Pro-life and pro-abortion rallies were held throughout the country, from Halifax to Victoria, mostly before or on Mother’s Day Mary 13. An added incentive for further rallies, mostly for pro-abortionists, was the final debate on C-43 Parliament. Halifax In Halifax, over 2500 pro-life supporters participated in a rally on the eve of Mother’s Day, making it “the largest anti-abortion demonstration in the [...]
On June 1, Bishop John Myers of Peoria, Illinois, issued what may well become a landmark pastoral letter on abortion. It explains in detail the Catholic teaching on supporting abortion. The bishop states that “striving for legal abortion is radically inconsistent with the Catholic faith.” Catholic politicians, voters, and especially theologians, priests and religious, who help “to make abortion more widely available,” [...]
Reacting to the news that Bill C-43 had just been passed by the House of Commons, a group of about 25 pro-lifers marched on Mary 29th from Parliament Hill and laid a wreath at the door of the Ottawa offices of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. According to a pro-life source, this action was taken to once again express the sense [...]
Statement of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on the passing of Bill C-43. May 29, 1990 Now that Parliament has given this country a new abortion law, all efforts must be directed to the continuing task of building a greater sense of the value of human life, removing any social and economic conditions that may contribute to abortion, and achieving better [...]
During the 1970s and early 1980s, I led several tours to such far-away places as the Holy Land, Rome, Lourdes and Ireland. With advancing years, I decided to leave such strenuous activities to younger people and had “hung up” my travel bag. But it was not to be. Early in February of this year (1990), I received an urgent phone call from [...]
“I’ll never get involved in that dreadful pro-life movement” So spoke Margaret Purcell fifteen years ago before leaving her native Australia. Today, she’s national Vice-president of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and editor of Vitality, CLC’s quarterly action newspaper. Margaret, 51, has always been pro-life. As a registered nurse she has refused to participate in hospital abortions. A quiet person, she never felt [...]
In October 1987, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a letter to the Catholic bishops on the subject of the pastoral care of homosexual persons. Authored by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and approved by Pope John Paul II, the Pastoral Care of Homosexuals – sometimes advanced by Catholics themselves – which were at odds with the teaching of the [...]
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 [...]