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Canada’s Life and Family Newspaper May 2020, Vol. XXXVII No.3

Fr. Alphonse de Valk 1932-2020

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www.theinterim.com PAGE 2 — THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 N.B. government stands up to Ottawa’s Federal aid to pressure to fund private abortuary businesses, charities may exclude pro-life, Interim Staff fers to New Brunswick in In December 2019, practice, currently has 600 the 1990s when the gov- CLC launched a petition patients, including “many” New Brunswick Progressive ernments of Liberal pre- encouraging Higgs to self-identified transgender pro-family groups Conservative Premier mier Frank McKenna and stand his ground against and HIV-positive patients. Blaine Higgs has resisted Progressive Conservative federal pressure to fund Cooke said in a message Lianne Laurence program to target groups federal pressure to fund premier Bernard Lord private abortions. Later to CLC’s New Brunswick Special to The Interim with traditional religious the province’s only private likewise refused to fund that month, Cooke went supporters in April that beliefs, there is concern abortion facility, Clinic 554, abortions committed in to New Brunswick to pres- Clinic 554 repeatedly Justin Trudeau’s Liberal this new rule could simi- in Fredericton. private abortion mills. ent Higgs with the names threatens to close if it government is forcing larly be abused,” he said. Last fall, Prime Minister Under New Brunswick law, of more than 2,200 who doesn’t get funding. businesses, not-for-prof- In the case of the CEBA, Justin Trudeau said the government funding for signed the petition. Taxpayer-funded abor- its, and registered chari- the government’s website provincial government abortion in the province Clinic 554 is the origi- tions are committed in ties applying for an emer- states an applicant will be had an “obligation” to is only provided to those nal site of the Henry at least three provincial- gency interest-free loan excluded unless it con- extend abortion funding committed at hospitals. In Morgentaler Fredericton ly-run hospitals includ- to help them through the firms that: it is not a gov- to the private facility and a Jan. 29 letter to Clinic abortuary, and was bought, ing two in Moncton (the coronavirus lockdown to ernment organization or in February, federal Health 554, N.B. Health Minister in 2015, by a husband Moncton Hospital and the “confirm” that they do not body, or an entity owned Minister Patti Hadju filed Ted Flemming said the gov- and wife team of Adrian Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont “discriminate” on the basis by a government organi- a report with Parliament ernment is “currently not Edgar, a family doctor, and University Hospital Centre) of “gender,” “sexual ori- zation or body; it is not about New Brunswick not considering any legislative Valerie Edelman, a social and the Chaleur Regional entation,” and “religion,” a union, charitable, reli- paying for abortions in billing changes.” worker, after it was briefly Hospital in Bathurst. The among other things, in gious or fraternal organi- private facilities, saying “if closed by the Morgentaler province pays for the abor- order to receive the finan- zation or entity owned by they don’t come into com- Foundation following the tion drug Mifegymiso. cial help. such an organization or if pliance with the Canada abortionist’s 2013 death. Hadju bases the decision to Borrowers who do not it is, it is a registered T2 Health Act, they will be The private, for-profit abor- punish New Brunswick by wish to confirm the “non- (i.e., a non-profit) or T3010 subject to deductions as tion facility has long lob- withholding health trans- discrimination” clause are (i.e., a registered charity) appropriate for the specific bied for full funding and fers on what she claims are excluded from the govern- corporation that generates infraction.” She said that if has had financial woes for regions that do not have ment-run program based a portion of its revenue the issue was not resolved much of its 25-year history. abortion access. on this stipulation, which from the sales of goods or by the end of March, the On April 13, Maclean’s Cooke said that CLC appears to be unique to services; it is not an enti- province would see reduc- ran a puff-piece about the will fight to “ensure that the Canada Emergency ty owned by individual(s) tions in its Canada Health rainbow-painted Clinic one day not a single dime Business Account (CEBA). holding political office; Transfer. 554, whose owners have of taxpayer money will Part of the Liberals’ relief and it does not promote In March, federal Health for at least the third time fund abortions” in New package for Canadians suf- violence, incite hatred or Minister Patty Hajdu in the past two years told Brunswick and “that abor- fering hardship because discriminate on the basis announced that federal reporters they may be tion will not be the law of coronavirus pandemic of sex, gender, sexual ori- health transfers to New forced to close if the New of the land anymore in shutdowns that Parliament entation, race, ethnicity, Brunswick were being New Brunswick Premier Brunswick government Canada.” passed in March, the CEBA religion, culture, religion, reduced by $140,216. Blaine Higgs does not fund abortions Higgs has been pre- is an interest-free loan of education, age or mental Hadju said that the amount at their facility. Reporter