The Ontario election is locked in – unless the Libs lose all the ballot boxes the night before the polls open, it’s still going to happen, guys. At least the provincial Libs can’t change the date because they don’t think they can win. They’re stuck with it. All parties are poll worshippers and if the party bosses don’t get their weekly fix [...]
Readers of this article may be startled by the title. At first glance, it appears that Jesus was a victim of the killer who wantonly shot some 32 people and then himself. Of course, that is not the case. Jesus was missing, however, from the memorial service held on April 17 on the campus of the ill-fated school. At that service, four [...]
In a landmark, five-to-four ruling in Gonzalez v. Carhart on April 18, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which the Congress enacted and President George W. Bush signed into law in 2003. In reasons for the majority in Carhart, Mr. Justice Anthony Kennedy described partial-birth abortion (also known as intact dilation and evacuation) as a procedure in which an [...]
On May 15, Jerry Falwell, the well-known U.S. televangelist, died at the age of 73. An obituary will appear in the next issue of this paper, in which his life and legacy will be remembered, but it is important to note not only his influence on American politics, but the lessons he provided to us all. A fundamentalist preacher who founded Thomas [...]
Rev. Pierre Allard, pastor and president of the International Prison Chaplain’s Association, relates a telling detail that speaks to the state of fatherhood today: “Come Mother’s Day, … chaplains are flooded with requests for Mother’s Day cards. In 21 years of ministry in prison, I am yet to be asked for a Father’s Day card.” This anecdotal evidence illustrates at a glance [...]
Planned Parenthood continues U.S. slaughter WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood has released its “service numbers,” reporting that it killed 264,943 unborn babies in 2005. As American Life League vice-president Jim Sedlak notes, that is 5,095 babies each week – a number representing more victims than either the attacks on Pearl Harbour (2,403) or 9/11 (2,985). Sedlak said that since PP began killing humans [...]
Canada Maclean’s reports that this year’s Fashion Cares AIDS fundraiser in Toronto featured a striptease in a faux glass of champagne by Dita von Teese. “Sitting close enough to get sprayed” were former Ontario NDP premier and Rosedale Liberal candidate Bob Rae with his wife, Arlene Perly Rae. Also in attendance were Liberal MP and former city councillorMario Silva and his “partner” of 12 years, Martin Forget, [...]
McGuinty ignores own Catholicism TORONTO – Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard asked Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty about Pope Benedict XVI’s recent comments in Latin America. They upheld Catholic teaching with regard to the responsibility of Catholic legislators to protect the sanctity of human life and uphold the traditional family. When they don’t, it is correct to ex-communicate them, said the Pope. McGuinty [...]
Fr. Benedict Groeschel, director of the office of spiritual development in the Archdiocese of New York, excoriated the moral breakdown of Canada, including abortion and same-sex “marriage,” at the Lift Jesus Higher Rally. At least 7,000 people attended the event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on April 7. Among the speakers were: Groeschel; Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries; Dana Scallon, [...]
It was perhaps appropriate that those paragons of the leftist media establishment in Canada, the Toronto Star newspaper and the CBC, would christen as a “secular saint” a woman who stood solidly for such “sacraments” of the left as abortion and homosexuality. Regardless, although she was praised for a number of truly good things she did, Canadians of conscience might be forgiven for [...]
On April 1, Dr. John Billings passed away at the age of 89. The Billings Ovulation Method (BOM), pioneered by the late Dr. John Billings, has had a revolutionary international impact as an effective, safe, simple, cost-free and scientifically validated method of achieving or avoiding pregnancy. A neurologist by specialty, Dr. John Billings began his first clinical studies of fertility in 1953, [...]
The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a statement clarifying the church’s position on euthanasia and assisted suicide. It is also calling on Catholics to question politicians about their stands on the issue. “Catholics, like all other citizens, have the right and duty to participate in the political processes of our democracy,” the bishops state. “Our elected representatives should be questioned [...]
New Brunswick has become the site of new pro-abortion battles because of its steadfast refusal to fund abortions in private facilities – and one of the generals is American. At a Fredericton press conference April 13, a coalition of women’s groups that included the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, the N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women and the Washington-based National [...]
He legalized so-called same-sex marriage in Ontario in 2003, despite the fact his daughter was involved in a same-sex relationship at the time, and partied with the very litigants involved in the case a scarce two weeks later. Now, it has emerged that Roy McMurtry is a friend of Canadian abortion king, Henry Morgentaler. A retrospective article by Kirk Makin in the Globe [...]
A dramatic episode of the popular evening television drama, House, that showed an unborn child from an opened womb grasping a surgeon’s finger during surgery, vividly demonstrated the humanity of the unborn. The Fox network drama featured a story line where a 42-year-old pregnant rock and roll photographer suffers a stroke and doctors discover the cause is a rare condition called Maternal Mirror [...]