Another time when Catholic leaders ignored a public figure’s support of the abortion and anti-family mentality occurred at the funeral of former Quebec Premier René Levesque, in November 1987. Once more, caution is in order because this incident again involves church-state relations. As explained earlier, even in the best of times different people can view such matters from different perspectives. Still, I [...]
New York – Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York, perhaps the first U.S. bishop to serve a jail sentence, said that his night in jail in Chester Country, Pa., on November 18, gave him no sense of guilt – and that he slept well. “I had even more than a clear conscience,” he said. “I had a sense of purpose.” Along [...]
Sabina McLuhan deserves a symbolic Valentine from The Interim staff and its readers. She is leaving her position of the last four years as editor of the newspaper. She will remain a contributing editor, however, writing her monthly column and other articles from home. Sabina’s first calling as a mother summons her. She is leaving her demanding and time-consuming post to spend [...]
The Not In My Backyard-NIMBY-syndrome is stopping the expansion of a United Church sponsored home for single mothers in Toronto. Victor Home has been located in a mostly residential section of Metro Toronto since 1948. It now houses 18 low-income women and four children. Proposed expansion plans called for building townhouses which would house up to 66 mothers and children. East York [...]
If a pregnant and frantic teenager threatens to commit suicide unless she gets an abortion, wouldn’t an abortion be the lesser evil? A short answer is that records show that the girl would be much more likely to commit suicide if she had an abortion, rather than if she were refused one. A study published in 1971, showed that 13,500 women were [...]
Despite very strong opposition among rank and file members, the United Church reiterated its acceptance of active homosexuals as ministers in November 1988. Last August the General Council of the Church formally approved ordaining practicing homosexuals as ministers, a policy which earlier appears to have been permitted on an occasional basis in some places. Organizations such as the United Church Renewal Fellowship [...]
The media’s campaign against B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm continues unabated. For two years now reporters and columnists have been predicting his downfall, always hoping that their columns might help bring it about. At first amused, then annoyed at a politician who actually believes that his Christian faith ought to inspire his public actions, the Toronto media people became alarmed and even [...]
Among the many insults hurled during Operation Rescue, a constant refrain was that pro-lifers do not care about the women who go to have abortions. One chant, “Campaign Life, your name’s a lie, and you don’t care if women die.” The complete falsity of such an accusation was demonstrated horribly and graphically throughout the three days, and particularly, at the Scott abortuary [...]
An abortion pill called a contra gestation pill may be marketed in Canada if abortion is not considered a criminal act in the future, a large Montreal-based pharmaceutical firm hinted recently Roussel Canada Inc., is considering asking the Health Protection Branch of the federal government for permission to market the drug RU-486 under the name Mifespristine, in Canada. The drug causes an [...]
Washington – U.S. President George Bush declared legalized abortion “a great American tragedy” on January 23, his first working day as President. He urged the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 decision which opened the gates to a flood of abortions. He told 45,000 cheering pro-life demonstrators at the White House on the anniversary of the decision: “I think the Supreme Court [...]
Halifax – Nova Scotia’s Medical Board granted Henry Morgentaler a general practitioner’s license on December 19, 1988. “He is fully licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia,” declared the Board’s Registrar Dr. Bernard Steele on January 17, 1989, when the story became public. Like medical boards elsewhere, the Board in Nova Scotia sees no contradiction between medicine and the extinguishing of unborn [...]
Toronto police are under attack from many quarters just n w. Since an officer recently shot and killed a black youth who had been attempting to hit them with a stolen car, the police have been painted as intrinsically “racist.” Just days before the rescue, police spokesmen called for support from the public to help restore the force’s battered morale. Obviously, standing [...]
Toronto’s first Operation Rescue of 1989 was marked by episodes of violence by pro-abortionists, excessive police force against some of the rescuers, and an unprecedented number of arrests. Latest police estimates put the number of arrests at 200, all pro-life rescuers. The three-day rescue in Toronto on January 12-14, was Canada’s contribution to the International Days of Rescue called by American Operation [...]
A recent letter in the Toronto Globe complained about a reference to AIDS as a homosexual disease. It wasn’t so, the writer stated, accusing the person making the original statement of homophobia (hatred or fear of homosexuals). The real fear today, however, is associated with the refusal to admit that it is a homosexual disease; over nine-tenths of those in Canada who [...]
“I love talking about myself, I just don’t want others talking about me,” replied Father Ted Colleton when I requested a visit to discuss this column. Mixing mischievous humour with gracious Irish hospitality, he declares brightly, “Come about ten in the morning so I can tell you what questions to ask me and them we’ll go to lunch.” And so began the [...]