Part Three: Catholic Theology This is the third part in a series on the Churches and pro-life issues. Part One on The United Church appeared in the April 1986 issue and Part Two, covering the Anglicans, in the May edition. Two related articles, “Pro-abortion Catholics?” and “Pro-abortion feminists and nuns” appeared respectively in the February and May editions. Two introductory articles to [...]
Father Paul Marx, Catholic Priest and founder of Human Life International, reports the following item in a report printed as an advertisement in the American weekly The Wanderer (April 10, 1986): Early in 1985, in Ottawa, Canada, a radio talk show host, Lowell Green, had me on his popular three-hour program on station CFRA. I was out to expose the evils of [...]
At a press conference on May 6, Reverend Ken Campbell of Choose Life Canada announced his intention to lay charges against the Attorney General of Ontario, Ian Scott for obstructing justice by failing to close the Morgentaler abortuary. The move, which was made after consulting with “a top criminal lawyer,” was thwarted just 24 hours later when Justice of the Peace Gerald [...]
The May 1986 News Release of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) by a note of its editor: Churches beware: sexual orientation threatens freedom. Ottawa-Justice Minister John Crosbie has replies to the letter written by Hudson T. Hilsden on behalf of the PAOC to the prime minister and all MP’s which was published as an open letter to the May issue of [...]
“It is a marvelous day for gay,” explained George Hislop, founder of a 100-member homosexual business-owners’ group in Toronto, in the Toronto Sun on May 6. He had just been told that the Justice Committee of The Ontario legislature (with a vote of eight to two) had recommended placing “sexual orientation” under the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the Committee’s recommendation passed [...]
Four Canadian women, three lawyers and a criminologist, published a 210-page report entitled A Feminist Review of Criminal Law. The report was commissioned and paid for by the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, an agency fully-funded by the federal government. Walter McLean, Minister for the Status of Women, said the report was written to “arouse public sensitivity.” This it certainly [...]
Yet another feminist report urging repeal of Canada’s abortion laws is hardly headline news. But, throwing into the report the proposal that women should be allowed to steal, commit welfare fraud and disregard individual property rights to provide food, clothing and shelter for their children, ensures that the report receives maximum publicity. Both sets of proposals, and many more, are contained in [...]
North America’s largest chain of convenience stores, the 7-Eleven stores, announced at the beginning of April that it will stop carrying Playboy, Penthouse and Forum magazines. Christine Hefner, president of Playboy Enterprises claimed that her magazine has stood for “positive, healthy sex for three decades.” But U.S. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, boycotting the stores, pointed to the connection between pornography and violence. The [...]
The proposed three-tiered Canadian federal legislation on pornography is based on faulty research that ignored major findings on the harmful effects of pornography, charges psycho-therapist David Scott. The Fraser Committee report is filled with flaws, he stated at a symposium in Toronto on April 5. The first two tiers involving children and violence would be subject to strict penalties. But the third, [...]
This is the second part of an ongoing series on the churches and pro-life issues. Part one, the United Church, appeared in the April issue. On August 28, 1985, Dr. Lewis Garnsworthy, with the glare of media publicity around him, appeared before the Ontario Provincial Legislature Committee holding hearings on full funding for Catholic schools. He was accompanied by Dr. Clarke MacDonald, [...]
This article is not addressed to people of religious convictions but to those who are victims of materialism. For the latter, children are regarded as the source of problems – financial problems, and as limitations on their leisure time. There are also people who are in a panic about the future of the world. To them, the atomic bomb may bring doomsday. [...]
Picketer Dan McCash was charged with trespassing on April 3 at the rear of the abortuary. Mr. McCash was walking beside a woman who was heading for an abortion, asking her if she would consider alternatives. He followed her on to the property of the abortuary where he was told by the Barnes Security guard, R. Fletcher, “You are not supposed to [...]
Members of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal should not air publicly their dissent from proposed legislative changes granting protection on grounds of sexual orientation, according to Ken Norman, a former chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Thomas Schuck, a Weyburn lawyer and a member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal since January 1984, has come under fire from those promoting [...]
London – Nurses should notify police, said a British Catholic Bishops’ committee on bio-ethical issues, when they find handicapped newborn babies being sedated or starved to death. The Bishops referred specifically to babies born with spina bifida who were being refused surgery. If the hospital authorities refuse to rectify such a state of affairs, then a nurse has no alternative but to [...]
The New York Times of March 2, 1986, carried a full-page advertisement from the “Committee of Concerned Catholics.” Like the first such ad of October 1984, the new one also claimed to be concerned about lack of freedom within the Catholic Church, the right to dissent, the need for dialogue, and “reprisals” concerned the demand of the Vatican Congregation of Religious that [...]