Articles for Month: January 2007

By Steve JalsevacPhotos also by Steve Jalsevac Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews counted 37 Catholic bishops, including four cardinals, participating in the March for Life events Jan. 20-22 in the U.S. capital. Many have been coming to the events for years to express their commitments on the issue.   Strong support from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been a major factor in the large turnout of bishops and several hundred seminarians, priests and religious brothers and sisters every year. The bishops’ leadership has also encouraged numerous lay diocesan and parish groups from around the nation […]

Canada's Conservative government approves change

By Hilary White   TUCSON, January 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the Catholic Church’s most infamously disobedient bishops has been refused a venue in Catholic Churches of the diocese of Tucson, Arizona after his decades-long repudiation of the moral and doctrinal teachings of his Church.   MSNBC reports that Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, an auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Detroit, was invited to speak by the anti-Catholic group Call to Action, an organization that campaigns against Catholic teachings on chastity, holy orders and marriage. Among his many other questionable associations, Gumbleton was the founding president of the very liberal […]

Comment made during half-hour live interview segment on Toronto radio station CFRB

MONCTON, NB, January 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll touted by abortion rights activists came under sharp criticism today from the New Brunswick Right to Life Association. The Omnifacts Bristol Research survey (reported today by CBC) suggests most New Brunswickers favor “the right to choose” and more access to abortion.   Right to Life executive director Peter Ryan says the poll is not a reliable guage of public opinion, due to inbuilt bias stemming from faulty wording. “When you use loaded language like ‘the right to choose’, the results will be skewed in a pro-abortion direction. It would be […]

Reproduced with Permission of the Media Research Center By Tim Graham, the MRC’s Director of Media AnalysisPhotos (all of different sections of March for Life crowd) – Steve Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews.com   Obviously, the networks believe some demonstrators are more newsworthy than others. It might just depend on whether the cause is liberal or conservative.   On Monday, January 22, none of the networks sent a Washington reporter a few blocks down to the March for Life. CBS and NBC offered brief anchor snippets noting “both sides” of the abortion debate would protest on the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SANTIAGO, Chile, January 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following through on her threat earlier this month, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet signed a decree Monday authorizing the distribution of abortifacient emergency contraception to girls as young as 14 without their parents’ consent, the latest move in a drawn-out battle over efforts to legalize the drug in the country.   Distribution of the drug was halted earlier this month when the Constitutional Court ruled that the Health Minister did not have the power to authorize handing out the drug to minors, after 32 legislators petitioned the court to rule […]

Asks them to justify why other human embryonic life is less worthy than their own was

By Peter J. Smith   ROME, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The retired Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has struck another subversive blow to the clearly defined teachings of the Catholic Church on life, reports Vatican expert Sandro Magister in the Italian journal Chiesa, who says “the real clash is between Martini and the Pope.”   Just nine months previously, Martini, a high profile leader in the Catholic Church, exposed his public dissent from the Church’s life teachings on artificial insemination, embryos, abortion, and euthanasia published in the Italian weekly L’espresso in what Magister wrote was a “bombshell […]

By Gudrun Schultz   AMARILLO, Texas, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Texas Bishop John W. Yanta, of the diocese of Amarillo, called for special attention to the importance of family life during the year 2007, in a pastoral letter issued early in January. “Every child is a gift,” Bishop Yanta wrote, pointing out the blessing of a large family while at the same time acknowledging the challenges faced by parents of big families. He encouraged his parishioners not to be afraid of having many children, saying “it takes strong faith to have a large family.”   Bishop Yanta emphasized the […]

By Gudrun Schultz   VATICAN CITY, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican will soon release a new document addressing bioethical concerns—in particular those relating to the personhood of the human embryo—in response to the scientific developments of the past twenty years, according to coverage by the National Catholic Reporter   The document will act as a follow-up to the text Donum Vitae, released in 1987, that addressed the emerging technologies of artificial reproduction and embryonic research, said Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in an interview with the Italian bishops’ newspaper L’Avvenire […]

Bill condemned for denying doctors freedom to refuse to participate in assisted suicide

By Hilary White   LONDON/EDINBURGH, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic officials told reporters today that the government was engaging in Orwellian strong-arm tactics against the religious freedoms of Christians in attempting to force Catholic adoption agencies to adopt children to homosexual couples.   The comments came in response to yesterday’s announcement by Prime Minister Tony Blair that British Catholic adoption agencies could not expect an exemption from a new law prohibiting “discrimination” in the provision of goods and services.  “Some legislation, however well intended, in fact does create a new kind of morality, a new kind of norm – […]

Tells Post he would, as last resort, refuse Communion to pro-abortion, pro-same-sex Catholic politicians

LifeSiteNews.com Interview with Washington Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley

Dear LifeSiteNews Readers,   With some exceptions I am afraid many of today’s LifeSiteNews reports are rather negative. We wish it wasn’t so. Still, it is far better to know the truth than live in ignorance of these serious developments. Contrary to popular practice, ignorance is not bliss – it is a major gift to opponents of life, family and faith.   The difficult realities have to be faced rather than the common fleeing into the comfortable, but deadly “I’m ok, you’re ok mentality” of recent decades. That has, to a large degree, led to where we are now.   […]

Washington, DC, January. 29 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – Father Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest and lawyer who defied directives from Rome to serve for a decade in the US Congress, died on Sunday, January 28, at the age of 86.   The combative Jesuit had been a lightning-rod for controversy throughout his political career. He came to Washington as an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam; later he became one of the most reliable votes in Congress in favor of unrestricted legal abortion.   His advocacy of legal abortion continued long after his tenure in Congress. In 1996 the priest-politician shocked […]

By Peter J. Smith   VATICAN CITY, January 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI appealed to officials and lawyers of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the highest court of appeals dealing with matters of marriage in the Catholic Church, to help the world rediscover “the beauty of ‘the truth of marriage.’”   The Holy Father’s gave his address before the Tribunal’s audience including the dean, judges, promoters of justice, defenders of the bond, on the commencement of the Vatican’s juridical year, where he paid particular attention to the expression “the truth of marriage”.   Benedict XVI told his […]

"It's not our job to make moral decisions for our guests" says nun

Editorial By John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com   He was regularly voted France’s most popular person.  Raised in wealth, he was an ascetic Catholic priest, living in meagre surroundings and devoting his life to the service of the poor.  Abbe Pierre, who passed away last Monday was also however a priest who was in public dissent from Rome on homosexuality, women priests and even questioned the virginity of Christ Himself.   A war hero, having assisted Jews escape Nazi persecution, Abbe Pierre, the founder of the Emmaus community passed away at 94.  His funeral was celebrated by Archbishop of Paris Andre […]

By Hilary White   BIRMINGHAM/ EDINBURGH, January 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While loudly blasting the Blair government for forcing secularist ideology on Catholic social agencies, Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols of Birmingham admitted that his own adoption agencies were already adopting children to homosexual singles.   Nichols told the BBC’s Newsnight on Tuesday that his agencies were happy to place children with single gay people, just not couples. Catholic agencies are equally happy to place children with unmarried but cohabiting couples, despite clear and even more widely understood Catholic teaching on the sinfulness of such arrangements.   The announcement has frustrated […]

