Earlier this year the grade eight students of St. Basil School put on a benefit concert entitled “Choose Life.” Each year, as part of the grade eight music programme, the students are required to create a theatrical performance. A theme is discussed, studied and the students are then asked to work within the theme chosen, preparing skits and integrating music to the [...]
On Wednesday, February 18, 1986, Antigonish Right to Life held its first Banquet and Annual Meeting. Present, along with the executive and interested individuals, were members of the local clergy and politicians from the local and federal level. The President of Antigonish Right to Life, Janet Bekkers, presented the annual report. The major effort of the year was the highly successful four-day [...]
The pro-life film A Matter of Choice was sponsored by the Peterborough chapter of Physicians for Life and was shown on CHEX-TV (Channel 12) on Sunday March 2, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. TO meet time requirements the film was shortened by six to seven minutes. As well as the film, Dr. David Hurst, 1985-86 president of Physicians for Life, presented pertinent [...]
Anna Desilets, executive director of Alliance for Life, received the Papal medal “Benemerenti” in December 1985. In accepting the medal, Mrs. Desilets said she did so not only for herself but for all who work to promote respect for life, saying that “God Himself knows the sacrifices pro-life people have made and the work they have done for His people.” The Papal [...]
The Human Life International Symposium on Human Sexuality planned for April 23-27 in Montreal, has something for everyone concerned with todays multi-faceted attacks on family and community. Father Paul Marx, HLI’s energetic president promises “solutions to abortion and abortifacients, contraception, fornication, Godless sex education population control, sterilization, homosexuality, pornography and test-tube babies.” An impressive list of guest-speakers and a packed programme of [...]
Pro-lifers across Ontario are now able to get up-to-the moment news and information via a new pro-life telephone hotline. The hotline has been set up by Campaign Life Canada, together with its Ontario co-ordinators, as an experiment. If successful, the hotline will be developed into a national news and information service. Inspiration for the telephone hotline came from a similar service established [...]
Three days of hearings on an application by former Manitoba Highways Minister Joe Borowski to declare Canada’s abortion law invalid, concluded in Regina on December 18, 1985. The hearings were before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, which reserved judgment until later. Although a full complement of seven judges was originally considered for the case, second thoughts led to a hearing by three [...]
Like it or not, each month seems to bring further evidence that pro-life faith in the politicians of Canada’s three political parties is misplaced. Even rather firm declarations of pro-life sentiments by candidates at election time are now to be looked at with extreme caution. They often prove to be no more than vote-getting devices. They certainly do not guarantee either understanding [...]
A survey done by Share-Life, the R.C. Toronto Archdiocesan annual fund-raising campaign, shows that among its supporters awareness of the agencies it supports is low. Most supporters for example, thought that Share-Life financially supports the pro-life movement. It does not. Share-Life was started in 1976 following the withdrawal of Catholic agencies from the United Way when the latter decided to include Planned [...]
The Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) held its fourth annual convention in Red Deer in early November. The convention attracted 150 women (and some men) from across Alberta. A much appreciated aspect of the convention was the free babysitting service offered. AFWUF arranged with the local church youth group to have babysitting provided to mothers with young children. The [...]
New Year’s resolve Often, New Year’s resolutions are broken almost as soon as they are made. This year, the pro-life movement needs solid commitments from supporters – the kind of commitment that is followed faithfully all year long. The need, both for financial support and for active volunteers, has never been greater. Everyone has talents that can be put to good use. [...]
“That location was opened for only one purpose – to flout the law,” said Jude Di Cecco (pronounced ‘checko’) referring to the Morgentaler Toronto abortuary in the trial of three clergymen on December 9. He went on to say that abortion is “…still a serious breach of the Criminal Code carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.” The three clergy, Rev. Alphonse [...]
On December 10, 1984, Morgentaler reopened his abortuary on Harbord Street in Toronto. The “Day of Death” had begun and has continued uninterrupted for a period of a full year. The pro-life movement in Ontario believed that the anniversary of death could not go by unnoticed. The regular picketers at the Harbord Street abortuary were joined by many other Torontonians, as well [...]
Our editorial on homosexuality (October) has drawn some fire. It has been read as lacking in compassion and understanding for the individual, and some who wrote or called in are puzzled as to why a pro-life newspaper should tackle the matter at all. We regret that our editorial did not clearly address these points. There is a world of difference between attacking [...]
I like Mr. David Peterson. I haven’t met him personally but, seeing him on television, I think he is a man to whom I could relate. He has a sensitive, intelligent face, a gracious manner and there is no trace of arrogance in his bearing. He also gives the impression of being a “family man,” with an attractive wife and beautiful children. [...]