Pro-life leaders worldwide are saying "enough is enough" regarding abortion pushes and other radical social engineering agendas being imposed on the world via the United Nations. LifeSiteNews.com spoke with pro-life leaders in various countries, all of whom were outraged that the United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Poland to liberalize abortion laws and implement sex-ed, contraception and gay-rights programs. The same [...]
Voters in Florida passed a constitutional amendment permitting the state legislature to approve a bill that would require abortion facility staff to notify parents of teenage girls considering abortion. The amendment won 65 per cent to 35. Twice the Supreme Court of Florida over-rode parental involvement laws claiming it violated the state constitution's privacy guarantees. While the amendment does not bring a [...]
The latest provincial court ruling to redefine marriage was delivered by a Saskatchewan judge in late October. The ruling was easy to justify, because the federal government lawyer responsible for upholding the law refused to defend the definition of marriage in court. Saskatchewan became the sixth province to stand the institution of marriage on its head. Even so, the rulings can be [...]
Each of the seven new Republican Senators are pro-life, a political shift that will likely ensure that pro-life legislation continues to pass Congress and make it more difficult to filibuster President Bush's judicial appointments. The biggest victory for pro-lifers was the defeat of the Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D, SD). Pro-life and pro-family former Congressman John Thune defeated the highest ranking [...]
Like many Canadians, I was closely watching what happened in the American election. I'm sure that Stephen Harper and Paul Martin were watching, too. But I'm not sure they will see the same things that many other observers saw - how decisive life, faith and family were to President George W. Bush's re-election. The political experts tell us that this presidential election [...]
Legend has it that Canada's first Conservative prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was interrupted on the hustings by a leather-lunged heckler, shouting: "I don't care what you say, John. My father was a Grit, my grandfather was a Grit and by golly, I'm a Grit, too." To which Sir John responded: "I take it that if your father and grandfather were [...]
Following the U.S. election on Nov. 2, and the extensive discussion of the role of pro-life, socially conservative and religious voters played in the electoral success of the Republican Party, Conservative party leader Stephen Harper demonstrated an obtuse inability to learn from success. Harper said that the United States and Canada are quite different countries and that trying to build a coalition [...]
Every year at about this time, there are reports of stores succumbing to political correctness and a a dangerous notion of multi-culturalism. They instruct employees to eschew wishing customers a "Merry Christmas" or they substitute the terms "holiday" or "seasonal" in their Christmas-time marketing and on their products. Other vestiges of Christmas are also being banished. This year, a Wal-Mart store north [...]
Canada Ralph Klein's Progressive Conservative Party was re-elected in Alberta. Ted Morton, a pro-life professor from the University of Calgary and the author of Borowski and Morgentaler, won his seat in the provincial legislature in the riding of Foothills-Rocky View. Morton is rumoured to be interested in running for the Conservative leadership when Klein steps down. In the Alberta Senate elections three [...]
'Values voters' made the difference in the vote Almost immediately following the Nov. 2 elections, the political left and their media allies began to blame socially conservative voters for the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. To cite just one example, a Chicago Tribune cover story was headlined, "Bush rides moral issues, terror fears to second term." Some on the [...]
I reluctantly tuned in to the third and last debate between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush. I was afraid they might have gotten into a fist fight. Well, nothing exciting like that happened. However, a lot of curious things did happen. There was a subtle attempt by both Bush and Kerry to grab the Catholic and evangelical Protestant vote. [...]
My Darling Baby; As you continue to grow and we continue to prepare for your arrival, I am constantly amazed at the excitement and participation your brothers show. Michael is more outward in talking to you and making plans for what he will do with you and what we need to get ready for you. Patrick, on the other hand, will often [...]
This summer, a humanist interviewed on CBC radio declared that his ideal world would not be based on religion, but on logic and science. In early October, Dr. Stanley Hauerwas (whom Time magazine named America's best theologian) stated, "Science tries to do more than it is qualified to do." "Science is only hypothetical," Rev. Dr. Ian Ker of Oxford University pointed out. [...]
On these pages, in my last column, I came down pretty hard on the mainstream political parties. Someone might even think I'll never vote again, or, at the very least, never vote for traditional parties. Don't get me wrong. I am not abandoning the Canadian political scene. It is just my frustrations are exactly what is causing so many other folks to [...]
I am a Knight of Columbus and can sincerely say that one of our greatest blessings at present is our Supreme Knight, Brother Carl A. Anderson. Mr. Anderson, who lives in the U.S., is an eloquent and fearless supporter of pro-life and true marriage. In the October issue of the Columbia Monthly Magazine, he wrote a beautiful article entitled, "Serving the Cause [...]