I was visiting in Ireland and England during the period of the alleged rape case of the 14-year-old Irish girl. There were frequent comparisons in the media to the Bourne case. What was the Bourne case? J.S. Nepean The Bourne case (1938) in Britain involved a 14-year-old girl who was criminally raped by several soldiers, and became pregnant. Dr. Alec Bourne, out [...]
As pointed out many times, there is much interlocking of religious issues and pro-life issues even if one doesn’t at first see the connection. One such interrelationship is clerical celibacy, now almost constantly under attack in the anti-life media. Many people – even a good number of Catholics today – have become confused. They now believe that obligatory celibacy for priests in [...]
Calgary—Dr. Stephen Dane ZoBell and Dr. Lye Larson, addressing the topics of pornography and family violence respectively, were two of the excellent speakers at the REAL Women Convention in April. Both Alberta residents, they bought new insights to topics already painfully familiar to people active in the pro-life, pro-family field. Both men are husbands and fathers, both are concerned about the well-being [...]
Vernon, B.C.—After Premier Mike Harcourt and his N.D.P. government of British Columbia struck down the abortion policy of the locally-elected hospital board, the nine pro-life members of the Board resigned. The 16-person board at Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital had voted last June that the hospital would no longer perform abortions. Elizabeth Cull, the newly appointed Minister of Health, repudiated this policy in March [...]
In November 1991, celebrations were held to mark the opening of the new St. Joseph’s Hospital in Estevan, Saskatchewan, a town of about 10,000 close to the U.S. border. There was a great of praise for the person largely responsible for the building of the new facility, hospital administrator Sister Therese Roddy, a member of the sisters of St. Joseph of Peterborough, [...]
One of the few pro-life columnists in Canada has been dropped from the Ottawa Citizen. Claire Hoy, 51, not only spoke to publicly against abortion, but he was also highly critical of birth control programs in schools and Ottawa mayor Jacquelin Holzman’s proclamation of “gay pride day” (see related story). Quoted in the Citizen , May 2, Hoy left no doubt about [...]
We all have times when we want to die! If tragedy strikes, or pain is unbearable, sickness is serious, or disability is permanent we are tempted to give up. However, the living out of the days and the weeks and the months teaches us how to cope. It is in the coping and working through each day that we learn that life [...]
Constitution Ottawa. A federal cabinet minister has applauded a Catholic Bishops’ call for a return to family-based values. Catholic bishops of Ontario are warning if the country is to survive, we must rediscover a sense of community. Energy Minister Jake Epp couldn’t agree more. “I think the bishops have given us a good service by putting forward into the public debate what [...]
George Grant is the author of the award-winning expose of the abortion industry, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood. He was the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Ottawa Conference on the Family, April 2-4. Mr. Grant told an audience of 150 that the abortion pill RU-486 isn’t the wonder drug to save the world. Even the footnotes in the favourable [...]
In January,1992 Lianne Laurence, The Interim’s western correspondent who has come to national prominence over her efforts to prevent abortions at Henry Morgentaler’s Edmonton abortuary, made a guest appearance on Ron Collister’s Talkback program on CJCA Radio in Edmonton. What follows is a transcription of the interview. On February 28, 1992, Miss Laurence, 32, and three other pro-life prisoners of conscience-her parents [...]
Halifax. Eco-feminism, according to a German feminist, is a solution to increasing ecological degradation. Dr. Maria Mies, a German sociologist from Cologne, believes that Eco-feminism, based on the fundamental “relatedness between all living things,” is an alternative to the threat of environmental extinction. In late February, Dr.Mies spoke to 200 people, mostly women, at the former Catholic Women’s College of Mount Saint [...]
When she was once asked by reporters what the feminist movement hoped to accomplish in the future, Betty Friedan answered, “ I can’t tell you that now. You wouldn’t believe it anyway. It’s theological.” In other words, the movement was going to change the way people-especially women- thought about religion. Paradox How well the movement has succeeded in this objective is shown [...]
Only two months ago most people in Ireland believed that 1983 Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed that abortion could never be made legal in this country. But today, as a result of decision by “ Five Wigged Men, Solemn as Sin,” according to a headline in the Irish Times, abortion is legal, on demand, whenever a woman threatens suicide. Courts duped The [...]
“LIVES OF GREAT ONES ALL REMIND US, WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME; AND DEPARTING LEAVE BEHIND US, FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME.” In her beautiful book, Silhouettes Against the Snow, Grace Petrasek devoted the first chapter to Laura McArthur. Although it was written some time before Laura’s death, it is an eloquent tribute to one who, in a very special [...]
Ottawa. Sex clinics have become permanent fixtures in Ottawa high schools. After operating as pilot projects out of five Ottawa schools for the past two years, school board trustees voted last month to make the “ health clinics” permanent. Trustee Molly O’Connor says she voted in favour of the clinics because students and parents want the counseling and contraceptives they provide. “ [...]