A woman who was known as an icon of the pro-life movement in southwestern Ontario for over three decades and, with her husband and children, helped establish a number of local pro-life organizations throughout Ontario has passed away at the age of 76. Mary Devlin died at the Stratford General Hospital on Nov. 6. As Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes [...]
An international television personality brought an inspiring message of hope to the Canadian pro-life movement when he made an appearance in Brampton, Ont. Oct. 17. Raymond Arroyo is an award-winning journalist seen in more than 100 million homes weekly around the globe as host and creator of the Eternal Word Television Network’s The World Over Liveprogram. He frequently analyzes life issues, has [...]
The Sisters of Life are a religious order founded in 1991 by the late Cardinal O’Connor of New York, who was convinced that there was a need for a religious order of women who would serve completely in pro-life ministry. In August, the Archdiocese of Toronto was blessed by the entrance of the Sisters of Life, who have established their first convent [...]
“Boldness” is a word that might describe Jennifer O’Neill well – it is a quality she has exhibited throughout much of her life. She recently came to Canada to exhort pro-life advocates here to similarly take courage as they go about working to combat the culture of death in this country. “Let’s be bold … can we be bold?” she asked. “There [...]
Editor’s note: This article is based on an Oct. 25 talk to Toronto Right to Life that was entitled, “The Glass is Half Full: A Pro-Life Reflection on the Virtue of Hope.” It was less a philosophical or theological examination of hope than an examination of the opportunities and victories pro-lifers have had in recent years. We need to understand the truth [...]
As pro-life Christians welcoming the birth of our Saviour this Christmas, we can prayerfully contemplate the Gospel for a deeper understanding of how to build the culture of life in our contemporary society. In particular, Luke’s infancy narrative reveals certain clear needs of women, especially abortion-minded women such as those we counsel at Aid to Women. We need to rely on someone [...]
Participants at the national pro-life conference heard about the progress being made on the abortion-breast cancer front. Worldwide, efforts to find a cure for breast cancer intensify even as the pressure to expand access to abortion escalates, despite the fact the abortion-breast cancer connection becomes ever clearer. Dr. Clem Persaud, a retired professor of medical microbiology and biotechnology, told the conference about [...]
“This was truly a grace-filled time of favour from the Lord. I believe we have re-energized the pro-life movement in Canada,” says Peter Ryan, executive director of New Brunswick Right to Life, of the national pro-life meetings and conference in Moncton, Oct. 25-27. It drew 325 participants from all 10 provinces. An exciting element was the presence of numerous students and other [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman In a remarkable article entitled, “New Life Matters,” which was published in the National Poston Nov. 6, Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Law, Ethics and Medicine at McGill University, acknowledged: “The fetus is a new human life” and she added: “That matters ethically and should matter legally.” Quite so. Somerville advanced this [...]
We had a pro-life guest for dinner from out of town recently. She had been doing pro-life work for ages and was discouraged. She started to list our defeats and setbacks and hers would have filled a phone book if I hadn’t interrupted her. “Wait a minute!” I cried excitedly. “I know a guy who helped organize a LifeChain this year that [...]
Every year, Canada’s pro-life university students look forward to the National Campus Life Network national symposium on the final weekend in September. The symposium is designed to educate, network and motivate post-secondary student leaders for pro-life activism. Students from across the country travel by car, bus, subway and plane to partake in this important event. This year, 46 attendees, representing 22 Canadian [...]
“I’m not sure why your readers would want to read about me,” said the young priest. “I’m pro-life and pro-family, but I don’t lead any big movement. I’ve never written a best-selling book on the topic. I’m just a farm boy from the Ukraine who became a pastor of a small church.” Father Jaroslaw “Jerry” Lazoryk is well-known to Catholic pro-lifers in [...]
Bella, the heart-warmingindependent film that took the 2006 Toronto Film Festival by storm, has now officially secured a major distributor for U.S. audiences. The Hollywood Reporterconfirms a July 26 scoop by LifeSiteNews.com that had reported Bellawould be released nationwide in U.S. theatres by Oct. 26 by a major distributor. Metanoia Films, the producer, finalized the contract with the distributor. Now, it is [...]
Being pro-life is far more than just being about the protection of the dignity and rights of the unborn child. It’s also about addressing the spiritual, emotional and psychological health of men and women in our culture. That was the message brought to Ontario earlier this year as Camille de Blasi Pauley, co-founder and president of the Healing the Culture organization, spoke [...]
The pro-life club at Capilano College in British Columbia is seeing a ray of hope as the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decides to take on a complaint filed in June. Minerva Macapagal, president of the club, filed the complaint after pro-life students were twice denied club status, once in March 2006 and again last December. The club in waiting is called Capilano [...]