The Bush Administration has proposed new rules to guarantee that all recipients of federal aid under federal health programs will not discriminate against hiring doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals who have moral objections to abortion and abortifacient birth…

More than half of people in the US would rather be dead than disabled says a new survey. A US website for disabled people ran the survey which asked, “Which would you choose: Living with a severe disability that forever…

A Philippine bishop has reiterated the teaching of the Catholic Church that politicians who support legal abortion “must” be refused Holy Communion at Mass.Archbishop Jesus Dosado of Ozamiz archdiocese issued a pastoral letter this weekend saying priests should tell such…

A book recently published by Harvard University Press explains how eugenics united some of the richest and most powerful elites of the twentieth century into a movement “to remake humanity by controlling the population of the world,” answering to no…

Does the San Francisco Board’s resolution virulently condemning the Catholic Church because of its moral teachings on homosexuality violate the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion?  That will be the issue argued before a panel of the Ninth Circuit…

The recent debate in the media over whether or not Viagra has the same status for health insurance purposes as the birth control pill is an interesting one. The real question to ask is whether the pill is actually needed for medicating a…

When abortion-rights advocates even consider the question of whether mothers who have had an abortion experience a negative after-effect, there’s bound to be a rumble or two. And as Shira Saperstein, deputy director of the Moriah Fund, recently told a…

The United States has rejected an invitation to join a new campaign launched by the Danish government that calls on governments “to accelerate implementation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3″ which calls for “gender equality and women’s empowerment.” It is…

Another young person has been dehydrated to death in the same hospice in Florida where Terri Schindler Schiavo met her court-ordered end. Bradley Whaley, 26, was severely brain damaged by an overdose of drugs and was minimally conscious, according to…

We know that the City of Philadelphia has many historical reminders of our country’s history. Many tourists come to view our historical sites and artifacts, especially during these summer months. One of these historical exhibits that is less well known…

Bishop Raul Vera of the Diocese of Saltillo is sponsoring a homosexual youth group that accepts sodomy and cross-dressing, holds “Gay Pride” festivals, and openly affiliates itself with the pro-abortion group “Catholics for the Right to Decide”, LifeSiteNews has learned…

Homosexual activists have called “very important” a resolution adopted by the Council of Europe this week to step up pressure on EU member states to implement their political programme in countries still retaining traditional definitions of marriage and family, as…

You may recall the incredibly insightful encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II on March 25, 1995: Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). It was there that I first read the phrase culture of death. And I recall distinctly how the…

For the seventh straight year, the United States government has decided to withhold $40 million earmarked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) due to the organization’s support for China’s draconian one-child policy.As stipulated by a law known as the…

In what was a surprising decision to many court observers, a unanimous 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision July 2nd, and affirmed the Constitutional rights of pro-life activists to display large graphic…

Alberta Pastor Steve Boissoin has filed an appeal to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal ruling that convicted him of hate speech. The pastor was found guilty last November of having written a letter to the editor in the Red Deer…

Deutche Welle reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in the strongest terms against euthanasia in the wake of the suicide of an elderly woman.  Merkel, said that she is against “every form of assisted suicide,” regardless of the circumstances.Merkel’s…

An American pro-family group has launched a boycott of McDonald’s until the global fast food giant declares neutrality in the culture wars and guarantees that it will no longer support the homosexualist agenda.The American Family Association, which has at least 2.2…

Global human rights group Amnesty International (AI), which officially abandoned its neutrality on abortion in 2007, has authored a pro-abortion legal memorandum addressed to the Supreme Court of Mexico asking the high court to uphold liberal abortion in Mexico City.…

On July 3rd, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, allowed South Dakota to begin enforcing a state law that requires abortion providers to tell women, in writing, that the abortion procedure “will terminate…

In February of this year, I wrote a blog about a courageous mother by the name of Catherine Kent. You may recall that the doctors had told her that she was going to miscarry her baby and they gave her tablets…

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is a fundamental moral dictum of Western civilization. But even Confucius in far Cathay had his “silver rule,” the inverse of our “golden” one. “That which you do not…

Call it a hunch, but those of us at American Life League who have been studying pharmaceutical giant Merck’s marketing plan for Gardasil, commonly known on television by its “one less” mantra, have been suspicious for some time. Apparently, we…

The Bush administration has once again withheld nearly $40 million from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), marking the seventh consecutive year that the U.S. government has refused the organization the funds. The Population Research Institute has issued a statement saying…

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped a complaint by a homosexual activist against Catholic Insight a Toronto-based national Catholic news magazine.  A year and a half - and many thousands of dollars in legal fees - after a nine-point…

