Interim Staff Pro-Life organizations give qualified support to a call by Reform leader Preston Manning that the Canadian Constitution be amended to protect the unborn children from abortion. Speaking in British Columbia in late October, Manning said he favors a law allowing a national referendum on abortion, euthanasia and other moral issues. He added, however, that he was expressing his own views [...]
A Walkerton, Ontario woman’s decision 22 years ago to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term is today paying tremendous dividends in terms of happiness and personal fulfillment. The story of Jeannie Hedley and her biological son Greg Tremblay is a valuable reminder of the role of adoption as a life-affirming alternative to abortion. In the late summer of 1973, 17 year-old Jeannie [...]
The pro-life Christian Heritage Party is rebounding after several years of declining membership as it prepares for a federal election campaign expected next year, says its leader. “We are growing rapidly overall, most rapidly in Quebec, which is a very encouraging development,” says Ron Gray. “We’re attracting disaffected Reformers who are fed up with the political correctness beginning to seep in since [...]
Interim special Pro-family supporters on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are applauding the July 12 move by the House of Representatives to pass the Defense of Marriage Act. In a vote of 342 to 67, the House approved the motion, which defines marriage as the union of a man and woman in federal law. The law also prevents individual states from [...]
Members of the pro-life, pro-family community are realizing the great urgency to form and join an international “Alliance of the Two Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary” to offset the impact of abortion, euthanasia, pornography, radical feminism and the anti-family mentality. The alliance is also aimed at ending the “culture of death” and its harmful effect on the family. The goal of [...]
Pro-life groups have joined forces with the Catholic Church to fight a controversial sterilization program introduced by Peru’s Ministry of Health. The program would offer sterilization for people living in poverty and would provide economic benefits for those volunteering for the surgery. As reported by the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN), the program was immediately attacked by the head of the Peruvian [...]
In an effort to combat the growing incidence of abortion and assisted suicide, church leaders in Detroit have launched an initiative they hope will promote respect for life. Called “Project Life”, the program is being spearheaded by Roman Catholic Cardinal Adam Maida of the Detroit archdiocese who criticized the increasing glamorization in the media of death doctor Jack Kevorkian and U.S. President [...]
By Mike Mastromatteo Interim staff It would be unusual to find Joseph-Paul Flanagan taking part in high profile demonstrations in defense of unborn children. It’s not that the resident of Iberville, Quebec is indifferent to the unborn, nor is he opposed to the tactics of sidewalk counselors and activists on the front lines. Instead, this quietly committed pro-lifer brings a prayerful, contemplative [...]
A survey recently circulated among Canada’s pro-life community promises interesting findings about stress and burn-out associated with the struggle to defend unborn children. Entitled “Compassion Fatigue,” the survey is now being analyzed by Mary-Lynn McPherson, national coordinator of Nurses for Life. As a psychiatric nurse, McPherson has more than a passing interest in job-related stress, particularly among pro-lifers. The survey was distributed [...]
Interim Staff Students are a common summertime sight at most organizations and Campaign Life Coalition is no exception. Hiring students enables busy full-time staff to schedule much needed vacation time and to complete those projects requiring energy, leg work and attention to detail. Campaign Life Coalition’s Toronto office has benefited with the addition of three summer students who have taken on an [...]
Interim staff Pro-lifers are a lot like other Canadians when it comes to getting away from it all. They take their work seriously but they recognize the need to step back and take a breather from the daily grind. Many workers surveyed by The Interim look forward to their quiet time to recover from the pressures of continuing pro-life work. In an [...]
I read in the paper recently about a balaclava-wearing hold-up man waiting patiently in line at the bank in order to stick it up. An alert bank clerk noticed this guy in the lineup and dialed 911, and the cops came and took him away. The would- be hold- up man explained to the police that he didn’t want to stand in [...]
By Father Tony Van Hee Interim special “Father, all-powerful and every-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks. You renew the Church in every age by raising up men and women outstanding in holiness, living witnesses of your unchanging love” (Second Preface for Masses of Holy Men and Women). God provides. Even now, in this “wicked and unfaithful [...]
It makes for a good sound bite or quotation when a pro-life activist says the defense of unborn children is a 24 hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week struggle. The anti-life element is always active; the argument goes, so the effort to uphold the sanctity of all human life cannot afford to take a holiday. It’s one thing to persevere in an important struggle. And what [...]
VATICAN CITY- A new Vatican document, prompted in part by the partial- birth abortion debate, describes abortion as a primordial evil that has reached “new depths of depravity” in the United States. Released by the Pontifical Council for the Family July 2, the document also condemned efforts to legalize euthanasia in the U.S. as evidence of a growing contempt for human life. [...]