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The University of Detroit Mercy claims it is a Catholic institution. Their web page says, "The University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions . . . seeks to integrate the intellectual, spiritual, ethical and social development of our students." (http://www.udmercy.edu/mission/index.htm ) Nevertheless, the same "Catholic" University is encouraging its student's to work with abortion agencies such as Planned Parenthood. Their career suggestions have not gone unnoticed and a local Planned Parenthood branch is boasting of having hired a UDM student.

DUBLIN, May 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British Actor Ian McKellen who was launched into mega-stardom playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film in 2001, has used the recognition generated by the film to forward his crusade to promote homosexuality. Ironically, the genius behind the story which gave McKellen his current pedestal - J.R. Tolkien - held that homosexuality was a disorder and was a staunch defender of traditional Catholic teaching on sexual morality, according to experts on the famed writer. McKellen's latest endeavour is to campaign for homosexual 'marriage' in Britain. This week McKellen complained that a new...

Germany's legal prostitution scheme, introduced by the Socialist-Green government in 2001, has generated new controversy as the World Cup is about to begin. German authorities are readying for a boom in the sex trade with the construction of mega-brothels and sex-huts or "performance boxes" as they are called. (coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050108.html) Even stranger than the fact that German governmental authorities are, through taxation, profiting from the wiles of prostitution, is the fact that the Catholic Church in Germany is involved in the legal prostitution scheme. The city of Cologne funds the project with some 480,000 Euros per year. The "Sozialdienst katholischer...

Germany's legal prostitution scheme, introduced by the Socialist-Green government in 2001, has generated new controversy as the World Cup is about to begin. German authorities are readying for a boom in the sex trade with the construction of mega-brothels and sex-huts or "performance boxes" as they are called. (coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06050108.html) Even stranger than the fact that German governmental authorities are, through taxation, profiting from the wiles of prostitution, is the fact that the Catholic Church in Germany is involved in the legal prostitution scheme. The city of Cologne funds the project with some 480,000 Euros per year. The "Sozialdienst katholischer...

The archdiocesan policy on sexual abuse by clergy can be found in a pamphlet posted on the archdiocesan webpage. (http://www.archspm.org/brochure.htm) It defines "Ministry-related sexual misconduct refers to three related forms of misconduct: - Sexual abuse which is sexual conduct between a church leader and a minor or vulnerable adult. - Sexual exploitation which is sexual contact between a church leader and a person who is receiving pastoral care from the church leader. - Sexual harassment which is unwanted sexual conduct or language between co-workers in the church work setting. Dr. Pence calls these categories totally inadequate. In the archdiocese, he...

The archdiocesan policy on sexual abuse by clergy can be found in a pamphlet posted on the archdiocesan webpage. (http://www.archspm.org/brochure.htm) It defines "Ministry-related sexual misconduct refers to three related forms of misconduct: - Sexual abuse which is sexual conduct between a church leader and a minor or vulnerable adult. - Sexual exploitation which is sexual contact between a church leader and a person who is receiving pastoral care from the church leader. - Sexual harassment which is unwanted sexual conduct or language between co-workers in the church work setting. Dr. Pence calls these categories totally inadequate. In the archdiocese, he...

WICHITA, Kansas, April 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - George R. Tiller, one of the most notorious late-term abortionists in the U.S. is to face a Grand Jury investigation over the death of a girl following a botched abortion at his abortion mill. A petition drive secured nearly three times the required signatures to proceed with an investigation. The signatures were certified yesterday. Operation Rescue, the pro-life group which first exposed the death and led the way for an investigation, rejoiced that a Grand Jury would investigate the case. Nineteen-year-old Texas teen, Christin A. Gilbert, died in January after a botched abortion...

MARATHON, ON, January 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pastor of Holy Saviour Catholic parish in Marathon, Ontario, Rev. Scott Gale, announced to his parishioners during Masses on New Years day that he is a homosexual and can no longer stand the Church's requirement that he remain celibate. Citing his "longing for a loving relationship," Gale told his parishioners that he was quitting. "It has become increasingly difficult for me to be an official representative of a Church which does not accept and value my sexual orientation," he said reading from a 2 page letter. Strangely, Fr. Gale has remained in...

LifeSiteNews.com Exclusive PORT COQUITLAM, BC, November 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A member of the Knights of Columbus who is in charge of renting the fraternity's hall for weddings and other events alleges he was fired from his day job at Costco for his involvement in denying two lesbians the facility for their same-sex "wedding." The human rights case in which the lesbian couple successfully sued the Knights of Columbus over the denial of the hall made international headlines. David Hauser told LifeSiteNews.com in an exclusive interview that Tracey Smith, one of the lesbians involved in the human rights complaint against...

AMIENS, France, December 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Much controversy has been made over the first-ever face transplant surgery conducted in France on a 38-year-old woman Isabelle Dinoire who was attacked by a dog. Covered by the media in recent days, the surgery was performed November 26-27 in a hospital in Amiens. The controversy has revolved around two aspects of the operation and totally ignored a third - and the most disturbing of the controversies surrounding the operation. Ethicists and experts the world over have been discussing the need of the transplant recipient to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of...

