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Catholic Archbishop Jan Lenga, the former head of the Diocese of Karaganda, Khazakhstan and now retired in Poland, was ordered to stop delivering sermons and speaking with the media because of his frequent statements that Pope Francis is a "heretic" spreading "untruths and sins" and "leading the world astray." Archbishop Lenga has rejected the order to be silent, issued this month by Polish Bishop Wieslaw Mering, because no one in the Polish church apparently has the authority to silence him, reported Crux.com. Lenga belongs to a religious order, the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception, and is living as...

Well, she may claim to not know who Jonathan Gruber is, but she sure did get a copy of his talking points. Discussing Obamacare with a USA Today reporter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed many of the law’s problems on the fact that Americans lack her sophisticated understanding of insurance: Still, Sebelius didn’t dispute the point that many Americans don’t fully understand how health insurance and the Affordable Care Act work, including the trade-offs involved in expanding coverage.“A lot of Americans have no idea what insurance is about,” she said. “I think the financial literacy...

There is a “moral bankruptcy” that’s settled into leadership of America in the White House and throughout Washington, D.C., Dr. Alveda King—the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.—said in an interview Friday morning. “All of our leaders—or many of our leaders—are just morally bankrupt right now,” King said when asked if President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have helped or hurt the black community in America. “They’re not calling on God. We still stay ‘In God We Trust’ and ‘One Nation Under God’ but we’re not practicing that. We need to call on God. There’s a moral bankruptcy in...

There is a “moral bankruptcy” that’s settled into leadership of America in the White House and throughout Washington, D.C., Dr. Alveda King—the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.—said in an interview Friday morning. “All of our leaders—or many of our leaders—are just morally bankrupt right now,” King said when asked if President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have helped or hurt the black community in America. “They’re not calling on God. We still stay ‘In God We Trust’ and ‘One Nation Under God’ but we’re not practicing that. We need to call on God. There’s a moral bankruptcy in...

Crossville, Tenn. - A Cumberland County family blames the state's healthcare system for the death of their son. Frank and Ann Zingheim's 48-year-old son, Scott, committed suicide on March 31st. On Sunday, his obituary appeared in The Tennessean, with a tribute to his life, and also a message for state lawmakers. "No one listens, no one listens," said Frank Zingheim. "There are major cuts being made in Nashville right now." Scott Zingheim was diagnosed as a Paranoid Schizophrenic when he was 15-years-old. His parents say he was in and out of hospitals for most of his life, until one program...

AMSTERDAM, December 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Netherlands has led the world in the introduction of the homosexual political movement. Now it is going to be leading the way to cracking down on dissent from the officially "tolerant" position on homosexuality, particularly among those Dutch citizens who "follow a more orthodox religious lifestyle". The coalition government has agreed to earmark 2.5 million euros from 2008 to 2011 to promote homosexuality as normal in social areas. The government said that the money will be spent on programmes specifically targeting young Muslims in schools, sport clubs or neighbourhood associations. Ronald Plasterk, minister...

So, what did you learn in school today? Margaret Wente Toronto Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Shortly after the shooting death of Jordan Manners, the 15-year-old Toronto student, eighth-grade students at nearby Oakdale Park Middle School were called to an assembly. The subject: relations with the police. It's a hot issue in that part of town. The community is in an uproar over the shooting and allegations are flying that police have been heavy-handed in their hunt for Jordan's killer. But the group invited by the school to address the students weren't interested in improving relations with...

A new investigative report from ESPN reveals that women involved in college athletics are increasingly having abortions to avoid losing their scholarships. The sports television station's "Outside the Lines" program said the abortions are a response to college policies saying pregnant students will lose their university funding. The report included interviews with seven Clemson University students who indicated they each had abortions to get around the policy. The students said that the NCAA has no general rules on how colleges should treat pregnant athletes but said most women they know feel abortion is their only solution to a pregnancy. They...

May preaches green gospel The Green party leader comes to tears during a London sermon on the climate change threat. By Jonathan Sher, Sun Media London Free Press Mon, April 30, 2007 Preaching in London about the threat of climate change, Green party Leader Elizabeth May brought herself to tears yesterday, not for children who will inherit the Earth, but for the God she believes created it. It wasn't the first time May has mixed politics and faith -- she says she speaks often at churches. But her voice broke and her eyes filled with tears as she delivered...

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage. The law creates a domestic partnership registry and provides enhanced rights for same-sex couples, including hospital visitation rights, the ability to authorize autopsies and organ donations and inheritance rights when there is no will. "It offers the hope that one day, all lesbian and gay families will be treated truly equal under the law," said state Sen. Ed Murray, who is one of five openly gay lawmakers in the Legislature. To be...

