Fr. Leonard Kennedy C.S.B., a frequent contributor to Catholic Insight and Challenge magazines, passed away April 1 at the age of 88. Fr. Kennedy, tall, upright, white hair, twinkle in his eye, smile on his lips, love in his heart will be sadly missed. He was born in England in 1922, but moved to Canada when he was four. He [...]
Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews.com was presented the 2010 National Award by REAL Women at its annual national conference on April 17 in North Bay, Ont. REAL Women national president Cecilia Forsyth explained that the award signifies that the recipient individual or organization has made an exemplary contribution to society. Nominees are expected to demonstrate “honesty, integrity and responsibility; respect for the traditional family [...]
On March 20, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, passed away at the age of 89, ending a four-decade career opposing abortion and contraception. Fr. Marx created the Human Life Center in 1971 – two years before Roe v. Wade – which a decade later became Human Life International. He traveled to all 50 states and more than 90 countries to proclaim the pro-life [...]
On Jan. 25, 2010, pro-life activist Lila Rose gave a rousing speech to the San Francisco Walk for Life, which drew a crowd of 35,000 participants. “Let us be the ones who with grace, who with humility and who with joy stand up and say enough is enough. We will see every person in America protected by law, by love, [...]
We know that Drew Brees quarterbacked the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts and was named the game’s most valuable player. But there was another quarterback who, on that same day, earned an MVP award for what he did off the field, during the telecast of the game. Tim Tebow is, in the parlance [...]
Monsignor Thomas Barrett Armstrong, a Toronto priest, long-time teacher and choir director at St. Michael’s Choir school, and fervent pro-lifer, died Nov. 14, days before his 80th birthday. He is credited by St. Michael’s Choir School with “engender(ing) a love for music in the hearts of hundreds of students who passed through” the school from 1958 to 2004. He was [...]
Editor’s Note: The Interim asked past winners of Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award (for outstanding pro-life leadership in the political sphere), “What do you foresee in the future for the pro-life movement?” We attempted to contact Roseanne Skoke but they did not return our calls. Rob Merrifield was contacted several times but did not respond. Senator Stanley Haidasz passed away [...]
Gut Mitges, a pro-life former MP who passed away on Nov. 1 at the age of 90, is being mourned by the Canadian pro-life community. Mitges spent more than two decades representing the rural southwestern Ontario ridings of Grey-Simcoe and Bruce-Grey, distinguishing himself by voting against the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution because it did not protect the right to [...]
Long-time pro-life activist Dr. Carmelo Scime (right) received the Citizen of the Year award from the Sons of Italy, Trieste Lodge, from Raffaele Vitello, president of the Sons of Italy. Scime was honoured for his 52 years of outstanding service to families as a medical practitioner and more than 300 family, friends and admirers were on hand. During his acceptance [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed journalist and broadcaster Michael Coren, who recently released a collection of columns, As I See It. The Interim: How did you become a columnist? What did you want to be growing up? Michael Coren: Growing up I wanted to be soccer player, then a rugby player, then an RAF pilot, then a jazz [...]
November is the month of fallen heroes. We honour the memory of the soldiers who fought for freedom during the violent struggles of the last century – those who died in the trenches in Europe and those who gave their lives resisting a madman’s frightening dream. But, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Canadian pro-life movement this year, we cannot [...]
At the age of 25, Andrew Scheer ran for office under the banner of the new Conservative Party of Canada in the NDP stronghold of Regina-Qu’Appelle, defeating former NDP leadership candidate Lorne Nystrom by just under 900 votes. Although he was confident he would win, he told The Interim in a recent interview, “There was an element of ‘wow.’” Scheer, [...]
In 1990, Denise Hounjet-Roth was asked to become president of Campaign Life Coalition Saskatchewan. The invitation came as a surprise for the young mother, pregnant with her second son. She had been a pro-life activist for less than three months. Her introduction to political activism had come in response to pro-life MP Tom Wappel’s announcing his bid for the federal [...]
One of Canada’s most committed pro-life politicians, Stanley Haidasz, passed away August 6 at the age of 86. Haidasz, a Liberal, served in Parliament for nearly a half-century. First elected in 1957, he lost his re-election bid the following year, but regained his Parkdale seat in Toronto in 1962 and was then re-elected five times. In 1978, he was appointed [...]
Ottawa-area pro-life activist Rita Curley passed away last month at the age of 87. During her funeral Mass on July 13, Fr. Pedro Arana of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Vanier, Ont. noted that, “Rita was very strong in her faith and she was not afraid to express her belief.” That summed up Curley very well – [...]