Time feature piece could have effect of bolstering the pro-life case We tend to assume that science involves demystification: rainbows are not a sign of God's covenant with man, science tells us, but simply sunlight refracted through the prism of water vapor; thunderbolts are not products of the wrath of Zeus, but of electrical charges in the atmosphere - you get the [...]
In 1991, in his Apostolic Constitution on the Catholic University, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Pope John Paul II declared that it is his "deep conviction that a Catholic University is without any doubt one of the best instruments that the Church offers to our age, which is searching for certainty and wisdom." These are hardly surprising words, considering that universities are one of [...]
LifeSite News Cuban pro-life leader Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet has been released, after the completion of a three-year sentence. Biscet raised the ire of the Communist regime in 1998 by writing to the United Nations condemning the multitude of abortions performed in Cuba. "We honour posthumously the thousands of innocent victims who have been assassinated in this 'concrete pile' (the maternity hospital [...]
Peter Ryan and Henry Morgentaler were sitting in the "counselling room" of Morgentaler's Frederiction, N.B. abortuary, when Ryan pulled out from his pocket a plastic model of a 12-week-old pre-born child. "So you're saying that at this stage, it would not be a baby?" said Ryan to Canada's most prominent abortionist. "Oh no, that there looks like a baby," Morgentaler replied. Surprised [...]
see also: The good news for life issues U.S. elections marked by stunning results One week after the Republican mid-term victories, Peter White, a former principal secretary to Brian Mulroney, wrote in the Globe and Mail that there are lessons for Canada's Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in the success of conservatives south of the border. He argued that the strategy [...]
see also: U.S. elections marked by stunning results Lessons for Canada? In Michigan, while Canadian-born Jennifer Granholm, a pro-abortion Democrat, won the gubernatorial race, the Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Committee claimed victory. Of the 275 candidates endorsed by the RLM-PAC, a whopping 232 were elected (an 84.4 per cent success rate), with the Michigan state house, state senate and [...]
Editor's note: At the Creating a Culture of Life: An International Forum banquet, MP Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville) was honoured by Campaign Life Coalition with its prestigious Joseph P. Borowski award. Given annually to a politician who has made a strong stand for life, the award is named after the late Manitoba NDP cabinet minister who took his battle against abortion all [...]
Fr. Ted Colleton reports from Creating a Culture of Life: An International Forum Paul Tuns, the editor of The Interim, has kindly requested me to write an article on the recent pro-life conference. While I feel very grateful, I am also fully aware that I lack the expertise to do full credit to this really wonderful occasion. I have attended many conventions [...]
Interim Staff Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the magazine First Things, was the banquet speaker and held the attention of the nearly 500-strong audience for an hour, leaving them hungry for more. More importantly, his uplifting and hopeful speech motivated veteran and recent activists alike to be a voice for the unborn, the sick, the elderly and the disabled. Fr. Neuhaus, [...]
With Republicans regaining control of the U.S. Senate, the pro-abortion lib-left will no longer be able to thwart pro-life legislation or hold up or defeat President George W. Bush's pro-life judicial nominees. Since Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords bolted the Republican Party 18 months ago to become an independent and thus hand control of the Senate to the Democrats by way of a [...]
see also: The good news for life issues Lessons for Canada? U.S. elections marked by stunning results The pro-life, pro-family movement is happy with the results of the recent U.S. elections, as the Republican party regained the Senate, increased its House seats and did not do as poorly as expected in numerous gubernatorial races. Pro-lifers wanted to win back the Senate, since [...]
The Greek Orthodox Church has taken a bold stand against the Socialist government's law regulating artificial insemination. The law is one that Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Orthdox church in Greece, has labelled a sop to the feminist movement, which he says seeks to undermine the family and to "overthrow the natural and ethical order." The church opposes in-vitro fertilization and [...]
He officially "retired" from academia some 16 years ago. But, as his daughter observes, if his desk at home is a current indication, he is anything but retired from the battle for life, family and faith at the age of 81. Dr. David Dooley, professor emeritus of English at Toronto's St. Michael's College, associate editor of Catholic Insight magazine and a contributor [...]
As pro-life, pro-family advocates, too often we have a tendency to engage in hand-wringing over the lamentable social, moral, ethical and spiritual state of Canadian society. The avalanche of negative - and downright evil - developments has the potential to leave even the most committed and hardy soul downcast, discouraged and - worst of all - prone to inaction on a range [...]
Sorry, no comment. That's just about all The Interim was told when attempting to speak with Alberta and British Columbia health ministers about de-funding abortion as pro-lifers in those provinces seek to have abortion de-listed as an insurable medical procedure. As evidenced by the failure to reply by Alberta Health and Wellness Minister Gary Mar and B.C. Health Planning Minister Sindi Hawkins, [...]