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 stnon Catholic pro-lifers, have long awaited. On the editorial page of the March 19 [...]
Workers on strike, students uncertain about the affordability of their education, families feeling the crunch of an increasingly hostile tax system, elderly worrying about their pensions—these are the problems which Canadians wake up to every day. The fact that no one seems to be realistically addressing these problems only adds to the crisis. At last, a window of hope may be opening [...]
A Nebraska bishop has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Catholics who belong to groups favoring abortion, euthanasia or the right to dissent from official church teaching. In a March 19 statement published in The South Nebraska Register, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln aid Catholic participation in such groups as Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society and Catholics for a Free Choice is [...]
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 [...]
Will Catholics and Evangelicals ever agree? Evangelicals and Catholics Together Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus Word Publishing, Dallas and Vancouver 236 pages; paperback; $14.99 US Reviewed by Joseph Woodard, Ph.D. It’s an old maxim that civil wars are the most vicious wars. But brothers fight not only with the greatest bitterness. They also show the greatest blindness toward “third party” threats. [...]
Since securing the Republican Party nomination, Bob Dale has been thanking Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition for their support. Critics say Reed’s support of Dole shows he is more interested in the power of the White House than he is in his Christian revolution. Supporters counter that having the President’s ear is tantamount to completing the revolution. His biography may hold [...]
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 [...]
I have often thought of writing an article under the above title but I thought it might sound too pious. However, I was inspired to do so from reading an article in the “New York Post” on February 5, 1996. The writer was Maggie Gallagher and that is all I know about her. She does not say to what religion she belongs [...]
Christianity is barely addressed in the information and entertainment media these days. When acknowledged at all, it is most often treated as an object of scorn and derision. Christian faith is simply not part of life for the vast majority of those fictional characters portrayed on TV and in films. When Christian characters occasionally get written into screenplay plots, they are almost [...]
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 [...]
A Nebraska bishop has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Catholics who belong to groups favoring abortion, euthanasia or the right to dissent from official church teaching. In a March 19 statement published in The South Nebraska Register, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln aid Catholic participation in such groups as Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society and Catholics for a Free Choice is [...]
Toronto As pro-life people, part of our goal is to change the way people act. We hope to see a world in which no one chooses to end the lives of their unborn children. However our goal is not to control people, but to instill a genuine respect for human life. The struggle to restore respect for the unborn is proving to [...]
Toronto abortionist’s letter to Pope and Bishops written off by pro-life leaders as publicity stunt Canadian pro-life leaders are portraying Henry Morgentaler’s recent letters to the Pope and Canadian Catholic bishops as a publicity stunt, and are supporting the bishop’s refusal to meet with the abortion crusader. Morgentaler called on the Pope to end what he sees as rhetoric which is endangering [...]
Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Against Christianity by David Limbaugh (Regnery Publishing Inc., $41.95, 416 pages). Review by Tony Gosgnach The InterimWhen one thinks of the term "Christian persecution," visions of scenes in distant foreign lands may come to mind - Chinese Christians huddled in the dark by candlelight for house church services, or Sudanese Christians struggling for their very lives against [...]