Schools and education have always been precious to parents. They entrust their children to teachers in good faith, confident that they will be equipped to become citizens worthy of the name. Catholic schools make an even larger claim than public schools, namely that they help the child also to grow in the knowledge of God as He revealed Himself through Jesus and [...]
I have heard of Pharmacists for Life and am interested. Is there a Canadian group? Where can I reach them? B.R., Toronto, Ontario. Pharmacists for Life refuse to cooperate in any way in the destruction of preborn children, and therefore they will not sell any drugs or abortifacients devices. So far as I know there is no Canadian group. The address in [...]
CHURCH OF ENGLAND (Anglican) Dr. Robert Runcie’s resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury came into effect on January 31, 1991. Rt. Rev. George Carey will be his successor (on April 19). In an interview with Readers’ Digest magazine (February edition), the Anglican archbishop-to-be declared that “the idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy.” Thus [...]
On March 11, the Bay, Simpson’s and Zellers in Ontario announced that they would open on Good Friday. “Good Friday is a big shopping day in other provinces,” said a spokesman for the stores, “so we decided to open that day and close Easter Sunday.’ The announcement indicated the growing contempt of large businesses such as the above for the religious sensibilities [...]
On March 9, twenty people from Toronto, Brampton, Brantford, Port Perry and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, met for quiet prayer in the lane behind Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Injunction Planning to pray for two hours, the participants did not obstruct the lane; neither did they carry sign, hand out the literature nor speak to anyone. They just prayed the biblical devotion of the [...]
Michel Arsenault of Life Savers, Moncton, N.B., stated the defeat “was rather nice.” The bill would have allowed abortions on demand. “Now we can work towards a law that really will protect both mother and unborn child.” (The Times-Transcript) Bernard Currie, President of the Kitchener Right to Life, said there will be “mixed reactions…Some of our members have not been pleased with [...]
Delegates to the Policy Convention of the Ontario New Democratic Party held in early March in Toronto ratified a policy resolution calling on the government to create joint committees which would ensure co-operation between the separate (Roman Catholic) and public school boards. But some delegates brought forward other, much more ominous resolutions, all of which were shelved at this meeting. For example, [...]
Catholic Hospitals Coerced A federal court in Maryland has ruled that St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore should lose its accreditation if it does not allow its residents to learn about abortion and sterilization procedures. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, a national association, requires obstetric and gynecology programmes to provide training in abortion, sterilization and birth-control procedures. Hence, it withdrew the [...]
Nearly three quarters of all Americans believe that religious leaders have a right to express their views against abortion to elected officials. The poll was conducted by the Worthlin group. It found that 69 per cent of the 1000 people surveyed agreed with the statement: “A Church that believes it is morally wrong to have an abortion has the right to advocate [...]
Charlottetown. ON January 11, the front page of the Charlottetown Guardian featured a large, full-colour picture of three persons: a man in a military uniform, an infant, and a young woman. The accompanying caption explained that he was returning to his fiancée from military duty in the Persian Gulf and meeting his young son for the first time. Chided A local Roman [...]
The following story appeared in the Markham, Ontario Weekender of December 223, 1990. Starting in Grade 7, Catholic students in York Region are taught about condoms and foam. “The promotion of condoms and foam as a birth control method and as prevention to HIV infection was addressed at last week’s education committee meeting of the York Region Catholic Separate School Board. “Divisional [...]
In her Toronto Star column of December 14, 1990 pro-abortion, anti-life columnist Doris Anderson seized with delight on one of the recent scandals in the Catholic Church in Canada. The atrocities against boys at Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland, she declared with complete conviction, are the direct result of centuries of misguided teaching in the Catholic Church. The Church’s efforts to promote [...]
On November 27, 1990, the Policy Committee of the Durham Separate School Board (DSSB) revoked an earlier motion of the full board making family life and religion programs compulsory for all students. For more than a year, some parents in the region lying to the east of Toronto had fought a losing battle with the DSSB over a long-standing rule that no [...]
Father Tony Van Hee, a 55-year-old Jesuit priest from the Guelph Spirituality Centre, heaved a sigh of relief when the proposed abortion law, Bill C-43 was defeated in the Senate on January 31, 1991. Vigil Father Van Hee has kept a prayer and fasting vigil on Parliament Hill for the last year-and-a-half (since September 1989) except for a break of three months [...]
Czechoslovakia In the second week of January, the Czechoslovak federal assembly passed a new human rights law which included a ‘right to life’ clause. Members of the assembly, especially those representing Christian-oriented parties called for this clause to be extended to cover life from the moment of conception, in other words, they wanted an end to legal abortion, in line with the [...]