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Written on 29 Sep, 1995 at 11:48 in
Assisted Suicide, Book Review, Euthanasia, Issues | Author:
Sue Careless Edited by Ian Gentles
Stoddart Publishing, 1995. 131 pages, $18.95
Reviewed by Sue Careless
You are a high-profile, public advocate against euthanasia, but in your private life your own father, dying of bowel, stomach and liver cancer, begs you to assist him in suicide. What do you do?
Ian Gentles, the editor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate recounts how, for him, euthanasia hit home. It is one of the most moving passages in a fine book.
We who take public stands on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jul, 1995 at 11:44 in
Marriage and Family, Movie Review | Author:
Sue Careless $29, plus $4.95 shipping
Produced by Stephen Genuis M.D and Shelagh Genuis BScOT
K.E.G. Publishing, 2911-66 St. Edmonton, AB,
T6K4C1, (403)461-1606
Reviewed by Sue Careless
A video on sexually transmitted diseases could be so statistically heavy that it would bore its audience to tears or such a downer it would be tuned out. Teen Sex: Challenge and Decision informs without boring and gives kids positive solutions.
The narrator and co-producer, Stephen Genuis (pronounced Jenis), has two real strategies: he knows both his data and his audience. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 11:14 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
David Beresford When Life and Choice Collide
Essays on Rhetoric and Abortion,
Vol. 1 To Set The Dawn Free,
Reviewed by David Beresford
Cardinal Newman once said in one of his sermons, “Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones: and could they be brought to a plain issue, they would be brought to a prompt termination.” Oxford Sermons, Epiphany, 1839.
The book When Life and Choice Collide is a collection of essays that examines the verbal controversies surrounding abortion. It is an extremely helpful book ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:27 in
Movie Review, Religion | Author:
Interim Staff Thanks to a concerted U.S. boycott, a movie which depicts five Catholic priests in a scandalous light appears to be heading for a box office and public relations disaster.
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the American Life League have co-sponsored a boycott of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Miramax, the studio which released Priest. Catholic groups were enraged that Disney, a company known for its family type entertainment ventures, would release a film which John Cardinal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 10:00 in
Book Review, Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless Last September, in an article entitles “Relieving an adopted child’s anxiety,” The Interim reviewed a number of children’s books on adoption. Most were for young readers. The following will take a child into her teen years.
While many adopted children fantasize about their birth parents Princess Alice by Nina Bawden, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1995, turns the fantasy into reality. Alice actually does have a king for a birth father but she realizes, when given the choice, that she ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 9:45 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Interim Staff Contradictory statements and faulty reasoning give readers a firsthand look at how one Catholic politician justifies his support for abortion – without feeling at odds with the Church’s teaching.
I have just finished reading a book entitled Abortion, Conscience and Democracy.
The author is Mark MacGuigan, who was a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1980. The book shows an extraordinary breadth of reading and research, far beyond anything I have achieved or ever shall. Unfortunately it is also a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 11:52 in
Abortion, Book Review | Author:
Interim Staff Canadian Airlines. During a recent flight on this airline, one of our readers commented that before landing, the flight attendants went around collecting money for UNICEF, the UN’s notorious abortion-promoting organization. Whether or not this is a new airline policy, travelers should make sure that, before giving, they first determine where their contributions are being directed.
Mark MacGuigan. Former Canadian Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan’s book Abortion, Conscience and Democracy provides readers with an extremely vivid insight into how our Catholic politicians ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 9:57 in
Abortion, Book Review, Politics | Author:
John V. Stephens, Q.C Abortion, Conscience and Democracy
by Mark MacGuigan,
1994, Hounslow Press
165 pp, $16.95
Mark MacGuigan, Judge and Canadian Minister of Justice during the last years of the Trudeau era, has written a dandy compendium for Catholics seeking to assert their pro-life standing while publicly going along with relaxed abortion laws.
