A pro-life advocate was sentenced to 41 months in jail (3.4 years) on Wednesday morning after trying to save the lives of unborn babies by blocking the entrance to a Planned Parenthood abortion center in Manhattan.
U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth stated ‘unequivocally that non-profit groups such as National Right to Life and PETA are not terrorist groups,’ but admitted that presentation slides calling NRLC exactly that had been used at Fort Liberty for at least the past seven years.
Elon Musk has said that he was “tricked” into agreeing to give his son puberty blockers and noted that was the reason he vowed to “destroy” what he calls “the woke mind virus.”
Thanks to relentless parental pressure, John Glenn High School in Norwalk, California, has decided not to renew an agreement to have a ‘Wellbeing Center’ linked to Planned Parenthood on its campus.
Luchar contra la herejía es un acto verdaderamente noble y desinteresado, expresión de un auténtico amor por el prójimo”, declaró el obispo Schneider a LifeSiteNews.
As I have been consistently documenting in this space, hairline cracks have been slowly widening in the mainstream media’s once rock-sold commitment to transgender ideology for several years now. The New York Times, despite furious backlash from LGBT groups, has published a string of investigations on the impact of puberty blockers, the stories of detransitioners, and the controversy surrounding child sex changes. The latest salvo, published on July 12 and running to nearly 3,000 words, signals the end of the transgender movement’s iron grip on the Gray Lady. The headline alone would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and takes direct aim at one of the transgender movement’s central premises: “Why Is the U.S. Still Pretending We Know Gender-Affirming Care Works?” The column — published, it must be noted, in the Opinion section — was penned by Pamela Paul, and begins with this broadside:
A new Haaretz report reveals Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s active role in sabotaging ceasefire and hostage negotiations with Hamas, consistently undermining agreements made by the Israeli negotiating team and Mossad chief.
In a letter to India’s Ministry of Minority Affairs, MP Jose K. Mani asked the federal government to ensure the release of Fr. Abraham Thazhathedathu, a Protestant bishop, and 20 others imprisoned in the Jabalpur prison for over a month.
A High Court in Namibia declared the country’s laws that criminalize sodomy “unconstitutional,” claiming they ran contrary to laws prohibiting discrimination based on a person’s sex. The High Court in the nation’s capital, Windhoek — a court of first instance for cases relating to the country’s constitution — declared Friday, June 21, that the common law crimes of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” to be “unconstitutional and invalid” in a push to impose LGBT ideology despite strong opposition from the nation’s own population, legislature, and government officials. In its ruling, the court inconsistently both invoked the country’s “democracy society” to justify its judgment and went on to acknowledge that the majority of Namibia’s citizens supported the anti-sodomy laws. The court stated, “We are not persuaded that in a democratic society such as ours … it is reasonably justifiable to make an activity criminal just because a segment, maybe a majority, of the citizenry consider it to be unacceptable.”
In its ruling, the court inconsistently both invoked the country’s “democracy society” to justify its judgment and went on to acknowledge that the majority of Namibia’s citizens supported the anti-sodomy laws. The court stated, “We are not persuaded that in a democratic society such as ours … it is reasonably justifiable to make an activity criminal just because a segment, maybe a majority, of the citizenry consider it to be unacceptable.”
A Canadian pro-life group, with the help of a top constitutional law group, is suing Edmonton after city officials denied the group the ability to rent a booth for an upcoming summer exhibition. On Tuesday, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced that its lawyers had served Explore Edmonton Corporation, a corporation owned by the City of Edmonton, with a lawsuit on behalf of Edmonton Prolife. “Public spaces are important forums for people to express a wide range of ideas,” said Darren Leung, counsel for Edmonton Prolife in a press release sent to LifeSiteNews. “Governments are custodians of public spaces and must comply with the Charter when managing these public spaces. Government bodies like the Explore Edmonton Corporation are legally required to be neutral and have no right to censor content that they dislike or disagree with.” The lawsuit, which was filed June 4 in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, claims that Explore Edmonton Corporation has violated the Charter rights of Edmonton Prolife for disallowing the group to have a booth at the upcoming KDays exhibition, which is a large event held annually in late July.
In a betrayal of both natural and divine law, Thailand is to become the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex “marriage. ”On June 18, in a vote of 130 to 4 with 18 abstentions, Thai lawmakers in the Senate passed a bill amending the nation’s marriage law to allow for homosexual “couples” to get “married.” The bill, which grants full legal, financial and medical rights for those in a same-sex “marriage,” was expected to pass, as it had already overwhelmingly passed the Upper House’s first reading in April. At the moment, the new legislation will proceed to King Maha Vajiralongkorn for royal approval and come into effect 120 days after its publication in the official Royal Gazette. “Today we celebrate another significant milestone in the journey of our Equal Marriage Bill,” Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin celebrated in a post on X.
