Dignity Canada held their annual national conference in Ottawa from May 8-21. Although Dignity claims to be a group intended for Catholic male and female homosexuals, it rejects the Catholic Church’s teaching that prohibits homosexual activity. Speakers attending the conference included John J. McNeill, a priest expelled in 1987 from the Jesuit order; Guy Menard, professor of religious studies at the University [...]
With a vote of 140 against 131, Canada’s House of Commons approved Bill C-43 on May 29, 1990. The Bill states that abortions may be performed for life and health reasons. The term “health” covers physical, mental and psychological reasons. An accompanying guideline notes that social and economic reasons are also to be included under this heading. The government of Prime Minister [...]
The end of the struggle for the Community of Concern group within the United Church is in sight. All indications are that they have lost the struggle to stop the “ordination” of homosexuals as U.C. ministers. (The use of the term “ordination” for the calling of men and women to the ministry in Protestant churches is really inappropriate because it has none [...]
Abortionist Henry Morgentaler’s Halifax court appearance was a two-week tour-de-farce in the Theater of the Bizarre. It opened with Morgentaler huddled outside the courthouse in a baby blue ‘Linus’ type blanket worn over his raincoat. It ended with his day-long pontification and rambling schizophrenic testimony. And in between, he fell sound asleep in court. While others testified, he walked about the courtroom [...]
Over the last six years there has been a number of pro-life bills introduced in Parliament in Britain. None has passed the committee stage because anti-life politicians have manipulated the system, but all were strongly supported both in Parliament itself and by the public at large. Opinion polls have shown quite clearly that most people are against abortion. So far, so good. [...]
We don’t see much in the mainline press these days about Faith, Hope and Charity. In the sophisticated West, we do see a myriad of stories written around the full spectrum of a new brand of human rights, pushed by lib-left activists who seem intent on attacking religion and tradition. Faith, Hope and Charity are from another era, and smug secular humanists, [...]
Mr. Justice Antonio Lamer, the most senior judge in the Supreme Court of Canada and a criminal law specialist, has been appointed the new Chief Justice. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced the appointment on June 27. In the view of the Canadian legal community, Judge Lamer is a law reformer. It is not surprising that a judge with a history of liberal [...]
Montreal – Jean Guy Tremblay, the man who says he was “shot at and spat on,” has published his own book after his former girlfriend Chantal Daigle, published her’s some months ago. Tremblay’s book is written by a legal assistant who worked for his lawyer and is entitled Qui a tue mon enfant? (Who killed my child?) In it he denies he [...]
At Home Fetal research nixed Early in April, a majority (72 per cent) called Halifax’s Daily News Hotline to register their opposition to the kind of experiments being carried out at Dalhousie University using the tissue of aborted babies. “It’s an extension of the initial evil of abortion,” said Cynthia Haughn when she telephoned. “Killing in the name of healing represents the [...]
A group of parents appeared before the Durham Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board (DSSB) May 22, to challenge a board policy which obliges children to attend sex education classes. One of the fastest-growing areas in Ontario, Durham Region is located about 30 miles west of Toronto. Director of Education, Dr. Earl J. Lagroix, maintained that the practice of not excluding students [...]
Wherever she goes she is recognized. Whether it’s jogging along a city street or sitting in a downtown care, heads turn and mouths whisper, “It’s her! Madonna!” Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone is unquestionably the queen of pope music. To her credit she has held this title for seven continuous years – quite an accomplishment considering the number of other superstars who have [...]
On June 16, the Family Coalition Party (FCP) held its first information meeting for the coming Ontario election. Fifty-two members gathered at Toronto’s Skyline Hotel to go over the fundamental points of organization, riding associations and state of readiness. The three-hour information and discussion meeting was followed by a successful $30-a-plate fund raising banquet at a Scarborough church hall, attended by 200 [...]
Ontario Knights of Columbus, attending their 87th Annual Meeting in Toronto on May 18-21, voted down a resolution that would have compelled K of C Councils to withhold financial support to any hospital that does abortions. Over six hundred voting delegates representing Councils from all over Ontario voted to reject the resolution by a show of hands. Before debate on the resolution [...]
New Jersey governor James Florio tendered his resignation form the Knights of Columbus on May 19. On May 18, Bishop James McHugh of Camden, N.J., in an address to the Knights’ State Convention, had called members who reject Church teaching on abortion “an embarrassment.” Diocese cancels speech At the suggestion of a Providence, R.I., diocesan school official, a Catholic high school in [...]
Most Rev. Jean-Louis Plouffe Provincial Chaplain of the Ontario Knights of Columbus, a Catholic lay order, said in an exclusive interview with The Interim that he agrees with recent advice that new members should be admitted to the Order even if they are not practicing the Catholic faith at the moment. But they should indicate that they intend to resume practicing the [...]