Ontario NDP member Peter Kormos, now a backbencher, has a reputation for being Premier Bob Rae’s greatest nemesis on many issues, the most notorious being no-fault auto insurance and Sunday shopping. Some believe he will successfully run for leader of the NDP when Rae steps aside to enter the federal scene. In an informal interview with Kormos, the Interim’s Frank Kennedy tries [...]
Part I appeared in the July issue. It provided a brief history of how abortion legislation has changed during this century. Part II focuses on some of the important organizations which promote the anti-life, anti-family philosophy and concludes with a reflection on Ireland. Who are the people who promote abortion and why? The best-known promoter of abortion around the world is the [...]
In March 1992, in a Florida hospital, Theresa Ann Campo Pearson was born with anencephalia, a rare condition in which most of the upper skull and brain cortex are missing, but in which the partially developed brain stem can still produce breathing and a heartbeat. The parents – anticipating baby Theresa’s death in a matter of days – asked a Florida court [...]
Church and society Pope John Paul II, when he is not traveling, receives an unending stream of visitors, in groups or singly, dignitaries of every kind and every profession, local curial officials, bishops on their once-every-five-years visit, laity and clergy from every corner of the world. The Holy Father listens to their speeches or addresses and then almost always responds in kind. [...]
Highlights First the letter recalls some recent history. 1. In 1975 the CDF (Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) noted the distinction between the homosexual condition and homosexual activity, declaring the latter to be “intrinsically disordered.” 2. This led some Catholics to promote the view that while homosexual acts may perhaps be sinful, there is nothing wrong with being a [...]
Ottawa – Homosexual activists won a major victory August 6 when the Ontario Court of Appeal, siding with the “gay community,” declared that the Canadian Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it does not protect “sexual orientation.” Far-reaching The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen stated that the decision will, for two specific reasons, have “far-reaching implications”. First, homosexuals may use [...]
“Nothing certain in people figures” was the heading of a Globe and Mail story on June 6 related to the conference on the environment in Rio de Janeiro. Reporter Christina Mungan pointed out that just establishing how many people there are in the world today is a major problem. For example, Nigeria’s 1991 census showed that Africa’s most populous country did not [...]
Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe after 45 years – 70 in the old Soviet Union – of destructive presence. Feminism, in its modern and similarly destructive form, has a shorter (though related) history, but already the informed critique is exposing it and presaging its certain eventual collapse. Betty Steele has now contributed a second book (after The Feminist Takeover published in [...]
Toronto – The 1989 court injunction that prevented all pro-life activities within a 150 meter radius of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortion clinic on Harbord Street now applies to his new location at 157 Gerard Street East (several doors west of the Scott abortion clinic) – and to any new location to which he may move his clinic. During the two days of [...]
We have many non-Christians in Canada. What is the position of Islam on abortion and euthanasia? L.M. North York. Doctors at the 1981 International Conference on Islamic Medicine, held in Kuwait, issued the document. It answers your question. The Doctor’s Oath I swear by God…The Almighty To regard God in carrying out my profession. To protect human life in all its stages [...]
In the last four issues The Interim has been documenting cases of provincial intrusion into religiously run hospitals. Catholic hospitals throughout the country are under increasing pressure from governments to relinquish health-care management to the province. The provincial governments of Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and now Newfoundland contend that these takeovers will save money. The hospitals feel that their medical ethics will be [...]
The following are pronouncements issued by American Catholic bishops against politicians who speak on the abortion issue from both sides of their mouths. They are of interest to Canadians who face the same kind of politicians. “Values Void” St. Paul, Minn. In a July 9, 1992, column of the diocesan newspaper The Catholic Bulletin, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis admonished two [...]
Organizers of the upcoming Lift up Life Conference in P.E.I. are hoping that the positive mood generated from Toronto’s Save the Planet’s People conference will carry up the St. Lawrence and into the Maritimes. The list of speakers for the October 16, 17, 18 meet is extremely impressive and serves as an early indication that the conference will be as successful as [...]
Marjorie Reed, 50, is a Toledo housewife. She has a husband, Robert, who sells cars and a son, Jamie, 16, who is in high school. In a quieter, saner time she would grow old gracefully, caring for her home, her family attending to her needs. But in 1992, in America, the times are not quiet or sane. For her commitment to saving [...]
Four pro-life leaders, including the president of two national organizations, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition, have rejected the opinion of R.C. Archbishop Marcel Gervais that the pro-life movement has become “tragically divisive and angry.” (See Interim, June 1992, pp 18, 19 for the text of Archbishop’s May 3 address.) Archbishop Gervais is the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic [...]