Federal Tories voted against a pro-life resolution at their 1991 bi-ennial conference held in Toronto, August 6-10. The vote by the delegates was 341 against and 155 for, with 57 abstentions. The resolution read: “Be it resolved that the federal laws should be amended to safe-guard the right to life of all children before, during and after birth.” Two pro-abortion Tory speakers [...]
What religion is being taught in Catholic schools? This has been a puzzle for many Catholic parents, including myself, for a number of years. At a May 27 meeting of the important Metropolitan (Toronto) separate School Board’s Religious Affairs committee, chaired by Father Ed Boehler, the Religious Ed chicken feathers hit fan. Stonewalling It all started in response to what was perceived [...]
Catholic students get a failing grade Editor’s note The Interim has been examining what is being taught in the schools about sexual-moral-religious values. In the first five issues of 1991 we raised readers’ awareness about the inroads the condom mentality was making among teachers and administrators. We were happy to contribute to a renewed resistance to this so-called solution to AIDS which [...]
Catholicism Calgary – The RC Bishop of Calgary, Most Rev. Paul O’Byrne, decreed in February of this year that from now on in his diocese all the faithful must stand during Mass from the time of the Offertory to that of Communion. Whether steps will be taken to physically prevent the congregation from kneeling remains to be seen. Kneeling before God is [...]
As morality disintegrates, culture becomes ever more preoccupied with sex, especially ‘kinky’ sex. One natural consequence of this development is an increased hostility to those who stand in the way of such aberrations. In North America today, this hostility manifests itself in progressively cruder attacks on Christianity. The most malicious attack on our traditional cultural and moral standards perhaps comes from militant [...]
John Devlin, school trustee and active member of the Knights of Columbus [KOC] in Stratford, Ontario, expressed his disgust when he heard that the Knights had once again overwhelmingly voted in favour of financially supporting hospitals that kill unborn babies. Convention At their annual Ontario State Convention held in Toronto, May 17-20, the Knights voted heavily for a resolution that read: Be [...]
I have been asked to many questions regarding my return from Woodstock to Toronto that I decided the best thing was to write an explanation. The questions have been, searching, interesting and sometimes amusing. Here are a few examples: “Did you not like it there?” “Did they throw you out again?” “What are you going to do now?” The most amusing [...]
On March 17, the Alberta Court of Appeal quashed Jim Keegstra’s 1985 conviction for willfully promoting hatred against the Jewish people and ordered a new trial. In December 1990 the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the conviction for willfully promoting hatred against Jews in a 4 – 3 decision, but it referred Keegstra’s other grounds of appeal back to the Alberta court. [...]
In early June, the Ontario New Democrats introduced legislation to end the wide-open Sundays which have prevailed since the municipal option clause passed into law by the previous Liberal government was struck down. Under the new law, the municipality may still make the decision but only within a general framework which emphasizes a common pause day. It must hold a public hearing [...]
Norwegian Lutheran pastor Ludvig Nessa, 41, was taken to court earlier this year for opposing abortion (The Interim, February 1991). The trial initiated on request of the state-funded Norwegian Lutheran Church lasted two weeks. Contacted by The Interim, Margit Apelthun of Dagen, Norway reported that defense witnesses pointed to Nessa’s opposition to abortion as a prophetic action proper to a [...]
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G. Emmett Cardinal Carter, 79, retired Archbishop of Toronto, attended a three day special meeting for Cardinals in Rome in early April to discuss pro-life issues. Before leaving for Rome he had indicated a desire to discuss Canada’s (defeated) abortion Bill C-43 at the meeting. As reported in the May 1991 issue of The Interim (p. 23), this move led Campaign [...]
United Church In 1990 the United Church refused to reverse its 1988 decision to accept active homosexuals as ministers. This led a number of people – sometimes whole congregations – to leave the denomination. Among those who have departed is Rev. Gordon Ross, executive director of Community of Concern (COC), an organization that, together with the broader United Church Renewal [...]
On March 6, Sister Elizabeth Davis, Executive Director of St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in St. John’s, Newfoundland, issued a statement concerning a controversial decision that the hospital had made to eliminate its obstetric and gynecology department. Budget cuts Anticipating budget cuts, she said, the provincial Ministry of Health had asked the three St. John’s acute care hospitals to consider the [...]
Something worse than AIDS In November 1987, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for Health Care Workers, speaking at the first worldwide conference on AIDS, said efforts to stop the spreading disease must be based on “the safeguarding of ethical principles which cannot be renounced.” A policy, he said, that looks only at short-term prevention measures, outside of ethical considerations, [...]