The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade by William J. Bennett, Chester E. Finn Jr., and John T.E. Cribb Jr. (Free Press, $44.50 hc, pb, 666 pages)The Educated Child, written by a former US Education Secretary (Bill Bennett), a professor of education (Chester Finn) and a former education department bureaucrat (John Cribb), was published two years ago but [...]
I'm Still a Radical: An Anthology of the Writings of Father Ted Colleton, C.S.Sp. Interim Publishing Company Ltd. Toronto $15 Good old Father Ted. What an inspiration he has been for an entire generation of pro-lifers throughout this country and beyond. First taking up his pen for pro-life upon returning to Canada in 1971 from mission work in Kenya, Father Ted has [...]
Life is a Blessing: A Biography of Jérôme Lejeune by Clara Lejeune (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), tr. by Michael J. Miller from the original French, La Vie est un bonheur: Jérôme Lejeune, mon père, 156 pp. $12 USD, $18 CAD, ISBN 2-7413-0163-8. The name Jérôme Lejeune is well known to Canadian pro-lifers. The distinguished geneticist crossed the Atlantic several times to [...]
William Gairdner offers a sobering diagnosis of our dangerously corrupt political culture The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out by William Gairdner (Stoddart, $50, 534 pages)William Gairdner, author of The Trouble with Canada and The War Against the Family, now takes aim at the problems with democracy in The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out. According to Gairdner, Canada and [...]
Anti-euthanasia leader wants a 'human rights bioethic' Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $36.75, 285 pages). In Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Wesley J. Smith, author ofForced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder and an attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, indicts [...]
Prominent Montreal bioethicist opposes cloning, but aims for elusive balance on abortion The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit by Margaret Somerville (Toronto: Viking, 2000). 344 pages, $33.99 CAD. Margaret Somerville, founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, says in The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit that it is time for the [...]
First Things, a "Survey of Religion and Public Life" edited by Father Richard John Neuhaus, caused a stir in the academic and journalistic communities when it posed the question, "The End of Democracy?" in its November 1996 issue. Going beyond the debate over judicial activism in the United States, the symposium questioned whether or not "conscientious citizens can [any] longer give moral [...]
Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (Doubleday, $37.95, 260 pages). While Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher's The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially may seem a tad shallow in pointing to why marriage is a good thing, it is a wonderful tonic to the cultural [...]
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study by Judith Wallerstein Julia M. Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee (Hyperion, $35.95, 347 pages). The conventional wisdom about divorce and children - that family breakups are, at worst, a temporary difficulty for kids - is so wrong that new research about the long-term negative effects on children of divorce must force a re-thinking [...]
Alone: A Grandmother's Struggle for Life, by Gord Truscott, with foreword by Fr. Ted Colleton. Softcover, 109 pages, $10. Available from Campaign Life Coalition Canada 104 Bond St. Toronto ON M5B 1X9 tel. (416) 204-9749 fax (416) 204-1027. Review by Cathrina Keet The Interim My dream in life is to make a difference. With love, strength and determination, Linda Gibbons has made [...]
Review by Pat Hansard The Interim Every woman who has given birth has a story to tell. When a woman has an abortion, she also has a story, but it's likely she will never tell anyone. For those who have been touched by abortion, telling the story is one of many healing steps on the road to recovery. They stand in the [...]
Review by Christina Nair Beyond Gay, by David Morrison (Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1999) The best person to witness to God's power to save and rescue in a given situation is a person who has been in that very situation and who has experienced God's saving power first-hand. David Morrison, author of Beyond Gay, was a gay activist for several [...]
Her choice To Heal: Finding spiritual and emotional peace after abortion by Sydna Masse and Joan Phillips (Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998). Softcover, 122 pages. Distributed in Canada by Cook Communications in Paris, Ont. Reviewed by Deborah James-Josipovic The Interim "We are everywhere. We are in churches. We are in shopping centers. We are in grocery stores. We are in daycare centers. We [...]
By Donald DeMarco The Interim John Irving is a well-known novelist and short story writer. He established his reputation in 1978 with The World According to Garp, which was made into a film in 1982. In his latest book, My Movie Business: A Memoir (Knopf, 1999), he presents his view on abortion and his attitude toward right-to-life advocates in the following [...]
Novelist and painter Michael O'Brien reminds us that, even in our present culture of death, ‘the darkness cannot overcome the light' By Sue Careless The Interim No one, least of all Michael O'Brien, expected his novel Father Elijah to be a publishing success. O'Brien had established himself as a painter and received commissions from churches that enabled him to modestly support his wife [...]