Pressure from human rights organizations and homosexual rights activists appears to be responsible for the firing of the editor of a Roman Catholic family magazine based in Saskatchewan. Controversy erupted when editor Father Albert Lalonde published “A Psychoanalytic Look at Homosexuality and AIDS” by a respected American psychiatrist who has written hundreds of articles on the subject, [...]
Toronto: After 14 years of publication, “Canada’s magazine for gay liberation Body Politic, announced it will end publication with its February 1987 issue. By almost any standards of normal behaviour, Body Politic’s articles, photos, and illustrations were obscene. Yet, it managed to beat the charge of distributing indecent material through the mail in a five-year court battle related to the article [...]
Public health nurses working in high schools in Montreal have been helping students to have abortions during school hours, without informing their parents. Reporters from La Presse recently discovered that the practice has been going on for some time and that the nurses claim that a section of the Public Health Safety Act gives minors of 14 or [...]
There is nothing more contrary to the pursuit of the truth and true religious thought and discipline than the spirit of contestation. In religion contestation is born when ancient standards in favour of orthodoxy are abandoned in favour of vague directions and notions. Today, this spirit is widespread among section of the academic theological community. Tom Harpur, [...]
On December 2, MPPs voted to amend Ontario’s Human Rights Code to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination. The amendment, part of Bill 7, and omnibus bill bringing Ontario legislation in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, passed after weeks of intense lobbying from groups on both sides and after a week of intense debate [...]
Paul Brophy, age 49, of Concord, Mass., died on October 24 – eight days after his wife won a court order allowing her to move him to a hospital where doctors would follow her wishes to withdraw nourishment from her husband. Mr. Brophy had received water and nutrition through a gastronomic tube for the past three and a half years, following unsuccessful [...]
Part VI: Tom Harpur Dissent, as noted, comes in many forms and disguises. It is certainly a most popular pastime in the academic world. The very atmosphere of academia – so it seems – favours debunking and dissent in general. If at one time – let us say, deep in the nineteenth century – it was thought that truth could and would [...]
Sex and Social Engineering is a comprehensive exposé of the philosophical and scientific theories that have shaped the world’s family planning organizations. It traces the evil effects their programs have had on our society. Valerie Riches’ account is not extremist nor fanatical in any way. Rather, it’s a factual summary of evidence compiled by a renowned English social worker and mother who [...]
Toronto daycare centers are expected to receive $2.1 million from city council for next year to ensure adequate salaries for workers and help keep fees down. And the parliamentary task force on daycare is expected to recommend that subsidized group care be made available to every pro-school child in Canada, at a cost of billions of tax dollars. The recommendation would be [...]
Four Private Members’ bills to amend Section 251 of the Criminal Code have received first reading in the House of Commons in the new session of Parliament that began September 30. All previous items of Private Members Business relating to abortion and the protection of the unborn child died on the Order Paper when the House prorogued at the end of August. [...]
After almost two years of “discussion,” the case of the nuns who signed a pro-abortion advertisement in the New York Times appears to have moved to the stage of conflict. Yet only recently, in the early summer of 1986, the issue seemed close to settlement. On July 22 the Vatican office that deals with religious orders and communities announced that except for [...]
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Although Bill C-114 died when the Mulroney government prorogued parliament in September, the following critique is highly relevant as the federal government intends to introduce legislation to curb pornography. The critique is written by Katherine de Jong, a law professor at the university of Western Ontario; Michael Dwyer, a seminarian at St. Peter’s, London; J.K. MacKenzie, Q. C., President of Christians Against [...]
I take letters to the editor seriously. Particularly ones like the letter printed this month from AIDS Calgary, accusing me of misinforming and deliberately misleading readers to promote “bigotry” and “ignorance.” In the April editorial I referred to AIDS as a homosexual disease, and I believe I was right to do so. Since the AIDS virus was first identified – and named [...]
Part V: Catholic moral theologians The Catholic Church in Canada is under serious strain, this for two reasons: an accommodation to irreligion among many of the faithful and the growth of dissent among theologians. This last aspect forms the subject of Part V of this series. Dissent and sexuality Dissent among Catholic theologians in the Western world is most pronounced in the [...]