When Joanne Dieleman talks about saving babies from the clutches of abortionists, it’s not idle chitchat. In a remarkable booklet, author Joanne, long time pro-life activist and rescuer, mother of eight children and 249 foster children and grandmother of eight, tells how to save babies from instant death while their mothers – often unwittingly – march their children into a death camp. [...]
Toronto – Rev. Ken Campbell, Evangelical Minister from Milton, Ontario, had a Justice of the Peace in Toronto lay charges against Merle Terlesky for disturbing a religious service. This charge was later changed to disturbing the peace. Terlesky, aged 27, was found guilty of the latter charge and was ordered to perform 75 hours of community service over a nine-month period. He [...]
Halifax – Halifax hosted the region’s first Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Video and Film Festival, June 19-25. The weeklong event was hailed by organizers as “A Queer maritime celebration of our art, our lives, and the very miracle of our survival. There is something here and queer for everyone,” films, workshops and other entertainment. One workshop on “Sex, God and Film,” was [...]
Charlottetown – In recent months, the University of Prince Edward Island, part of which was formerly the Roman Catholic St. Dunstan’s University, has been the setting for several feminist-engendered events and personalities. In May, June Callwood co-founder of CARAL (Canadian Abortion Rights Action League) was the Convocation Speaker and received an honorary degree. A few days later Doris Anderson, founder of NAC [...]
Ontario NDP member Peter Kormos, now a backbencher, has a reputation for being Premier Bob Rae’s greatest nemesis on many issues, the most notorious being no-fault auto insurance and Sunday shopping. Some believe he will successfully run for leader of the NDP when Rae steps aside to enter the federal scene. In an informal interview with Kormos, the Interim’s Frank Kennedy tries [...]
Part I appeared in the July issue. It provided a brief history of how abortion legislation has changed during this century. Part II focuses on some of the important organizations which promote the anti-life, anti-family philosophy and concludes with a reflection on Ireland. Who are the people who promote abortion and why? The best-known promoter of abortion around the world is the [...]
Church and society Pope John Paul II, when he is not traveling, receives an unending stream of visitors, in groups or singly, dignitaries of every kind and every profession, local curial officials, bishops on their once-every-five-years visit, laity and clergy from every corner of the world. The Holy Father listens to their speeches or addresses and then almost always responds in kind. [...]
Highlights First the letter recalls some recent history. 1. In 1975 the CDF (Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) noted the distinction between the homosexual condition and homosexual activity, declaring the latter to be “intrinsically disordered.” 2. This led some Catholics to promote the view that while homosexual acts may perhaps be sinful, there is nothing wrong with being a [...]
Ottawa – Homosexual activists won a major victory August 6 when the Ontario Court of Appeal, siding with the “gay community,” declared that the Canadian Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it does not protect “sexual orientation.” Far-reaching The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen stated that the decision will, for two specific reasons, have “far-reaching implications”. First, homosexuals may use [...]
Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe after 45 years – 70 in the old Soviet Union – of destructive presence. Feminism, in its modern and similarly destructive form, has a shorter (though related) history, but already the informed critique is exposing it and presaging its certain eventual collapse. Betty Steele has now contributed a second book (after The Feminist Takeover published in [...]
Toronto – The 1989 court injunction that prevented all pro-life activities within a 150 meter radius of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortion clinic on Harbord Street now applies to his new location at 157 Gerard Street East (several doors west of the Scott abortion clinic) – and to any new location to which he may move his clinic. During the two days of [...]
In the last four issues The Interim has been documenting cases of provincial intrusion into religiously run hospitals. Catholic hospitals throughout the country are under increasing pressure from governments to relinquish health-care management to the province. The provincial governments of Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and now Newfoundland contend that these takeovers will save money. The hospitals feel that their medical ethics will be [...]
The following are pronouncements issued by American Catholic bishops against politicians who speak on the abortion issue from both sides of their mouths. They are of interest to Canadians who face the same kind of politicians. “Values Void” St. Paul, Minn. In a July 9, 1992, column of the diocesan newspaper The Catholic Bulletin, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis admonished two [...]
Marjorie Reed, 50, is a Toledo housewife. She has a husband, Robert, who sells cars and a son, Jamie, 16, who is in high school. In a quieter, saner time she would grow old gracefully, caring for her home, her family attending to her needs. But in 1992, in America, the times are not quiet or sane. For her commitment to saving [...]
One of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet (September 21, 1991), has reported on the effects of the abortion pill RU 486 on the children of two women. The pill did not cause an abortion in either case: one woman carried an apparently normal child to term; the second mother, following an ultrasound test which showed the child was seriously malformed, [...]