Christianity is barely addressed in the information and entertainment media these days. When acknowledged at all, it is most often treated as an object of scorn and derision. Christian faith is simply not part of life for the vast majority of those fictional characters portrayed on TV and in films. When Christian characters occasionally get written into screenplay plots, they are almost [...]
My first reaction when I looked at the return address on the envelope was, Oh No! Some, parishioner or sister in Christ, has managed to get themselves thrown into the Vanier prison for women. Then as I read the letter, I remembered that just before Christmas when The Interim had suggested that we write to Linda Gibbons, that I had sent her [...]
Here in Canada, we usually associate Nebraska with three things: good folk, endless cornfields and top-notch football players. Recently, however the Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska released a controversial statement which has shaken things up in the sleepy mid western state. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has taken the step which a great many Catholic and many non-Catholic pro-lifers, have long awaited. On [...]
Workers on strike, students uncertain about the affordability of their education, families feeling the crunch of an increasingly hostile tax system, elderly worrying about their pensions—these are the problems which Canadians wake up to every day. The fact that no one seems to be realistically addressing these problems only adds to the crisis. At last, a window of hope may be opening [...]
A Nebraska bishop has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Catholics who belong to groups favoring abortion, euthanasia or the right to dissent from official church teaching. In a March 19 statement published in The South Nebraska Register, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln aid Catholic participation in such groups as Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society and Catholics for a Free Choice is [...]
Tony Gosgnach The black American community is bringing to the pro-life sphere the spiritual principles which guided Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaigns. U.S. blacks are planning their first Annual National Hour of Prayer between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on May 11, says Reg. Johnny Hunter, National Director of Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), which is sponsoring the event. LEARN [...]
A U.S. federal appeals court has struck down a 140-year-old Washington state law prohibiting doctor-assisted suicide. In an 8-3 decision March 6 the 9th US. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Constitution protects an individual’s “right to die.” It was the first time a federal appeals court has ruled on the issue. The decision is likely to be appealed to the U.S. [...]
Activists in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal challenge standing injunctions Interim staff It did not take long for the fallout from a controversial B.C. ruling to be felt across the country. In February, Justice E.J. Cronin struck down B.C. legislation which placed a bubble-zone around, abortuaries, barring pro-lifers from picketing, counseling or leafleting. Following this decision, pro-life activist Linda Gibbons challenged a [...]
Amidst the chaos of U.S. inner city-life, whites and blacks strive to free their community from the cycle of welfare and abortion Tony Gosgnach The Interim A unique and independent community service center in Orlando, Florida, is crossing racial lines and avoiding government handouts while putting a pro-life philosophy into action. Frontline Outreach is based out of a 3,780 square meter facility [...]
Warning: The following excerpts from a Vancouver Public Health department brochure contains graphic subject matter. The Vancouver Public Health department said in a brochure called Preventing Pregnancy that abstinence includes oral and anal sex. The 38-page brochure was distributed in Vancouver schools but after parental protest and media attention was withdrawn. “Abstinence is a decision made by both partners in a relationship. [...]
Sue Careless The Interim With reports from the Surrey/North Delta News Leader Planned Parenthood has been banned by the Surrey Board of Education as a resource for its sexuality program. The ban began January 25, when board vice-chair, Robert Pickering, submitted a motion to ban Planned Parenthood as a resource in the school district. The motion passed 3-1. Two trustees, Jim Chisholm [...]
Australia’s Northern Territory has passed the world’s first law legalizing euthanasia. The tiny tropical territory, with a population of only 180,000, recently passed a law which allows its terminally ill residents to ask doctors to end their lives. The bill was actually passed last year but had to be sent back for rewording. Pro-life groups as well as the Australian Medical Association [...]
Berton, Callwood, Hall, Forrester, Christie and Morgentaler honour founders of abortion group Pro-lifers put a crimp in plans to honour long-time abortion supporters Norma Scarborough, founder of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) and Toronto Star columnist Michelle Landsberg. Guests attending a January 29 dinner for Scarborough and Landsberg ran headlong into an orderly line of demonstrators, who braved cold temperatures [...]
The fifth annual Skate for Life was held on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa on February 10. “The Skate,” as it has become to be known, is an event where young pro-lifers come together and encourage one another in their pro-life views. It sends a powerful message to Ottawa: These young people stand for Life. This year highschool students from London, Sarnia, [...]
The very mention of homeopathy may elicit cracks about “Kentucky Fried Medicine” (27 secret herbs and spices). And the homeopathic principle, “like cures like,” may sound distressingly akin to alchemy. Still, when homeopaths criticize mainstream physicians today for being blinkered and narrow in their approach to health and disease, there may be something in the charge. “The whole of modern medicine is [...]