mier since 2018, since his up to $40,000 for busi- or physical disability. was determined by what After Hadju announced Lindsay Jones noted that party joined the People’s nesses, non-profit groups Pro-life, pro-family, and Clinic 554 claimed were the reduction in payments Edgar, the 37-year-old Alliance party to defeat the and registered charities various religious-based out-of-pocket expenses for to the province, Higgs said abortionist, would “rou- pro-abortion government that generate a portion of groups have long been those who sought abor- in a press conference that tinely” pay out-of-pocket of Liberal premier Brian their income from the sale concerned about “discrimi- tions at the facility in 2017- “we’re not funding a private for women who could Gallant. of goods and services. nation” and “hatred” labels 2018. clinic in New Brunswick,” not afford to cover their On April 9, Hadju The CEBA program being attached to them for In 2020, New Brunswick adding “we’re meeting the own abortions. Edgar told announced the health explicitly states an appli- their work of defending will receive $860 million in Canada Health rules and Maclean’s, “I can’t pay for funding was temporarily cant will be excluded life, marriage between a health transfer payments. the Canada Health Act.” abortions anymore. I’m restored after the outbreak unless it confirms that it man and a woman, and The federal Liberal David Cooke, Campaign just a family doctor trying of the coronavirus. Hajdu’s “does not promote vio- the natural family that government is adamant Life Coalition’s national to keep doing health care spokesman Cole Davidson lence, incite hatred or might exclude them from the Canada Health Act campaigns manager, said for people without the gov- said, “we will ensure that discriminate on the basis the right to participate in requires provinces to fund CLC applauds Higgs’ stand ernment agreeing to reim- the New Brunswick gov- of sex, gender, sexual ori- the public sphere and from all abortions, including against Ottawa. “This is a burse me.” ernment eliminates patient entation, race, ethnicity, accessing government-run those at private abortuar- real win for the pro-life The couple has put charges for abortion ser- religion, culture, region, programs. ies. Hadju said in February, cause,” Cooke said. “In Clinic 554 up for sale and vices outside of hospitals.” education, age or mental One problem with the “If they don’t come into the face of enormous pres- says that it may have to Cole also said discus- or physical disability.” fourth criterion is both compliance with the sure from the one-sided close if taxpayer funding is sions between Ottawa and The Liberal move is that faith-based organiza- Canada Health Act, they mainstream media and the not forthcoming soon. Fredericton about taxpayer troubling, according to tions must confirm they will be subject to deduc- vocal pro-abort lobby, New According to media funding of private abor- Marty Moore, a lawyer with don’t discriminate on the tions as appropriate for the Brunswick has held fast reports, the facility has tions will continue. N.B. the Calgary-based Justice basis of religion, and that specific infraction.” in denying taxpayer fund- carried out more than Health Minister Flemming Center for Constitutional the attestation crucially Prime Minister Jean ing to a private, for-profit, 1,000 abortions since it re- maintains that the prov- Freedoms (JCCF). “There “lacks reference to ‘con- Chretien also threatened financially failing, pre-born opened in 2015. The facil- ince is abiding the Canada is legitimate concern that trary to applicable laws’,” to withhold health trans- baby slaughterhouse.” ity, which is also a family Health Act. the federal government, Moore said. “A religious with a track record of dis- organization has a legal criminating against beliefs right to hire those who Tory leadership race resumes it disagrees with, will use align with its beliefs to the CEBA to also discrimi- carry out its religious pur- Paul Tuns LEOC did not disqualify about allegedly racist social that sinks Conservative nate against religious enti- poses,” he pointed out. Sloan before The Interim media postings. Both were chances of electoral victo- ties,” he told Lifesitenews “The law permits that.” The Conservative Party went to press. It is unclear outspokenly pro-life and ries, after the Liberals and in an email. But as the CEBA is struc- of Canada’s Leadership whether a motion to dis- pro-family during their brief media attacked Tory lead- Notably, the Trudeau tured now, “a religious Election Organizing qualify him was presented leadership campaigns, as er Andrew Scheer for his Liberals denied Canada organization that hires in Committee (LEOC) met at an April 29 conference was Sloan. personal views on life and Summer Job (CSJ) grants accordance with its reli- April 29 to discuss how to call meeting, but one source Karahalios filed suit in family despite his insistence in 2018 to employers who gious beliefs may be pre- resume the campaign that told The Interim that mem- the Ontario Superior Court he would not reopen these refused to sign an attesta- cluded from agreeing to was suspended in March bers of LEOC hoped that of Justice fighting the dis- issues. tion that they supported this attestation, unless it is due to the coronavirus pan- his fellow MPs would expel qualification. His claim will Campaign Life Coalition “reproductive” rights, that implied that it only refers demic. him from caucus, a vote that be heard