“It’s All Right Now,” said a heading in the Toronto Star on Sunday, January 29, 1988. “Films that would once have been routinely banned or restricted in Ontario,” the paper explained, “are now passed by a censor board that has quietly cast off mid-Victorian prudery and joined the late twentieth century.” The board has not banned or snipped a mainstream movie in [...]
Bishop Pearce Lacey of Mississauga and John Oostrom, former MP for Willowdale, Ontario, charged recently that they suspected that many social workers were forcing or encouraging their women clients to have abortions. Bishop Lacey, speaking at a confirmation recently in Brampton, Ontario, talked about a young friend of his who obtained secretarial work at the Toronto General Hospital, infamous for the large [...]
The media’s campaign against B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm continues unabated. For two years now reporters and columnists have been predicting his downfall, always hoping that their columns might help bring it about. At first amused, then annoyed at a politician who actually believes that his Christian faith ought to inspire his public actions, the Toronto media people became alarmed and even [...]
A recent letter in the Toronto Globe complained about a reference to AIDS as a homosexual disease. It wasn’t so, the writer stated, accusing the person making the original statement of homophobia (hatred or fear of homosexuals). The real fear today, however, is associated with the refusal to admit that it is a homosexual disease; over nine-tenths of those in Canada who [...]
I am constantly amazed at the number of letters received by The Interim which indicate a complete lack of understanding regarding contraception and abortion. Many people fail to make the connection between the two topics, assuming that if contraceptives are used, one simply doesn’t get pregnant. This is absolutely untrue! I myself managed to become pregnant three times with an IUD (intrauterine [...]
At the recent Human Life International Conference in Toronto, a very striking Swedish woman, Mrs. Katarina Runske, spoke on daycare and socialism in her country, and also took part in the panel discussion on pornography. As president of the Family Campaign foundation in Sweden, she is concerned with the way in which the state is invading the family and taking away the [...]
For the first time in 20 years, a Canadian bishop has dared to call a Conference to discuss the encyclical Humanae Vitae (On Human Life0, published in July 1968. Its twentieth anniversary was a good occasion to do so. To the surprise of some, the October 15 meeting called by Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto, but led by Bishop Marcel Gervais of [...]
Recently the Vatican requested that Father Matthew Fox stop writing and lecturing. Fox, a priest of the Dominican order, is the author of three books and founder and head of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, Oakland, California. Father Fox has responded with an irate denunciation of the Vatican. Brother Ratzinger His feelings are expressed in a [...]
AIDS education seems to be following the same ideological patterns wherever it is introduced. In Britain, a video on AIDS for school students has been adapted to provide “a necessary moral context” for use in Catholic schools, according to columnist Auberon Waugh. Waugh reports that the accompanying manual “urges Catholic teachers to “correct myths’ about AIDS: ‘It is important for teachers to [...]
Recent responses to the AIDS crisis in the media generate more questions than answers. Indications are that Canadians have been let down and left confused by the medical and government bureaucracies. We are told that the majority of Canadians believe that AIDS is the most serious health threat today. Surely this national concern deserves a serious response from both a health and [...]
Why a discussion of Laura Sabia? The answer is that she still writes columns in the Toronto Sun, campaigns for abortion and judges religion according to the standards of militant feminism. When an item entitled, “Catholics for Choice” appeared in the Toronto Sun last June, her photograph was published alongside that of Frances Kissling, executive director of an American group called “Catholics [...]
Frank Mountain never even expected to meet Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and being the subject of her special attention was the furthest thing form his mind when the tiny nun entered his Ottawa hospital room on September 16. Although she makes a point of not visiting hospitals or nursing homes, Mother Teresa made an exception for Frank when she heard of his [...]
Recent years have seen a rapidly escalating erosion in family life in North America. Professor Lee Salk of Cornell University Medical College and President of the American Psychological Association’s division of child and youth services has stated: “Society is finding more and more ways of separating children from their families…We are expending more and more money outside the home on child care [...]
A homosexual lobby group – has a member sitting on the advisory committee that will oversee this counseling programme (and a curriculum unit on homosexuality). At the same time, the Board refused to allow any parent to sit on this committee. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS COUNSELLING PROGRAMME WILL BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF MY CHILD. I, ______________________________________ Do not [...]
Montreal According to University of Montreal, demographer Nicole Murcil-Gratton, Quebec’s low birth rate is the result of mass sterilization in the seventies and eighties. About 40 per cent of all couples between 20 and 44 years old have one partner who is sterilized. Quebec has the second lowest birth rate in the western world after West Germany. Before 1960, Quebec had the [...]