LifeSiteNews NewsBytes - Obama, Notre Dame/Obama
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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac
OBAMA
Obama the Destroyer
If somebody were deliberately trying to undermine the very fabric of these United States, he would first vow not just to change its policies but to completely "change America," and then would do just about everything Barack Obama already has begun to do as president.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/15/obama-the-destroyer
Pravda: "The Amereican Descent Into Marxism is Happening With Breathtaking Speed
http://www.realclearreligion.com/index_files/f47d8030d31fe05d1213b2f0cd773df3-587.html#unique-entry-id-587
'Extremism' report 'tip of the iceberg'
Richard Thompson, chief of the Thomas More Law Center: Napolitano's promise to 'reword' document 'scary'. "additional information" uncovered that "creates even more concern that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is unconstitutionally targeting Americans merely because of their conservative beliefs."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98692
There can be no doubt that Koh's influence at the State Department will have a grave impact on U.S. law and policy for years to come.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17006/LEGAL/legalother/index.htm
Speak Up Now to Stop Hate Crimes Legislation
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17011/CFI/freedom/index.htm
'Patriot Pastors' Called to Crush 'Hate Crimes' Bill
Ministers ordered to fight for freedom, against criminalization of Christianity
America has become a morally bankrupt society that embraces intolerance against Christians, including a new push for "hate crimes" legislation, according to one pastor who believes it's all because church leaders have failed to do their jobs.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98588
In the President's Hunt for 'Common Ground' on Abortion, a Fault Line Emerges
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/in-the-presiden.html
'Private health insurance would vanish'
Obama plan to shift 119 million Americans to government-run care
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97851
Mark Steyn - Live Free or Die
The 44th president's multi-trillion-dollar budget, the first of many, adds more to the national debt than all the previous 43 presidents combined, from George Washington to George Dubya. Even if there were no financial consequences, the moral and even spiritual consequences would still be fatal. That's the stage where Europe is. America is just beginning this process.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
Flip-Flops and Governance - Our president isn't quite as advertised.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286200693341141.html
Birth certificate billboard mania continues
First sign erected in 'truth and transparency' campaign
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98724
NOTRE DAME/OBAMA
Controversy Over Obama at Notre Dame Should Highlight UnCatholic Professors
http://www.spiritdaily.com/notredameprofessor.htm
Review of the Board of Trustees at Notre Dame does NOT reveal a particularly strong Catholic identity. There are board members whose actions and associations put them in a position directly at odds with Church teaching and in line with the Obama administration.
http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_18408.php
Bozell Column: Notre Dame Pacifier?
"Open hearts, open minds, fair-minded words." This, from the politician who spent twenty years listening to the rantings and ravings of Jeremiah Wright? But it's not just outrageous, it's also ridiculous to place Obama anywhere near the "middle" of the abortion debate. His actual record and his policies as president belie any notion of Obama disappointing the abortion lobby in any way.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2009/05/20/bozell-column-notre-dame-pacifier
Obama's Civil Lies
This typical politician's way out -- I promise to respect you as I defeat you -- is perhaps the best we can hope for on most matters. The minute one accepts there are two points of view and people of good will can arrive at one or the other after fair deliberation, we are already debased as a culture. The point is simple and not open to debate: we cannot allow live human beings to be killed, babies with heartbeats and nerve endings and brain waves. We must respect the other side in this sensitive, finely wrought debate? Sorry, Mister President, count me out. I do not respect people who kill babies.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/civil-lies
Notre Dame - It's still my university
The leadership may have failed her but this Notre Dame student still loves the place.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/its_still_my_university/
Fordham University did not disclose its decision to honor New York's pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/fordhams_folly/
LIFE ISSUES
Reducing the number of abortions is not the goal of the prolife movement. However, one goal of the prolife movement is to reduce the number of people who believe that reducing the number of abortions is the goal of the prolife movement.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/a-goal-for-the-prolife-movement.html
Fetus undergoes life-saving surgery in womb
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090508.wsurgery0508/BNStory/Front
Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180262/Most-teenage-pregnancies-end-abortion.html
Does Legalizing Abortion Abroad Protect Women's Health?
