Campaign Life Coalition's National President Jim Hughes has a simple message for pro-lifers in the run-up to Ontario-wide municipal elections November 10: "Seize the day." Hughes is hoping to stir people up, and raise awareness of the importance of municipal elections. "A lot of pro-lifers think it's only MPs or provincial legislators who can make a difference," Hughes said in an interview [...]
The recent death of the world's two most famous women within a span of five days was an extraordinary concurrence, especially since Diana, Princess of Wales and Mother Teresa of Calcutta shared a passionate concern for the poor and a personal friendship. In most other respects, however, their lives could hardly have been more different. Diana was born into wealth and privilege; [...]
Last month we contrasted the marked difference on life issues between Reform candidates in Ontario and those from the West in last June's federal election. We'll now look at some general election statistics and especially at how Members of Canada's 36th Parliament measure up on life issues. This analysis can be helpful for all members of the pro-life community during the mandate [...]
Marjorie Hopper brought the house down at the first Exodus International conference when she remarked that after God's work of grace in their lives, she and Sy Rogers could trade wardrobes. Marjorie and Sy are both recovered transsexuals. Marjorie had lived for 40 years as a man; Sy had lived 22 as a woman. Today both Marjorie and Sy believe God can [...]
In an issue dominated with passings, we must give some tribute to pro-life activist Maurice Lewis, who died September 5, the same day as his greatest inspiration Mother Teresa. It would probably embarrass Lewis to be mentioned in the same breath as the great champion of the poor, but circumstances, and a strong commitment to the unborn, have created such a link. [...]
Monsignor Edward Synan, a retired Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and the University of Toronto, died suddenly August 3. His death must be been sudden: at a lunch with colleagues at St. Michael's only a few days before, he showed no sign of illness. Born in Fall River, Mass., he received an undergraduate degree from Seton Hall [...]
Martin Sheen, the former Hollywood hellraiser tells Charles Laurence that watching his son lead a similarly decadent life fills him with remorse . . . Sheen's real name is Estevez; he is the product of a Hispanic father and an Irish mother. They were a big family, poor but loyal, and piously Roman Catholic. It is no accident that, for all his [...]
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's most influential opposition leader demanded August 26 that the government investigate a four-decade policy under which 60,000 people deemed genetically inferior were sterilized. Swedes, long proud of there social welfare system, have been forced to acknowledge an unflattering chapter in their past since a newspaper series recently looked at the 1935-76 involuntary sterilization program. Some have said robbing fellow [...]
Over 200 observers were on hand for the solemn unveiling of a pro-life monument just outside Toronto's Canadian Martyrs Church on July 26th in the city's east end. On hand for this occasion was Bishop N. D'Angelo who gave his blessing to the plaque commemorating millions of pre-born children slaughtered by abortion. Father Richard A. Love, pastor of Canadian Martyrs, was congratulated [...]
By Interim specialIn the debate on legalizing physician-assisted suicide, the pro-life movement may have found an ally in psychiatrists. That psychiatrists almost universally oppose physician-assisted suicide is amply discussed in an article published last fall in an American psychiatric journal. Authors Thomas Zaubler and Mark Sullivan, both doctors, note that psychiatrists oppose physician-assisted suicide because of their view that suicide is an [...]
STAFFORD, Va. - The California legislature is considering a measure that marks a concession to the population control movement by encouraging only "wanted" pregnancies. The U.S. Pro-life group American Life League finds the concept "extremely disturbing," said president Judie Brown. She is calling on lawmakers yo reject the proposal. A California assembly committee was scheduled to hold hearings on SB 522 in [...]
Mary and Philip Cooper were both born in England but Philip came to Canada with his parents when he was two years old. Philip was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire and Mary Graham Cooper in Darlington, County Durham. She came to Canada after serving in the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and working as an au pair in France. They met and married in [...]
NEW YORK - A small abortion rights group announced that it will make the so-called abortion pill available free to 10,000 U.S. women in research trials as a stopgap measure until the drug can be distributed nationally. The New York-based Abortion Rights Mobilization will expand its trials of mifepristone, the drug known in France as RU-486, said Lawrence Lader, president of the [...]
TORONTO - The family and those who support and strengthen it, have an especially important role at this time in history, said speakers at the annual meeting of the natural family planning group World Organization Ovulation Method (Billings) Canada. "It will be mainly through Christian families that Christianity will be brought into the new millennium. that is why Satan is working so [...]
LOS ANGELES - Citing a teenager's right to privacy, the California Supreme Court August 5 overturned the law here that requires minors to get parental consent or a judge's approval before having an abortion. The so-called parental consent law, which was passed by the California legislature in 1987, generally has not been enforced as it wound its way through the courts. But [...]