Catholic Labour MP says, "This is just one more reason not to vote for us"

MP's will not be allowed free vote on issue

Says evidence establishes higher prevalence of HIV and hepatitis among homosexuals

Leading US psychiatric researcher strongly criticizes such procedures

Poll shows support plummeting for proposed abortion-on-demand legislation

Plan to promote more contraception and thereby make pro-lifers look like hypocritical extremists

Article by granddaughter of pro-abortion judge and cousin of feminist icon Betty Friedan

No Buyers for Dakota Fanning Rape Movie  https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246698,00.html   New York To Launch Official City Condom  https://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_025110152.html   Government in Spanish region of Catalonia publishes “secular liturgical ritual” for baptism, marriage, and funerals  https://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8474   Germany Jails Man for selling suicide pills  https://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1169643060490B223   Federal investigation sought into abortions Operation Rescue plans move in battle over prosecuting Tiller  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53944   DA: Young mother botched abortion with ulcer medication   https://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/01/da_young_mother_1.html   Arizona Appeals Court Upholds Rules State Jails Must Take Inmates to Clinics for Abortion on Demand   https://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/39614.php   In India More than 80,000 people take to the streets […]

By Hilary White   NEW YORK, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Edward Cardinal Egan, as archbishop of New York city, arguably one of the two most important Catholic prelates in the United States, indicated in a January 5 interview on NBC, that he had little problem with politicians, even Catholic politicians, who repudiate moral principles on such issues as abortion, euthanasia and marriage.    The NBC interviewer, David Ushery, asked for the Cardinal’s response to the pro-abortion stance of three of the most prominent politicians in New York, presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani, and ex-governor of New York […]

By Peter J. Smith   UNITED STATES, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two recent polls taken in January indicate that a majority of Americans are in favour of restrictions on abortion and for banning same-sex “marriage”, reports Angus Reid Global Monitor.   According to a poll by CBS News, 63% believe there should be restrictions on abortion, while 31% believe it should be permitted in all cases. The poll interviewed 1,168 American adults and has a 3% margin of error.   Of those in favour of greater restrictions, 30% believe abortion should be permitted only in cases such as rape, […]

Weakness of Christian community and growth of secularism the cause

Calls for an awakening of the national moral conscience

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leading Orthodox rabbi Yehuda Levin delivered an impassioned plea for a “new ecumenism” among international religious leaders in defense of morality, during a speech at the March for Life demonstration in Washington Jan.22. “It’s time for religious people to come out of our places of worship and bring our faith in to the artificially denuded public square,” said Rabbi Levin, saying support for abortion and homosexual marriage within Jewish communities was “paganism.”   Head of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in New York City, Rabbi Levin founded Jews […]

Says growing numbers of teenagers are rejecting sexual promiscuity and abortion

CHICAGO, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, a ruling was handed down from the Northern Illinois District Court allowing the pro-adoption message “Choose Life” to be an option for specialty license plates in the State of Illinois. Citing First Amendment protection, Judge David Coar ruled in favor of Choose Life Illinois (CLI), explaining that their message is constitutionally entitled to be on Illinois license plates.   In Judge Coar’s Memorandum it states that “…the Secretary of State is ordered to issue the ‘Choose Life’ plates.” CLI, a pro-adoption organization, had filed the lawsuit against the Secretary of State, Jesse […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – He is seen by supporters as a man of wisdom and intelligence, not too old and not too young, with stamina and good looks and the determination it takes to become the President of the United Sta tes of America.  Sam Brownback and his team of youthful volunteers were all over the March for Life in Washington DC this week.   Brownback was definitely not shy about testifying to his pro-life and pro-family beliefs at the March for Life.  Campaign material handed out by the tens, if not hundreds, […]

CEDAW compliance committee has pressured 37 nations to liberalize abortion laws

By Gudrun Schultz   VATICAN CITY, January 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI addressed the impact of media on children today, calling for the careful guidance of parents and emphasizing the responsibility of the media industry to protect children from violent and degraded content, in his message for the forty-first World Day of Social Communications. Held on May 20, 2007, the theme this year is on ‘Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education.” “The complex challenges facing education today are often linked to the pervasive influence of the media in our world…Indeed, some claim that the formative influence […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SANTA CRUZ, California, January 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The City Council of Santa Cruz wants the city to be know as a pro-abortion center, passing a resolution earlier this week to join the Pro-Choice City Campaign, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink reported yesterday.   In a 5-2 vote, the council adopted the “pro-choice” title Tuesday, aligning the once-Catholic city with a network of US cities dedicated to abortion activism under the banner of “reproductive health choices.”   Council member Ryan Coonerty, who supported the measure, said the council had to take a stand in response to […]

Council chose to ignore its own guidelines in order to protect Chief Justice McMurtry

Bill would force Catholic adoption agencies to place children with homosexual partners

Congressman voted for embryonic stem cell research and allowing abortions in military hospitals

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, January 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fallout from the decision of new Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl to remain silent in the face of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flagrant abuse of the Catholic Church continues.    On January 22, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picked up on the LifeSiteNews.com story about statements by Human Life International Leader Fr. Tom Euteneuer and American Life League President Judie Brown criticizing Archbishop Wuerl for silence and inaction. (see the original LifeSiteNews.com coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jan/07011604.html see the story in the Post-Gazette here: https://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07022/755820-84.stm )   As the March for Life was […]

‘Family Values’ Conservatives Unimpressed by State of the Union Address  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200701/CUL20070124b.html   Informed-Choice Bill May Have Tough Time in Congress  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003693.cfm   Informed Choice — Mental Health and Abortion  https://www.catholicexchange.com/node/9736   No vote, no communion, says Catholic bishop  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8410   Out-of-Wedlock Babies: Intended . . . Or Not?   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12225/BLI/datadigest/index.htm   Payment For Stem Cell Eggs Debated  https://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=40562   China’s one child policy won’t change despite causing skewed male/female ratio  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8315&size=A   Cheney Calls Blitzer Question on Daughter’s Pregnancy ‘Out of Line’  https://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm   Hillary’s Hollywood Friends Change Sides  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2819848&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   Dakota Fanning tells “Hounddog” critics she is mad  https://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2007-01-24T200915Z_01_N24428083_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUNDANCE-FANNING.xml&src=rss&rpc=23 […]

By Hilary White   WASHINGTON, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering contraceptives, but only to make sure they are more effective at preventing – or ending – a pregnancy. The FDA has asked an expert panel whether it ought to ensure higher standards of “effectiveness” of new hormonal contraceptive/abortifacient drugs before approval for the market. The 14 member panel of outside experts met this week to advise the agency on future guidelines for drug manufacturers seeking approval.   The pills approved by the FDA in 1960 contained much higher doses of hormones than […]

