Under pressure from outside groups, the White House is deciding to overturn part of the 1973 Helms Amendment which bans American money from being used to perform or promote abortion overseas, reports the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam)
Politically left-wing Catholic pundits seem very eager to use the words of Pope Francis to pounce on political conservatives who criticize or even question the sometimes confusing Tweets and other statements of the Pope. The most recent example includes a
In recent years pro-life advocates have been remarkably successful at instituting new laws regulating abortion clinics; more laws like these have passed in the past two years than in the previous decade combined. As a result, abortion clinics are closing
The sometimes-deadly disease syphilis is exploding in the United States, with most of the increase since 1995 among men who have sex with men (MSM), according to a new report from the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control (CDC). As recently
Pope Francis met with the Secretary General of the United Nations along with the heads of all the major UN agencies. In his message he directly and indirectly mentioned the thorny UN issue of abortion. Francis told the gathered heads
Abortion advocates on the UN anti-torture committee hectored Vatican representatives for two days running in Geneva this week, insisting that opposing abortion is tantamount to torture and therefore a violation of international law. On Tuesday the Vatican rep pushed back
A federal judge has ordered Ryan Bomberger to stop making fun of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Court effectively ruled that Bomberger and his group, The Radiance Foundation, are not very funny. Bomberger, who founded
The UN Committee Against Torture began its questioning of the Holy See Monday morning in Geneva. So far, the questions have focused on a number of controversial topics including the sexual abuse of minors and Catholic opposition to abortion, both
The Boy Scouts appeared successfully to have “split the baby” when they changed Boy Scout policy to allow open and avowed homosexuality on the part of their youth members but still disallow it among adult leaders. However, the opprobrium began
People today, especially those under 50, will have no idea how a single television show can have dominated the media landscape. Before 500 channels, before micro-targeted programming, there were only three networks, and the national conversation could center on a
The spokesman for Joseph Daul, head of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament who made a controversial statement about pornography this week, told Breitbart News that Daul only used the porn analogy to make a point about the
The nun was not the issue. She was never the issue. At most the nun was a vehicle, an instrument of the unhappy dissenters. She was collateral damage in an attack on a priest trying to bring orthodoxy into a
A high-ranking UN official told students last week that they ought to take over UN buildings. Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of the billion-dollar UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said this to students gathered to participate in the UN Commission on
New survey numbers from Rasmussen show public opinion turning slowly against the Boy Scouts. Though most Americans still view them favorably, their numbers continue in a perennial trend of decline. The national poll taken by telephone shows 59% of Americans
A religious sister from the highly respected Nashville Dominicans has come under attack from liberal Catholic parents and students who objected to her lecture on same-sex attraction and divorce at a Catholic high school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North
It is likely that Geoff McGrath wants to test the Boy Scout rule that openly gay adults are not allowed as voluntary leaders in the Scouts. After all, why would he agree to appear on an NBC News program about
In an argument over tactics and alleged insubordination, the largest pro-life group in America has essentially fired its longtime Georgia affiliate and replaced it with a newly formed group started with the support of RedState founder Erick Erickson. Carol Tobias,
If President Obama opened the International New York Times when he woke up at the US Ambassador residence Thursday morning in Rome, he would have been greeted by a full-page ad from the dissident “Catholics for Choice” telling him to ignore
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims they are still in the good graces of the FBI and that reports the FBI has severed ties are false.Heidi Beirich, Director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project told Breitbart News that she does not know
Christian groups are celebrating with the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have scrubbed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) from its hate crimes webpage, where the controversial group was listed as a resource and referred to
With Missouri recently losing its penultimate abortion clinic, the race is on to become the first state without any abortion clinics whatsoever. Missouri joins five other states–Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming–with only a single abortion clinic. The
A state legislator in Hawaii has filed an ethics complaint with the State Department of Education alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center is bribing elementary teachers to take an SPLC course called Teaching Tolerance. State Representative Bob McDermott also
The issue of same-sex marriage and gay families marching through American institutions is also marching through the Republican Party, at least among the youngest numbers of Republicans. A new poll from the Pew Research Center reports that only 39% of
An academic study has accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of having an anti-Christian bias in its reporting on hate groups in America. Once considered the “gold standard” in reporting on violent anti-government or racist groups in America, the
Pro-life leaders have noticed that not a single panel or specific speaker on life issues has been scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is supposed to be the preeminent annual gathering of conservatives in America. Pro-lifers note
