Religion
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 13:50 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
Mike Mastromatteo
Representatives of Canadians with disabilities decry Edmonton 'Anno Domini exhibit
By Mike Mastromatteo
The Interim
Disabled rights activists in Alberta and across Canada are again fighting attempts suggesting that Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer was motivated only by mercy in the 1994 murder of his handicapped daughter Tracy.
The latest effort centres on the Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries exhibit at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton. The exhibit, which runs ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 13:09 in
Politics, Religion | Author:
Tim Bloedow
Commentary by Tim Bloedow
The Interim
Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is a Christian organization, founded to provide assistance to Christians in countries where they face persecution, largely at the hand of Muslim and Communist regimes. Recently the organization, which sends out regular email alerts, issued a statement about the hostility being faced by Christians at the hand of their government - in Canada.
The animosity expressed against Christianity during the federal election campaign was not limited simply to issues such as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 10:50 in
Editorials, Politics, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
The head of the political arm of Canada's pro-life movement took a better-late-than-never approach to the prominence some religious leaders gave to abortion as an election issue for Christians to consider as they cast their votes on November 27.
Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim he would have preferred a generally stronger and earlier recognition of the importance of abortion as an issue ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 10:46 in
Columnist, Religion | Author:
Charles Moore
Maritime Reflections Stockwell Day told a TV audience at the beginning of the election campaign that he prays for journalists who ridicule his religious faith. Surely not individually by name. He would have time for little else.
Appearing on the Christian talk show 100 Huntley Street, Day specifically referenced a Toronto Stararticle about him that sarcastically signed off with "God bless his holy-roller Pentecostal soul." The Starwriter was far from unique in referring to Day's evangelical Protestantism ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 10:00 in
Profiles, Religion | Author:
Mary Ellen Douglas
By Mary Ellen Douglas
The Interim
It seems the pro-life family has experienced so many difficult and trying problems in the last short whole. Two million babies killed in their mothers' wombs, the arrival of chemical abortions, attacks on born children, and the threats and reality of euthanasia. But God in His infinite mercy chose to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 8:46 in
Politics, Religion | Author:
Dr. James DobsonMost.
Rev. Adam Exner
I am committed never again to cast a vote for a politician who would kill one innocent baby. These little ones have no defense except that which we provide for them. Never will I use my influence, however remotely, to support the shedding of their blood. If wants to defend "a woman's right to choose," and wants to build a big (pro-abortion) tent, they can certainly do so. But if they do, I will not use ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:19 in
Pro-Life, Profiles, Religion | Author:
Margaret Purcell
Fr. Ben Hermann OMI - a big man who cast a giant shadow
By Margaret Purcell
The Interim
Those who keep archives will say that Fr. Bernard Michael Hermann was born on Oct. 21, 1922 in Odessa, Sask. In 1940 he entered the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate novitiate at St. Charles, Man. He professed his first vows on Sept. 15, 1941. After attending St. Charles Scholasticate in Battleford, Sask., he made his perpetual commitment as a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:41 in
Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
London's Bishop Sherlock denounces misrepresentation of his endorsment
The Interim
One of the feared outcomes of the support by Catholic leaders of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 has been realized. Abortion advocates are implying in their literature that Canada's Catholic bishops are fully in support of the march without reservations.
The Toronto Organizing Committee of the World March of Women has been distributing a pamphlet on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 2000 at 7:23 in
Columnist, Religion | Author:
Charles Moore
Maritime Reflection
Secular humanists maintain that separation of Church and State is a fundamental precept of democracy; that Christian principles applied in politics and law "discriminate" against other religions and citizens with no religion; and that the teachings of the Bible are irrelevant to our enlightened modern era. Too many nominal Christians are inclined to agree with them these days.
The unfounded but pervasive notion is that secular humanism is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 2000 at 7:20 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics, Religion | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
A wild rumour was circulating around Ottawa that Prime Minister Jean Chretien was planning to join Ted Turner's Religion. It was going to be done publicly after the recently held Millennium Peace Summit on religion and world peace at the United Nations. As The Interim'sofficial rumour investigator, I was asked by our editor in chief, David Curtin, to investigate it.
I phoned the PM's office in Ottawa and said that "Maurice Strong" wanted a private meeting with Chretien immediately and could it ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Sep, 2000 at 14:02 in
Profiles, Religion | Author:
Donald DeMarco
By Donald DeMarco
Agesilaus II, the king of Sparta in the fourth century B.C., compared his kingly role to that of a good father. "The king will best govern his realm who reigneth over his people as a father doth over his children." "Royalty," he added, "consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues."
This manner of understanding the exercise of kingship in relation to specific virtues was not unusual for the ancients, who regarded the king as the antithesis of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Sep, 2000 at 13:52 in
Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
Charles W. Moore
By Charles W. Moore
One of the keynote speakers at the National Pro-Life Conference in Toronto this October will be Peter Kreeft, a prominent Christian apologist and a professor of philosophy at Boston College. Dr. Kreeft was brought up in the Christian Reformed Church and taught philosophy at his alma mater, Calvin College, prior to his becoming a Catholic
I am a big Peter Kreeft fan. Like me, he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Sep, 2000 at 12:12 in
Editorials, Politics, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
Pro-lifers who've been at it for any length of time have experienced many frustrations. One of the most peculiar is the tendency of so many otherwise pro-life Canadians to vote Liberal, even when the Liberal candidate in their riding is pro-abortion.
Experienced pro-life leaders say that Catholics are especially loyal to the party, even though the party hasn't been very loyal to them. But it isn't just ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Aug, 2000 at 11:08 in
Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
Donald DeMarco Will anti-Catholic group finally die
after humiliating defeat in Congress?
By Donald DeMarco
The Interim
It is a monumental challenge to put the right spin on losing by a score of 416-1 to create the impression that your opponent's victory was something less than deserving or decisive. Undaunted by monumental challenges, a group that calls itself Catholics for a Free Choice reacted to the U.S. House of Representatives voting 416-1 July 11 to preserve the Vatican's observer status with the United Nations by calling ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jul, 2000 at 12:10 in
Columnist, Human rights, Marriage and Family, Religion | Author:
Tim Bloedow
View from the Hill
We Canadians who stand in defense of the Judeo-Christian moral and social principles that have built and sustained western culture over 2000 years had better be girding up for the fight of our lives. Confronted by the prospect of a man who unapologetically affirms traditional Christian ideas becoming leader of the opposition, and perhaps even Prime Minister, the forces of secular paganism (including the seditious fifth column that operates from within the churches) ... (Continue reading)
