Randy Terry has been sentenced for two years in jail for his role in the 1988 Atlanta, Georgia rescues. Operation Rescue’s director, Randall Terry was sentenced October 5 for trespassing and illegal assembly by Fulton County, Ga. Judge John Bruner in Atlanta. Judge Bruner offered Terry a suspended sentence if we would pay a $1,000 fine and accept banishment from the Atlanta [...]
Toronto’s Metro Separate (Catholic) School Board (MSSB) voted 20-3 October 19 to implement a sex-education program for grade 3 and 4 students. The program, to be effected immediately, will include limited instruction on human reproduction “appropriate for the age group,” program author Dr. Sylvia Santin said. The Fully Alive Program will also instruct students on religious and social developments such as family [...]
Statistics Canada reports that the number of divorces in Canada soared to 86, 985 in 1987, up 100 percent from the 78, 160 in the previous year. The Ontario figure of 34, 233 was actually up 19.5 percent. Alberta was the only province in which the number fell. Easier access under the 1985 Divorce Act – whose provisions were not in place [...]
On February 12, the London Sunday Telegraph used a survey by Gwynn Davis and Mervyn Murch of Bristol University as the basis for a discussion on the consequences of divorce. The paper’s account opened with a description of a “sad little ritual” conducted by court welfare officers, in which a man and a woman stand formally and struggle to find words to [...]
This is our second story on the Green Party. For the first one, see Sabina McLuhan’s column in the November Interim. – Editor For years the media in Britain have quietly ignored the policies of the Green Party. Not so, this year. On September 17, 1989, the Party hit the headlines with its claim that couples living in a Green-governed Britain would [...]
B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm is a Catholic. His seat mate in the legislature, Nick Loenen, is a member of the Christian Reformed Church. In October Loenen protested a proposal to drop a clause from the Social Credit Party’s constitution calling for fostering and encouraging the universally recognized principles of Christianity in human relationships. “We live in a Culture that is certainly [...]
On Saturday, October 28, a group of 100 delegates assembled in Peterborough, Ontario, for the second annual meeting of the Family Coalition Party (FCP) of Ontario. Delegates came from all corners of the provinces to evaluate the Party’s progress, to set new goals, to discuss and ratify new policy and to elect the Provincial Executive for the coming year. Enthusiasm and a [...]
Toronto. Several hundred hard core CARAL pro-abortionists demonstrated in front of the Progressive Conservative headquarters in Toronto on Sunday evening, November 4. From there they marched past Campaign Life Coalition offices on the third floor of a building nearby. Expressing their train of thought, they smeared the front door with manure. The Toronto Star gave this rag-tag band full coverage on the [...]
At Home Liberal with chutzpah Never is heard a discouraging word from Ontario Premier David Peterson’s Liberal caucus. That is until Etobicoke Humber MPP Jim Henderson had the courage to stand up for his principles. In his riding newsletter, Henderson recently condemned the “political opportunism when a [Liberal] government sanctions abortion-on-demand, or passes the tricky business of open Sunday shopping to the [...]
If our lives have gone astray, it is largely because our ideas have gone astray. This was the theme of an important address given by Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to a gathering of bishops in Vienna last May. (text in Oservatore Romano, July 24, 1989) If abortion is a problem today for example [...]
In last month’s Interim I described life in prison from the negative point of view. The humiliation and degradation of being reduced to the status of a beast—locked behind bars, bereft of normal privacy, which is part of civilized living, spoken to as if one were a dog. That is certainly a very real and tangible aspect of prison life. However, there [...]
In this first of a four-part series dealing with the removal of food and water from seriously ill patients, Mr. Eckman sheds light on what is happening today in Canadian hospitals. “Feed the man dying of hunger, because if you have no fed him you have killed him.” – Gratian, quoted in The Church Today, No. 69 (Vatican II) “I’ve pulled the [...]
When Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb: and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art though among woman, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. (Luke 1:41) “It isn’t a child,” said the Council, “No it isn’t a child,” said the King. “It’s [...]
The following parable was forwarded to us from Britain via Paul and Sheila Formby of Vancouver, B.C. In the peaceful city of Vancouver, a new “clinic” opened up, using surgical instruments to kill young children. A clergyman passing by saw the new clinic, and was very sorry. But he was a busy man. He consulted his appointment book, and saw that he [...]
Autumn is my father’s favorite time of year. The heat is no longer unbearable, the leaves are radiant with color and the vegetables my parents have nurtured since the spring are ready to be picked and savored. This fall our Lord had something a little different in mind for Dad. On August 23, over 90 men and women were arrested for participating [...]