Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, By Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D., (Spence Publishing Co, $24.95 U.S., 174 pages) Should religious beliefs be subject to psychological analysis? Psychology should be irrelevant. Dr. Paul Vitz, a professor of psychology at New York University and at the Institute for Psychological Sciences in Virginia, bases the entire premise of Faith of the Fatherless, the [...]
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis By Robert P. George. Forward by John J. DiIulio (ISI Books, $24.95 U.S., 387 pages) In a day and age when the upholders of traditional morality and people of faith are finding it increasingly difficult to gain a hearing in the public square where they are marginalized by the reigning liberal orthodoxy, [...]
A southern Ontario pro-life advocate, who has supported the cause in several ways over the years, is now moving his support into the musical sphere. Peter Green is most well known in the pro-life community as the man who, for a number of years and for no cost, deejayed annual Campaign Life Coalition dinner-dances in Toronto. More recently, the St. Catharines, Ont. [...]
The Safer Sex Illusion by Dr. John B. Shea, M.B.B.Ch (Life Ethics Information Centre, $3, 52 pages). In The Safer Sex Illusion, the latest offering from the Life Ethics Information Centre, Dr. John Shea clearly points out the illusion that any kind of contraception is safe and without consequence. In fact, Shea points out that the so called safe-sex campaign has been [...]
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing by James V. Schall (ISI Books, US $24.95, 189 pages) Most Interim readers are probably familiar with this old saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." There is a great deal of truth in this statement. If a person spent every waking moment of [...]
One of the first editors of The Interim is being remembered as a man who could have a tough exterior at times, but underneath it all, had a kind heart and did much to help others, especially the unborn. Carl Scharfe died at the age of 57 on Jan. 25, after a four-month battle with cancer. He had been employed with Campaign [...]
Author indicts feminism, moral decay and multiculturalism for our woes The Death of the West By Patrick J. Buchanan St. Martin's Press, 320 pages, $38.95In a recent issue of National Review, John O'Sullivan argued that successful conservative parties draw upon three constituencies: economic and small-government conservatives, moral traditionalists, and patriotic nationalists. Since multiculturalism and Third World immigration have become sacred cows in [...]
Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World by Wesley Smith (Encounter Books, $38.95 in bookstores or $35.00 through the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, toll free at: 1-877-439-3348, 219 pgs ) Reviewed by Alex Schadenberg The Interim Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World (Brave New World) is Wesley J. Smith's latest book. Smith, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute and the legal [...]
Toronto pro-lifers are mourning the loss of one of their most stalwart and longstanding compatriots. Helen Burnie passed away on Dec. 3 at the age of 80. She was a prominent fixture on the Toronto pro-life scene ever since Henry Morgentaler opened his first freestanding abortuary on Harbord Street in 1984. "There weren't many like Helen," said fellow Toronto pro-life activist Dan [...]
Tributes are being expressed throughout the pro-life community for Father Tony Kelly, a Basilian priest and dedicated supporter of the pro-life cause. Fr. Kelly died peacefully of heart failure on Sept. 29 at Providence Centre in Toronto, following back surgery that left him without the use of his arms and legs. He had fallen into a coma during the last week of [...]
The Interim had the opportunity to interview keynote speaker Wesley J. Smith following his address during the recent Ontario pro-life conference in Richmond Hill, Ont. An edited version of that interview follows. Smith practised law from 1976-1985, during which time he was a partner in his own law firm and served on several bar committees. He left the full-time practice of law [...]
CLC staffer was to be in WTC days later While the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 took place hundreds of kilometers from the Toronto offices of Campaign Life Coalition, several staff and volunteers were intimately affected by the tragic events of that day. Samantha Singson, who works in the offices when she is not at school, had just returned from New York [...]
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Mary Ann Glendon (Random House, $38.95, 333 pages) Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard, leader of the Holy See's delegation to the Beijing Women's Conference and usually one of the clearest thinkers on the issue of human rights, has penned a fascinating but ultimately disappointing [...]
Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Interventionism, edited by Ted Galen Carpenter (Cato Institute, 1997, $15.95) It would be no exaggeration to say that Canada's elite loves the United Nations. The spirit of Lester B. Pearson is very much alive in the natural governing party, and none of the increasingly irrelevant opposition parties have even suggested Canada should withdraw from [...]
Ontario pro-lifers are mourning the death of Eunice Morgan, whom friends and family say put the word "active" in activist. A long-time supporter of both Campaign Life Coalition and Toronto Right to Life, Morgan was famous for her monthly meetings on issues affecting life, family and faith, held the first Thursday of each month. Rachel Di Fonzo told The Interim her mother [...]