Analysis shows that modern medicine, not abortion, holds the key to reducing maternal mortality in the developing world.
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000010076.cfm
Kan. gov. acts to restore Planned Parenthood funds
http://www.hdnews.net/wirestories/j1048-BC-KS-XGR-Abortion-3rdLd-Writethru-05-22-0756
'Put your dead baby in the fridge': What nurse told mother who suffered miscarriage
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1175803/Put-dead-baby-fridge-What-nurse-told-mother-suffered-miscarriage.html?ITO=1490
Ultrasound technology and laws credited for pro-life shift
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16052
Adult Stem Cells Used to Prevent Tumors in ESCR
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/05/adult-stem-cells-used-to-prevent-tumors.html
Doctors Organization Publishes U.S.'s First Adult Stem Cell Guidelines
will allow US doctors to treat patients with their own Adult Stem Cells.
http://donmargolis.com/blog/2009/05/doctors-organization-publishes-uss-first-adult-stem-cell-guidelines/
Even the Scientists Now Criticize the ESCR Hype
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/05/even-scientists-now-criticize-escr-hype.html
Outsourcing of Ethics: Biological Colonialism Approved by FDA
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/05/outsourcing-of-ethics-biological.html
Past your "use by" date? What's next?
Dying human beings are not disposable products.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/past_your_use_by_date_whats_next/
Legislation Proposed in Canada for Suicide on Demand Assisted Suicide
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/05/legislation-proposed-in-canada-for.html
Media Again Misuse the term "Brain Death"
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/05/media-again-misuse-term-brain-death.html
Population, Economy, and God
one of the inventors of the birth control pill, recently deplored the sharp decline of total fertility in Austria (1.4), the country of his birth.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/12/population-economy-and-god
RELIGION
Scalia Blasts Skeptics Of Christian Beliefs -- High-Court Justice Eschews His Brethren's Restraint
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960410&slug=2323342
Vatican Insiders Declare Pope "A Disaster"
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127
Rightists want stay of exit order against pope
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3713910,00.html
The Pope's détente with the Muslim world
No Muslims have complained about the Pope on his trip to the Middle East. Is he cunning or just very, very smart? If we're talking "common ground", the Vatican's is the only game in town at the moment.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_popes_detente_with_the_muslim_world/
The Catholic left is becoming increasingly secular
http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst.php?year=2009&month=May&read=2585
Novelist's Catholic thriller explores Church division in face of 'secular spirit'
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16047
Catholic Church's nonprofit status challenged in Maine
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=539478
Home: No place for Bible study
County demands pastor spend thousands on 'Major Use' permit to host friends
a county government employee knocked on their door on Good Friday, asking a litany of questions about their Tuesday night Bible studies, which are attended by approximately 15 people.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98895
Diverse Chaplains Fired
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/diverse_chaplains_fired/
Archbishop Weakland admits relationships with several men, questions immorality of homosexual acts
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2927
Top Catholic Leader in Maine, Bishop Richard Malone: Gay Marriage a 'Dangerous Experiment'
http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Homosexuality/2009/05/top-catholic-leader-in-maine-gay-marriage-a-dangerous-experiment-10/
Donohue: Irish Abuse 'Hysteria'
Reuters is reporting that "Irish Priests Beat, Raped Children," yet the report does not justify this wild and irresponsible claim. Fully 82% of the incidents took place before 1970. "Many of them [are] now more than 70 years old." Corporal punishment was not exactly unknown in many homes during these times, and this is doubly true when dealing with miscreants.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/donohue_irish_abuse_hysteria/
Priest tells Vatican academy Obama's policies lead to totalitarianism
http://thecatholicspirit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1733&Itemid=33
Evangelical Left Ethicist Defends Obama on Abortion
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/20/evangelical-left-ethicist-defe
American Muslims hit NYC Streets Calling for Sharia and Jihad~Video
http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html
Eurabia Has A Capital: Rotterdam
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1338480?eng=y
L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO CONTROVERSY
Vatican newspaper finally reports on U.S. bishops' criticism of Obama, Notre Dame
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16084
L'Osservatore Romano and the Illuminati By George Neumayr
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/08/losservatore-romano-and-the-il
I wrote two days ago that the Vatican newspaper needed a new editor, but I left open the possibility that he was just misinformed. Gian Maria Vian is not misinformed; he has knowingly become an apologist for the culture of death.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Vatican-Editor-Says-Obama-is-NOT-Pro-Abortion.html&Itemid=127
Vatican Press Office Anxious for Obama to Pay a Visit - Deal Hudson
So the Vatican Press Office is waiting for the phone to ring? Remember that Fr. Benedettini works for Fr. Federico Lombardi, S. J., who directly oversees L'Osservatore Romano and its present editor, Gian Maria Vian. Vian has already praised Obama's first 100 days as president as well as reiterated his view that Obama "is not pro-abortion."
