Author: Tom Faranda

Pope Benedict spoke to reporters on the plane while flying to Brazil. Pope warns Catholic politicians who back abortion | International | Reuters The Pope was asked whether he supported Mexican Church leaders threatening to excommunicate leftist parliamentarians who last month voted to legalize abortion in Mexico City. "Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary…

Sorry for the delay in getting this to you online. It is important nonetheless. The Center for Life annual Educational Trust fundraising breakfast on April 21st at the Holiday Inn in Mount Kisco was an unquestionable success. Keynote speaker Christopher Bell of Good Counsel attended with his wife, well-known pro-life advocate Joan Andrews Bell, and…

Hi everyone, Just thought I would share some information with you as to some of LUMINA’s  happenings: We will be having an “Entering Canaan” evening of Prayer & Healing for Teens on May 1st from 3:15-8:30pm Fr Peter Pilsner & Fr Juniper, CFR will be the directors. Please call 1-877-586-4621 for more info or confidential…

President Bush spoke at the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington onf Friday, the 13th. President Bush Calls for Pro-Life Culture at Catholic Prayer Breakfast "Our Declaration of Independence states that our freedom rests on self-evident truths about the dignity of the human person. Throughout our nation’s history, Catholic Americans have embraced, sustained, and given their…

The Yonkers Advocates for Life were instrumental in organizing this ceremony. Yonkers firefighters honored for offering Safe Haven to newborn The Yonkers-based Advocates of Life organized yesterday’s event. The anti-abortion group is known to many city residents as the group that stages prayer protests in front of Planned Parenthood offices at 20 S. Broadway. Besides…

Last April Fr. Norman Weslin, founder of the Lambs of Christ, was charged with violating the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law. The law passed in the early 1990s’ and is aimed directly at pro-lifers who protest at abortion "clinics". Father was facing 18 months in jail, three years on probation, and a $25,000…

Two Cited at Good Friday Rescue WARMINSTER, Penn., Apr. 6 /Christian Newswire/ — Over 100 pro-life supporters from the group Survivors United participated in a "rescue" today at an abortion clinic in Warminster, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Thirty members of the group risked arrest by conducting a "sit-in" at the abortion clinic doors. Two people…

Here is link to the full statement: U.S. Catholic Bishops – Secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices and here are excerpts (But read the whole thing!): The document Statement Concerning Two Pamphlets Published by Professor Daniel Maguire was developed by the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).  It was…

Here is an excellent summary of the Pope’s Apostolic Exhoration "Sacramentum Caritatis" (The Sacrament of Charity) released on March 13th. In it he says there must be a consistency between reception of the Eucharist and politics (and politicians’ positions). See the excerpt below, but we urge you to hit the link, and read the entire…

Here’s something you won’t read about in the newspaper. Dred Scott’s Great-Great Granddaughter Holds Pro-Life View on Abortion The great-great granddaughter of Dred Scott says she opposes abortion and believes the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade in the same way it reversed itself in the landmark civil rights case. Just as the 1857…