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Here are some links about the battle between LifeSiteNews.com and Canadian Priest Father Raymond Gravel: Update on Fr. Gravel Lawsuit against LifeSiteNewsJohn-Henry Westen letter to National Post re: Gravel lawsuit articleFr. Raymond Gravel diagnosed with terminal cancer: launched lawsuit against LifeSiteNewsLifeSiteNews is being sued for $500,000 - this could shut us down!A key argument in this lawsuit is the following: [From the link above, quote from LifeSiteNews] Even though LifeSiteNews reports have overwhelmingly reported on what Fr. Gravel himself has publicly said, he is suing us for libel. Among other things, he argues that he isn’t pro-abortion, but he has...

LifeSiteNews.com Life, Family and Culture News Editorial: Fr. Rosica, civility, and Fr. Gravel’s lawsuit by The Editors Fri Mar 11 6:55 PM EST March 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Thomas Rosica wants desperately for the Catholic blogosphere to be more civil. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) readers will remember Fr. Rosica as the priest who, back in 2009, criticized LSN during an appearance on a Catholic radio program as “not credible,” “not ethical,” “not honest,” “bombastic,” “derisive,” and who said that, insofar as it is “divisive,” LSN is doing “the work of Satan.”  Since then the head of Canada’s Salt & Light Catholic...

LifeSiteNews.com Life, Family and Culture News LifeSiteNews is being sued for $500,000 - this could shut us down! by The Editors Tue Feb 15 1:52 PM EST It is with great concern that we have to inform our readers that LifeSiteNews (LSN) Canada has been hit with a lawsuit – by a Catholic priest of all things! Regular readers of LSN will need no introduction to Fr. Raymond Gravel – he’s the Quebec priest and former Member of Canada’s Parliament who, as we reported, said on a radio interview in 2004: “I am pro-choice and there is not a bishop...

fOTTAWA -- A Catholic priest was called a Judas and urged to defrock yesterday after he wrote a scathing open letter that condemned the Vatican's campaign against the legalization of same-sex marriage. Rev. Raymond Gravel said he received a lot of public support for his controversial views, but that he faced heat from a minority of churchgoers. He said he now expects a reprimand from his superior for breaking with the church's official position, enunciated last week. In a letter published in Montreal's La Presse, Father Gravel said the Vatican's position against same-sex marriage is "discriminatory, hurtful and offensive ....