AT HOME ‘Light under a bushel’ department Christ the King is the name of a new Catholic elementary school nearing completion in what has become a predominantly Jewish suburb in Toronto. But Richmond Hill trustee Pat Burzillo has received a number of complaints about the name, including one from ‘concerned Catholic parent’. Jo Zupnik: “We feel that the name ‘Christ the King’ [...]
Prince Edward Island is widely regarded as a pro-life province. After all, five years ago abortion was banned in this province, and two years later the Legislative Assembly declared itself pro-life. (Politically, there was little choice.) It is true the Right to Life movement still exists, but it is struggling for membership, understanding and support. On almost all other fronts, the family [...]
FOR PEACE IN THE MIDST OF WAR In December 1990 Pope John Paul II described war as “an adventure without a return.” On January 11, 1991, he sent a telegram to the secretary general of the United Nations pleading for peace. On January 12, 1991, in his annual address to the diplomatic corps attached to the Vatican, he said that war in [...]
Ontario Premier Bob Rae has responded to a letter from the Ontario Bishops (November 1990) and from the Knights of Columbus (December 1990), both of which objected to the underwriting of free-standing abortion ‘clinics’ in Ontario. Both are reaffirmations of the NDP government’s aggressive pro-abortion policy. Two months It took almost two months for Premier Bob Rae to reply to bishop John [...]
Burning Times One of the better known branches of the National Film Board (NFB) is its feminist film making branch, Studio D. • This time taxpayers' dollars have gone into the making of Burning Times, a documentary on the purported evolution of witchcraft. Originally, the film explains, witches were the wise women in villages across Europe. They were the inheritors of an [...]
People tell me how hard it is to raise a child today. I tell them it's even harder to bury a child." There is a certain coldness and distance in Steve Taylor's voice as he speaks. Although it has been almost four years since his son's death, the pain is still there. It always hurts when you bury your child. Past "We [...]
Covenant House in Toronto has abandoned attempts to build a youth hostel on part of a former school yard of St. Michael's Choir School in downtown Toronto. Des Burge, communications officer with the Archdiocesan Center said that at the moment the Canadian financial climate does not allow for much successful fund-raising. Toronto City Hall did not like the original plans and had [...]
Dr. Craig Seaton has always had a strong interest in the relationship between belief, especially religious belief, and behaviour. When he read an article in Christian Info (a Lower B.C. Mainland newspaper) featuring interviews with several of the people arrested for blockading the Vancouver abortuary, he was intrigued. What makes these people tick? What kind of person engages in civil disobedience? Why [...]
Rev. Ludwig Nessa, 41, a Norwegian Lutheran Pastor, is to appear before a court for opposing abortion. In Norway the Lutheran Church is the official church with the king as head of both church and state. As a civil servant therefore, Rev. Nessa has defied his employer, the State, which has legalized abortion. As a pastor, he has defied his bishop who [...]
During the past year or so I had heard about Bishop Austin Vaughan, the Auxiliary Bishop of New York, and his dramatic stand in defence of the unborn babies of America. He had taken part in rescues, been arrested, then tried and imprisoned. I had admired him from a distance but I didn't expect to meet him, hear him speak, celebrate Mass [...]
This is a true story that happened on Christmas Eve, 1990. This story will warm me during whatever Christmas Eves God has planned for the rest of my life. This story will also explain why I never intend to remove a silver cross and chain, put around my neck by a Moslem this holiday season. Deported Just a few days before Christmas [...]
The Interim has tried to keep abreast of the growing strength of the ‘Dying with Dignity’ movement (See, for example, the articles “Doctors hear euthanasia warning” and “Dying with Dignity recommends that right to kill,” in our June 1989 issue). For November 1989 till March 1990, The Interim published four lengthy articles by Charles Eckman on the threat of active euthanasia and [...]
German unification took on a new meaning when pro-lifers from both (former) East and (former) West Berlin marched November 21, 1990 through the centre of the city. At one o’clock in the afternoon, four to five thousand people assembled outside St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in what was once East Berlin. Speakers included the Bishop of Berlin and pro-life leaders. A special guest was [...]
The Assembly of Quebec Bishops (AEQ) has outlined several conditions for an independent Quebec in a submission to the Quebec Belanger-Campeau Commission. The Commission has been holding hearings on constitutional changes. Most of the submissions so far have favoured a sovereign Quebec state. In a brief presented on November 13, three representatives of the AEQ explained that ‘reform’ would require the following: [...]
As all book reviewers know, sometimes the biggest chore is preserving to read the book through to the end. Because I’m asked to review many ‘lifestyle’ books—about families, divorce, children, grief, etc.—a lot of trite and ‘junk-food’ genre publications come across my desk. So it’s with great delight I draw The Interim readers’ attention to a new publication Nazareth, a Catholic Family [...]