“At the end of the day,” says Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R., “we teach more by example than anything else. And that’s always difficult, because our example is not perfect.” Fr. Stan, beloved as the “Rapping Reverend” from the South Bronx, was addressing parents and teachers on the topic of “Reaching Youth in a Media Culture” May 16 as part of a three-day [...]
As a young man, Alex Schadenberg travelled the country promoting the culture of life. His parents, Harry and Mary Schadenberg, were pioneers in Canada’s pro-life movement. During his first year of university, Alex was elected the national youth president of the Canadian Youth Pro-Life Organization. In giving his talks across the country, he rubbed shoulders with Canada’s pro-lifers from all walks of [...]
He was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the 20th century and a figure who changed world literature. He was also a dedicated Christian who embraced Anglo-Catholicism and would almost certainly be a member of the Roman Catholic Church if he were alive today. Thomas Stearns Eliot, was born in the United States in St. Louis in 1888, but became a British [...]
Six young persons walk across the country for life What is Crossroads? On May 19, six young adults from across North America started their cross-Canada trek in Vancouver. In a span of 12 weeks, they will cross more than 5,000 km, taking them as far east as Montreal before arriving in Ottawa on August 11. As they walk, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with [...]
Euthanasia activist and convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian, 79, was released June 1 after serving eight years of his 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder. Lawyer Mayer Morganroth argued his client’s health problems and good behaviour justified early release from prison. Kevorkian was charged and found guilty of the 1998 second-degree murder (by carbon monoxide poisoning) of Thomas Youk, 52, who had [...]
British Columbia pharmacies will now offer Plan B “emergency contraception,” the so-called “morning-after pill,” without a prescription and without a mandatory informed consent sheet. The abortifacient drug, used to prevent conception or end early-stage pregnancy, can cause the death of an unborn human being in the first days of life by preventing him from implanting in his mother’s womb. The pill has [...]
The National Campus Life Network is expanding its staff to include a Western Canada co-ordinator. Sarah Buckle just completed a year with the NCLN as executive director for 2006-07 and her move to British Columbia has created the opportunity for a new staff member for it. The NCLN works to train, equip and network pro-life post-secondary students at over 40 post-secondary campuses [...]
Heavy television watching parallels a decline in moral values and a sense of personal responsibility, a new study by the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Centre has found. In a new Special Report entitled, “The Media Assault on American Values,” released by the CMI June 6, a clear correlation was shown to exist between an increase in the number [...]
Canadians concerned with preserving human life and the traditional family have a steep road ahead of them – one that will require an enormous effort to traverse. Nonetheless, in a united fashion, they must rededicate themselves to the cause and create a culture of life. That was the message brought by a longtime pro-life activist and the editor of Canada’s leading Catholic [...]
A report entitled “End-of Life Practices in the Netherlands under the Euthanasia Act” was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 10. The media are claiming that the report states euthanasia in the Netherlands has dropped since its legalization in 2002. When reading the actual report, however, we learn of a different reality than that presented in the media. [...]
In response to a debate on spanking that took place June 18 before the Senate committee of human rights, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada presented a research report indicating its disapproval with the proposed legislation. The debated bill, S-207, would take out Section 43 of the Criminal Code (allowing spanking), thereby forbidding parents from spanking their children and effectively making [...]
The spring 2007 issue of Conscience, the publication of a nefarious group of abortion promoters who call themselves, strangely enough, “Catholics for a Free Choice,” has announced its new president. Jon O’Brien, who worked as program manager at the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s European Bureau in London, replaces Frances Kissling. Kissling steps aside after spending 25 years at the helm of CFFC. [...]
Before responding to your question (see Eleanor Bridges’), The Interim wishes to offer you thanks for your poignant letter and our prayerful encouragement to you, your son and your family at this difficult time. You are struggling to reconcile your hopes for an ideal Christian family life with what seems right now to be an unbearable cross. Please know that, in your [...]
Pro-abortion party leaders will thwart pro-life nominations HOW IT WORKS For the next several months, voters in Ontario will be subjected to a government-financed propaganda campaign in favour of a mixed-member system of proportional representation. Pro-life voters should be wary of this ill-considered initiative of Ontario’s Liberal government. In a bid for votes during the last Ontario election in 2003, Liberal leader [...]
Yes: a real chance to elect MPP Proposed new system of election renews hope HOW IT WORKS For more than 30 years, our efforts within right-to-life organizations have been directed towards passing a federal law recognizing the rights of the unborn. Individuals, organizations and churches have been working on different aspects of this cultural war: activism, education, political involvement and the spiritual. [...]