By Peter J. Smith   MADRID, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s Zapatero government has unveiled a new compulsory school subject replacing ethics classes, which pro-family advocates in Spain warn is another assault on the traditional family and the rights of parents to educate their children.   In a recent Official National Bulletin, the government unveiled the new Education for Citizenship and Human Rights – a compulsory school subject required in all Spanish schools beginning in the upcoming academic year – which will replace philosophy classes which have traditionally taught ethics and were required in Spanish schools.   Fides News […]

Madison Pro-life Billboard Campaign Changing Hearts   By Hilary White   MADISON, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“I REGRET MY ABORTION – and if you do too, there is hope . . .” a billboard placed outside a Madison, Wisconsin abortion facility declares, and women are getting the message. The campaign, funded by the Knights of Columbus and requested by the bishop, places billboards with a message of hope and offer of assistance to women entering the Planned Parenthood abortion facility on Madison’s east side.   The Madison Catholic Herald reports that one woman who had already had an abortion, was […]

Dear Readers,   Our apologies for the absence of the Monday and Tuesday LifeSiteNews reports.   The coverage of the Washington March by myself and editor John-Henry Westen was far more demanding this year than we had anticipated. Our agenda was so full with interviews and events to attend that we have been unable to file any reports yet and were not able to direct our other writers on stories of the day.   The March for Life events were very impressive. The huge crowds at the Vigil for Life Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the Youth […]

UN NGO stands to make big money if abortion is legalized throughout S. America

Bishops Conference leaving it up to individual bishops to decide actions against pro-abortion push

By Gudrun Schultz   LONDON, United Kingdom, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judgment was withheld yesterday in the High Court case of a pro-life woman who was charged with sending “indecent or grossly offensive” pictures in the mail, after she sent images of aborted babies to pharmacies to protest the sale of abortfacient morning-after pills.   LifeLeague member Veronica Connolly, a Roman Catholic grandmother, was convicted on the charges in October 2005, under the 1988 Malicious Communications Act. She was given a three-year conditional discharge and fined a total of £625. The Coventry Crown Court upheld her conviction in May […]

By Gudrun Schultz   LONDON, United Kingdom, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has come under attack from colleagues over claims is backing an exemption for the Catholic Church from the controversial homosexual equality laws, the UK Evening Standard reported Sunday.   The 2006 Equality Act, which will come into effect in April 2007, makes it an offence to refuse goods or services on the basis of sexual orientation. Under the act, organizations or businesses opposed to homosexuality would not be permitted to refuse homosexual customers, including religious groups that offer social services such as Catholic […]

Explains Piergiorgio Welby denied Catholic funeral because of advocacy for legalized euthanasia

By Gudrun Schultz   RANGOON, Burma, January 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Reports of accelerating persecution towards Burma’s Christian minority by the military regime have been confirmed in a secret memo that appears to have been leaked from a government ministry, the UK Times reported Sunday.   Entitled ‘Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma’, the document gives detailed instructions on how to wipe out the Burmese Christian population, stating “There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced.” “The Christian religion is very gentle—identify and utilise its weakness,” the memo encourages enforcers, calling for the imprisonment of […]

Warns if exemption not granted Church could no longer operate adoption agencies

 Dear Readers, Please note that due to our attendance at the March for Life in Washington DC, LifeSiteNews.com will not be published Monday January 22, 2007 and will have limited coverage on Tuesday.  We will resume Wednesday with some awesome coverage of the March for Life. God Bless, John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com

Hints that he will veto the Embryonic Stem Cell Funding Bill

  *Disclaimer: The following linked items or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSitNews.com. They are presented only for your information. We also do not guarantee the accuracy of the items noted:   Abortion & Richard Hays’s Moral Ambiguity  https://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=20-01-038-f   Ambivalence and Resolve About Roe By Richard John Neuhaus  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=598   Couple pay £9,000 to have first British web baby  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=429393   How Grassroots Activism Saved Grassroots Activism  https://www.cwalac.org/article_400.shtml   ‘‘Thought Crimes’’ Bill Re-introduced in Congress       https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12198/CWA/family/index.htm   Suddenly, a spring Canadian federal vote isn’t as imminent as it was […]

Accused of "journalistic malpractice" for skewing stats to incorrectly show most women not marrying

By Gudrun Schultz   SANTA FE, New Mexico, January 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  New Mexico’s state legislature is considering a constitutional amendment to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, after a resolution was introduced Wednesday. Alamorgordo Rep. Gloria Vaughn, a Republican, proposed the measure, emphasizing that it would be in the best interest of children, Farmington Daily Times reported.  “I just feel that it’s the right thing to do, and maybe children would grow up with both parents and know who they are, and not come up against two ladies or two gentlemen,” she said.   […]

44 U.S. pro-family leaders signed letter asking him to recant illegal orders

Shop claimed gay porn good for Canada because it improved self image of homosexuals

By Cassidy Bugos   SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California congresswoman has announced she is drafting a bill that would outlaw the spanking of any child under the age of three.   Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, says the bill will be written broadly, to ban “any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching, any of that.”   Lieber says she would like to see spanking treated as a class 3 misdemeanor child abuse, punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine of up to $1000 – although she admitted that one […]

During swearing-in will be allowed to state that ban amendment "besmirches" constitution

Catholic Councillor had his business door vandalized with graffiti - "Homophobia Die"

Full text of proclamation follows:   America was founded on the principle that we are all endowed by our Creator with the right to life and that every individual has dignity and worth. National Sanctity of Human Life Day helps foster a culture of life and reinforces our commitment to building a compassionate society that respects the value of every human being.   Among the most basic duties of Government is to defend the unalienable right to life, and my Administration is committed to protecting our society’s most vulnerable members. We are vigorously promoting parental notification laws, adoption, abstinence education, […]

By Samantha Singson   NEW YORK, January 18, 2007 (C-FAM) – At UN headquarters this week, the committee that oversees the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) criticized Poland’s compliance with the treaty.  CEDAW committee members questioned the Polish government on access to abortion, contraception and a reported preference of the government to promote natural family planning over hormonal contraceptives.         Committee members expressed concern about Poland’s “conscience clause” for doctors who do not want to perform abortions.  While addressing a question regarding the number of illegal abortions, the Polish representative stressed to the […]

By Peter J. Smith   NASHVILLE, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jim Caviezel, star of “The Passion of the Christ”, is taking up the character of Jesus once again – this time in a dramatic audio production of the New Testament cast alongside many Hollywood stars like Michael York and Richard Dreyfuss.   Thomas Nelson, Inc, the world’s largest publisher/seller of Bibles, announced Tuesday that Caviezel would reprise his role as Jesus with other Hollywood actors in The Word of Promise: New Testament Audio Bible, a 25-hour 20 CD audio project set for release in October 2007.   The project […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The husband of a woman dehydrated to death at his own request, is demanding an inquiry into the use, against her family’s wishes, of an experimental drug before her death. “Jessica,” (not the woman’s real name) was 53 years old and had been in what doctors described as a “persistent vegetative state” for three years.   Although the family had asked that she be dehydrated to death, the High Court ruled on the recommendation of the Official Solicitor Laurence Oates, that she should be given a course of the anti-insomnia […]

