On January 12, reports began surfacing on Twitter that Lilianne Ploumen, former Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Netherlands, was honored by Pope Francis with the title of Commander in the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great. The Lepanto Institute was able to confirm from a December 22, 2017 Dutch radio broadcast that Ploumen indeed received the honor. In a brief video clip promoting the broadcast, Ploumen displays the medal while saying that she … [Read more...]
Former USCCB Director’s History of Compromise and Capitulation
A recent article by the Human Life Review brought our attention to the resurgence of the seamless garment approach to the pro-life movement, mingling the work against abortion, contraception and euthanasia with anti-poverty, anti-death penalty, and environmentalist activism. At the center of this article is an individual whose work history is cause for deep concern for pro-lifers everywhere. As will be seen, despite his insistence to the contrary, he has consistently betrayed the pro-life … [Read more...]
Pope Francis and the Population Control Lobby
In a stunning break with Pope John Paul II’s insistence that abortion should always be discussed as the murder of an innocent child, Pope Francis instead adopted the linguistic rhetoric of the abortion and population control lobby. Addressing participants of Italy’s fifth annual March for Life this past Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged the crowd to “pray for the babies who are at risk of the interruption of pregnancy.” In order to ensure that there was no translation error, we found an Italian … [Read more...]
Defund Planned Parenthood, but NOT with the current bill!
The text of the House Bill to defund Planned Parenthood, called the "Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2017," does absolutely nothing to defund Planned Parenthood. The bill is disastrously self-defeating and should not, in ANY way, be supported by pro-lifers.The bill is only 4 pages long and rather than simply defunding Planned Parenthood and leaving it at that, the bill includes so many exceptions that Planned Parenthood will, effectively, enjoy the federal funding that it is currently … [Read more...]
Catholic Climate Covenant Director is Member of Online Pro-Abortion Group
On December 3, the Catholic Climate Covenant (CCC) made headlines by equating climate change with abortion. Sarah Spengeman, the director of programs for CCC told the San Diego Union-Tribune, “It’s clear that climate change is a pro-life issue.” She added, “If we want to leave our children an inhabitable earth, if we have a responsibility to the unborn, we have a responsibility to act on climate.”Abortion is an intrinsically evil act whereas man-made global climate change isn’t even … [Read more...]
