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Archive for November, 2011

Abortion costs £30m higher than previously thought

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

by Martin Beckford, Telegraph Updated figures from the Department of Health also show that, contrary to earlier claims, much more public money goes to private clinics rather than NHS hospitals. Campaigners say ... Read more..

We haven’t yet fought a true war on drugs

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Christian Guy, Conservative Home Some say de-criminalise, others seek full-scale legalisation. Some focus only on cannabis, others would include cocaine and heroin. Some claim drug use and crime would plummet, ... Read more..

Children living amid drug users at squalid St Paul’s camp

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Politics | Comments Off

By John-Paul Ford Rojas, Telegraph Children as young as nine have been living among drinkers and hard drug users amid the squalid surroundings of the St Paul’s protest camp, a report ... Read more..

A Review and Analysis of Research Studies Which Assessed Sexual Preference of Children Raised by Homosexuals

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Trayce Hansen, PhD I conducted a review of all the studies I could locate which assessed sexual preference in homosexually parented children. I had only two criteria for inclusion in ... Read more..

Spiritual Decay

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By Jeff Walton, American Spectator It's commonly remarked that obfuscation is a job requirement for liberal bishops in the Episcopal Church. Never content with reading scripture's plain meaning, they often explain ... Read more..

Fired sports anchor hopes case will reinvigorate Canada’s battle over same-sex ‘marriage’

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Marriage | Comments Off

by Patrick B Craine, LifeSite News A TV sports anchor who was fired in the spring after tweeting his support for true marriage says he hopes the case will inspire other ... Read more..

Pope on AIDS: ‘above all it is an ethical problem’ requiring ‘change of behaviour’

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in AIDS, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSite News On Sunday, at the closing Mass of his visit to Africa, Pope Benedict XVI presented a document – Africae Munus - to chart evangelization of the ... Read more..

Anglican Unscripted – Episode 19

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion | Comments Off

Kevin and George discuss Dr. Jeffert-Shori's denial letter and AMiA's role in the 2008 Rwanda Canons. Also in this week's episode Peter Ould discusses the on going saga of the ... Read more..

Bishop ‘take a moral stand’. In other words, they want to stand in the way of welfare reform

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

by Peter Mullen, Telegraph Eighteen diocesan bishops have written to The Observer to deplore the Government’s proposal to limit the amount of benefit any family may receive to £500 per week. ... Read more..

Iain Duncan Smith MP makes spirited defence of marriage

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC I was encouraged to hear Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and former leader of the Conservative party, speaking up in a ... Read more..

Same sex adoption is not a game

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by Rick Fitzgibbons, MercatorNet Allowing same sex couples to adopt children deprives them of a mother or a father and subjects them to a dangerous social experiment. Moves by legislators and homosexual ... Read more..

Delia Smith wants to do for Catholicism what she has done for cooking

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Ministry, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Victoria Ward, Telegraph The television cook attends Mass every day and has written cookery books with religious themes including A Feast for Lent and A Feast for Advent as well ... Read more..

The Bishop of London is right about Anglicans using the Roman rite

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Liturgy, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith One cannot be an Anglican and use the Roman Missal – it is one or the other The Bishop of London has written a letter about the Eucharist, ... Read more..

Tory peers to rebel on civil partnerships in churches

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Civil Partnerships | Comments Off

By Oliver Wright, Independent Conservative peers in the House of Lords are attempting to scupper plans to allow same-sex couples to hold civil partnerships in churches. Under regulations drawn up by ministers, ... Read more..

Girl Guides considers dropping God from members’ promise

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Murray Wardrop, Telegraph Children may be stopped from pledging their devotion to God when joining the Girl Guides following complaints that it discriminates against non-Christians. Girls wanting to become Guides, Brownies ... Read more..

Central Florida diocese elects the Rev. Gregory Brewer as bishop

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

Episcopal News Service November 19, 2011 The Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, 60, rector of the Parish of Calvary-St. George's in New York was elected on Nov. 19 as the fourth ... Read more..

The child abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University proves that paedophilia isn’t just a ‘priest problem’

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Paedophilia, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Tim Stanley, Telegraph Until recently, most Americans probably associated the systematic sexual abuse of children exclusively with the Catholic Church. The scandal at Pennsylvania State University has changed all that. ... Read more..

From spoilt British teen to Amish girl: How living with America’s strictest Christian sect changed a party-mad 18 year old

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Culture, youth culture | Comments Off

By Sally Beck, Mailonline No Facebook, no mobile phone, no make-up and no parties. It sounds like the definition of teenage torture. So what made Charlotte Allison, 18, swap her pampered life ... Read more..

The desecration of St Paul’s

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Culture | Comments Off

by Melanie Phillips The Guardian reports today:   'Desecration, defecation and substance abuse are among the issues St Paul's Cathedral has had to cope with because of the protest camp in its churchyard, ... Read more..

How children are the victims of their parents’ lost values

Monday, November 21st, 2011 Posted in Culture, Education | Comments Off

By Graeme Paton, Telegraph Parents are dressing up their children in provocative clothes and allowing them to wear make-up and high heels because they lack traditional values, according to a leading ... Read more..