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Written on 19 Oct, 2010 at 6:15 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
One of the speakers at the 2010 International Pro-Life Conferenc, Building a Global Culture of Life, will be Faytene Kryskow, an author and influential young speaker involved in full-time Christian ministry in Canada. She provides leadership for TheCRY Canada and the MYCanada Association.
She told The Interim that “TheCRY mobilizes the church from across denominations and generations in full days of prayer and fasting for Canada. These days have recorded significant answers to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 2010 at 6:39 in
Nurses for Life, Profiles | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac
Rita Burnie, who with her sisters Helen (deceased) and Mary, long served in the frontlines of the Canadian pro-life movement. She passed away last Dec. 13th. Burnie, a nurse, had been active in the pro-life movement since 1984 when she first picketed Morgentaler’s newly opened Toronto abortuary. “I went in to nursing to save lives,” Burnie is quoted as saying Grace Petrasek’s book in Silhouette’s Against the Snow: Profiles of Canadian Defenders ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 2010 at 6:35 in
Profiles | Author:
Melissa Vasquez
On Feb. 2, Toronto-area pro-lifer Rita Holmes, passed away in her 89th year. Rita had a perpetual dedication to her family – her husband Ray and sons Jim, David, and Bill, and daughters Lorie (Futch), Cathy (Roth), Honey (Ellerby), and Genevieve (Carson). She also had 26 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Married for 67 years to Ray, her love, care and support for her husband was never ending. She was adored and respected ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2010 at 18:18 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On Aug. 3, the National Post featured Linda Gibbons on its front page in what LifeSiteNews.com called “the largest piece on the pro-life heroine yet from Canada’s national media.” Religion reporter Charles Lewis interviewed Gibbons at the Vanier Centre for Women where Gibbons told the reporter she has a constitutionally protected right and religious obligation to witness against abortion.
According to Lewis, Gibbons “believes she has a Charter and God-given right to counsel ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Sep, 2010 at 6:56 in
Profiles, Youth Activism | Author:
Interim Staff Discussing freedom of speech on campus
Editor’s Note: Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, interviewed John Carpay, former executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and who continues to the students involved with Campus Pro-life at the University of Calgary, about the case and freedom of speech on campus for pro-life groups in general.
The Interim: How did you get involved with the Campus Pro-life students at the University of Calgary? Why is it important for them to have legal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Sep, 2010 at 5:33 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac
Organizers for the 2010 international pro-life conference have announced the list of individuals who will be speaking at the conference this October in Ottawa. Michael D. O’Brien, Canadian author and artist, will be joining Bill Saunders of Americans United for Life, John Smeaton of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, and Brad Mattes, winner of a 2010 Emmy Award for his pro-life TV show, to name just a few.
The theme ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Sep, 2010 at 6:42 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
One of the many notable speakers at the 2010 International Pro-Life Conference will be Brad Mattes, host and executive producer of the Emmy-Award-winning television show Facing Life Head-On.
In Facing Life Head-On, Mattes, who is also the executive director and co-founder of the Life Issues Institute, a Cincinnati-based organization that develops and distributes pro-life educational material, interviews people who were “faced with life and death situations” and made difficult decisions in which they ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 6:13 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns
On July 17, Mary Florence Hughes, mother of pro-life leader Jim Hughes, passed away shortly after becoming seriously ill in her 101st year.
Mary raised Jim and his sister Patricia on her own in Toronto in the 1940s and ‘50s, working a variety of jobs to support her own children and an extended family of cousins. Her husband Charles Hughes died following a heart attack in 1946 when Jim was three and Patricia ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Aug, 2010 at 5:27 in
Profiles | Author:
Melissa Vasquez
In July, the National March for Life committee announced Dan Heffernan as the newly appointed National March for Life coordinator for lay movements, a new position on the committee.
Heffernan has had extensive involvement in the pro-life movement over the past few years. Joining the Knights of Columbus in 1988, Heffernan continued to hold various positions within the council, including the Life and Family Values chairman (formally known as the pro-life liaison) from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2010 at 13:55 in
Profiles | Author:
Interim Staff
Fr. Leonard Kennedy C.S.B., a frequent contributor to Catholic Insight and Challenge magazines, passed away April 1 at the age of 88. Fr. Kennedy, tall, upright, white hair, twinkle in his eye, smile on his lips, love in his heart will be sadly missed.
He was born in England in 1922, but moved to Canada when he was four. He grew up in Hamilton. In 1940 he attended St. Michael’s College, Toronto and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 2010 at 19:44 in
Profiles, Real Women | Author:
Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews.com was presented the 2010 National Award by REAL Women at its annual national conference on April 17 in North Bay, Ont. REAL Women national president Cecilia Forsyth explained that the award signifies that the recipient individual or organization has made an exemplary contribution to society. Nominees are expected to demonstrate “honesty, integrity and responsibility; respect for the traditional family unit in society; support for the basic right to life of all human beings; and Judaeo-Christian values.” The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 2010 at 13:34 in
Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor On March 20, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, passed away at the age of 89, ending a four-decade career opposing abortion and contraception.
Fr. Marx created the Human Life Center in 1971 – two years before Roe v. Wade – which a decade later became Human Life International. He traveled to all 50 states and more than 90 countries to proclaim the pro-life message. In a press release, Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, Fr. Marx’s successor as president of HLI, said: “In the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 2010 at 9:15 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
On Jan. 25, 2010, pro-life activist Lila Rose gave a rousing speech to the San Francisco Walk for Life, which drew a crowd of 35,000 participants. “Let us be the ones who with grace, who with humility and who with joy stand up and say enough is enough. We will see every person in America protected by law, by love, protected by choices. Even the smallest in our country will be protected,” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Mar, 2010 at 9:50 in
Profiles | Author:
Donald DeMarco
We know that Drew Brees quarterbacked the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts and was named the game’s most valuable player. But there was another quarterback who, on that same day, earned an MVP award for what he did off the field, during the telecast of the game.
Tim Tebow is, in the parlance of football aficionados, “arguably” the best football player in college history. He is the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 9:00 in
Profiles | Author:
Interim Staff
Monsignor Thomas Barrett Armstrong, a Toronto priest, long-time teacher and choir director at St. Michael’s Choir school, and fervent pro-lifer, died Nov. 14, days before his 80th birthday.
He is credited by St. Michael’s Choir School with “engender(ing) a love for music in the hearts of hundreds of students who passed through” the school from 1958 to 2004. He was director of music at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto, ... (Continue reading)
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