When Campaign Life Coalition brought Charles Rice of the Notre Dame Law Faculty to Toronto on April 20, it set up a very demanding schedule for him. He was asked to speak to a group of clergymen at noon, to a group of lawyers and doctors later in the afternoon, and to a large mixed audience in the evening. All three of [...]
St. Eleanors, PEI. At its recent annual meeting here, the PEI Federation of Home and School Associations called for AIDS education programs to emphasize abstinence as the only authentic protection, and to promote high moral standards and positive ideals for young people. The meeting resolved to challenge Health and Welfare Canada (which is heavily involved in producing and disseminating AIDS education [...]
-At Home Strike against life Even when Manitoba burses went on strike January 1, 1991, babies still died in the province’s hospitals. “We consider abortion an essential service. There’s been no increase in the length of time a women has to wait for an abortion and we expect to keep it that way,” said James Rodger, assistant to the president [...]
Addressing the annual REAL Women conference held in Ottawa in early May, National President Judy Anderson slammed “totalitarian feminism” which she said has “hijacked government funding” and falsely claims t o speak for all Canadian women. Family Women Mrs. Anderson is the mother of two young daughters and a full-time special education with 20 years experience. She said “the [...]
Recently I saw a TV program on the subject of the increase of violence among young people. A few days later I came across an article in a secular paper on the same subject. Both the TV program and the article gave suggested reasons for this sad phenomenon and the common denominator seemed to be the breakdown of the family. This gave [...]
Norwegian Lutheran pastor Ludvig Nessa, 41, was taken to court earlier this year for opposing abortion (The Interim, February 1991). The trial initiated on request of the state-funded Norwegian Lutheran Church lasted two weeks. Contacted by The Interim, Margit Apelthun of Dagen, Norway reported that defense witnesses pointed to Nessa’s opposition to abortion as a prophetic action proper to a [...]
What a beautiful chance the Knights of Columbus in Stratford, Ontario had to show Premier Bob Rae recently what they thought of him, and his pro-abortion policies. But they muffed it. The Knights of Columbus, a large international Catholic men’s organization established over a hundred years ago, have recently had an identity crisis. In the United States they [...]
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An advertisement in the Globe and Mail for Thursday, April 25, disclosed that the Ontario government would entertain requests for oral submissions on Bill 8, the Natural Death Act, and Bill 7, Powers of Attorney Amendment Act (1990), by the following Monday, April 29. Briefs on these subjects were to be deposited with the Clerk of the Committee not later than Wednesday [...]
G. Emmett Cardinal Carter, 79, retired Archbishop of Toronto, attended a three day special meeting for Cardinals in Rome in early April to discuss pro-life issues. Before leaving for Rome he had indicated a desire to discuss Canada’s (defeated) abortion Bill C-43 at the meeting. As reported in the May 1991 issue of The Interim (p. 23), this move led Campaign [...]
The Church must find a way to enliven and support all who are generously waging the arduous battle in favour of the human person. In particular: Those spouses who in their families are generously open to the values of fertility and receptivity; All women who, against the many inducements to the contrary and in spite of the grave economic and [...]
From April 4 to 7, 1991, some 112 Cardinals met in Rome in a special meeting (Consistory) to discuss two topics: threats to human life and threats to the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the only Savior, by sects and false theologies promoting a world religion. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger opened the meeting with a penetrating theological survey while the Cardinals’ final communiqué [...]
In a follow-up to Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s categorical ‘No’ to condom promotion and information, The Interim contacted several Roman Catholic School Boards in Ontario outside the Toronto area. Peterborough Don Folz, the Assistant Director of Education for the Peterborough Northumberland Victoria & Newcastle RC School Board (23 elementary and three secondary with over 8,000 students), stated that his school [...]
New York. Contrary to the wishes of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers, New York major David Dinkins allowed a contingent of militant homosexuals to march in the March 17 parade. His honor was showered with epithets, jeers, and boos. Dinkins is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual; he had the ‘Gay Men’s Chorus’ sing at his own inauguration ceremonies as New York’s first [...]
Cecilia Forsyth, president of Saskatoon Pro-life, is retiring after 18 years of active pro-life work in Saskatoon. “It is with mixed feelings that I say good-bye to the organization of Saskatoon Pro-Life and to its faithful members and supporters,” Mrs. Forsyth writes in the May 1991 issue of Saskatoon Pro-Life News. “Just like many of you, I have a passionate [...]