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Written on 19 Jul, 2001 at 7:59 in
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I knew Jerry Young for 13 years, since the Family Coalition Party of Ontario had a small office on Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. He was on the executive of the party as vice-president, president and past president for most of those years.
Jerry's approach to business and to politics was very direct and professional. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2001 at 6:49 in
Book Review, Donald DeMarco | Author:
Donald DeMarco
Life is a Blessing: A Biography of Jérôme Lejeune by Clara Lejeune (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), tr. by Michael J. Miller from the original French, La Vie est un bonheur: Jérôme Lejeune, mon père, 156 pp. $12 USD, $18 CAD, ISBN 2-7413-0163-8.
The name Jérôme Lejeune is well known to Canadian pro-lifers. The distinguished geneticist crossed the Atlantic several times to reassure Canadian audiences that science has, indeed, established ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2001 at 6:40 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
William Gairdner offers a sobering diagnosis
of our dangerously corrupt political culture
The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out by William Gairdner (Stoddart, $50, 534 pages)William Gairdner, author of The Trouble with Canada and The War Against the Family, now takes aim at the problems with democracy in The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out.
According to Gairdner, Canada and most western ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jun, 2001 at 8:50 in
Profiles | Author:
Grace Petrasek
"I may be a bit late for lunch tomorrow because I have to say Mass in the morning for the old people at a nearby seniors' home. They move rather slowly, you know, and sometimes it takes them a while to get around," said Fr. Ted Colleton, himself a delightful 88-year-old, in a phone conversation.
During lunch, we talked about his 60 years as a priest, 30 years in Africa ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Apr, 2001 at 7:50 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns Anti-euthanasia leader wants a 'human rights bioethic'
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter Books, $36.75, 285 pages).
In Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Wesley J. Smith, author ofForced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder and an attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, indicts the medical establishment for allowing itself to be influenced by a "the mainstream bioethics movement ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2001 at 14:10 in
Profiles | Author:
Gerry Brosso
A long time supporter of Campaign Life Coalition and the pro-life cause has died after a brief struggle with cancer. Francis (Frank) Xavier Finn passed away March 4, 2001 at his Gananoque, Ontario home, surrounded by his family.
A long-standing member of Knights of Columbus Council 4177, past Grand Knight, bulletin chairman and church activity chairman, he was an extraordinary minister of the eucharist and a lay reader for 12 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2001 at 14:08 in
Profiles | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
If pro-life work is advanced by a quiet but steady resolve in defence of innocent, unborn life, then Toronto's Bill McArthur certainly was an exemplary pro-lifer.
Bill died February 19 at the age of 73. He had been in declining health due to lingering problems related to asthma and weakened lungs.
A long-time employee of Canadian National Railways, Bill was one-half of a committed pro-life husband-and-wife team. His late ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2001 at 13:53 in
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Just days before he was scheduled to leave for New York to assist with pro-life lobby efforts at the United Nations, Campaign Life Coalition Youth member Paul Jalsevac was very seriously injured in a car accident.
On March 5, 20-year-old Paul, the son of LifeSite manager Steve Jalsevac of Toronto, was hit head-on driving into the grounds ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2001 at 13:27 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns Prominent Montreal bioethicist opposes cloning,
but aims for elusive balance on abortion
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit
by Margaret Somerville
(Toronto: Viking, 2000). 344 pages, $33.99 CAD.
Margaret Somerville, founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, says in The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit that it is time for the discussion of ethics to catch up with the scientific and technological developments of recent years. Ever since the 1997 announcement that scientists had ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Feb, 2001 at 12:36 in
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Henry B. Bieber, husband of Alice Bieber, died peacefully in Pembroke January 27, 2001, in his 82nd year.
Henry and Alice were longtime supporters of the pro-life cause and are remembered from the early 1970s when they joined Action Life of Ottawa in response to an advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen.
Henry was born and raised in Saskatchewan and came to eastern Ontario when he was called to service ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Feb, 2001 at 12:35 in
Profiles | Author:
Robert P. George
NRO Weekend
E.M. ("Elizabeth") Anscombe, who died at the age of 81 in January, was a titan in the world of philosophy, and one of the 20th century's most remarkable women.
At Cambridge, she studied with Ludwig Wittgenstein, and upon his death in 1951 became one of his literary executors. Among her most important early contributions to philosophy were publications (often requiring difficult translations) of Wittgenstein's unpublished writings, together with a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2001 at 7:44 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns First Things, a "Survey of Religion and Public Life" edited by Father Richard John Neuhaus, caused a stir in the academic and journalistic communities when it posed the question, "The End of Democracy?" in its November 1996 issue. Going beyond the debate over judicial activism in the United States, the symposium questioned whether or not "conscientious citizens can longer give moral assent to the existing regime."
A debate, or more properly a conversation, about the issue was ... (Continue reading)
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 29 Dec, 2000 at 7:28 in
Abortion, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Television Shows | Author:
Ted Gerk
Western View
It has all the trappings of a deliberate, calculated set-up. I'm talking, of course, about the recent CTV W-Five television program dealing with pro-life crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs). You know the program. W-Five are the slobs who, many years ago, televised a Henry Morgentaler abortion on Mother's Day. Brave buffoonery at its finest.
W-Five used a hidden camera and went in on false pretenses, then turned around and accused CPCs of using distortion and false information to scare women out of having abortions.
The ... (Continue reading)
