Recently I spent a week ‘sitting in’ for a pastor friend and had time to do some extra reading. In the library I came across a pamphlet entitled Birth Control and Christian Discipleship by John F. Kippley of the Couple to Couple League for Natural Family Planning in Cincinnati. It is really a history of contraception through the centuries, and I gleaned [...]
A Belfast born doctor, in general practice in County Armagh is conducting a campaign in Northern Ireland (NI) to have the British Ministry of Health revoke its recent approval of the French-produced abortifacients, RU-486. Doctor Mary Allen says her campaign has the support of leading members of the NI medical profession. According to the Ministry of Health, the drug is to be [...]
The pro-life issue is the most decisive as well as the most divisive issue of our times. That’s why it pops up almost everywhere even in unexpected places. Take, for example, the Catholic synod being held on Vancouver Island. Synod in Victoria The R.C. diocese of Victoria, B.C., under the Most Rev. Remi De Roo, is holding a diocesan Synod. A synod [...]
Integrity/Toronto, a homosexual rights group active in the Anglican Church of Canada, held a ‘Service of Outrage’ on August 28 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. It was in support of Rev. James Ferry, dismissed from St. Philip’s-on-the-Hill Church in Unionville, Ontario, because he refused to sever relations with his homosexual lover. Toronto Anglican Archbishop, Terence Finlay said he [...]
It was a foretaste of heaven to stand in Toronto’s Convocation Hall with five hundred people, most of them former ‘gays’ and lesbians, and sing in unison, “Amazing Grace.” “It didn’t seem to matter what background we came from, gay, ex-gay, straight, alcoholic, we all had the same love for the Lord and it shone through,” one delegate said. University of Toronto’s [...]
The Interim will continue to keep readers informed about the drive of homosexuals and lesbians for social acceptance, legal protection and equality of status. Our purpose is and remains to raise awareness about this anti-life, anti-family movement. Editor 1: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA On June 23 ‘gays’ and lesbians in Ottawa held their first parade ever. Some 500 people were said [...]
A bushel of bad advice PETER DALGLISH: GOOD MAN – WRONG CAUSE It is sad to interview a guy who is well-intentioned, but stubbornly insists on giving out bad advice to all and sundry. Peter Dalglish gave up a legal career and what he said was a “six-figure salary” in order to create Street Kids International, an organization which promotes independence and [...]
What or who is a thanatist? H.E., Winnipeg, Manitoba. The word comes from the Greek word for ‘death.’ Today, a thanatist is a person whose professional calling or function, is to kill someone whose life is judged by others to be of no value, e.g., the terminally ill, the handicapped newborn, the elderly. It has already been suggested that there is a [...]
Ontario Federal Liberals have given pro-life policies high priority in their submission to a National Policy Convention to be held in Hull, Quebec next February. Over 900 delegates attended the Ontario wing of the party’s Annual General Meeting and Policy Rally at McMaster University June 14-16. From 120 policy statements presented to the delegates, only twelve were selected to be sent on [...]
Federal Tories voted against a pro-life resolution at their 1991 bi-ennial conference held in Toronto, August 6-10. The vote by the delegates was 341 against and 155 for, with 57 abstentions. The resolution read: “Be it resolved that the federal laws should be amended to safe-guard the right to life of all children before, during and after birth.” Two pro-abortion Tory speakers [...]
Charlottetown. In April, the Charlottetown Rural High School (CRHS) chapter of Home and School persuaded the provincial Federation to reject a nationally distributed AIDS education video. AIDS & YOUTH: A Document for Parents is based on the safer sex approach to AIDS education. It is Health and Welfare Canada’s response to the findings of Dr. Richard Beazley’s national study on Youth and [...]
IT’S ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’ TIME, A MIX OF NOSTALGIA AND NEW BEGINNINGS. In our family, it’s a first, as our almost-four-year-old son will be off to pre-school two afternoons a week. He’s delighted, of course, but veteran moms out there will laugh to learn that I’m a wreck. Like most mothers in my situation, I already miss the time I won’t be [...]
The following is another horror story of modern education. The Christian apologist, G.K. Chesterton once said: “When somebody stops believing in Christianity, he doesn’t stop believing. From then on, he believes in anything at all.” As the educational system abandons Christianity, any number of harebrained superstitions threaten to take its place. The day that parents could leave their children safely in the [...]
Mrs. Grace MacInnis died in Vancouver in August. In the 1960’s she was the only woman MP in the House of Commons. As the daughter of CCF founder J.S. Woodsworth, a one time United Church Minister, she imbibed the socialist worldview with her mother’s milk. This view interprets Christianity as essentially a social reform movement. Unabashed champion As the NDP member for [...]
In April, Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic issued a strongly worded ‘no’ to condoms as a solution to the spread of AIDS or as a contraceptive. Yet, York Separate (Catholic) School Board (YSSB) may place its stamp of approval on a revised policy that will contain an explanation of how condom use may prevent AIDS. Circumvent “It seems like the York Region Separate [...]