Canada is only country permitting non-residents to register partnerings as marriage

By John-Henry Westen   KENT, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A school in England is furiously back-pedalling from its suggestion that wearing a crucifix chain is a ‘health and safety’ concern.  The suggestion which was shot down by child family activists as “fraudulent” was put forward by the school in question as an excuse to force a child to remove her crucifix.   News of Robert Napier School’s threat to suspend or even expel a student if she refused to remove her crucifix chain spread all across the UK and even internationally this week.  The latest from the local news […]

NEW YORK, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Sundance Film Festival opens today, and on January 22 a film starring 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning will debut. The movie, ‘Hounddog,’ is described in the current edition of Premiere magazine as featuring ‘a devastating rape by an older boy.’ On January 16, Allan Colmes on ‘Hannity and Colmes’ said, ‘In the film, 12-year-old Fanning plays a sexually promiscuous character who’s physically abused by her father and eventually raped on screen in a violently graphic scene.’   Canada’s Globe and Mail said today of Fanning, ‘her character is violently raped and appears, at […]

By Cassidy Bugos   CHICAGO, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger of the Archdiocese of Chicago wants people to know that pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage Senator Barack Obama “is the best thing to come across the political scene since Bobby Kennedy.”   Father Pfleger says he has known Obama for 20 years. “I think Barack Obama is in a class of his own,” he said.   As an Illinois Senator Obama had the unstinting approval of the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council for his dependable support of pro-abortion legislation. Now, after a short two years in the U.S. […]

Diagnosed with severe heart defects while in womb, baby was threatened with abortion

Willing to go to prison if the court threatens her with sentencing

By Gudrun Schultz   OTTAWA, Ontario, January 18. 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the release of a new leaflet on the meaning of suffering and death today, published by the Catholic Organization for Life and Family in response to the growing push for legal euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada.   Entitled Living, Suffering and Dying…What For?, the material “walks the reader through a powerful contemplation of one of life’s greatest mysteries: pain and suffering,” the CCCB media release stated. “Since suffering and illness appear in the normal course of every human life, the question […]

By Steve Jalsevac   WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual March for Life activities begin this Saturday. The series of events culminate in the giant March for Life starting from the Mall very near the White House, and which then goes up Constitution Ave and ends at Capital Hill in front of the Supreme Court which was responsible for the judicial activist Roe v. Wade decision.   Following are links to various sites that list details of the activities from Saturday to Monday, the day of the actual March.   The largest events are the National Vigil […]

Result of aggressive anti-family policies of Socialist government

In effort to resist abortion referendum, joins marches worldwide

Patient must self-administer prescribed lethal poison unless physically handicapped

Adult stem cells successfully used to replace bone marrow cells and immune system in mice

By John-Henry Westen   TORONTO, January 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK wins for the most bizarre case of religious repression in 2006 with the case of the banning of hot cross buns as offensive religious symbols.  Oaks Primary School in Ipswich, insisted the two strips of decorative icing intersecting in the middle be removed as they might offend Jehovah’s Witnesses who attend the school.   UNIVERSITIES   However, Canadian Universities, those institutions of higher learning which were once thought of as “bastions of freedom”, have outdone their UK counterparts in anti-Christian bigotry.    A Cape Breton University (CBU) professor […]

By Gudrun Schultz   ALBANY, New York, January 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced plans to push through a government-funded embryonic stem cell research project that would make New York the leading state in East Coast research initiatives, the New York Times reported yesterday.   At least half of the massive, $2 billion 10-year bond proposal would be allocated to fund development in stem cell research. The Spitzer administration is billing the project as the centerpiece of economic development in the state. According to the Times report, the administration is hoping to attract Republican members of the […]

Ritter ran as pro-life candidate in recent election

Between 1950 and 2000, married 15-to-24 women fell to 16 percent, from 42 percent

President of ALL makes appeal for unity by among pro-life supporters

By Hilary White   MUNICH, January 16 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Constitutional Court in the strongly Catholic region of Bavaria upheld a state law January 15 banning the headscarf after the country’s Islamic organization mounted a court challenge to the law. The court ruled that application of the law neither violated religious freedom nor was discriminatory.   Catholic sisters wearing habits with veils, an increasingly rare sight in Europe, does not contradict the ruling, the court added, because such clothing represents “Christian and western” values.   The Bavarian law, introduced in November 2004, prohibits teachers from wearing clothes that represent […]

Will Use Charter arguments to try to have government forced to pay for private clinic abortions

By Gudrun Schultz   SYDNEY, Australia, January 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human sexuality is the focus of this month’s edition of the 2008 World Youth Day newsletter ePILGRIMAGE, inviting young people to examine the questions raised about sexuality in modern society in the light of Catholic teaching. “This ePILGRIMAGE explores various ways that [the] very positive message about human bodily life and love have been expressed in the Catholic tradition…” wrote Bishop Anthony Fisher, coordinator of World Youth Day 2008. “There are many voices in the modern world that overestimate the importance of sex—as if no-one could be happy who […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MINNESOTA, United States, January 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of Minnesota have successfully used adult stem cells to replace the immune system and bone marrow of mice, in one of the most significant discoveries of the recent acceleration in adult stem cell research breakthroughs.   The research technique isolated adult stem cells (multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs) from the bone marrow of adult mice. The cells were reproduced in the lab, and then transplanted into mice that had no immune system due to radiation treatments. “The cells not only survived when transplanted […]

By Gudrun Schultz and John-Henry Westen   LONDON, January 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Observer in the UK reported Sunday that Catholics in the UK have taken to carrying special ID cards informing doctors that they do not wish to be deprived of food and fluids in the case of admission to hospital.   In a growing worldwide trend, doctors in the UK consider what used to be routine care—administration of nutrition and hydration, by artificial means if necessary—to be “treatment” which can be refused or denied.   The UK’s Association of Catholic Women (ACW) which produced the ID cards, […]

Fact Sheet and Talking Points: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12166/BLI/nation/index.htm   Sen. Barbara Boxer Decked by Own Left Jab  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12167/LEGAL/legalother/index.htm   Another Indian state passes anti-conversion bill  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8352   Why do Western women embrace Islam?  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453   The Next Battle For and Against Jesus Will Be Fought by the Book – Pope benedicts  https://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=110941&eng=y   Head of Dominicans urges being open to Gay films, books, friends  https://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=1206-notes-update   Dobson says he couldn’t support senator ‘under any circumstances’  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53743   Pro-life groups decry House backing for embryonic stem cell research  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8368   Block […]

Authorities say demographic imbalance will result in economic crisis; imminent rise of prostitution, kidnapping; even terrorism

Supporters claim charges are political reprisals for actions against one-child policy

By Hilary White   MONCTON, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion lawyer in New Brunswick has announced she will launch a suit to try to force the province to lift funding restrictions on abortion. Currently, the province requires abortions to be carried out by a licensed gynecologist in a hospital and will not cover the expenses for abortion at Dr. Morgentaler’s private facility in Fredericton.   Moncton lawyer, feminist and same-sex marriage activist Michélle Caron, charged that the restrictions are “unconstitutional and discriminatory.” She told the CBC she plans to launch the suit in the spring if her meetings […]

