Don’t be tempted to believe that the radical feminists who dream up the Beijing document have retired to their New Age bookstores to sip herbal teal and discuss the “goddess within.” Instead, they are active—planning workshops and lobbying politicians. Pro-family forces hope that a stalled economy drives them back to the bookstores. Seven months have passed since the Forth World Conference on [...]
A Hamilton couple has run headlong into a bureaucratic roadblock in its attempt to adopt a two year old girl from the former Yugoslavia. Karen Ann Moore and her husband Rudy Guerra have waged an 18-month battle against Canadian immigration official to bring two-year-old Ishara Carys Jelena Guerra to Canada. Karen Ann, a medical researcher at McMaster University, and Rudy, a computer [...]
On Monday, February 5, a head-on collision south of Parry Sound, Ontario, claimed the life of Oakville psychiatrist Dr. Murray McGovern. The McGoverns were driving into town from their winterized cottage, first to see one of the doctor’s patients and then to go 10:45 Mass. On a slippery road, with blowing snow, a 1988 Toyota driven by Richard Lewis rammed right into [...]
For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most—in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers” group is providing pro-family Canadians a voice in the legal system The Interim Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise. For the last three years, the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing legal representation [...]
A recent article by a prominent feminist may signal the beginnings of a shift in the feminist attitude toward abortion. Naomi Wolf, in Our Bodies, Our Souls: Re-Thinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric, acknowledges that the pro-choice movement has hurt itself by relinquishing the moral frame around the abortion issue. “The movement’s abandonment of what Americans have always and rightly, demanded of their movements—an ethical [...]
Patrick Buchanan’s has been sealed in the race for the Republican Party candidacy. It is a good time for pro-life people to stop and consider just what his experience means for the pro-life movement. The height of Buchanan hysteria occurred the night that he won the New Hampshire primary. In the first big test among presidential contenders, Buchanan emerged as the leader. [...]
My first reaction when I looked at the return address on the envelope was, Oh No! some , parishioner or sister in Christ, has managed to get themselves thrown into the Vanier prison for women. Then as I read the letter, I remembered that just before Christmas when The Interim had suggested that we write to Linda Gibbons, that I had sent [...]
The black American community is bringing to the pro-life sphere the spiritual principles which guided Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaigns. U.S. blacks are planning their first Annual National Hour of Prayer between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on May 11, says Reg. Johnny Hunter, National Director of Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), which is sponsoring the event. LEARN is a [...]
On Monday, February 5, a head-on collision south of Parry Sound, Ontario, claimed the life of Oakville psychiatrist Dr. Murray McGovern. The McGoverns were driving into town from their winterized cottage, first to see one of the doctor’s patients and then to go 10:45 Mass. On a slippery road, with blowing snow, a 1988 Toyota driven by Richard Lewis rammed right into [...]
For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most---in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers’ group is providing pro-family Canadians with a voice in the legal system The Interim Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise. For the last three years, the Ottawa based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing [...]
Two comprehensive studies recently commissioned by The U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops demonstrate both media bias on the abortion issue and the continuing strength of the pro-life constituency south of the border. One of the studies’ findings shows that the pro-life movement is “unfairly disadvantaged in the court of public opinion,” says Helen Alvare, director of planning and information for the [...]
Toronto Patrick Buchanan’s has been sealed in the race for the Republican Party candidacy. It is a good time for pro-life people to stop and consider just what his experience means for the pro-life movement. The height of Buchanan hysteria occurred the night that he won the New Hampshire primary. In the first big test among presidential contenders, Buchanan emerged as the [...]
My first reaction when I looked at the return address on the envelope was, Oh No! Some, parishioner or sister in Christ, has managed to get themselves thrown into the Vanier prison for women. Then as I read the letter, I remembered that just before Christmas when The Interim had suggested that we write to Linda Gibbons, that I had sent her [...]
Here in Canada, we usually associate Nebraska with three things: good folk, endless cornfields and top-notch football players. Recently, however the Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska released a controversial statement which has shaken things up in the sleepy mid western state. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has taken the step which a great many Catholic and many non-Catholic pro-lifers, have long awaited. On [...]
Tony Gosgnach The black American community is bringing to the pro-life sphere the spiritual principles which guided Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaigns. U.S. blacks are planning their first Annual National Hour of Prayer between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on May 11, says Reg. Johnny Hunter, National Director of Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), which is sponsoring the event. LEARN [...]