Mr. Hartigan is a semi-retired corporate attorney with a variety of civic and religious interests. The argument advanced for condom distribution is that it will protect students against pregnancy and AIDS infection by enabling them to engage in sexual activity without exchanging body fluids. However, that theory has been put to the test in dozens of school systems all over the country, [...]
The author’s first article was entitled: “True sex-ed – cultivating purity in modesty.” It appeared in the August ’91 (Insight). Fr. Gillis is a retired professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. It is important that Christians know that the drive for explicit classroom sex education did not originate with either the Holy Spirit or the Church. We can safely say that [...]
This The Interim’s fourth consecutive Insight to be devoted to schools and education. Together with other articles printed in The Interim from January 1991 onwards, they treat of various themes which intertwine and interact. For an overview of these see the Index on this page. Everyone will agree that as a pro-life, pro-family paper our concerns with education are fully warranted. How [...]
On August 26, the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB), easily passed a motion, proposed by Trustee Harold Adams, which supported Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s statement banning the promotion of condoms in the Catholic school system. As a result the statement will be distributed to all the MSSB schools. Band-aid solution In his letter to the five school boards in the Archdiocese, Archbishop [...]
Integrity/Toronto, a homosexual rights group active in the Anglican Church of Canada, held a ‘Service of Outrage’ on August 28 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. It was in support of Rev. James Ferry, dismissed from St. Philip’s-on-the-Hill Church in Unionville, Ontario, because he refused to sever relations with his homosexual lover. Toronto Anglican Archbishop, Terence Finlay said he [...]
It was a foretaste of heaven to stand in Toronto’s Convocation Hall with five hundred people, most of them former ‘gays’ and lesbians, and sing in unison, “Amazing Grace.” “It didn’t seem to matter what background we came from, gay, ex-gay, straight, alcoholic, we all had the same love for the Lord and it shone through,” one delegate said. University of Toronto’s [...]
The Interim will continue to keep readers informed about the drive of homosexuals and lesbians for social acceptance, legal protection and equality of status. Our purpose is and remains to raise awareness about this anti-life, anti-family movement. Editor 1: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA On June 23 ‘gays’ and lesbians in Ottawa held their first parade ever. Some 500 people were said [...]
IT’S ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’ TIME, A MIX OF NOSTALGIA AND NEW BEGINNINGS. In our family, it’s a first, as our almost-four-year-old son will be off to pre-school two afternoons a week. He’s delighted, of course, but veteran moms out there will laugh to learn that I’m a wreck. Like most mothers in my situation, I already miss the time I won’t be [...]
The following is another horror story of modern education. The Christian apologist, G.K. Chesterton once said: “When somebody stops believing in Christianity, he doesn’t stop believing. From then on, he believes in anything at all.” As the educational system abandons Christianity, any number of harebrained superstitions threaten to take its place. The day that parents could leave their children safely in the [...]
In April, Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic issued a strongly worded ‘no’ to condoms as a solution to the spread of AIDS or as a contraceptive. Yet, York Separate (Catholic) School Board (YSSB) may place its stamp of approval on a revised policy that will contain an explanation of how condom use may prevent AIDS. Circumvent “It seems like the York Region Separate [...]
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, [...]
What do most Americans think about abortion? The answer, contained in a new Gallup Poll described as the largest…and most demographically comprehensive ever taken on the topic,” will surprise many. A majority of Americans, including those who consider themselves ‘pro-choice,’ disapprove of abortion in most of the circumstances in which abortion is allowed under federal law, the polling organization found. The confusion [...]
There is a certain kind of pervasive Canadian malaise on the rise, which I’m sure can’t be exclusive to the Province of Ontario. Perhaps the malaise of which I write is only most apparent here in the industrial heartland of our nation where the animals are now running the zoo. What does it say about the values of Ontario voters, when we [...]
It is not news to regular readers of The Interim that our school systems. Public and private, have increasingly allowed themselves to take on programs that have strayed far from what we have traditionally expected of schools. These ‘socially relevant’ programs are crowding out the regular academic curriculum, and result in putting teachers into the role of surrogate parents. Many of us [...]
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 [...]