As estimated 15 to 30,000 Canadians endured cool, drizzly weather in Ottawa September 17 to hear religious leaders, evangelists and the leaders of the pro-life movement denounce a government and a nation that permits the killing of its youngest and most defenseless citizens. Of the 35 speakers who addressed the day-long rally, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the star attraction. The 78-year-old [...]
Recent years have seen a rapidly escalating erosion in family life in North America. Professor Lee Salk of Cornell University Medical College and President of the American Psychological Association’s division of child and youth services has stated: “Society is finding more and more ways of separating children from their families…We are expending more and more money outside the home on child care [...]
For years pro-life Roman Catholics in the United States and Canada have been accused of caring only about abortion. Beginning in the mid to late sixties, some people began to argue that housing, taxes, immigration, Guatemala, El Salvador and South Africa, and other economic-political issues were as important, if not more so, than contraception, divorce, abortion, homosexuality or extra-marital sex. In the [...]
“There is no greater contribution to be made for world peace than to seek a Canada which is an abortion-free zone,” cried Rev. Ken Campbell, President of Choose Life Canada, before a crowd of close to 1,000 people gathered for the Rally for Life at Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square on Thursday evening, September 8. Lifeline relay Campbell welcomed some 30 relay walkers, [...]
Winifride Prestwich The outcome of the November 1988 elections in the United States will have a profound effect on the pro-life struggle, and it is likely that the repercussions will be felt far beyond the U.S. national boundaries. The lives of untold millions of pre-born babies will depend on both the philosophy and policies of the next President (especially with his power [...]
Municipal Depravity The acting Medical Officer of Health in Toronto, Dr. Bryan Gibson, is recommending that a free bottle of bleach be given to illegal drug users so that they can sterilize their needles. He called this a “vital first step” in reaching intravenous drug users and thus helps prevent the spread of AIDS. “I don’t see it as encouraging drug use,” [...]
The full-page ads make it seem sinful not to succumb to the temptation of seeing the most controversial film of recent times. It is praised as “deeply felt and ultimately faith affirming,” “as spiritual and involving a film as you are likely to see this year,” “one of the most serious, literate, complex and deeply felt religious films ever made.” Jay Scott [...]
A homosexual lobby group – has a member sitting on the advisory committee that will oversee this counseling programme (and a curriculum unit on homosexuality). At the same time, the Board refused to allow any parent to sit on this committee. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS COUNSELLING PROGRAMME WILL BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF MY CHILD. I, ______________________________________ Do not [...]
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Montreal According to University of Montreal, demographer Nicole Murcil-Gratton, Quebec’s low birth rate is the result of mass sterilization in the seventies and eighties. About 40 per cent of all couples between 20 and 44 years old have one partner who is sterilized. Quebec has the second lowest birth rate in the western world after West Germany. Before 1960, Quebec had the [...]
I am writing this article on a lazy, hazy, humid afternoon. It is August 3, to be precise. It will not appear in print for several weeks but the principles will still be valid. Three things roused me to write on this sultry day. The first was the announcement this morning that “Prime Minister Mulroney has at last broken his silence on [...]
“The teaching of human sexuality is now the rule in most jurisdictions,” states Sex Education in Canada: A survey of policies and programs. “It is taught at all grade levels from kindergarten to the end of secondary school.” But despite this universality, authors Janet Ajzenstat and Ian Gentles conclude that without “statistically sound Canadian studies,” it is impossible to know what impact [...]
A decline in teenage pregnancy in Ontario of married adolescents has been more than offset by a three per cent rise in the unmarried adolescent pregnancy rate, and an eight per cent increase in abortion among the unmarried. These facts were contained in a report submitted to the Ontario government in 1986 (latest figures available) by two independent Ontario researchers, Orton and [...]
Roman Catholic tradition has consistently taught the marital act, governed by chastity, is the only legitimate sexual expression of love and life. Author Coleen Kelly Mast sees chastity as the proper use of our sexual powers according to God’s plan. Continence, sexual self-control, is completely in tune with physical, mental and social health. Chastity is healthy sexual behaviour, consequently, permissive sex is [...]
Joe Daniels, 31, a police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, helped to arrest and remove pro-lifers in the first rescue mission in the city on May 16, 1988. He resigned the same day. Daniels is a devout Methodist who had heard of, and admired, David Packer. He told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger: “By carrying out my sworn duty as an officer, I realized I [...]