Book Review
Written on 14 Jan, 2001 at 7:40 in
Book Review, Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns Why Married People Are Happier,
Healthier,
and Better Off Financially
by Linda Waite and
Maggie Gallagher
(Doubleday, $37.95, 260 pages).
While Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher's The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially may seem a tad shallow in pointing to why marriage is a good thing, it is a wonderful tonic to the cultural illness that views marriage as an outdated, sometimes quaint, sometimes stifling institution. Waite, a University of Chicago sociologist, and Gallagher, Director of the Marriage ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2001 at 7:28 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce:
A 25 Year Landmark Study
by Judith Wallerstein
Julia M. Lewis and
Sandra Blakeslee
(Hyperion, $35.95, 347 pages).
The conventional wisdom about divorce and children - that family breakups are, at worst, a temporary difficulty for kids - is so wrong that new research about the long-term negative effects on children of divorce must force a re-thinking among parents and family courts when couples consider breaking up.
The research, which has grown over the years, is illustrated vividly by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Aug, 2000 at 11:20 in
Activism, Book Review, Pro-Life | Author:
Cathrina Keet
Alone: A Grandmother's Struggle for Life,
by Gord Truscott, with foreword by Fr. Ted Colleton.
Softcover, 109 pages, $10. Available from Campaign Life Coalition Canada 104 Bond St. Toronto ON M5B 1X9
tel. (416) 204-9749 fax (416) 204-1027.
Review by Cathrina Keet
The Interim
My dream in life is to make a difference. With love, strength and determination, Linda Gibbons has made her dream a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 2000 at 9:35 in
Book Review, Post-Abortion | Author:
Pat Hansard
Review by Pat Hansard
The Interim
Every woman who has given birth has a story to tell. When a woman has an abortion, she also has a story, but it's likely she will never tell anyone. For those who have been touched by abortion, telling the story is one of many healing steps on the road to recovery. They stand in the gap as advocates for those who have sacrificed their children on various altars and cannot ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Feb, 2000 at 7:33 in
Book Review, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Christina Nair Review by Christina Nair
Beyond Gay, by David Morrison (Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1999)
The best person to witness to God's power to save and rescue in a given situation is a person who has been in that very situation and who has experienced God's saving power first-hand.
David Morrison, author of Beyond Gay, was a gay activist for several years. He had a steady same-sex partner with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Feb, 2000 at 7:32 in
Abortion, Book Review, Features, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
Deborah James-Josipovic
Her choice To Heal: Finding spiritual and emotional peace after abortion by Sydna Masse and Joan Phillips (Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998). Softcover, 122 pages. Distributed in Canada by Cook Communications in Paris, Ont.
Reviewed by Deborah James-Josipovic
The Interim
"We are everywhere. We are in churches. We are in shopping centers. We are in grocery stores. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Feb, 2000 at 7:24 in
Abortion, Activism, Book Review, Fetal Rights | Author:
By Donald DeMarco
The Interim
John Irving is a well-known novelist and short story writer. He established his reputation in 1978 with The World According to Garp, which was made into a film in 1982. In his latest book, My Movie Business: A Memoir (Knopf, 1999), he presents his view on abortion and his attitude toward right-to-life advocates in the following passage, appearing on pages 40 and 41:
"Meanwhile, a self-described right-to-lifer approached me in a bookstore where I was signing copies ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Feb, 2000 at 8:34 in
Book Review | Author:
Novelist and painter Michael O'Brien reminds us that, even in our present culture of death, ‘the darkness cannot overcome the light'
By Sue Careless
The Interim
No one, least of all Michael O'Brien, expected his novel Father Elijah to be a publishing success. O'Brien had established himself as a painter and received commissions from churches that enabled him to modestly support his wife and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Nov, 1999 at 11:00 in
Book Review | Author:
The Sacred Gift of Life: Orthodox Christianity and Bioethics by John Breck, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998. Distributed in Canada by Novalis, 1-800-387-7164. 288 pages softcover, $26.95.
"Personality can be transplanted: Shy mouse made sociable, Discovery raises hope of ‘gene psychiatry' for humans."
So scream the day's headlines as I prepare to review The Sacred Gift of Life: Orthodox Christianity and Bioethics by John Breck. Breck's ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 7:38 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Reviewed by Paul Tuns
The Interim
The Book of Ted: Epistles from an Unrepentant Redneck, by Ted Byfield (Keystone Press Inc., $34.95, 269 pages)
The American columnist George Will once said that before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, before there was Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was William F. Buckley.
The point was that political movements have their beginnings in ideas, often enunciated by certain magazines and books, and those ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 7:38 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Reviewed by Paul Tuns The Interim
Letters to Gabriel: The true story of Gabriel Michael Santorum, by Karen Garver Santorum with a foreword by Mother Teresa and an introduction by Dr. Laura Schlessinger ($22.95).
Karen Garver Santorum is the wife of a prominent pro-life senator and mother of three who, when she found out she was expecting her fourth child, decided to write "letters" to her yet-to-be-born child. A horrific twist of fate makes these letters, collected in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jul, 1999 at 9:26 in
Book Review | Author:
Reviewed by Mike Mastromatteo
The Interim
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe, by Gavin De Becker (Random House, 1999, $34.95).
The recent high-school shottings in Littleton, Colo., and Taber, Alta., provide a timely, if tragic background for the release of Gavin De Becker's new work, Protecting the Gift. A consultant on public safety and security, De Becker has gained special expertise within U.S. government circles in the prediction and management of violence. He is the author ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jun, 1999 at 12:38 in
Book Review | Author:
Reviewed by Kathline Nitsch
The Interim
Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's Schools by Maude Barlow and Heather-Jane Robertson, Key Porter Books, 1994, $19.95.
How ironic that the authors, on record as pro-reproductive choice, should be so anti-education choice.
The inconsistency is glaringly obvious to anyone whose vision of reality isn't splintered, but apparently not to them. The authors of Class Warfare deplore the rhetoric and politics of "choice," that is, a voucher system or charter schools, as a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 May, 1999 at 11:15 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Interim Staff
The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn, by Rev. Paul Marx, O.S.B. (Human Life International Canada, 1998, 208 pages, $12.45 postpaid.)
In 1971 Fr. Marx attended a special pro-abortion symposium in California. Calling himself simply "Doctor," since he had a doctorate in sociology, he applied to attend, and got permission to tape the proceedings. He wrote this book in 1971 based on the proceedings; but because the hopes of the pro-abortionists ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 May, 1999 at 11:15 in
Book Review | Author:
Reviewed by
Andrea Procher
The Interim
By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride, by Dr. Alice von Hildebrand (Sophia Institute Press).
Perhaps it's just me, but I once had a tendency to think of marriage in terms of romance. I had often been told that even the best marriages must weather rough times - but I was sure that mine wouldn't. As far as I was concerned, my future wedded life would be one long honeymoon - ... (Continue reading)
