When Dr. Bob Walley was in his final year of training in obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, he attended a public debate on abortion at the nearby St. Lawrence Centre. On the panel, one speaker announced his intent to tear down the Canadian abortion law, and if necessary, go to jail to do so. He did. That [...]
I arrived back from a vacation on Sunday evening, September 8. Among a number of calls on my answering machine was one from Michael Otis of The Interim, asking me to call back (I was supposed to return on August 23, but I had to extend my stay for various reasons). I knew what Michael wanted – my article for the October [...]
The sixties saw educators applauding the open concept classroom In the seventies, phonics was replaced with the whole language or ‘look-say’ reading concept. At roughly the same time, an educational innovation took root in the U.S. and soon made its way to Canada. Hailed as the solution tot accelerating drop-out rates and modern approach to global education, Continuous Progress Instruction (CP), became [...]
A clearly-worded motion demanding protection for the unborn child was unanimously endorsed by 90 Catholic Bishops attending an annual Plenary Assembly held at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa in late August. * * * * The motion urged the federal government to “enact legislation which will effectively protect the lives of the most vulnerable – the unborn.” It also called for [...]
What someone does to influence you child’s spirit will have eternal repercussions. We must ensure that the food that feeds our children’s spirit is food from heaven founded by God’s word. If your child’s teacher wishes to get to his or her spirit, it had better be with grace from God and nothing else. It is abundantly clear that parents can no [...]
In Part One (“Parents: Watch what your children are being taught,” September 1991, Mrs. Pemberton dealt with the Impressions series. To refresh our readers memory about the series, the following is an excerpt form an article by Margie Mountain which appeared in the Ottawa bi-monthly, The Orator (September/October 1991) If your child is in Grade 1 to 7, in one of the [...]
Mr. Hartigan is a semi-retired corporate attorney with a variety of civic and religious interests. The argument advanced for condom distribution is that it will protect students against pregnancy and AIDS infection by enabling them to engage in sexual activity without exchanging body fluids. However, that theory has been put to the test in dozens of school systems all over the country, [...]
If we don’t teach about Heaven, Hell and Judgment, we may as well close up and send out kids to the schools with the better playgrounds. Rev. Edward Boehler, August 26, 1991. These words of Father Boehler, Chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee (RAC) of the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB) spoken at the Committee’s meeting in August were trenchant. But [...]
The author’s first article was entitled: “True sex-ed – cultivating purity in modesty.” It appeared in the August ’91 (Insight). Fr. Gillis is a retired professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. It is important that Christians know that the drive for explicit classroom sex education did not originate with either the Holy Spirit or the Church. We can safely say that [...]
This The Interim’s fourth consecutive Insight to be devoted to schools and education. Together with other articles printed in The Interim from January 1991 onwards, they treat of various themes which intertwine and interact. For an overview of these see the Index on this page. Everyone will agree that as a pro-life, pro-family paper our concerns with education are fully warranted. How [...]
Charles E. Rice, No Exception: A Pro-life Imperative, Notre Dame, Indiana: Nyholland Press, 1990. To gain its objectives, the pro-life movement must demand that the law fulfill, without exception, its duty to protect innocent life. Over the past decade, unfortunately, that movement has endorsed in practice the pro-death principle that the law can validly tolerate the intentional killing of innocent life. Loss [...]
In the upcoming provincial elections set for October 21, Saskatchewan voters will also have a chance to answer Yes or No to three questions. Should the government work towards a balanced budget; Should constitutional changes be settled by a referendum; And the following question: Abortions are performed in some Saskatchewan hospitals. Should the government of Saskatchewan pay for abortion procedures? The results [...]
Introduction by Winifrid Prestwich Euthanasia, legalized under one form or another, is on the agenda in Canada. During the past 18 months, Ontario has had a spate of bills, the first four of which were Private Members’ Bills; they appear to have died on the vine. The last two bills (The Substitute Decisions Act and the Consent to Treatment Act, May 27, [...]
In an exclusive interview while on assignment in Norway in June 1991, I was able to obtain more details about the trial of Pastor Ludvig Nessa, the 41-year-old Lutheran priests (as they are called in Norway), who was recently defrocked for speaking out against the permissive abortion laws of his country. (see The Interim, June 1991) Seeking contact Although I didn’t establish [...]
Once upon a time there was a philosophy with noble ideals. It was called feminism. But something went wrong. A movement seeking peace resorted to violence. A movement fighting discrimination began to discriminate. A movement comprising the most recent immigrants from ‘non-personhood’ slapped that label on another minority group. A darling At the 1989 pro-abortion march in Washington, D.C., children had “I’m [...]