House bill challenges Roe by establishing personhood of unborn

By Meg Jalsevac and John-Henry Westen   KENT, England, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another British school has forbidden a student to wear a small crucifix on a chain around her neck.  Samantha Devine, a 13 year old student at Robert Napier School in the southeastern county of Kent was sent home after she refused to remove the crucifix that she was wearing around her neck.   Napier officials touted school dress-code policy which prohibits jewelry of any kind as a “health and safety” precaution unless the jewelry is an “essential requirement” of religious apparel.  Deputy head-teacher Paul Jackson explained, […]

Civil marriage commissioners forced to perform ceremonies regardless of conscience

By Gudrun Schultz   SANTIAGO, Chile, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A controversial program distributing the abortifacient morning-after pill free to girls as young as 14 was halted last Friday when the Constitutional Court declared the program was unconstitutional on a technicality, in the latest effort by opponents to block the measure pushed through by the government.   The court voted 6-4 that the distribution program violated the constitution because it was authorized by an administration body, the Associated Press reported Jan. 12. The ruling stated that the program must be approved by the legislature or by presidential decree before […]

Christians must push back or they will succumb to the anti-Christ proselytization of the dictatorship of relativism

By Gudrun Schultz   PARIS, France, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposal to outlaw most home schooling in France was withdrawn after an international outcry against the measure was raised by home schooling associations and concerned individuals, according to the U.S.-based Home Schooling Legal Defense Association.   Sections of the bill Protection de L’Enfance (Protection of the Children) would have brought in radical restrictions on home schooling, HSLDA warned, limiting the practice to families who “showed that the health or handicap of their child makes it necessary for him or her to be taught at home.”   Families who […]

By Peter J. Smith   VICTORIA, Australia, January 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Australian Bishop has made an appeal to the highest court of the Vatican after the Congregation of Clergy ruled his accusations of “ineffective ministry” against a priest faithful to Church rules on the reception of sacraments lacked sufficient evidence.   Bishop Jeremiah Coffey of the diocese of Sale removed Father John Speekman from his position as pastor of the Morwell parish after staff from the parish’s two schools complained of bullying and psychological harassment, and that he denied Holy Communion to children who did not attend Sunday […]

By Gudrun Schultz   PARIS, France, January 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Federation of Organizations in the Defense of Life is anticipating at least 10,000 participants for the 2007 March for Life scheduled for Paris January 21, with pro-life groups from several European countries expected to attend again this year.   Pro-life delegations from Spain, Belgium, Germany and Italy have been invited to participate—organizers have emphasized the need to build greater unity among branches of the pro-life movement. “Thousands of people participated in the great march for life in 2005 and 2006. This year, it’s going to be even more […]

Attorney not content with $25 million Archdiocesan settlement; wants Vatican implicated

By Gudrun Schultz   ZURICH, Switzerland, January 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Switzerland’s bishops have asked the federal government to address “particularly grave” flaws in records of the of use frozen human embryos, demanding the release of information missing from records for the past five years.   The bioethics commission of the Swiss Episcopal conference expressed deep concern over the  records of the official statistics tracking human embryo production and use, incomplete since 2001, Zenit News Agency reported on Monday.   Dr. Urs Kayser, on behalf of the commission, wrote to the director of the Federal Office of Statistics, Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz, […]

By John-Henry Westen   You’ll see by this summary of the positive developments on life and family from 2006 that we do publish lots of ‘good news’.  During a year-end wrap up call with our writers and editors we found that one of our most significant ventures last year was the Mission India trips and reports.  Those reports will start off our list of good news from 2006.   Mission India: LifeSiteNews.com’s Journey to India  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06081803.html   LifeSiteNews.com’s Mission India: A New Openness to Life  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06082304.html   LifeSiteNews.com’s Mission India Part III: The Divine and the Journey Home  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06082909.html   […]

Grassroots lobbying groups would be forced to track every cent spent on any given issue

Condemned as tool to force religious people to promote homosexual ideologies

By John-Henry Westen   OTTAWA, January 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Deputy Minister of Health in Alberta has admitted that the both federal and provincial public health agencies are aware that some vaccines in use in Canada were produced with the use of cell-lines from aborted babies.  Furthermore, the Alberta government is set to provide alternative vaccines that are not tainted by abortion.   The admission comes in a letter to Canadian Physicians for Life (CPL) which wrote the government in November demanding an alternative to vaccines tainted by abortion.  Alberta Health and Wellness Deputy Minister Paddy Meade, in a […]

By Gudrun Schultz   LOS ANGELES, California, January 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sylvester Stallone, of “Rocky” and “Rambo” fame, has come back to his Christian roots, in a conversion experience that he says has released him from the pressures of the world. “The more I go to church,” Stallone said, reported Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, “and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”   Stallone’s new movie, Rocky Balboa, is the latest […]

By Gudrun Schultz   CALGARY, Alberta, January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Down Syndrome Society has announced a public awareness campaign to combat recommendations that all pregnant mothers be screened for Down syndrome, a move they fear could “eliminate” the Down syndrome population.   The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada will release a recommendation Feb.1 calling for all pregnant women to receive testing for Down syndrome—currently the testing is only routinely given to women over age 35, considered high risk for the disorder. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is also recommending open test access for […]

By Gudrun Schultz   COLOGNE, Germany, January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany’s leading Cardinal has established a fund of €7 million ($9.1 million) dedicated to supporting marriage and the family.   Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne diocese and the most influential Catholic leader in the country, has declared 2007 the “Year of Marriage and the Family” in Cologne, Zenit News Agency reported yesterday.   Pledging increased support for family life, Cardinal Meisner called for greater courage in promoting marriage and the family. “Fathers, mothers and children need more support and guidance…marriage and the family will be at the center of […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SAN FRANCISCO, United States, January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favour of a Chinese man’s appeal for political asylum Tuesday, after he was beaten by birth control officials in his home town while protesting attempts to forcibly sterilize his brother, the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday.   Li Bin Lin filed for asylum in 2001 from the U.S. territory of Guam, where he had fled after officials called for his arrest for resisting birth control officers.   Li’s brother had been told by officials that he must undergo a vasectomy […]

Pro-abort agencies complaining

Family not satisfied and seeking legal advice on how to proceed

Adds, "Social commitment to charity can never be disassociated from the courageous announcement of the faith"

Despite problem there is increasing push to legalize "sex-trade"

Political observers believe only a matter of time before funding prohibition is overturned by Democrats