In his recently published Abortion, Conscience & Democracy (Hounslow Press), MacGuigan sets out his personal credo that directly induced abortions are always morally wrong, but in a pluralistic democracy in which opinion is divided, the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 11:54 in
Abortion, Cover stories, Morgentaler | Author:
Charles Muggeridge What does Canada’s spy agency know about the Morgentaler fire and why aren’t they saying anything?
Pro-lifers are demanding answers from the federal government in light of news reports linking the destruction of Henry Morgentaler’s abortion clinic with radical left-wing groups out to discredit the pro-life movement and force the government to take action against it.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee, in a recently-released report to the Solicitor General of Canada, stated that a CSIS informer “thinks that the bombing was by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Oct, 1994 at 13:32 in
Book Review | Author:
Reviewed by Sue Careless Alfie’s Home
Written by Richard A. Cohen
Illustrated by Elizabeth Sherman
1993
International Healing Foundation, P.O. Box 901, Bowie, MD, 20718-0901
Tel. (301) 773-5573
$14.95 US plus $3.00 US Postage
Hardcover Ages 7 to 12.
Love You Forever
Written by Robert Munch
Illustrated by Sheila McGraw
1986
Firefly Books, Annick Press
$4.95 Soft cover
Ages 3 to 6
For parents and teachers concerned about the influx of gay picture books such as Daddy’s Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies into both public and school libraries, there is now a healthy counterbalance in Alfie’s Home.
Richard ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 1994 at 12:53 in
Book Review | Author:
Reviewed by: Sue Careless
Going It Alone
Unplanned Single Motherhood in Canada
Janet Ajzenstat,
Elizabeth Cassidy,
Elize Carter,
Gerald Bierling
Human Life Research Institute, 1994
131 pages, $15.00
Order from HLRI
(416) 693-7030
Many of the women in Going It Alone say they went on with the pregnancy because they knew they could be good mothers. The researchers observe that, “Their high regard for themselves is striking. It is sad that society gives these women so little credit for their determination and achievements.”
Eighty-one mothers and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 1994 at 12:27 in
Book Review | Author:
Sue Careless
When is it Right to Die?
Suicide, Euthanasia, Suffering, Mercy
Joni Eareckson Tada
Since a diving accident 25 years ago, Joni Eareckson Tada has lived as a quadriplegic. Sometimes her depression seemed as paralyzing as her spinal cord injury. When is it Right to Die? not only draws on her own experience with disability and despair but also looks at the lives of others in pain.
Her book, which focuses on euthanasia and suicide, has a clear faith base but doesn’t offer pat ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 1994 at 11:21 in
Book Review | Author:
Laugh, I Thought I’d Die
My Life with ALS
Dennis Kaye
Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Toronto
264 pages, $25.99 hardcover
Reviewed by Sue Careless
For someone with a degenerative illness, Dennis Kaye’s got a great sense of humour. His muscles are wasting away with ALS. Yet the one muscle exertion that doesn’t sap energy but rejuvenates is laughter and Kaye employs plenty of it.
“A terminal diagnosis can ruin your whole day… leaves me sounding like Darth Vader with a harelip…I ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 1994 at 12:08 in
Book Review, Issues, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Reviewed by Sue Careless
Terry Anderson (New York, Crown Publishers, pp320, $29.95)
How long could you stay sane locked in leg irons, blindfolded, housed on little more than a mattress, fearing torture and death at the whim of your captors, uncertain whether the person you love the most will be waiting for you should you survive? One year? Two? Three at the most?
On March 16, 1985 Associated Press/Chief Middle East Correspondent, Terry Anderson, was dragged from his car by Shiite radicals in Beirut and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Feb, 1994 at 14:20 in
Book Review | Author:
Paul Dodds
Toronto A very broad interpretation of the terms “watching and besetting” has landed three Vancouver activists with suspended jail sentences for their pro-life counseling in front of Everywoman’s Health Centre.
Christine Hendrix and Gordon Watson were handed a 15-day suspended sentence for breaking an injunction outside the abortion clinic.
John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition B.C., said one of the picketers was holding a sign which said “End Abortion Subsidy” and the three were counseling women as they entered for abortions.
“These people ... (Continue reading)
