The director of a Nairobi-based AIDS hospice fears promiscuous “Hollywood” values are effecting African young people to the detriment of family life. Dr. Margaret Ogola is medical director of the Cottolengo Hospice, a facility providing care and support to orphans born of HIV- positive mothers. Ogola was in Toronto in May to attend the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education, where [...]
The Interim “The average child throughout the Americas by the age of six has spent more time watching his father in a lifetime than he spends at his job.” According to Medved, Americans watch 26 hours of television a week and Canadians, 23 hours. Medved is the chief film critic for the New York Post and co-host of the PBS program, Sneak [...]
The family must replace the mass media, particularly television, in imparting important social values, says a Canadian pro-life journalist. Peter Stockland, the former editor of The Calgary Sun, made the comments May 29 during the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education. Stockland led a workshop on the social agenda and family values. “We can’t leave it to television to deliver the [...]
Interim staff Individual families can play a major role in counteracting increasingly disruptive influences in society, say participants of the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education. The conference, held May 26-30 in Toronto, attracted nearly 1,200 delegates from Canada, the United States, Mexico and several other countries throughout the world. The theme of the conference- Building a Civilization of Love- was [...]
John-Henry Westen The Interim With the sexual orientation legislation having passed in the Senate, it is now law. Of great concern during the debates in the House of Senate on the issue, was the absolute denial of any attempt to safeguard the rights of religious communities to defend their moral teaching on homosexuality. In the words of Senator Anne Cools, “Any critical [...]
Conference a major boost for family Fr. Ted Collection Along with about a thousand other people I attended the Second Pan-American Conference on Family Education. It was held at the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto. The title for this Conference was: “Building the Civilization of Love.” I thought that the entire conference was an outstanding success and great credit is due to Paul [...]
Interim special The First Annual Guelph Conference on Family and Morality was the response of local pro-life family groups who believe the chastity message for young people has been lost in the rush to embrace secular values and contraception. Held July 17-18, the event competed head-on with the 18th annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sexuality. The latter event embraces “sex [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Global conspiracy theories received an added boost recently when a meeting of the secretive Bilderberger group was held in King City, Ontario. The attendance list of 120 at the June 1-2 meeting read like a who’s who of current and former powerbrokers and shakers in world affairs—Henry Kissinger was there, as were US defense secretary William Perry, use [...]
The Interim Health minister David Dingwall announced June 5 that Canada is going to ban the sale of human sperm. The proposed bill, which will be tabled at the end of June, reads: “N person shall sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm or offer to sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm.” The measure will be a key part of the long awaited [...]
Edited by Brad Stetson, Praeger Publishers. The Silent Subject is a collection of fourteen essays looking at abortion from five perspectives: ethical, cultural, personal, religious and legal. All of these are interesting and informative, while some are so profoundly moving as to almost overshadow the rest of the book. The silent subject is both abortion and the unborn child itself. Brad Stetson [...]
Fr. Ted Colleton I have to thank the Lord and my Irish heritage for the fact that I have enjoyed excellent health for almost all my live---at least the physical level. However, I have to admit that I do suffer from a serious disease at the intellectual or psychological level. It is called “Plagiarism.” It comes from the Latin “plagiarius” which means [...]
I don’t put the blame on the politicians for lying- I put the blame on the people for believing them. Deputy prime minister Sheila Copps said in march 1996 regarding the hated GST tax: “if we don’t replace it, I will resign. I really don’t have much choice, it will be replaced.” Its still with us. Sheila has resigned but in her [...]
Could make air easier to breathe for children, unborn Interim Staff A tobacco products restriction act introduced by Toronto Senator Stanley Haidasz could play a part in better protecting unborn children from the effects of exposure to tars and nicotine. Bill S-5 requires cigarettes, cigars and loose tobacco to have a greatly reduced level of contaminants and additives. The bill would also [...]
When we think of mothers, chocolate chip cookies, cuddles on the couch and help with homework come to mind. But there is a whole other aspect of mothering that we need to think about this Mother’s day. And that is mother as Commander-in-chief. Mom firmly demanding that her five-year-old eat her vegetables and stay in bed at bedtime. Mom turning off an [...]
Proctologists, urologists, nurses, animal researchers all face various forms of abuse. A recent report by the American Medical Association puts to rest the notion that abortionists are the only health care personal being victimized by violence. The report, “Violence in the Medical Workplace: Prevention Strategies,” observes that the hospital emergency room personnel and psychiatrists—not abortionists—are the health care workers most susceptible to [...]