Tiller's own Political Action Committee donated to new AG's election campaign

By John-Henry Westen   Look Who’s Quarterbacking World Youth Day 2008 in Australia – a 6’7″ Football Star  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/dec/06121904.html   Interview with New Archbishop of Toronto: A Man of Deep Faith and Prayer  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/dec/06121802.html   Bishop Wingle: Canada “Sinking Ever Deeper Into the Morass of Moral Chaos”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/dec/06121104.html   Bishop Fabbro on Voting: Abortion and Euthanasia are Priority over War and Death Penalty   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06101806.html   Indian Catholic Prelate Sees Faith in India Drying Up Within 20 Years  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06081601.html   Kerala Cardinal Says “Loose Catholic Doctrine” From West Has Influenced Indian Catholics to Accept Contraception  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06061507.html   Gay ‘Marriage’ in […]

By John-Henry Westen   Abortion has caused Need for Millions of Illegal Aliens says Evangelical Leader Colson  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06041301.html   Southern Baptists Focus on Defending Unborn, Marriage and Religious Freedom in 2006  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031708.html   Patriarch Alexis II: Homosexuality a “Vicious Deviation From God-Given Human Nature”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031706.html   Canadian Bishop Fred Henry: “Homosexual Lifestyle . . . is Unwholesome and Immoral”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06091206.html   Artificial Reproduction a “Grave Moral Evil” Says Archbishop Burke  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06100604.html   Phoenix, AZ Bishop Tells Pro-Abortion Politicians They May Not Receive Communion  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06102407.html   Archdiocese of Denver Calls Homosexual Adoption Demand “Imprudent and Wrong”   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031602.html   U.S. Bishop: […]

Carter and like-minded attempting to set up substitute religion focused on the poor, "peace", the environment, and "choice"

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An episode of NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” which was taped on January 10, 2007 and aired early this morning, featured a character called “the homophobic country western singer.” “Our last new character’s heart is in the right place, even if he’s a complete idiot,” said show host O’Brien in his introduction. “Please welcome the homophobic country western singer.”   A middle-aged man wearing country western clothing comes out from behind a curtain. He begins to play a guitar and sing:   Oh I love you Jesus   But only as a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C, January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Life Decisions International (LDI) has released a revised edition of The Boycott List, which identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood, the world’s primary abortion-advocacy group. “As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 137 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood,” said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $35 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began some 15 years ago. “This should be a testament to those […]

Canadian group admits screening intended to give women option to abort child with Down's Syndrome

ADF attorneys file suit on student's behalf

Only differences from other human beings are accidental differences in levels of development

Says to do so would infringe on child's right to know both biological parents

By John-Henry Westen   A simple summary of the 2006 LifeSiteNews stories on polls showing positive trends.   Majority of UK Women Want Abortion Restricted by Law   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06020102.html   Poll: Majority of Canadians Would Support Conservative Gov’t Restricting Abortion  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021503.html   Young Americans More Likely to Say Abortion is Wrong   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030803.html    Two New Polls Show Americans Reject Evolution Theory and Want Alternatives Taught  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030807.html   Almost Six Out of Ten U.S. Teenagers Say Homosexuality is Not Genetic: Gallup Poll  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030906.html   Polls Show Once Public Understands the Issue Doctor-Assisted Suicide Fails  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031704.html   Massive Poll Shows Majority […]

By John-Henry Westen   The following is a collection LifeSiteNews reports on positive and negative moves on the life and family front taken by the Conservative Party of Canada in 2006.   CONSERVATIVE PARTY POSITIVES   Assisted Suicide: Harper Says, “it’s important to resist the idea of giving the power to kill”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011904.html   Bishop Lauds New Prime Minister’s Use of “God Bless Canada”   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06012501.html   Nine Pro-Life Members of Parliament in New Canadian Government Cabinet   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06020603.html   Canada Conservative Government Scraps Plan to Decriminalize Marijuana Use  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06040401.html   Canadian Prime Minister Pledges to Raise Age of Consent […]

By John-Henry Westen 2006 LifeSiteNews reports:   Posters Celebrating Fetal Development Ripped Down at Harvard  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031504.html   Pro-Life Ads on Ontario Buses Vandalized by Abortion Supporters  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032711.html   Pro-Abortion Students Disrupt University Pro-Life Display with Manure  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06033104.html   Pro-Lifer Attacked Outside Vancouver Abortion Clinic – Attack Caught on Video  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06041005.html   Right to Life Offices Evacuated in Toronto after Bomb Threat  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06053107.html  Pro-life Office Vandalized in New Brunswick  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jul/06072005.html   Pro-Life Student Attacked at College Demonstration  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021007.html   Christian University Pro-Life Display Stolen  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031304.html   Charges Laid Against Prof, Students Who Vandalized Pro-Life Display  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042804.html   Pro-life Display Destroyed at […]

By Gudrun Schultz   OTTAWA, Canada, January 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Carleton University Student’s Association voted yesterday to grant the campus pro-life group Carleton LifeLine club status, in a confusing twist in the ongoing battle over the organization’s new policy banning groups that support anti-abortion legislation from campus.   Despite the controversial policy statement that “actions such as campaigns, distributions, solicitations, lobbying efforts, displays, events, etc. that seek to limit or remove a woman’s options in the event of pregnancy will not be supported,” CUSA members voted almost unanimously to approve LifeLine  as an official club, with only one […]

By Gudrun Schultz   ZURICH, Switzerland, January 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman suffered severe pain after taking a fatal dose of poison at a Zurich suicide facility, crying in pain for four minutes before falling into a coma, the German news source Deutsche Welle reported yesterday.   According to a report in Zurich’s SonntagsZeitung news last Sunday, the 43-year-old woman suffered from a brain tumor. After taking a toxic concoction prepared by Dignitas employees, the woman known as A.H. cried out, “It’s burning. I’m burning,” before succumbing to the poison and falling into a coma.   It took another […]

By Gudrun Schultz   BEIJING, China, January 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Segolene Royal, who is considered likely to win the next French presidential election, questioned Chinese officials about that country’s imprisonment of lawyers and journalists yesterday during her three-day visit to the country, Asia Media reported.   Ms. Royal handed a list of the names of two lawyers and three journalists imprisoned on questionable charges to a leading official in the Communist Party’s international department, Mr. Zhang Zhijun, during a luncheon meeting.   Among those included on the list was blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who was imprisoned after extended persecution […]

By John-Henry Westen   VATICAN, January 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following is a LifeSiteNews.com summary of stories from last year relating to Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican.  The three most significant/interesting articles on the Pope and the Vatican are listed first followed by a listing of the others.   THE TOP THREE ON THE POPE Pope: Catholic Church’s “Principal Focus” in Public Arena is Life and Family   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06033008.html Pope Benedict XVI Calls Abortion “Today’s Gravest Injustice”   https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032005.html Pope: Quest for Justice and Peace Without Respect for Life is “Substitute for Religion”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111708.html   TOP THREE ON […]

CHPCA has changed its language to preferred language of Right to Die lobby

Also recognized threats to the traditional family as equal to those against life itself

By Gudrun Schultz   SEATTLE, Oregon, January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents of a severely brain-damaged child resorted to surgery to stunt her growth and keep her body forever child-like, in a decision some ethicists have condemned as discrimination and mutilation of a disabled person.   Know only as Ashley, the nine-year-old girl was found to be severely brain-damaged shortly after birth. In 2004, when she was six years old, Ashley underwent surgery at a Seattle hospital to prevent her from growing to a normal adult size and state of development, the Associated Press reported.   Claiming the decision was […]

