LifeSite Roundup

• American Bishop: Pro-Choice Equals No Communion For Catholics June 19, 2007:

  PATERSON, New Jersey, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-choice Catholics, not just Catholic politicians, must not receive Communion if they knowingly support legalized abortion says an American Catholic bishop.
  

  "By steadfastly choosing to be pro-choice, a Catholic -- politician or not -- excludes himself or herself from communion," wrote Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli in the June 7 edition of the Beacon, the Paterson diocese newspaper.
  

  In his column Serratelli rebuked "pro-choice" Catholic politicians and those who "arrogantly insist that the Church does not have the right to her own teaching" and who claim a right to Communion at the same time. In particular Serratelli went after the 18 Democratic Congressmen who lashed out at Pope Benedict XVI for stating that supporting abortion is "incompatible with receiving communion"

  
  

• Pro-life Candidate Thompson Now Leads Republican Nomination, by Peter J. Smith. June 20, 2007.
  

• Bush Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Bill...Again, by John Jalsevac. June 20, 2007:

  For the second time during his presidency, George W. Bush has chosen to invoke his privilege of a presidential veto to veto a bill that, if signed into law, would lift the ban on federal funds being used for the purpose of destructive embryonic stem-cell research.
  

  Congress had already passed an almost identical bill about a year ago, which President Bush also vetoed.