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Musician takes pro-life cause on tour

Tony Gosgnach The Interim Musician David Vogel was diligently preparing for the 2005 edition of the Festival for Life Tour – a pro-life musical event that brings together over 100 Catholic and Christian performers – when a little thing called the Terri Schiavo case got in the way. Learning that there was a plan to starve and dehydrate the disabled woman to [...]

2010-07-30T09:12:41-04:00July 30, 2005|Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles|

The light in the window

What a warrior. What a Pope. twenty-six years ago, when John Paul II became Pope, what dilemmas he faced. An insurmountable mountain, some would say. “Have courage.” That’s what he said to the world and that’s what he personally displayed fighting fires all over the world. Communists had taken over eastern Europe and big red Russia was not making idle threats to [...]

2010-07-30T07:57:32-04:00May 30, 2005|Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Profiles, Religion|

Family support keeps music legend rocking

Tony Gosgnach The Interim He’s known as the “blue-eyed prince of soul” – a leading performer on the Toronto music scene for four decades, who has played with numerous musical legends, including Canadian music hall of famer (and Guess Who guitarist) Dominic Troiano. He has also recorded at the famous Chess studios in Chicago and has even had one of his albums [...]

2010-08-26T08:38:18-04:00May 29, 2005|Marriage and Family, Profiles|

A priest with a mission: to spread the gospel (of life)

Paul Tuns The Interim When George Weigel was writing the definitive (thus far) biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, he posted a note on his computer that said simply: “It’s the theology, stupid.” It was easy to get caught up in John Paul’s celebrity status, his globe-trotting and the history-changing role he played in geopolitical affairs. Indeed, this is [...]

2010-08-26T08:43:37-04:00May 29, 2005|Pro-Life, Profiles, Religion|

A special apostolate

Grace Petrasek The Interim When Robert Hinchey first decided to carry a sign as a witness for life behind a Morgentaler abortuary in the 1980s, he thought: “Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, I could talk to a woman and help save her baby from abortion?” He need not have worried. Since then, he’s talked to hundreds of women and helped [...]

2010-07-29T13:20:39-04:00May 29, 2005|Abortion, Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles|

Pope Benedict XVI: a defender of life, faith, family

John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, unlike his predecessor John Paul II prior to his election, comes to lead the Catholic church after spending the last 24 years in the public eye as the head of the most important office in that church – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As such, his teachings on [...]

2010-08-26T08:29:58-04:00April 29, 2005|Marriage and Family, Profiles, Religion|

Q & A with: Mark Crutcher

Tony Gosgnach The Interim Mark Crutcher is the founder and president of Life Dynamics Inc., a Denton-Tx.-based organization founded in 1991. LDI has become known for its Abortion Malpractice Program, the Direct Mail program and various undercover investigations into the U.S. abortion industry. Those investigations have revealed, among other things, a trade in human body parts and cover-ups of pedophiles and child [...]

2010-08-26T08:31:33-04:00April 29, 2005|Pro-life Groups, Profiles|

Pro-life veterans recognized by apostolate

Tony Gosgnach The Interim Between them, they’ve quietly filled almost every role a faith-filled, pro-life, pro-family person could play over the course of the past several decades – REAL Women of Canada’s first president, active Physicians for Life member, picketer for over 20 years at a hospital that commits abortions, candidate for, and deputy leader of, Ontario’s Family Coalition Party, public relations [...]

2010-08-26T08:34:43-04:00April 29, 2005|Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles|

Just weeks to go

Christina Tuns My Darling Baby: Over the past couple of weeks I have been reminded how quickly one can go from saying I can’t wait for this pregnancy to be over to I just want to be pregnant as long as possible. A couple of weeks ago during one of my regular doctor’s visits, we discovered that my blood pressure was a [...]

2010-07-29T12:38:26-04:00March 29, 2005|Columnist, Motherhood, Profiles|

Surviving an earlier culture of death

Tony Gosgnach The Interim He survived not just one, but two, major threats to his life even before he was born. Partially in response to his life being spared, Tom Kelly in later years has gone about working to secure for all people the right to life he has been able to enjoy. That has included a stint as the president of [...]

2010-08-26T08:24:23-04:00March 29, 2005|Abortion, Profiles|

Kinsey: Hollywood perpetuates a fraud

David Bolton The Interim Among the latest Hollywood film offerings is Kinsey - a sanitized, celebratory biography of sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson in the title role. This film is another attempt to whitewash the career of this "research scientist," who in actual fact, was a notorious sexual deviant skewing research data to promote a perverse agenda. While Hollywood celebrates Kinsey's [...]

2010-07-29T11:35:30-04:00March 1, 2005|Marriage and Family, Pro-Life, Profiles, Sex Education|

Kinsey: Hollywood perpetuates a fraud

Among the latest Hollywood film offerings is Kinsey - a sanitized, celebratory biography of sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson in the title role. This film is another attempt to whitewash the career of this "research scientist," who in actual fact, was a notorious sexual deviant skewing research data to promote a perverse agenda. While Hollywood celebrates Kinsey's life, Dr Judith Reisman, [...]

2010-08-27T07:56:13-04:00February 27, 2005|Movie Review, Profiles|

Retirement fete for Joanne Dieleman

They came from across Canada to pay tribute to the woman who gave 25 years of her life to helping save preborn human beings from death at the doorstep of abortuaries run by Henry Morgentaler and Manole Buriana in Toronto. Even a "Reverend Jones" flew in from Tumbler Ridge, B.C. especially to offer his personal respects to Joanne Dieleman on her recent [...]

2010-08-10T13:09:30-04:00December 10, 2004|Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles|

She was Aid to Women!

When I heard that Joanne Dieleman had retired from Aid to Women, I wanted to write an article about her wonderful, 20-year contribution to pro-life. But as I sat down to write, I realized that I was not familiar enough with the everyday inside workings of Aid to Women, so I asked Joanne's colleague at the crisis pregnancy counselling centre, Robert Hinchey, [...]

2010-08-09T12:34:11-04:00October 9, 2004|Activism, Columnist, Pro-Life, Profiles|

Borowski for sainthood?

I met two people in my life whom I genuinely feel should be declared saints (other than my wife and my bank manager) and they are Dr. Jerome Lejeune and Joe (hold on now) ... Borowski. One, Dr. Lejeune, a genius and world-renowned scientist, and devout, pro-life Catholic, who discovered the cause of Down syndrome and the other, Joe Borowski, a former [...]

2010-08-09T09:23:34-04:00September 9, 2004|Activism, Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Pro-life Groups, Profiles|
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