on May 15. is scheduled to release its is, abortion, and trans- to discrimination ‘contrary LEOC was also report- could have taken place as Another pro-life can- Voter’s Guide before ballots gender “rights.” While to applicable laws’,” Moore edly considering whether or early as May 1. Sloan could didate is Leslyn Lewis. are mailed to members in the Liberals amended the said. not to disqualify the pro- still run even if he was not a Assuming Sloan remains on late June or early July. reviled attestation a year If the Liberals added life leadership candidate MP sitting MP but LEOC would the ballot, the race is among In March, LEOC sus- later in the face of massive “the appropriate caveat Derek Sloan. The Hastings- probably use the caucus Sloan, Lewis, Peter MacKay, pended the race, postponed backlash, they continue to ‘contrary to applicable Lennox and Addington MP decision to justify disqualifi- and Erin O’Toole. O’Toole some deadlines, and hint- deny CSJ grants to faith- laws’… in the fourth attes- had criticized federal chief cation at a later date. and MacKay are both pro- ed that the June vote and based groups because of tation, that would provide health officer Dr. Theresa LEOC, or one of its sub- abortion and pro-LGBQT. new leader announcement their beliefs, Moore told the correct legal standard, Tam, questioning her com- committees, has already The ballot is preferential, might be delayed. On April Lifesitenews. and theoretically allow petence in dealing with the nixed the candidacies of two meaning that party mem- 30, the party announced The JCCF is currently non-discriminatory access COVID-19 outbreak and her pro-life leadership contend- bers can vote for more than that May 15 will still be the suing the Liberals on behalf to the CEBA,” Moore loyalty to Canada. Liberals, ers supported by Campaign one candidate. O’Toole has deadline to become a mem- of BCM International, a observed. their allies in the media, and Life Coalition. In February, reached out to pro-life and ber eligible to vote for the Christian organization that But even if the Liberals even some Conservatives they did not allow Richard pro-family Conservatives new leader. runs the Mill Stream Bible did so, there would be no attacked Sloan for what Decarie to become a can- saying the Tories have to The vote and announce- Camp & Retreat Centre in guarantee that they would they claimed were “racist” didate, saying there were be a big tent that includes ment have been pushed Peterborough, which was not exclude a religious comments about Tam. The problems with his applica- social conservatives, in back. The party announced denied CSJ funding for the organization that applies Ontario caucus within the tion form. In March, LEOC’s hopes of attracting down- that the mail-in ballot must summer of 2019. for the CEBA, based on Conservatives voted over- Dispute Resolution Appeals ballot support from pro-life be received by August 21. “Given the federal gov- the way the government whelming to ask Sloan Committee (DRAC) disqual- members. Last fall, MacKay An individual with knowl- ernment’s use of a non- has administered the CJS to apologize, but he has ified Jim Karahalios after the called social conservatism edge of the LEOC discus- discrimination rule in grants, he said. refused. party received a complaint the “stinking albatross” See, ‘CLC’ p.7 the Canada Summer Jobs See, ‘Trudeau’ p.7 THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 — PAGE 3 Coronavirus vaccine may use Patience aborted fetal tissue Trump administration attacked over limits on fetal tissue research Laying Down Paul Tuns for Life, said that Moderna fetal tissue was endanger- The letter was signed used the Spike protein ing COVID-19 research, by four Catholic bish- the Lawton Amidst a race by phar- which uses the bodies cures, and vaccinations. ops including Kansas maceutical companies to own antibodies to block Vinnedge said, “that accu- City Archbishop Joseph develop a coronavirus vac- and destroy viruses so an sation is laughable at best F. Naumann, chair- Andrew Lawton cine, Democrats are press- individual will not become and nothing more than a man of the United States ing the Trump administra- infected. But the Spike pro- political maneuver,” say- Conference of Catholic tion to reverse its executive tein is produced using HEK ing that there are plenty Bishops Committee on ven though I was raised with the teaching that order limiting research 293 aborted fetal cells. of alternatives for research Pro-Life Activities, as well E“patience is a virtue,” it’s taken a pandemic to utilizing cell lines derived Janssen Pharmaceutical, and development. as Lila Rose of Live Action, truly understand why that is. from aborted fetal tissue. owned by Johnson and Democrats have been Jeffrey Barrows of the Let me confess from the outset I’m not a patient Pro-life and religious lead- Johnson, is also boast- pressing President Donald Christian Medical & Dental person. While I take on the occasional tedious ers are urging the Trump ing breakthroughs on a Trump to rescind an execu- Associations, Michelle task (such as the jigsaw puzzles my wife and I have tive order he signed in 2019 Cretella of the American administration to resist coronavirus vaccine, but enjoyed in lockdown) I don’t do well with queues, the pressure to rescind the Children of God for Life that limits aborted fetal tis- College of Pediatricians, flight delays, or endless ‘hold’ music. Even waiting rules prohibiting fetal tis- exposed that they also