When I was six turning seven, we had the Year of Three Popes. “What’s a pope?” I asked. My parents said something surprising, about him being the head of the church. As Anglicans, we prayed for the “Queen, head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith.” At eight, I concluded I would better serve Jesus following the Apostles than the successor of [...]
Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the primate of Canada, was in the midst of hosting a massive international gathering of Catholics that was five years in the making - the International Eucharistic Congress. He nevertheless took time to sit down with LifeSiteNews.com for an interview. In keeping with the theme of the Congress, Ouellet spoke of the link he sees between the [...]
A popular advocate, lecturer and teacher in the areas of family and human life issues laid out a blueprint for the way forward in the struggle to protect human life and the family during the Catholic Civil Rights League’s Spring Dinner in Toronto June 10. Father Tom Lynch has an extensive resume in order to be able to speak on the topic. [...]
Sweet Smell of Roses On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Humanae VitaeJuly 25, I want to thank Pope Paul VI for changing my life forever. Because of his wisdom and the skills of his followers, I am a woman who has touched the cloak of Christ. “A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy;” whereas “(He) came so that [...]
A team of American and European pro-life non-governmental organizations have met with top Kosovo officials to discuss problems with the draft constitution for the newly forming state. The team, which was led by Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) vice-president Susan Yoshihara, met with the president of Kosovo and the speaker of the Parliament, along with other members of Parliament. These [...]
"In the beginning, I was. I was for a long time. Then things began to happen. Inside me, something was beating fast and outside, something was beating slower. For a long time, that was all I knew.” So opens the marvellous first-person story of an ordinary unborn child, as told by Regina Doman in Angel in the Waters. It is a children’s [...]
Prayer and penance Having worked on the inside of the pro-life movement for a dozen or more years, I have become more and more convinced of the absolute necessity of prayer and penance as a support for the necessary frontline action. So, I would like to take a few examples from the Bible that teach us how dependent we are on God [...]
Darwin Day in America; How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science by John G. West (ISI Books, $26.95, 450 pages) The success of modern science in providing us with all sorts of material goods, medical wonders and solutions for an array of societal problems has granted it well-deserved respect in the minds of the discerning public. [...]
Dennis Savoie, along with Mary Ann Kuharski, Lorraine Hartsook and Rev. John Ensor, will be a keynote speaker at this year's National Pro-Life Conference in Moncton, N.B., "the Hub of the Maritimes," Oct. 25-27. He currently serves as deputy supreme knight (second in command) of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's fraternal benefit society formed in 1882 to render financial aid [...]
Representing various faith backgrounds, proponents of traditional family values from across Ontario are praying for the Family Coalition Party. The movement began as a suggestion by an Alberta right-to-life activist who operates under the screen-name "Theresa" on FreeDominion.ca's Northern Ontario caucus. Participants pledge a specific time in their schedules to ask God's blessing and protection over the province's only pro-life party. "Campaigns [...]
“At the end of the day,” says Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R., “we teach more by example than anything else. And that’s always difficult, because our example is not perfect.” Fr. Stan, beloved as the “Rapping Reverend” from the South Bronx, was addressing parents and teachers on the topic of “Reaching Youth in a Media Culture” May 16 as part of a three-day [...]
Before responding to your question (see Eleanor Bridges’), The Interim wishes to offer you thanks for your poignant letter and our prayerful encouragement to you, your son and your family at this difficult time. You are struggling to reconcile your hopes for an ideal Christian family life with what seems right now to be an unbearable cross. Please know that, in your [...]
Practical tools to help the pro-life Christian to “be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove” were taught at a Toronto seminar “to assist faith-oriented Canadians to participate responsibly in Canadian politics.” The two-day gathering, which was not focused on a specific issue or party, was offered May 11-12 by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, along with [...]
A Toronto faith-based radio station, on which The Interim has a program, has had its application for a new specialty audio service approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The commission released a statement on March 12 confirming that Radio Maria will be permitted to distribute its programming nationally on a digital basis. To this point, the station has been broadcasting [...]
Some 30 years ago, the United Church of Canada was just beginning her long discussion on homosexuality, which culminated in their recent acceptance of same-sex “marriage.” Back in the early 1970s, I remember reading in the church’s official magazine the call for tolerance and the call to reappraise the message of Scripture on this subject. At this present moment, Anglicans from around [...]