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 [...]
It has all the trappings of a deliberate, calculated set-up. I'm talking, of course, about the recent CTV W-Five television program dealing with pro-life crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs). You know the program. W-Five are the slobs who, many years ago, televised a Henry Morgentaler abortion on Mother's Day. Brave buffoonery at its finest. W-Five used a hidden camera and went in on false pretenses, [...]
Caring Foundation ads designed to appeal to feelings and concerns of abortion-minded women By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Alliance for Life Ontario is optimistic that its soon-to-conclude TV ad campaign will convince young women in crisis pregnancies that there are several readily available alternatives to abortion. The Alliance for Life Campaign 2000 featured pro-life television commercials broadcast on 19 TV stations, including [...]
By Grace Petrasek The Interim The outside of the building needs a facelift and the inside needs fixing, but now Fredericton has a much needed crisis pregnancy center. Located next door to the well-appointed downtown abortuary, in the area that encompasses a Catholic church, a public school and gathering places for many of the city's 5,000 university students, the new Mother and [...]
Karen Shoffstall is dead. She was young, she was pretty, she had so much to live for. But she is dead. At the age of 30 the New York resident and Guelph, Ontario native was diagnosed as suffering from multiple sclerosis. The illness is a terrible one, but there are numerous people who live with it for many years, enjoying a fine [...]
The Best of Michael Coren on LifeSite in Real Audio (Interim Publishing, Toronto, $15). Review by Paul Tuns The Interim Interim readers will be familiar with journalist and broadcaster Michael Coren, not only from his column in this newspaper, but also from his writing in the Sun newspapers, his many books, and his Crossroads television show, Michael Coren Live. It's likely, however, [...]
By Mary Ellen Douglas The Interim It seems the pro-life family has experienced so many difficult and trying problems in the last short whole. Two million babies killed in their mothers' wombs, the arrival of chemical abortions, attacks on born children, and the threats and reality of euthanasia. But God in His infinite mercy chose to bless us with the happiest event [...]
By Grace Petrasek The Interim Recently, Robert Hinchey, co-counsellor with Joanne Dieleman at Toronto's Aid to Women, was chatting with a couple headed for the abortuary located next door. As they spoke, an abortuary employee darted from within and screamed, "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. They're all crazy up there. He's crazy. Don't listen to him." Later, while reflecting on this [...]
Fr. Ben Hermann OMI - a big man who cast a giant shadow By Margaret Purcell The Interim Those who keep archives will say that Fr. Bernard Michael Hermann was born on Oct. 21, 1922 in Odessa, Sask. In 1940 he entered the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate novitiate at St. Charles, Man. He professed his first vows on Sept. 15, 1941. [...]
By Mary Ellen Douglas The Interim The pro-life movement lost a valiant warrior and a great leader when God called Niel Slykerman of Winnipeg home on Sept. 26, 2000. We extend our love and prayers to his grieving family; his wife Maria and his children Carol, Cory and Lisa. Campaign Life Coalition leaders learned of Niel's death during a national conference call [...]
By Michael Coren The Interim Merle Terlesky used to kick people. And push them, scream at them and tread on their hands. Why? Because she was a pro-choice activist and for five years was at the centre of the Canadian campaign to defend and extend abortion. His victims were pro-lifers. But after an encounter with cancer and a radical change of life this [...]
In the days following the death of Pierre Trudeau, a memorial Mass for the former prime minister was held at the Roman Catholic cathedral in a major Canadian city. A young woman, known to us here at The Interim, attended the Mass to pray for Trudeau, and to try to come to terms with his legacy from the perspective of her faith. [...]
Former Prime Minister's legacy is abortion on demand and judicial activism By Mike Mastromatteo The Interim A newspaper article in the fall of 1999 listed Pierre Elliot Trudeau as the most influential Canadian statesman of the twentieth century. The article was prompted by the former prime minister's 80th birthday, and by the frenzy of list-producing that accompanied the arrival of the year [...]