It seems to me that I write more often these days about members of the Catholic hierarchy who are, in one way or another, presiding over the decaying structure once synonymous with the Catholic Church’s perceived power. If it is…

Late last week, a Houston, Texas teenager indicted in the death of her newborn baby was remanded to state custody until her case comes to trial. Due to the fact that she is a minor her name has been withheld, but…

Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia is always ready to answer questions, even the hard ones.  He spoke with LifeSiteNews.com last week at the International Eucharistic Congress about the Church’s teaching on sexuality, in the context of the current…

A recent report regarding why women choose the type of abortion they will have includes some interesting facts that could help us more effectively discuss what abortion does to a child with those who think they really want an abortion. I…

Canada has taken another blow to its dignity on this Canada Day, the 400th anniversary of the founding of the City of Quebec.  Today Governor General Michaëlle Jean named arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler a Member of the Order of Canada -…

The Vatican announced today that the Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Raymond Burke to the prestigious position of Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome. As Archbishop Burke leaves the St. Louis diocese, he is praised by North America’s pro-life leaders…

In an excusive LifeSiteNews.com interview, Mercedes Wilson, founder and President of the Natural Family Planning organization, Family for the Americas, explained the negative effects contraception has on a woman’s body and on a couple’s marriage.  She also described Family for…

Member States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were caught off guard in a meeting in Helsinki, Finland last week. They were expecting to discuss crimes motivated by racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and religious intolerance. Instead the…

Since my first days in the pro-life movement, more than 35 years ago, I have learned a great deal about rhetoric and how it can deceive even the most well meaning of people. I have also learned that there are…

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released its new findings on Americans and their attitudes toward religion, God and doctrine. It is not too surprising that most of those surveyed are suffering from a bit of confusion…

The new Catholic archbishop for the Twin Cities has told a parish that it can no longer hold prayer services celebrating the homosexual lifestyle and that parishioners ought to pray for peace instead if they want to remain in conformity…

Margaret Sanger is one of the pro-choice movement’s iconic figures. She is extolled as a pioneering feminist, health worker, and woman’s activist. Her quotes on these subject are treated as scripture. But she was also an outspoken supporter of eugenics,…

I found a study from the University of Michigan that detected a problem with misoprostol to be a bit curious. This is a drug that, according to patient information, “reduces stomach acid and replaces protective substances in the stomach that are…

The statement “On Embryonic Stem Cell Research” is now public and it has more than a few areas of concern. But don’t take my word for it: Once I provide you with the list of concerns provided by Professor Dianne…

Abortionist Hamid Sheikh has had his medical license suspended and his Lexington, Kentucky, abortion mill closed after the state’s medical board revealed evidence of fraud, filthy conditions, and illegal abortions that led one reporter to describe Sheikh’s clinic as a…

Pope Paul VI’s reassertion of Catholic doctrine on artificial contraception, the encyclical Humanae Vitae, was a “defence of the dignity of woman” said a senior curial cardinal.”The encyclical is not simply a ‘no’ to contraception but also a defence of…

 recall reading a very profound statement written by Pope John Paul II in his remarkable encyclical Veritatis Splendor. He said,

Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the truth, there exists a…

German Lutherans may elect their first openly homosexual bishop. Horst Gorski is a senior cleric from Hamburg and is standing for the post of bishop of Schleswig in northern Germany.The possibility of Gorski’s being elected a bishop is dividing German Lutherans.…

Human Life International has announced the publication of a full “Clergy Pledge of Assent to Humanae Vitae”, which they hope every Catholic bishop, priest, deacon and seminarian in the world will sign.HLI President Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer said, “In the…

On June 17, 2008,  Military Judge Colonel Steven Folsom, USMC, dismissed all charges against Lt Colonel Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds of unlawful command influence.  He blistered the prosecution’s case in an opinion he read from the bench that lasted an…

I suppose there are many ways to interpret the remarkable story of Macie Hope McCartney. This precious baby girl is alive today because a team of fetal surgeons was able to operate on her at six months of gestation, thus making…

The chief judge of a U.S. circuit court of appeals, which has been described by American Family Association founder Don Wildmon as “the most liberal court in the country”, has just been caught operating a website containing explicit sexual content,…

It takes more to qualify as being “married” than engaging in sexual intimacy, and unions between two people of the same sex cannot possibly fulfil the necessary requirements, says the Catholic bishop of Rockville Center, New York. Bishop William Murphy,…

A Polish volleyball star who was buried on June 9 is being compared by local Catholics to Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla because of her heroic sacrifice for her unborn child.Agata Mroz, who was originally known for her athletic prowess, was…

The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, in proportion…