Allan Rock is a tortoise. He plods through life and wins all the races. Give him a goal – the higher the better – and off he’ll shuffle, perfectly content, quite unstoppable. Rock is a jogger – a serious jogger. Jogging plays to his strengths: miles prudently squirreled away day after day, his fitness steadily compounding. Serious joggers are the Swiss bankers [...]
The arrest of two picketers for displaying “obscene” signs outside a Toronto abortuary clinic should not be dismissed tightly by the larger pro-life community. Although one of the charges was eventually changed to mischief, the arrests indicate that public witnessing – a vital cog in the pro-life machinery – may be in for some hard times. Admittedly, some of the signs displayed [...]
Organizers in Toronto and across the country are busy with preparations for the sixth International Life Chain, scheduled for Sunday, October 6 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. Sponsored in Toronto by the North York Knights of Columbus and Campaign Life Coalition, the annual life chains are powerful visual reminders or pro-life solidarity. Life Chains are being organized throughout Canada and the U.S. [...]
Pro-life political pioneer Linda Gibbons was the subject of a play August 24 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Toronto. About 50 supporters attended “Linda” a play written by Trinity pastor Rev. Robert Munoz. The play offered a fictionalized account of the struggle of an individual in out a commitment of Gospel values. The 40-minute play was written to honour Gibbons [...]
Chastity is a tough call of Quebec’s distinct society, say organizers of a national youth advocacy group that promises chastity as an alternative to premarital sex. Rebecca Morcos, 25, founder of Chastity Challenge, says her message of chastity as al Lifestyle is harder to promote to French-speaking youth in Quebec’ “It’s harder to get into schools. They hear the word ‘chastity’ and [...]
Interim Staff The 800 students of Holy Cross School in Malton, northwest of Toronto, put their energy to good use October 31 to promote the defence of unborn children. On that day, the students mixed Halloween hijinks with a fundraising “dance-athon” in support of Campaign Life Coalition. The project, which was effectively combined with the separate school curriculum’s emphasis on social justice [...]
Pro-life activist Father Ted Colleton has been known to draw on other sources when preparing his regular column for The Interim. Perhaps in this season of giving, it is appropriate that we draw on Father Ted for a reflection on the Christmas season. The following passage about the family is taken from an audio cassette prepared by Gather Ted on the real [...]
SCARBOROUGH- Refining tactics for the next federal election is a top priority for Campaign Life Coalition according to delegates at CLC’s national strategy meeting in November 15-17 in Scarborough. Nearly 70 delegates from across the country gathered to discuss priorities and concerns during the three-day meeting. With talk of a federal election in the wind, delegates shared ideas on making protection of [...]
Interim Staff Pro-Life organizations give qualified support to a call by Reform leader Preston Manning that the Canadian Constitution be amended to protect the unborn children from abortion. Speaking in British Columbia in late October, Manning said he favors a law allowing a national referendum on abortion, euthanasia and other moral issues. He added, however, that he was expressing his own views [...]
Members of the pro-life, pro-family community are realizing the great urgency to form and join an international “Alliance of the Two Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary” to offset the impact of abortion, euthanasia, pornography, radical feminism and the anti-family mentality. The alliance is also aimed at ending the “culture of death” and its harmful effect on the family. The goal of [...]
A survey recently circulated among Canada’s pro-life community promises interesting findings about stress and burn-out associated with the struggle to defend unborn children. Entitled “Compassion Fatigue,” the survey is now being analyzed by Mary-Lynn McPherson, national coordinator of Nurses for Life. As a psychiatric nurse, McPherson has more than a passing interest in job-related stress, particularly among pro-lifers. The survey was distributed [...]
Interim Staff Students are a common summertime sight at most organizations and Campaign Life Coalition is no exception. Hiring students enables busy full-time staff to schedule much needed vacation time and to complete those projects requiring energy, leg work and attention to detail. Campaign Life Coalition’s Toronto office has benefited with the addition of three summer students who have taken on an [...]
Interim staff Pro-lifers are a lot like other Canadians when it comes to getting away from it all. They take their work seriously but they recognize the need to step back and take a breather from the daily grind. Many workers surveyed by The Interim look forward to their quiet time to recover from the pressures of continuing pro-life work. In an [...]
Mother Teresa sent a special message to the Habitat II delegates, who met in Istanbul to discuss housing and sustainable development. Dear Friends, Jesus came to bring us peace of heart, which comes from loving, doing good to others. Abortion and partial-birth abortion are the killers of peace in the world, the greatest destroyers of peace, for if a mother can destroy [...]
It makes for a good sound bite or quotation when a pro-life activist says the defense of unborn children is a 24 hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week struggle. The anti-life element is always active; the argument goes, so the effort to uphold the sanctity of all human life cannot afford to take a holiday. It’s one thing to persevere in an important struggle. And what [...]