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors with the U.S. Christian Medical Association have spoken out against a Texas IVF clinic offering babies tailor-made to suit prospective parents’ specifications, in a press release Jan.8.   The Abraham Center of Life, in San Antonio, Texas, began advertising made-to-order embryos screened for hair and eye color, intelligence, and other characteristics last August. For a fee of about $10,000, couples can purchase an embryo that meets their preferred criteria.   The IVF clinic is buying and selling children, “grading babies like meat in a supermarket,” said Dr. David […]

By Gudrun Schultz   LONDON, United Kingdom, January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Anglican Church has admitted the internal dispute over homosexual clergy is accelerating towards schism, Reuters reported Jan. 7.   Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said he fears schism lies ahead, which he says would be particularly damaging to the church at this time. “And because I am an ordinary, sinful human being, I fear the situation slipping out of my control, such as it is,” Archbishop Williams said in a documentary aired on ITV in Britain. “I fear schism—not because I think it’s the […]

NEW YORK, January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sunday, the New York Times ran a story about two 20-year-olds, and an 18-year-old, who were arrested for stealing statues of baby Jesus from nativity scenes over the past two years. They hit the New York-suburban communities of Suffern and Haverstraw several times in 2005 and 2006. The police said they will not charge them with committing hate crimes; each is being charged with 14 counts of petty larceny.   Also on Sunday, WNBC.com reported that a 20-year-old was arrested for kicking a menorah in the New York suburban community of St. […]

MANILA, January 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International Right to Life Federation (IRLF) leaders meeting in Manila have issued a statement calling on “citizens throughout the world to study the prophetic message of Humanae Vitae”, Catholic church teaching on the regulation of births published in 1968.   The document published under Pope Paul VI, warns of dire consequences which would stem from artificial methods of birth regulation.  “Careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law,” warned the encyclical.  “Should they […]

Spokesman redirects objecters to Trinity University where Pelosi attended mass

Referendum on law change scheduled for Feb. 11

By Gudrun Schultz   SANDAY, United Kingdom, January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials on the remote Orkney island of Sanday have refused to permit a civil ceremony for homosexual couple Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen’s Music, and builder Colin Parkinson, causing the pair to seek legal council.   Citing restrictions which prevent registrars on outlying islands from carrying out same-sex partnership ceremonies, officials said the pair would have to travel to Kirkwall on the Orkney mainland for the ceremony, the Times reported last week.   One-time member of the Hell’s Angels, Charlie Ridley, who is Sanday’s resident […]

Campus gay activists angered that Christian group bars gays from leadership positions

Navajo leaders dispute contention their ancestors honoured homosexual members

Court gives her 'all-clear' for lawsuit against hospital for violating conscience rights

By Hilary White    WINSTON-SALEM, January 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study from North Carolina’s Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard University shows that stem cells from amniotic fluid could present a new source that does not require the death of an embryonic stage human to obtain.    The study reports that amniotic stem cells have many of the properties of both embryo cells and adult stem cells. They can double in number every 36 hours, dividing at least 250 times without mutating, and without forming tumours. They were successfully turned into new bone, heart muscle, blood […]

Only 3 of 60 school boards have so far responded positively to Catholic Civil Rights League letters

By John Jalsevac   January 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UN senior official has admitted that over the last several years the UN has investigated 319 peacekeepers for alleged sexual exploitation and abuse while on missions across the world. Of the 319 peacekeepers that have been investigated, over half were either dismissed from their jobs or ordered to return to their homelands.   The admission of the extent of the scandal follows the publication of an exposé by England’s The Daily Telegraph. In its report The Daily Telegraph presented evidence of over 20 incidents of sexual abuse or exploitation by […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, January 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President George W. Bush despite his shortcomings on life and family issues showed himself in 2006 as a national leader who said with conviction that he was pro-life, pro-marriage and Christian.  Nonetheless 2006 also provided a few vivid examples where President Bush seriously let down his pro-life support base.  The following are LifeSiteNews.com articles from the past year which covered the U.S. President.   THE BEST Jan. 2006 – President Bush to March for Life Via Telephone “I want to thank everybody there . . . for your devotion […]

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, January 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five weeks after they were notified by a LifeSiteNews.com article that they had made a grave error in reporting on abortion in El Salvador, and one week after the paper’s ombudsman published his corroboration of the LifeSiteNews.com evidence, the New York Times has issued a correction. On Sunday, the New York Times magazine issued an editor’s note admitting at least one of the errors in an April 9 story. With information from contacts in El Salvador, LifeSiteNews.com pointed out in late November that the cover article in the NYT magazine […]

Congressional Democrats target funding for embryo-killing research  https://ncregister.com/site/article/1687   What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells  https://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0701/articles/condic.html   ADF earns victory for nurse demoted for not distributing ‘morning after’ abortion pill   https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=3971   Personhood and Planned Parenthood By Jim Sedlak  https://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_15317.shtml   Is it radical to want to protect unborn? Re: Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline  https://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/editorial/16376838.htm   Surgery to stunt disabled girl’s growth raises ethical questions  https://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/01/04/ashley.treatment.ap/   Nithari killings—Just the beginning: Truth remains hidden in mutilated bodies   https://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/india010507.htm   Born too soon – Controversy over too many preemies  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444   Liberal MP defects to Torieshttps://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2007/01/06/3195948-sun.html   […]

South Korea's total fertility rate has reached an unprecedentedly dismal 1.08

Internet site video also exposes Times story that resulted from LifeSiteNews report

From “El Diario de Hoy”, El Salvador  (Wednesday January 3rd, 2007)    The main article of the weekly Magazine of The New York Times in April of 2006 stated that in this country a woman had been sentenced to thirty years for an abortion.  The story has been utilized by a pro-abortion NGO to request contributions through the Internet. The newspaper corrected the story on December 31st.   It is not the first time that The New York Times has to excuse itself to its readers because one of the stories published in its pages turns out not to be […]

By Hilary White   ROCKVILLE, January 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Board of Education of Montgomery County, Maryland, is set next week to consider a new curriculum for middle and high school students on sex education. The new program is being put forward after a group of parents had objected that a previously developed curriculum was too one-sided on homosexuality and denigrated religious beliefs that homosexual activity is a sin.   Although the material, vetted by a committee made up of both sides in the legal case, adopted 69 of 83 recommended changes, the parents’ organization, Citizens for a Responsible […]

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 […]

Gov't spokesman said new law will be worded as to make research conducted on hybrids possibly allowed later

Asks why government is now encouraging spread of HIV/AIDS through the use of condoms

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW YORK, United States, January 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers in New York have successfully generated new tooth roots and supporting ligaments in pigs, using human adult stem cells taken from extracted wisdom teeth, in the latest successful research using non-embryonic stem cells.   The regenerated tooth was used to support a crown restoration in miniature pigs, Reuters reported. The tooth exhibited the same functional and strength characteristics of the original tooth.   Research team member Dr. Songtao Shi said: “In this study, we use stem cell technology to generate ‘a bio-root and periodontal tissue’ along […]

