CATHOLIC NEWS: Pro-abortion NARAL report suggests pro-life efforts are succeeding... PLUS 6 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Pro-abortion NARAL report suggests pro-life efforts are succeeding... PLUS 6 MORE

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Pro-abortion NARAL report suggests pro-life efforts are succeeding

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

A pro-abortion group's 2009 report giving a "D" grade to the United States on abortion suggests pro-life progress at the state level. The report's description of a murdered late-term abortionist as a hero may even be a sign of desperation, pro-life leaders say.

The Woman Who Knew JP2 Best

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

By THE EDITORS | Wanda Poltawska was 17 when the German army overran her country. She was 18 when Nazi doctors used her as a guinea pig for experimental surgical techniques at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She studied medicine and psychiatry in the difficult years after the war, trying to understand how human beings could sink to such barbarism.

Gay Activist Rips Pope on Behar show

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

On the February 9 edition of CNNH's "Joy Behar Show," homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile said the following: "You have this pope saying that homosexuality is the end of civilization. That we have to protect the culture from homosexuality the way we have to protect the rainforest from degradation. You know...

Vatican's rising African star determined to take risks

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:19 AM PST

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana was named the new President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in late October, just as his debut on the global Catholic stage as the relator, or general secretary, of the Synod for Africa ended. It was in some ways a baptism by fire for the 61-year-old Ghanian prelate...

The Strangest Idol of All

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:57 PM PST

There is a passage in the Gospels that breaks conventions and cuts to the core of what has come to be called the "Social Gospel." Before looking at the passage we need to define "Social Gospel." The phrase "Social Gospel" emerged in the Protestant denominations but has also come to be used in Catholic circles...

Catholics in Costa Rica outraged by disrespect toward Eucharist

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

Catholics in Costa Rica continue to express disgust following the actions of Deborah Formal, the girlfriend of presidential candidate Otto Guevara. Last Sunday, Formal broke off a piece of the Eucharist and placed it in her boyfriend's pocket.

Resignations 'not on agenda' for Vatican sex abuse summit, Irish bishop says

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:50 AM PST

A highly anticipated summit with Pope Benedict XVI next week could help the Irish bishops "recapture the ground we've lost" in public confidence due to that country's sexual abuse crisis, according to one prelate who will take part...