The so-called New Age movement should be of concern to our readers as any widespread spiritualism or superstition should be. Its principal error is that it is fundamentally at odds with what God has told us about Himself in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and therefore presents a radically different interpretation of the meaning of life. Transcendence and immanence The Christian faith teaches that [...]
In late January, the Education Committee of the Renfrew County Separate (Catholic) School Board (RCSSB) ignored the formal recommendations of a group of parents alarmed over the introduction of premature sex ed. Since late November 1989, Parents in Control has skirmished with the local Catholic school board over the parental right to provide sex education. Renfrew County is located some 150 kilometers [...]
How would you answer someone who claims that if embryo experimentation produces a cure, e.g., for Down’s syndrome, it can be justified? M.C., St. Catharines, Ontario. For the sake of argument, and without prejudice, let us suppose such a discovery is possible. The argument of the end justifying the means is still untenable, for it is the identical argument used by the [...]
In a letter to his fellow New Democrats, NDP President Norman MacAskill of Cambridge, Ontario has called for support for “Citizens for Choice.” He reminds party members of the repeated affirmations at NDP conventions of support for abortion on demand and the prominent role NDP’ers have played all across Canada “in the struggle for abortion rights.” The need for Citizens for Choice [...]
On February 7, Liberal MP John Turner stepped aside as Leader of the Opposition. When he arrived in the Commons for question period he was greeted with applause from all parties. “John, you served Canada well,” said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The Interim is probably the only paper in Canada to disagree with the PM. John Turner served Canada in a variety [...]
Heritage of Violence is a report on wife abuse published last fall by the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops (AEQ). The 60-page consciousness-raising document was prepared under the auspices of the AEQ’s social affairs committee by a working committee of four women and two men, including Auxiliary Bishop Pierre Morissette of Quebec City. The report sheds little light on the pastoral needs [...]
Two conferences on child care Edited by Phyllis Schlafly eagle forum & legal defense fund, 1989 Until quite recently the accepted wisdom was that it was best for children to be raised in a family of loving parents (one of each gender was assumed) who knew their responsibilities and accepted the personal sacrifices required of them. Now, of course, that understanding of [...]
B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm did not do what newspapers, TV and radio had badgered him to do: he did not resign. On January 17 he announced his decision to stay Bully for him, said his supporters. Still it was a close call. It took him five weeks to make up his mind, after earlier losing six consecutive by-elections to the NDP [...]
The three-year-long struggle of Toronto Constable David Packer to keep his job ended on February 15, 1990, with his reduction in rank from Constable first class to fourth class. The next day officer Packer resigned. The decision of the Ontario Police Commission overruled the January 1988 decision of the Toronto Metro Police Tribunal to fire Constable Packer for having refused to patrol [...]
From his jail cell where he was serving 15 days in January of this year for rescuing at an abortuary last summer, New York auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan has warned New York Governor Mario Cuomo that his pro-abortion position puts him in danger of going “straight to Hell if he is to die today.” Cuomo, a Catholic, has held the view until [...]
Campaign Life Coalition, presented a clear message January 31 to the special Parliamentary Committee studying the government’s abortion Bill C-43. “Compromise on abortion means legalizing the deaths of some unborn children. We would not legalize the rape of some women; or legalize the abuse of some children already born. The theft of some money is not legal; nor is the murder of [...]
In Lumen Gentium, one of the key documents of Vatican II, we are told that “They are fully incorporated into the society of the Church who, possessing the spirit of Christ, accept her entire system.” It is therefore somewhat disquieting to find that, while accepting “her entire system,” and presumably being fully incorporated into the universal Church, one can nevertheless be relegated [...]
Even though it in based on a Ph.D. thesis is sociology, and is praised on its back cover by an apostate priest (Gregory Baum), this is an important book. On the basis of 111 interviews which he conducted in the Toronto area in 1985-86, together with other research, Cuneo concludes that Canadian protesters against abortion are not reducible to a single social [...]
“What qualifies as progressive liberalism is not at every point clear, and the ecumenical consensus is therefore a product of ongoing reality negotiation. Thus, the major churches have unanimously opposed the legalization of Sunday shopping ostensibly on the ground that workers deserve a guaranteed weekly respite, not, at least explicitly, because they wanted to salvage a traditional religious meaning for Sunday as [...]
Canadians have long lacked serious, in-depth studies of the pro-life movement. Until now, we have only seen books hostile to our principles (Not an Easy Choice by Kathleen McDonnell and The Big Evasion by Anne Collins) which have merely rehashed the pro-abortion party line. Catholics Against the Church by Michael W. Cuneo goes some way in restoring a balance. Cuneo, a sociologist, [...]