Politics & Policy

Republican attorneys general in several states argue that a requirement that all Americans get health insurance is unconstitutional, and Jusyice Stephen Breyer says it will eventually go before the nation's high court.

Health care reform likely to go before high court

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 4/19/2010

President Barack Obama's health care reform package will eventually go before the Supreme Court. That's the prediction of Justice Stephen Breyer. He told a congressional panel that the health care law, like most major federal legislation, is a good candidate for high court review. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

While President Barack Obama is urging federal agencies to cut budgets to the bone, one purchase has doubled under Hilary Clinton's state department: alcoholic beverages.

U.S. government binging on public's bar tab

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 4/16/2010

While President Barack Obama is urging federal agencies to cut budgets to the bone, one purchase has doubled under Hilary Clinton's state department: alcoholic beverages. The state department's liquor bill for 2009 was a substantial $300,000, twice as much as the previous year. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

The Tea Party Express says they will only be supporting candidates that they feel have a chance of winning in November's midterm elections.

Tea party lists its heroes and zeroes

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 4/15/2010

Just in time for tax day, the Tea Party Express has unveiled its list of heroes and targets - politicians that run contrary to what they say is not conducive to the American Way. The party recommends that anyone on their "enemy list" be voted out in the upcoming midterm elections. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

Surgeons true to their oath to do no harm now use this technology to help them operate on these little girls and boys while they are growing in the first home of their mother's womb. Yet, others use the same technology to assist them in killing them.

Nebraska Protects Some Children in the Womb from the Pain Caused by Abortion

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/14/2010

'Until now, our laws have shown greater concern for laboratory animals and cattle that are slaughtered than for babies in the womb. With the Abortion Pain Prevention Act, Nebraska is beginning to change this. Every state should look to do the same,' said Fr. Frank Pavone. LINCOLN, NE (Catholic ...

British media giant Rupert Murdoch has declared that his online newspapers will go behind 'pay walls,' i.e., users will need to pay a fee to view online content.

Brown lambasts Murdoch for Internet pay walls

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 4/14/2010

British media giant Rupert Murdoch has declared that his online newspapers will go behind "pay walls," i.e., users will need to pay a fee to view online content. Murdoch owns two major U.K. newspapers, The Times and The Sun, as well as the U.S. publication The Wall Street Journal. The British ...

Dawn Johnsen, Opponent of the Right to Life, Withdraws Her Nomination to Office of Legal Counsel

By Peter J. Smith • LifeSiteNews • 4/12/2010

She once suggested in an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court that pro-life laws compel women to "involuntary servitude" and that anything less than unrestricted abortion on demand would be a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, which outlawed slavery. ...

Archbishop Raymond Burke, the head of Rome's Apostolic Signatura.'Now is the time for us all, and in particular for consecrated persons to stand up for the truth and to call upon our fellow Catholics in leadership to do the same, or to cease identifying themselves as Catholics.'

Abp. Burke Addresses 'Obstinate Betrayal' of Nuns, Catholic Health Association

By Kathleen Gilbert • LifeSiteNews • 4/12/2010

'Who could imagine that consecrated religious would openly, and in defiance of the bishops as successors of the apostles, publicly endorse legislation containing provisions which violated the natural moral law in its most fundamental tenets � the safeguarding and promoting of innocence and ...

Stupak broke the news at a press conference held at Northern Michigan University.

Beleaguered Dem Rep. Bart Stupak Announces Retirement

By Peter J. Smith • Catholic Online • 4/11/2010

The nine-term Democrat became the focus of immense pressure during the health care debate: Stupak had emerged as the top defender of unborn life in the federal health reform legislation, before finally capitulating hours before last month's vote, and supporting the bill without a ban on abortion ...

(Justice John Paul Stevens) The retirement presents President Obama with a second opportunity to craft the membership of the Supreme Court: last year, following the retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, Obama appointed pro-abortion justice Sonia Sotomayor to fill the spot.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to Retire

By Kathleen Gilbert • LifeSiteNews • 4/11/2010

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life warned of yet another battle over abortion looming with the open Supreme Court seat. "The opening of a Supreme Court seat will again open the ongoing debate in our nation over abortion -- and it well should, not because Justices are supposed to shape public ...

Make no mistake, Justice John Paul Stevens, with his gentlemanly demeanor, was a proponent of the 'Culture of Death'.

Justice John Paul Stevens Retires. We Need a Pro-Life Justice

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/10/2010

The "800 pound Gorilla" in the room in the coming selection and appointment of a replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens is this legal construct called an "Abortion Right." Its' manufacture by the Supreme Court out of what it called the "penumbra" of the 14th Amendment began the current Cultural ...