Tony Snow clearly stated Bush admin supports research on embryonic stem cells

"We need bishops and cardinals to be out there, leading the flock" in "moral counterattack"

Concerns that Romney flip-flop is political move to garner presidential nomination

Seen as logical outcome of "ruse" of Canadian restrictions that allow research on "spare" embryos

Is same woman invited to address Canadian Catholic Women's League convention last year

Warns that in denying masculinity and femininity man "ends by destroying himself"

Adds human rights need stable foundation beginning with right to life and religious freedom

By Gudrun Schultz   VALETTA, Malta, January 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Malta has warned the European Union it will not support a proposal to change divorce procedures unless legal protection is in place to protect the island nation from the changes, the Times of Malta reported earlier today. “Although the Commission is saying that Malta’s stand vis-à-vis divorce won’t be affected by this proposal, we are still demanding a legal assurance,” a government source told The Times yesterday. “We have already clearly stated that we won’t be able to support the proposal if Malta is not given an opt-out from […]

Pro-life group demands accurate labeling as abortifacient

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, January 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law banning pro-life groups from funding issues ads in the weeks leading up to a federal election was overturned Dec. 21 by a special federal court panel in Washington.   Under the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, corporations or unions, including pro-life organizations, were banned from financing advertisements on crucial issues within 60 days before a general election, or 30 days before a primary election.   Wisconsin Right to Life brought the case before the court, claiming the restrictions infringed on their First Amendment guarantee of […]

Must be approved once more in 2007 before being put on 2008 public ballot

Challenge Bishops' compromise and are in active sexual relationships

By Hilary White   DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, January 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Spanish hospital has announced it has succeeded in carrying out an embryonic sex-selection in order to ensure that a patient would only give birth to a female child in order to avoid possibly passing on inherited eye disease.   The Assisted Reproduction unit of Quir’n Hospital in Donostia-San Sebastian, said this is  the first time a sex-selection of an embryonic child has been successful in the Basque Country region of Spain. No information was available as to the fate of the “selected” male embryos.    The mother […]

ROME, January 3, 2007 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rome diocese has declined to allow a Catholic funeral for Piergiorgio Welby, the Italian activist who died on December 21 after his doctor disconnected his respirator. The Rome diocese explained that during his life, Welby had “placed himself at odds with Church doctrine” by his outspoken advocacy of assisted suicide. Having been a leading advocate of the “right to die,” Welby—who suffered from muscular dystrophy—became the center of a heated public debate on that issue when he asked his doctors to remove the respirator that was keeping him alive. An Italian court had […]

Latest major precedent by gay activist Ontario courts

By John-Henry Westen # 10 Priest Announces During Mass He is Gay and leaving Priesthood for “Loving Relationship” About a Catholic priest known for years to be dissident on the Church’s teaching on homosexuality announcing his move from the pulpit, apparently with the permission of his Bishop. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06010607.html   # 9 Actor Jim Caviezel Battles Michael J. Fox on Embryonic Stem Cell Video Ads Passion of the Christ star battles Back to the Future star over support for embryonic stem cell research in Missouri. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/oct/06102501.html    # 8 Organization Representing Canadian Religious Orders in Open, Major Public Dissent from Rome […]

Says real concern should be about declining state of family

Archbishop faces clash over gay marriages of 50 English priests  https://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5250   No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future  https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1980978,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1   Japan’s Birth rate rises after six years but not expected to hold  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8126&size=A   Environment a Determinant in Marriage-Gender Decision, Says Study  https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/22007b.asp   Mass. Lawmakers Propel Gay Marriage Ban  https://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/02/D8MDBAK80.html   No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future  https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1980978,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1   India State Introduces “Anti-Christian” Law  https://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article5185   Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith  https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18732   Muslims shout at Jesus’ home: ‘Islam will dominate the world’  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53574   Family group: […]

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Byron Calame, the Public Editor (ombudsman) at the New York Times, in a 1,500 word article published on December 31 in the New York Times, admits that LifeSiteNews.com was correct in exposing a grievous error in reporting by the New York Times Magazine. In November LifeSiteNews.com published an article titled, “New York Times Caught in Abortion-Promoting Whopper – Infanticide Portrayed as Abortion.” Based on information from Julia Sol de Cardenal, a pro-life leader in El Salvador, LifeSiteNews.com pointed out that the cover article in the NYT magazine of April 6 […]

By Cassidy Bugos   LOME, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The West African country of Togo has succumbed to pressure from the United Nations to expand its previously limited access to abortion. New legislation allows abortion in cases where the woman has become pregnant through rape or incest, and when the child can be verified to have a strong risk of serious illness. As in most African countries, abortion was previously illegal in Togo except when necessary to save the life of the mother.   The new law states: “The voluntary interruption of pregnancy is only authorized when prescribed by […]

Threatens Hunger Strike

By Gudrun Schultz   MARSASCALA, Malta, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Maltese citizens would support a constitutional amendment enshrining the unborn child’s right to life, a new survey has found.   Eighty-four percent of those questioned said they agreed with the survey question, which asked, “Do you agree with the proposed Constitutional amendment to provide the unborn child with the right to life and, therefore, protect Malta further from the possibility of abortion being legalized in the future?”   Only eight percent of respondents voted against the proposal, and 7.7 percent said they were not sure.   While abortion […]

By Gudrun Schultz   LONDON, United Kingdom, January 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students and parents should report schools to the police for  “homophobic hate crimes”, if the institutions fail to adequately address anti-homosexual beliefs and language among the student body, a new report by the Home Office said last week.   The paper defined “homophobia”—a word manufactured by homosexual activist groups to identify opposition to their movement—as “resentment, or fear, of gay and lesbian people,” including “just a passive dislike of gay people,” according to a report by This London. “Schools can be a little concerned about a negative impact […]

Christian theme of original novel replaced by anti-American, Anti-Bush/Iraq War rant

By Hilary White   DUBLIN, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another case in the Republic of Ireland of a teenage girl taken out of the country at public expense for an abortion, has made the news. On December 28, the Irish Examiner reported that the Health Service Executive (HSE) admitted to allowing a 17 year-old girl to be taken for an abortion, but declined to give her name or any further details.   The issue is controversial in Ireland where unborn children are constitutionally protected. Under the current rules, the HSE can make court applications for minors in their care […]

By Gudrun Schultz   ATHENS, Greece, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reports of a growing racket in the illegal sale of babies have begun to emerge from Athens, according to a Daily Mail investigation, with trafficked women from eastern Europe forced to produce infants on demand for sale to Western women.   Run by the Albanian and Russian mafias, one such ‘baby factory’ is reportedly operating in Athens, according to the Mail. Young women, primarily Bulgarians and Romanian gypsies, are selected by racketeers on the basis of beauty and health for impregnation.   Once pregnant, the women are fed, housed […]