St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver is facing a lawsuit from the family of a now-deceased 34-year-old woman after the institution, in accordance with Catholic teaching, refused her request for euthanasia. One of the main goals for the euthanasia lobby is to force all Canadian medical institutions to provide (MAiD) euthanasia. In June 2023, the Québec National Assembly passed Bill 11, An Act to amend the Act respecting end-of-life care. One of the provisions in Bill 11 created an obligation for all palliative care homes to offer MAID, even religiously affiliated institutions. In December, 2023 I wrote that St. Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre, that had signed an agreement with the Archdiocese of Montreal and the Québec government guaranteeing that St Raphael’s would provide end-of-life care but not provide euthanasia, was being forced by the Quebec government to provide euthanasia.
Anyone who is baptized and confirmed and who professes the faith of the Church is Catholic. In Germany, as is so often the case, things are quite different. Here, you are only Catholic through the church tax, at least if you are a taxpayer.
This tax is by no means voluntary but a compulsory levy which – thanks to Adolf Hitler – is collected by the state and paid directly to the Church; even back payments and advance payments are mandatory.
It is clear that the church tax is an imposition: membership in the Church should not be dependent on monetary payments.
Nevertheless, German practice is rigorous: anyone who does not want to pay can only declare their “withdrawal from the Church” (“Kirchenaustritt”) at the registry office, even though this “withdrawal” does not exist under canon law.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre vowed never to oppose abortion or homosexual “marriage” after a Conservative member of parliament (MP) voiced pro-life and pro-family views. In a May 31 episode of Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s podcast, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen declared that he would support legislation to protect the unborn from abortion and that he opposes same-sex “marriage.” “We are the only country in the world with no pre-born protective rights,” Viersen noted, adding that he is “happy to wear the social conservative banner. I’m 100 percent pro-life.” “We want our country to be in a position where nobody needs to have an abortion. We have solid families that want to have children – that’s a pipe dream for sure, we live in a fallen world, but that is the dream and the hope,” he continued. “We want the humanity of the pre-born to be recognized,” he explained.
A group of 17 scholars and activists have released a lengthy statement calling for Pope Francis to resign or to be formally asked to resign by the College of Cardinals.
Bishop Stephan Ackermann defended Germany’s abortion regime as leading to ‘societal peace’ despite around 100,000 children killed in abortion every year and criticized strong pro-life advocacy, citing ‘a woman’s right to self determination.’
A major European psychiatric organization has warned doctors against promoting “experimental” transgender “treatments” to gender-confused children and adolescents
The European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) published a policy statement urging healthcare providers “not to promote experimental and unnecessarily invasive treatments with unproven psycho-social effects and, therefore, to adhere to the ‘primum-nil-nocere’ (first, do no harm) principle.”
The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has confirmed to LifeSiteNews that the Holy See intends to renew its secretive deal with Communist China later this year.
In an email exchange, Parolin affirmed that the highly controversial Sino-Vatican deal that the Holy See has with the communist authorities in Beijing is set for renewal this autumn.
Dec, 2022: Details of Fr. Rupnik’s alleged abuse and separate excommunication for absolving a sexual accomplice in Confession break into the media at start of the month.
Dec 3, 2022: Jesuit Curia states Rupnik is under restricted ministry, after CDF received complaint about him in 2021. CDF dropped prior investigation in Oct 2022 due to statute of limitations.
Dec 14, 2022: Jesuit Curia confirms Rupnik was excommunicated “two years” prior.
Dec 18, 2022: Alleged victim Gloria Branciani publishes pseudonymous article with explicit detail of Rupnik abuse.
Dec 19, 2022: Auxiliary of Rome, Bishop Libanori, revealed to have written to priests saying that allegations against Rupnik are true. He was involved in prior investigations into Rupnik.
Dec 23, 2023: Diocese of Rome pens statement defending Rupnik from media attacks.
The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship has informed LifeSite that the disgraced ex-Jesuit alleged serial abuser Father Marko Ivan Rupnik is not a consultor for the office, despite being listed as such in the Vatican’s official yearbook.
When questioned by this reporter on April 18, an official for the Congregation (now Dicastery) for Divine Worship (CDW) rejected the notion that Rupnik is still a consultor for the CDW.