Abortion Politicians
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06061406.html
Retired US Bishop Pushes Church Acceptance of Homosexuality in Opposition to Rome
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06100302.html
Cardinal McCarrick Continues to Conceal Rome’s Insistence that Pro-Abort Politicians Be Denied Communion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06102310.html
“Pro-Choice”, Pro-Gay Priest Given Permission from Bishop but not Vatican to Run for Politics
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06103002.html