I accept in particular the death that is destined for me, with all the pains that may accompany it. – St. Alphonsus Liguori Two months ago we saw that food and water are routinely withheld from patients in Canadian hospitals. Last month we examined the attitudes of the groups and organizations most concerned with this practice. Now we are ready to ask [...]
The extremism that characterizes some of the more enthusiastic and influential proponents of “inclusive” liturgy clearly delineates the threat of using feminist ideology to support the Word of God. Canadian theologian Mary Malone asserts that “in the language of the Church, women do not exist,” that “liturgy is mostly for men,” that “women are not challenged by the Word of God,” and [...]
Feminist abuse of language The following is extracted from a new pamphlet entitled God. He/She? Inclusive language and its consequences by Donald DeMarco. The Interim brings it to our readers’ attention in our business of tracing the influence of radical feminism on Christian teachings and on the spiritual and moral nature of the family. The recent insistence on inclusive language is an [...]
On December 26, 1989 the Toronto Globe and Mail gave a detailed account of a dispute which has arisen in Ontario law schools. Michael Reilly, a student at Osgoode Hall, York University, wrote a letter in November to the student newspaper complaining about the unrelieved feminist content in one of his courses. Students and professors took sides; the next issue of the [...]
Test-tube baby clinics in Britain are putting women at risk of having babies born dead or severely handicapped because of the dangers of multiple pregnancies, the London Sunday Times reported on December 10, 1989. Some centres offering a new technique called FIGT are transferring as many as five or six eggs to a woman to increase her chances of a successful pregnancy. [...]
According to Michael Cuneo in Catholics Against the Church (reviewed in the new Insight supplement), all “Revivalist” Catholics he interviewed were against feminism. “All regardless of age and social standing view the Women’s Movement with undisguised loathing, and link it to the breakdown of family, community, and traditional morality in Western society,” he writes. So what’s new, you may say and hastily [...]
Human Life Review (150 East 35th Street, New York, N.Y. 10157-0072) an American quarterly with in-depth, scholarly articles devoted to abortion and related issue. Human Life Research Institute (225A Church Street, Toronto, M5B 1Z2, (416) 864-0065) produces publications with current research regarding such issues as abortion and sex education. Life Cycle Books (2205 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, M4C 1K4, (416) 690-5860) carries an [...]
As pro-lifers we are used to having the slings and arrows of outraged opinion hurled at us via the media. Considering that substantive arguments against our case are about as rare as snow in July, journalists – for the most part, overwhelmingly pro-abortion in outlook – favour the tactic of ignoring our arguments and stereotyping us as close-minded, mean-spirited fanatics. Not only [...]
Though it appears the New Age Movement appeals to many people, experts cannot agree as to how pervasive it really is. Some, however, claim that it is present in every form of mass communication – even in children’s cartoons with their emphasis on magic and “spirit guides.” The following is the first of two articles explaining the movement and its fundamental incompatibility [...]
“You’ve come a long way baby!” Or at least that is what a cigarette advertising campaign of a few years ago would have us believe. Today’s women need not stoop to secretive smoking, was the message. The feminist movement has put women on an equal par with men. Cigarette smoking is a personal behavior to be enjoyed by both sexes. Personal behavior [...]
In her column this month, Miss Prestwich has collected a number of questions on surrogate motherhood she has received over the last few months. What exactly is a surrogate mother? A surrogate is someone who is a deputy or a substitute. A surrogate mother is a woman who carries someone else’s developing child in her womb. When this is done for money [...]
The following was extracted from a Burnaby, B.C. parish bulletin, written by Canon E. Gale of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada. It concerns Bill C-43, the government’s abortion legislation. Someone who has actually studied the bill and subsequent pronouncements by government officials has told me: “The effect of this bill is to legalise the killing of unborn children, to make abortion [...]
The 15-member House of Commons Committee which will study Bill C-43 for up to two months beginning on January 30 is dominated by pro-abortionists. The Conservative members were hand-picked from among those who support the C-43 idea. Of the four Liberals, three are pro-abortion and of the NDP two out of two. Although it is unlikely that anything resembling pro-life views will [...]
Father Tony Van Hee and Joseph Bissonnette resumed their Fast for Life when Parliament reconvened on January 22. Van Hee and Bissonnette position themselves in front of the members’ entrance to the House of Commons each day from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pro-lifers plan to join them and to meet their MPs as a Parliamentary Committee considers the government’s proposed abortion [...]
Teenage pro-lifers mounted a rescue at Nikki Colodny’s Toronto abortuary on January 5th, at the same time as 7 other young offenders were on trial for their part in the injunction-breaking rescue at the Morgentaler `clinic’ in August 1989. Fifteen members of Teenagers Rescuing Unborn Tiny Humans (TRUTH) were arrested after effectively shutting down the Colony `clinic’ and preventing abortions. In the [...]