The Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology heard briefs from many individuals during its four days of hearings in Vancouver. The questions and comments of the commission members sometimes revealed their biases, but they acted professionally, said Ted Gerk, member of the Board of Directors of B.C. Pro-Life Society. Tainted The whole proceedings were tainted by the brief submitted by Dr. Steven Genus [...]
Covenant House in Toronto has abandoned attempts to build a youth hostel on part of a former school yard of St. Michael's Choir School in downtown Toronto. Des Burge, communications officer with the Archdiocesan Center said that at the moment the Canadian financial climate does not allow for much successful fund-raising. Toronto City Hall did not like the original plans and had [...]
Dr. Craig Seaton has always had a strong interest in the relationship between belief, especially religious belief, and behaviour. When he read an article in Christian Info (a Lower B.C. Mainland newspaper) featuring interviews with several of the people arrested for blockading the Vancouver abortuary, he was intrigued. What makes these people tick? What kind of person engages in civil disobedience? Why [...]
Rev. Ludwig Nessa, 41, a Norwegian Lutheran Pastor, is to appear before a court for opposing abortion. In Norway the Lutheran Church is the official church with the king as head of both church and state. As a civil servant therefore, Rev. Nessa has defied his employer, the State, which has legalized abortion. As a pastor, he has defied his bishop who [...]
They're all doing it! Shell, Du Pont, Dow Chemical, General Motors, IBM, Sears, Owens Corning Fiberglas and Pacific Bell to name a few. Having trimmed operating costs to the bone, these and many other fortune 500 companies are 'getting religion' in a renewed effort to increase profitability.BoardroomsPrayer meetings have not sprung up in boardrooms across the nation. Yet the religious jargon is [...]
During the past year or so I had heard about Bishop Austin Vaughan, the Auxiliary Bishop of New York, and his dramatic stand in defence of the unborn babies of America. He had taken part in rescues, been arrested, then tried and imprisoned. I had admired him from a distance but I didn't expect to meet him, hear him speak, celebrate Mass [...]
In our September 1990 issue, The Interim briefly reported on a change for the better in the U.S. media's abortion -reporting language. In the following article, Dr. Donald DeMarco expands on the U.S. media's shift toward greater objectivity. Between the Lines, a biweekly publication out of Los Angeles reports that the Los Angeles Times ' has banned the use of the term [...]
This is a true story that happened on Christmas Eve, 1990. This story will warm me during whatever Christmas Eves God has planned for the rest of my life. This story will also explain why I never intend to remove a silver cross and chain, put around my neck by a Moslem this holiday season. Deported Just a few days before Christmas [...]
"The new abortion law is a minefield for abortionists," claims Bev Daw, executive director of the Canadian Rights Coalition (CRC). "Doctors are not going to get away by hiding behind their lab coats," Mrs. Daw told The Interim Wherever we find evidence of a bungled abortion and somebody who feels angry about it, we're going to urge them to sue." Sloppy Mrs. [...]
Rev. Alphonse de Valk, 58, historian, author and editor of The Interim, celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as a priest on December 11, 1990. A few months ago, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) President Jim Hughes told him that CLC wanted to celebrate the anniversary and honour him. He replied, "There is no need for a celebration because in our Basilian Order silver anniversaries [...]
The Interim has tried to keep abreast of the growing strength of the ‘Dying with Dignity’ movement (See, for example, the articles “Doctors hear euthanasia warning” and “Dying with Dignity recommends that right to kill,” in our June 1989 issue). For November 1989 till March 1990, The Interim published four lengthy articles by Charles Eckman on the threat of active euthanasia and [...]
“It is nothing less than blatant discrimination that denied North Halton Pro-Life the right to participate in this year’s Acton Christmas Parade,” said that organization’s president Grace Steenhof, in early December. Bill Spielvogel, a volunteer fire-fighter of 33 years and chairman of the Parade Committee, said they were “simply following the steps of Georgetown in not allowing political groups to participate.” “But [...]
German unification took on a new meaning when pro-lifers from both (former) East and (former) West Berlin marched November 21, 1990 through the centre of the city. At one o’clock in the afternoon, four to five thousand people assembled outside St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in what was once East Berlin. Speakers included the Bishop of Berlin and pro-life leaders. A special guest was [...]
The Assembly of Quebec Bishops (AEQ) has outlined several conditions for an independent Quebec in a submission to the Quebec Belanger-Campeau Commission. The Commission has been holding hearings on constitutional changes. Most of the submissions so far have favoured a sovereign Quebec state. In a brief presented on November 13, three representatives of the AEQ explained that ‘reform’ would require the following: [...]
What is meant by ‘organic farming’? L.W., Toronto This is a development which some scientists see as a part of the ‘Brave New World.’ It is suggested that human beings could be developed for their ‘spare parts’. Women would be paid to have babies which would be aborted in order that they be cannibalized when doctors ‘harvested’ their organs—heart, liver, pancreas, etc. [...]