Thus far, Fr. Lombardi has neither made a comment "clarifying" Vian's glaring misrepresentation, nor has he announced a replacement for Vian, which I called for earlier in the week. the Vatican Press Office doesn't appear to know the damage Obama is doing to the Catholic Church in the United States. No, as a matter of fact, the Vatican Press Office and L'Osservatore Romano are willing participants in the carnage -- they are providing official cover to all the Obama Catholics. Any Catholic who wants to praise Obama and defend him against the charge of supporting abortion can now quote the Vatican newspaper and its editor, Gian Maria Vian.
I am beginning to think that the problem with Vian lies higher up the Vatican foodchain. The question is, how far?
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Vatican-Press-Office-Anxious-for-Obama-to-Pay-a-Visit.html&Itemid=102
L'Osservatore Misquotes President - Full Text
The "Vatican" newspaper is doing real harm to the cause of life and the authority of U.S. Bishops and is in need of real change.
http://catholickey.blogspot.com/2009/05/losservatore-misquotes-president-full.html
CHRISTOPHER WEST CONTROVERSY
Christopher West's ideas on sexuality ignore 'tremendous dangers,' Alice von Hildebrand says
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15950
Problems with Christopher West's Theology of the Body - by David L. Schindler, Provost/Dean and Gagnon Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
http://www.headlinebistro.com/en/news/west_schindler2.html
Christopher West: "A Problem For The Church" Because of His Credibility
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Christopher-West-A-Problem-For-The-Church-Because-of-His-Credibility.html&Itemid=127
HOMOSEXUALITY
Conservative Activists Argue Gay Marriage Threatens Religious Liberty
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/religion/2009/05/19/conservative-activists-argue-gay-marriage-threatens-religious-liberty.html
'Gay' pundit says 'hate crimes' a scam
'Admission is both refreshing and stunning at the same time'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98113
Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181380/Slurred-adoption-Nazis-Critics-gay-parenting-branded-retarded-homophobes.html?ITO=1490
"In-your-face, anything-goes, homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination"
California Senate approves 'Harvey Milk Day,' would require public schools to honor homosexual-rights icon
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=5b3d3252-d914-4232-8529-c4b762309203
Challenging Corporate Promotion of Homosexuality
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17004/CFI/family/index.htm
War ignited on homosexual 'bonanza'
A coalition of faith-based groups, concerned citizens and leaders is fighting vigilantly to repeal a Washington State measure that would give homosexuals all benefits of traditional couples, often called the "Everything but Marriage Bill."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97766
ACLU chief: Same-sex marriage 'a sure thing'
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20090511_ACLU_chief__Same-sex_marriage__a_sure_thing_.html
'Gay' gene claim suddenly vanishes
American Psychological Association revises statement on homosexuality
A new publication from the American Psychological Association includes an admission that there is no "gay" gene
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97940
Girl Scouts exposed: Lessons in lesbianism
Communists, radical feminists cited as role models for troops
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=97977
'Education for the Citizenry' seeks to normalize homosexuality among Spanish students, expert warns
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16046
Pro-gay Senators file amendments to restore homosexual programs in MA schools -- after Senate Committee cuts funding! Decision this week.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt09/budget/senate_amendments_0518.html
Colorado Governor OKs Taxpayer-Funded Gay Benefits
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000010075.cfm