Gay Rights Bill Passes Oregon House Wednesday, April 18, 2007SALEM, Ore. —  Same-sex couples would receive the same benefits as married couples, and gays and lesbians would be protected against discrimination under bills approved Tuesday by the Oregon House. The Senate is expected to pass the two bills and plans to sign both.The first bill would enable same-sex couples to enter into contractual relationships that grant them the same benefits offered to married couples under state law. The bill refers to the relationships as "domestic partnerships."Oregon would join Vermont, Connecticut, California and New Jersey in offering civil unions or domestic...

Jim McGreevey yesterday shot back at his estranged wife - who claimed in bombshell divorce papers that the gay ex-gov lets their young daughter sleep overnight in bed with him and his boyfriend......she also accuses her soon-to-be-ex of displaying a "life-sized" photo of a male nude model in his bedroom.....featured in Blue, a gay men's magazine, Dina called the photograph "totally inappropriate" and "yet another example of [McGreevey's] poor judgment and deficient parenting skills." In court papers, Dina also: * Claimed that Jim took Jacqueline to an out-of-state media event without her knowledge, and "put his daughter's safety and welfare...

A French intellectual - in the worst sense of the term Jean Baudrillard could make any subject more obscure just by briefly visiting it Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, March 10, 2007 Jean Baudrillard, who died on Tuesday in Paris at the age of 77, was a French intellectual in the most sinister meaning of that term. He was intoxicated by hastily concocted theories and drunk on incomprehensible explanations of world affairs. He could make any subject more obscure just by briefly visiting it. Many of his readers eventually discovered that his work, some 50 books in all,...

Goodbye Resurrection, hello bobble-heads Ian Hunter, National Post Thursday, November 09, 2006 The United Church of Canada, the Church that prides itself on supporting abortion but opposing bottled water, has again committed blatant theft, stealing the bread from a satirist's mouth. After all, how can one parody an institution that is itself beyond parody? It reminds me of what happened to the British magazine Punch when it planned an issue satirizing the pompous Radio Times; on the very day that Punch appeared, the Radio Times led with a story touting a BBC program on "The Place of the Potato...

Police are investigating a hospital doctor who admitted suffocating a severely disabled newborn baby 34 years ago. In a magazine article written in 1988, the unnamed doctor said he placed a pillow over the baby girl until she stopped breathing. The then senior house officer in paediatrics claimed he killed the baby at a north London hospital in the summer of 1972 to spare her parents further suffering. They had been led to believe that their child, who was born without her brain, would be born dead. Writing under the pseudonym of Ivy Walker, he said in New Society magazine...

An LGF reader has forwarded the following email (I suppose you could say our reader “leaked” it), sent to all Associated Press employees, congratulating themselves on the propaganda photos from Qana and awarding the photographers cash prizes: "Dear Staffers: Last Sunday proved to be one of the most dramatic days in the war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. AP’s extensive photo team produced a stunning series of images that day that beat the competition and scored huge play worldwide. Rumors surfaced early Sunday morning that an Israeli airstrike had flattened a house in the southern Lebanese village of...

The secret's out Desperate in the face of defeat, the Liberals ended up leaking their own hidden agenda The Western Standard February 13, 2006 Ted Byfield To adequately write anything about what could well prove one of the most pivotal elections in Canadian history, when the results are scarcely in, is not advisable. So I'll write about the campaign. It is now, at least, over. And a very curious campaign it was. Its central irony was the desperate Liberal effort to establish that the Tories harboured a "secret agenda." Instead, they inadvertently disclosed that it is they who have...

Homolka 'will never' come home: father Tom Blackwell National Post May 5, 2005 Karla Homolka has yet to reveal her plans but the convicted sex killer will never return to her hometown of St. Catharines, the scene of her horrifying crimes, her father said yesterday. Residents have been on tenterhooks about the possibility that their most infamous neighbour could show up again in the Niagara Peninsula city after her release from prison in July. St. Catharines was scarred by the torture and death of two local teenaged girls at the hands of Homolka and her husband, Paul Bernardo. Karel...

My wife turned on the little non-cable set in the kitchen just as Rather began his anti-war piece.It was a story about a reserve unit from Paris, Illinois that had had a high number of causalties. In Rather's lead in, he said "American deaths in Iraq exceeded 10,000." Yes, he said 10,000!In his editorial comment after the piece, he did not correct his lie. Of course, when Rather knows he's lying, he makes no apology and goes on with it. This was tonight's news which comes on here in Texas at 5:30 PM. This falsification occured at several minutes before...

Conservatives are fuming over the $15.5 million that billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has pledged to defeat President Bush. But they're also anxious to fight back and expose what they consider to be Soros' "immoral" beliefs and atheist leanings. Several prominent conservatives told CNSNews.com that Soros' "moral bankruptcy" would prove disastrous for the Democratic Party. The liberal groups that have benefited from Soros' gifts - America Coming Together, MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress - are run by Democrats and have a close allegiance to the party's candidates. Soros, who emigrated from Hungary in 1956 and later became...