DERBY, UK, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The news that a 16-year-old UK school girl was suspended for wearing a crucifix at a school where Sikh religious articles are permitted has sparked the ire of the Sikh community as well as the Christian community. Sikh Minister Sardarni Sahiba Gurumeet Kaur Khalsa told LifeSiteNews.com "It is the height of wrongful discrimination to disallow Christian students to wear a crucifix, while yet allowing Sikh students to wear a kara (a religious steel bracelet)."

WINNIPEG, November 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Winnipeg's Catholic St. Boniface Hospital is set to present an award to anti-Catholic Stephen Lewis, one of the most notorious abortion pushers in Canadian history. Lewis was, in this month's issue of the Canadian national pro-life newspaper "The Interim", listed in the top ten persons "who have most helped lead the moral assault on Canada." Furthermore, Lewis has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Catholic Church, particularly in its promotion of abstinence in the fight against AIDS. Nevertheless, St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation has announced that Lewis, along with two...

Sacramento Catholic School Expels 15-year-old Student who Alerted Bishop to Abortion Activist Teacher Bishop's Hands are Tied By John-Henry Westen SACRAMENTO, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 15-year-old girl at a Catholic school who was responsible for alerting her bishop to the presence of a pro-abortion activist teacher on staff at her school has been expelled from the school. Katelyn Sills, was expelled from Loretto High School in Sacramento last week, two weeks after the teacher, who was found to be an abortion clinic escort, was dismissed at the behest of the local Bishop William Weigand. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05110110.html...

Sacramento Catholic School Expels 15-year-old Student who Alerted Bishop to Abortion Activist Teacher Bishop's Hands are Tied By John-Henry Westen SACRAMENTO, November 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 15-year-old girl at a Catholic school who was responsible for alerting her bishop to the presence of a pro-abortion activist teacher on staff at her school has been expelled from the school. Katelyn Sills, was expelled from Loretto High School in Sacramento last week, two weeks after the teacher, who was found to be an abortion clinic escort, was dismissed at the behest of the local Bishop William Weigand. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05110110.html...

TORONTO, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On November 10, 2005, Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral will be holding a fundraiser for an event sponsored by St. Michael's Catholic Hospital to provide "'Life with Dignity' to people affected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world." However, Catholics and pro-family groups are concerned that the St. Michael's Hospital fundraising project, called "Angels in Africa", contravenes the teaching of the Catholic Church and the best health options for people threatened with AIDS by promoting condom usage.

TORONTO, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On November 10, 2005, Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral will be holding a fundraiser for an event sponsored by St. Michael's Catholic Hospital to provide "'Life with Dignity' to people affected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world." However, Catholics and pro-family groups are concerned that the St. Michael's Hospital fundraising project, called "Angels in Africa", contravenes the teaching of the Catholic Church and the best health options for people threatened with AIDS by promoting condom usage.

HALIFAX, September 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The venomous attacks against the United States leadership and its citizens by brazen Liberal politicians using any excuse (Iraq, missile defence, mad-cow, softwood lumber) to assuage their seething hatred of American pro-life and pro-family policies by Bush-bashing, is beginning to have palpable effects. The President of the United States seems to have less and less time and priority for Prime Minister Paul Martin, and given the strained relations, it's no surprise suggests Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. In an address to the Conservative Caucus Wednesday, Harper noted poignantly that "This government's lack of competence and...

KAMPALA, Uganda, September 7, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The ongoing campaign by condom advocate Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, has resulted in an open letter to Kofi Annan demanding that Lewis be immediately fired and removed from UNAIDS. The letter, written by Pastor Martin Ssempa, Director of The Global Center for Uganda's ABC Strategy, is very direct. “Mr. Lewis”, Ssempa writes, “is using the entire body of the UN for his personal agenda of condomizing the developing nations. Why he has the audacity to fight the only nation which has demonstrated success in reducing...

TORONTO, September 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The rule that Truth is scarier than fiction, seems to have been largely lost on Hollywood along with most other guidelines for quality filmmaking. An implausible film cannot frighten. But The Exorcism of Emily Rose is different in that it followed the rule. It broke not once from the evidence of real demonic possession and the theological rules governing it. Most people will compare Emily Rose with The Exorcist, the controversial 1973 film that was also based on recorded accounts of real exorcisms. But for anyone who likes a good supernatural thriller it might...

“The days are now numbered for surfing an uncensored, open-access Internet, using your favorite search engine to search a bottomless cyber-sea of information in the grandest democratic forum ever conceived by humankind. Instead you can look forward to Googling about on a walled-off, carefully selected corpus of government propaganda and sanitized information "safe" for public consumption. Indoctrinated and sealed off from the outer world, you will inhabit a matrix where every ounce of creative, independent thinking that challenges government policies and values will be squelched.” - Eliot D. Cohen Ph.D. The Great Firewall of China In May of this year...