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School Prom Canceled after ACLU Insists on Cross Dressing and Gay Dates

Posted on 12 March 2010

A small town Mississippi High School has decided to cancel its school prom after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) demanded the school permit a female student to wear a tux to the prom and attend with her lesbian partner.

Now…

Young Counselor Threatened with Knife Learns that Baby Was Saved from Abortion

Posted on 18 February 2010

Three months after being threatened with a knife to her throat by a woman entering an abortion mill, 21-year-old pro-life counselor Leah Winandy has learned that her attacker has decided not to abort her child – and credits Leah and…

Vatican: Population Growth is a Means of Overcoming Poverty, Not a Cause of It

Posted on 11 February 2010

As nations around the world are beginning to feel the effects of plummeting birth rates, the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations has stressed that population growth is the key to overcoming poverty. Speaking before the Economic and Social Council…

CBS News Legal Analyst Slams Feminist Critics of Tebow Super Bowl Ad

Posted on 30 January 2010

The campaign being waged by pro-abortion feminist groups against the pro-life Super Bowl ad starring college football star Tim Tebow appears to be backfiring.

In recent days former VP candidate Sarah Palin and a CBS official both have warned of…

Hundreds of Thousands Join 37th March for Life

Posted on 26 January 2010

Weather reports in the days leading up to Friday’s March for Life warned of rain and snow; however, spirits were high and the weather good on the day of the event, with no snow or rain falling and temperatures remaining…

2010 U.S. Stamp Features Pro-Life Heroine Mother Teresa

Posted on 05 January 2010

The late pro-life heroine Mother Teresa is to be featured on a US stamp according to a release by the U.S. postal service.  Although in making the announcement Wednesday, the postal service did not mention her pro-life stand, the revered…

Vatican Newspaper Slams the Copenhagen Summit over Population Control, “Nihilism”

Posted on 19 December 2009

In a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano yesterday, the President of the Vatican Bank took the Copenhagen summit to task over its “nihilism,” and consequent emphasis on population control and de-industrialization.

“Nihilistic thought, with its rejection of…

Milwaukee Archbishop: You Can’t Call Yourself Catholic and Support Contraception

Posted on 16 December 2009

The incoming Archbishop of Milwaukee, Jerome Listecki, has responded to a campaign by “Young Catholics for Choice” to promote use of contraception and abortion among Catholic youth.

Using media advertising the group is, says the Archbishop-Designate, “attempting to convey the…

Interview: The Vatican on Just vs. Unjust Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

Posted on 16 December 2009

During a human rights panel discussion at the United Nations last week, Rev. Philip J. Bené, J.C.D., Legal Attaché  for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, reiterated a little publicized position of the Vatican regarding…

For the Vatican it’s Clear – Pro-Abortion Politicians ‘Must’ be Denied Communion

Posted on 30 November 2009

With the Patrick Kennedy Communion flap and the recent action of the Bishops of Spain having opened up the issue of denying communion to pro-abortion politicians, it is worthwhile to review the position of the Vatican on the…

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