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. [...]
Interim staff In an effort to promote prayer as a response to the abortion problem in this country, The Interim is considering a plan to reproduce different pro-life prayers in upcoming issues. The purpose of the prayer initiative is simple. In order to come up with a solution to the evil of abortion, we should look to a power higher than our [...]
The Interim The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled unconstitutional sections of the federal Elections Act which restricts some kinds of campaign advertising – and that spells good news for pro-life organizations which want to publicize candidates’ stands on life and family issues. The Act has prevented third party from spending more than $1, 000 on election advertising, but the Alberta court [...]
Mark Pickup, a former board member of Campaign Life Coalition and a long-time pro-life supporter, is this year’s winner of the Kurelek award. Presented annually by Alliance for Life, the Kurelek award recognizes outstanding work in promoting respect for life in Canada. The presentation took place June 22 at the National Pro-Life Conference at King’s University College in Edmonton. Alliance for Life [...]
Saying that “God feels you are the people to instruct,” anti-euthanasia crusader, Father Thomas Lynch, challenged the 480 women gathered at the annual Toronto’s Catholic Women’s League convention to “let the true facts be known.” Father Lynch, a professor of moral theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, used statistics and tales from pro-euthanasia Holland as proof that the push for euthanasia [...]
The director of a Nairobi-based AIDS hospice fears promiscuous “Hollywood” values are effecting African young people to the detriment of family life. Dr. Margaret Ogola is medical director of the Cottolengo Hospice, a facility providing care and support to orphans born of HIV- positive mothers. Ogola was in Toronto in May to attend the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education, where [...]
The Interim “The average child throughout the Americas by the age of six has spent more time watching his father in a lifetime than he spends at his job.” According to Medved, Americans watch 26 hours of television a week and Canadians, 23 hours. Medved is the chief film critic for the New York Post and co-host of the PBS program, Sneak [...]
Interim staff Individual families can play a major role in counteracting increasingly disruptive influences in society, say participants of the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education. The conference, held May 26-30 in Toronto, attracted nearly 1,200 delegates from Canada, the United States, Mexico and several other countries throughout the world. The theme of the conference- Building a Civilization of Love- was [...]
Interim special The First Annual Guelph Conference on Family and Morality was the response of local pro-life family groups who believe the chastity message for young people has been lost in the rush to embrace secular values and contraception. Held July 17-18, the event competed head-on with the 18th annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sexuality. The latter event embraces “sex [...]
Opinion Tom Koys As a veteran of many years of church-related battles over the matter of birth control I have come to the conclusion that even the arguments of the “rightness” or “wrongness” of the church’s teaching on artificial contraception is not of interest to most people. I say this, not because such moral correctness is not possible to point out, or [...]
Nearly 300 prolifers from across the country assembled at King’s University College in Edmonton for this year’s National Pro-Life Conference. Operating under the theme “Learn from Yesterday, Prepare for Tomorrow”, delegates heard a variety of presentations outlining strategies and issues of immediate concern to the community. The growing climate of acceptance for euthanasia or assisted suicide was a central issue for the [...]
Pro-life and pro-family supporters are surprised with the Catholic bishops’ conference contribution of $2,000 to the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)to assist a National Women’s March for the Eradication of Poverty. In a May, 1996 letter to outgoing NAC president Sunera Thobani, Catholic bishops conference general secretary Father Douglas Crosby, said the bishops’ conference supports NAC’s aim of [...]
Pro-life and pro-family supporters are surprised with the Catholic bishops’ conference contribution of $2,000 to the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)to assist a National Women’s March for the Eradication of Poverty. In a May, 1996 letter to outgoing NAC president Sunera Thobani, Catholic bishops conference general secretary Father Douglas Crosby, said the bishops’ conference supports NAC’s aim of [...]
Tony Gosgnach Advocates of honest government and opponents of the GST weren’t the only people expressing disappointment after Sheila Copps was re-elected as a Member of Parliament. Pro-life and pro-family leaders are also lamenting Copps’ victory in a recent by-election. Copps won the Hamilton East contest June 17 with 50 per cent of the vote, down from 67 per cent in the [...]
Sue Careless The Interim In the US donor insemination is offered as a commercial service and is worth $165 million a year. Regulation falls to individual states. It is thought that the long-awaited legislation on new reproductive technologies will also outlaw commercial contracts for surrogate mothers, ban prenatal diagnoses for sex-selection purposes, and lout the sale of human eggs, embryos, fetuses or [...]