One unfortunate effect of the protracted struggle to obtain protection for the unborn, is that it has all been said so often that people tend to become weary of the discussion. Pro-lifers here were jolted out of any such weariness when the Charlottetown papers carried a letter by Henry Morgentaler, seeking to instruct us in modern realities. (Editor: Newspapers across Canada carried [...]
Moncton, NB. On November 25, pro-lifers from all corners of the province gathered here for their annual general meeting and workshops. Representatives from PEI and Nova Scotia also attended. Keynote speaker lawyer Angela Costigan held her audience spellbound as she outlined the kinds of arguments presented in a number of significant Supreme Court cases. Listeners gained a whole new appreciation of the [...]
Calgary Pro-life activist Michael O’Malley could be considered living proof of a remark by Erasmus, who once observed: “Some men delight in litigation.” The president of Campaign Life Calgary, currently involved in not less than four court cases, characteristically summed up this essential aspect of the pro-life struggle with a few well-chosen words: “You just have to be patient.” And with equally [...]
I accept in particular the death that is destined for me, with all the pains that may accompany it. – St. Alphonsus Liguori Two months ago we saw that food and water are routinely withheld from patients in Canadian hospitals. Last month we examined the attitudes of the groups and organizations most concerned with this practice. Now we are ready to ask [...]
Catholic pro-abortion or, as some call themselves, “pro-choice” politicians are meeting growing criticism from fellow Catholics. So are Catholic politicians who claim that while personally opposed to abortion, they must support pro-abortion measures “for the common good.” Each category is under fire in the United States and elsewhere. The one-million-member Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus, is under pressure to expel [...]
Here is a rundown of the current Liberal leadership contenders in alphabetical order. Jean Chretien, former MP and Trudeau Cabinet minister, 55, Roman Catholic. Long experience in government; populist appeal in English Canada but much less so in Quebec. Has accepted the obscene spending limit of $1.7 million for the leadership race thereby assuring big money control of party. Press has declared [...]
The extremism that characterizes some of the more enthusiastic and influential proponents of “inclusive” liturgy clearly delineates the threat of using feminist ideology to support the Word of God. Canadian theologian Mary Malone asserts that “in the language of the Church, women do not exist,” that “liturgy is mostly for men,” that “women are not challenged by the Word of God,” and [...]
The following is extracted from a new pamphlet entitled God. He/She? Inclusive language and its consequences by Donald DeMarco. The Interim brings it to our readers’ attention in our business of tracing the influence of radical feminism on Christian teachings and on the spiritual and moral nature of the family. The recent insistence on inclusive language is an obvious development from earlier [...]
On December 26, 1989 the Toronto Globe and Mail gave a detailed account of a dispute which has arisen in Ontario law schools. Michael Reilly, a student at Osgoode Hall, York University, wrote a letter in November to the student newspaper complaining about the unrelieved feminist content in one of his courses. Students and professors took sides; the next issue of the [...]
Test-tube baby clinics in Britain are putting women at risk of having babies born dead or severely handicapped because of the dangers of multiple pregnancies, the London Sunday Times reported on December 10, 1989. Some centres offering a new technique called FIGT are transferring as many as five or six eggs to a woman to increase her chances of a successful pregnancy. [...]
According to Michael Cuneo in Catholics Against the Church (reviewed in the new Insight supplement), all “Revivalist” Catholics he interviewed were against feminism. “All regardless of age and social standing view the Women’s Movement with undisguised loathing, and link it to the breakdown of family, community, and traditional morality in Western society,” he writes. So what’s new, you may say and hastily [...]
Human Life Review (150 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y. 10157-0072) an American quarterly with in-depth, scholarly articles devoted to abortion and related issue. Human Life Research Institute (225A Church Street, Toronto, M5B 1Z2, (416) 864-0065) produces publications with current research regarding such issues as abortion and sex education. Life Cycle Books (2205 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, M4C 1K4, (416) 690-5860) carries an [...]
As pro-lifers we are used to having the slings and arrows of outraged opinion hurled at us via the media. Considering that substantive arguments against our case are about as rare as snow in July, journalists – for the most part, overwhelmingly pro-abortion in outlook – favour the tactic of ignoring our arguments and stereotyping us as close-minded, mean-spirited fanatics. Not only [...]
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 [...]