William Brennan, 1995, Loyola University Press, 3441 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657 William Brennan’s book Dehumanizing the Vulnerable compares the language used against seven of the most victimized groups in the modern age. These are unborn, Native Americans, African Americans, European Jews, women, enemies of socialism in Soviet Russia, and those who rely on others physically and mentally. The similarity in [...]
Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Against Christianity by David Limbaugh (Regnery Publishing Inc., $41.95, 416 pages). Review by Tony Gosgnach The InterimWhen one thinks of the term "Christian persecution," visions of scenes in distant foreign lands may come to mind - Chinese Christians huddled in the dark by candlelight for house church services, or Sudanese Christians struggling for their very lives against [...]
Edited by Ian Gentles Stoddart Publishing, 1995. 131 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless You are a high-profile, public advocate against euthanasia, but in your private life your own father, dying of bowel, stomach and liver cancer, begs you to assist him in suicide. What do you do? Ian Gentles, the editor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate recounts how, [...]
When Life and Choice Collide Essays on Rhetoric and Abortion, Vol. 1 To Set The Dawn Free, Reviewed by David Beresford Cardinal Newman once said in one of his sermons, “Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones: and could they be brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination.” Oxford Sermons, Epiphany, 1839. The book [...]
Last September, in an article entitles “Relieving an adopted child’s anxiety,” The Interim reviewed a number of children’s books on adoption. Most were for young readers. The following will take a child into her teen years. While many adopted children fantasize about their birth parents Princess Alice by Nina Bawden, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1995, turns the fantasy into reality. Alice actually does [...]
Contradictory statements and faulty reasoning give readers a firsthand look at how one Catholic politician justifies his support for abortion – without feeling at odds with the Church’s teaching. I have just finished reading a book entitled Abortion, Conscience and Democracy. The author is Mark MacGuigan, who was a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1980. The book shows an extraordinary breadth [...]
Canadian Airlines. During a recent flight on this airline, one of our readers commented that before landing, the flight attendants went around collecting money for UNICEF, the UN’s notorious abortion-promoting organization. Whether or not this is a new airline policy, travelers should make sure that, before giving, they first determine where their contributions are being directed. Mark MacGuigan. Former Canadian Justice Minister [...]
Abortion, Conscience and Democracy by Mark MacGuigan, 1994, Hounslow Press 165 pp, $16.95 Mark MacGuigan, Judge and Canadian Minister of Justice during the last years of the Trudeau era, has written a dandy compendium for Catholics seeking to assert their pro-life standing while publicly going along with relaxed abortion laws. In his recently published Abortion, Conscience & Democracy (Hounslow Press), MacGuigan sets [...]
Alfie’s Home Written by Richard A. Cohen Illustrated by Elizabeth Sherman 1993 International Healing Foundation, P.O. Box 901, Bowie, MD, 20718-0901 Tel. (301) 773-5573 $14.95 US plus $3.00 US Postage Hardcover Ages 7 to 12. Love You Forever Written by Robert Munch Illustrated by Sheila McGraw 1986 Firefly Books, Annick Press $4.95 Soft cover Ages 3 to 6 For parents and teachers [...]
Going It Alone Unplanned Single Motherhood in Canada Janet Ajzenstat, Elizabeth Cassidy, Elize Carter, Gerald Bierling Human Life Research Institute, 1994 131 pages, $15.00 Order from HLRI (416) 693-7030 Many of the women in Going It Alone say they went on with the pregnancy because they knew they could be good mothers. The researchers observe that, “Their high regard for themselves is [...]
When is it Right to Die? Suicide, Euthanasia, Suffering, Mercy Joni Eareckson Tada Since a diving accident 25 years ago, Joni Eareckson Tada has lived as a quadriplegic. Sometimes her depression seemed as paralyzing as her spinal cord injury. When is it Right to Die? not only draws on her own experience with disability and despair but also looks at the lives [...]
Laugh, I Thought I’d Die My Life with ALS Dennis Kaye Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Toronto 264 pages, $25.99 hardcover Reviewed by Sue Careless For someone with a degenerative illness, Dennis Kaye’s got a great sense of humour. His muscles are wasting away with ALS. Yet the one muscle exertion that doesn’t sap energy but rejuvenates is laughter and Kaye employs [...]
Terry Anderson (New York, Crown Publishers, pp320, $29.95) How long could you stay sane locked in leg irons, blindfolded, housed on little more than a mattress, fearing torture and death at the whim of your captors, uncertain whether the person you love the most will be waiting for you should you survive? One year? Two? Three at the most? On March 16, [...]
A very broad interpretation of the terms “watching and besetting” has landed three Vancouver activists with suspended jail sentences for their pro-life counseling in front of Everywoman’s Health Centre. Christine Hendrix and Gordon Watson were handed a 15-day suspended sentence for breaking an injunction outside the abortion clinic. John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition B.C., said one of the picketers was [...]
Clement Loscher (Gaithersburg, MD, Human Life Int., 1992, pp 193) How abortion entered Ireland The word “scandal” is written all over this book. It is not the scandal of a 14-year-old girl (referred to simply as X) being denied an abortion – the event which brought Dublin students into the streets chanting “keep your rosaries off our ovaries,” brought shocked denunciations from [...]