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 [...]
The Earl of Longford died earlier this month, a fact that in Britain provoked a response from almost every adult citizen. In Canada, he is less - perhaps little - known. Even so, he merited half-page obituaries in some newspapers and several radio and television discussions. I write about him because Lord Longford, or Frank Pakenham, was my godfather. He was 95 [...]
I knew Jerry Young for 13 years, since the Family Coalition Party of Ontario had a small office on Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. He was on the executive of the party as vice-president, president and past president for most of those years. Jerry's approach to business and to politics was very direct and professional. You did not have to guess [...]
"I may be a bit late for lunch tomorrow because I have to say Mass in the morning for the old people at a nearby seniors' home. They move rather slowly, you know, and sometimes it takes them a while to get around," said Fr. Ted Colleton, himself a delightful 88-year-old, in a phone conversation. During lunch, we talked about his 60 [...]
A long time supporter of Campaign Life Coalition and the pro-life cause has died after a brief struggle with cancer. Francis (Frank) Xavier Finn passed away March 4, 2001 at his Gananoque, Ontario home, surrounded by his family. A long-standing member of Knights of Columbus Council 4177, past Grand Knight, bulletin chairman and church activity chairman, he was an extraordinary minister of [...]
If pro-life work is advanced by a quiet but steady resolve in defence of innocent, unborn life, then Toronto's Bill McArthur certainly was an exemplary pro-lifer. Bill died February 19 at the age of 73. He had been in declining health due to lingering problems related to asthma and weakened lungs. A long-time employee of Canadian National Railways, Bill was one-half of [...]
Just days before he was scheduled to leave for New York to assist with pro-life lobby efforts at the United Nations, Campaign Life Coalition Youth member Paul Jalsevac was very seriously injured in a car accident. On March 5, 20-year-old Paul, the son of LifeSite manager Steve Jalsevac of Toronto, was hit head-on driving into the grounds of Christendom College in Virginia, where [...]
Henry B. Bieber, husband of Alice Bieber, died peacefully in Pembroke January 27, 2001, in his 82nd year. Henry and Alice were longtime supporters of the pro-life cause and are remembered from the early 1970s when they joined Action Life of Ottawa in response to an advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen. Henry was born and raised in Saskatchewan and came to eastern [...]
NRO Weekend E.M. ("Elizabeth") Anscombe, who died at the age of 81 in January, was a titan in the world of philosophy, and one of the 20th century's most remarkable women. At Cambridge, she studied with Ludwig Wittgenstein, and upon his death in 1951 became one of his literary executors. Among her most important early contributions to philosophy were publications (often requiring [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]