are sue and cell research. In Russell Moore from the for an elevator can sometimes be irksome. sue research and calling using an unethical source March, Democrats sent Southern Baptist Ethics & Yes, I am aware these ‘issues’ epitomize first-world upon the drug companies for their research. In 2001, a letter to Health and Religious Liberty, Jeanne problems. They are also relatively unavoidable at to conduct moral research Janssen developed their Human Services Secretary Mancini of the March for that does not use illicit cell PER C6 Ad5 using retinas Alex Azar, stating: “Because Life Education & Defense various points in life. lines. from an 18-week aborted of your restrictions, (the Fund Commission, Kristan In grappling with COVID-19, however, they’ve As Children of God for child. Vinnedge notes that National Institutes of Hawkins of Students for become part of everyday life. In the past two months Life, which seeks to end in 19 years, Janssen has Health) is unable to uti- Life of America, Travis I’ve waited three hours for pizza delivery, two hours the use of aborted fetal not developed a workable lize human fetal tissue to S. Weber of the Family on hold with Air Canada, and an hour to even enter material in vaccines and vaccine or treatment from develop animal models Research Council, and a grocery store, to name a few examples. medicines, notes, whether PER C6 Ad5. The Food of COVID-19 that can test Children of God for Life’s Systems that are supposed to function with ease it is seasonal flu or COVID- and Drug administration potential vaccines and Debi Vinnedge, among oth- are over-burdened, and things just aren’t working. 19, “the need to produce has flagged PER C6 Ad5 treatments to decelerate or ers. I spent the better part of the day I wrote this large quantities of vaccine as potentially dangerous to even end this global health They said, “It is critically article on hold with one company for so long I’d quickly has been a problem recipients of vaccines and crisis. This inaction may important that Americans begun to question whether the office was even open. for many years as pharma- treatments. ultimately put Americans have access to a vaccine When I finally got through, I was told I had to call ceutical companies used “This is about as irre- further at risk of disease or that is produced ethical- back the next day for someone in the department I chicken eggs to cultivate sponsible as the industry death from COVID-19.” ly: no American should apparently needed. their viruses” and because can get,” says Vinnedge Pro-life and religious be forced to choose As a columnist and broadcaster I’ve tried to adopt “it takes several months “We have a worldwide leaders have called upon between being vaccinated the philosophy that there are no bad experiences in and millions of (chicken) pandemic where millions the administration to resist against this potentially life – only good experiences and material. eggs needed to produce of people are in need of such pressure. In an April deadly virus and violat- It’s safe to say I’ve amassed too much material for the vaccines ... so many treatment and prevention 17 open letter, Catholic ing his or her conscience. my liking as of late. companies began to turn of disease. Yet Johnson and bishops, evangelical lead- Fortunately, there is no Grace has proven to be invaluable, though not to other cell lines for faster Johnson is choosing to pro- ers, medical groups, need to use ethically prob- always easy to summon. production.” Some com- duce a vaccine that a large and pro-life activists, lematic cell lines to pro- These societal growing pains are not evidence of panies, such as Protein number of people of good told Stephen Hahn, the duce a COVID vaccine, a world out to get me, even if it may feel that way at Sciences, utilize other conscience will refuse due Commissioner of the Food or any vaccine, as other times. They reveal that it’s hard to change the way sources such as insect eggs, to the aborted fetal cells.” and Drug Administration, cell lines or processes that we operate on a dime and expect things to keep as a growth medium to Vinnedge added that “As our nation works to do not involve cells from functioning as normal. develop vaccines. Since the “there is a multitude of defend itself from the dead- abortions are available and The angst in grocery stores is palpable some days. 1960s, vaccines for chick- moral options that are safer ly Coronavirus Disease are regularly being used to The nature of viruses is that people tend to view enpox, hepatitis A, Rubella, and quite frankly, utilize 2019 (COVID-19), we write produce other vaccines.” strangers with suspicion. and shingles have been a more modern technol- to express our gratitude The signatories con- To break through this, we need to realize researched and manufac- ogy.” She noted that Sanofi to you and the U.S. Food cluded, “Commissioner everyone’s in the same boat, though we must tured using aborted tissue Pasteur is developing a and Drug Administration Hahn, we urgently and also recognize that the social consequences of or cell lines developed COVID-19 vaccine using for all of its efforts to com- respectfully implore you coronavirus go beyond mere inconveniences for from aborted babies. its own recombinant DNA bat the virus and to ask to not only ensure that some people. Moderna, a leader platform, which does not for your help to ensure Americans will have access With grocery shopping now my primary form in vaccine research that utilize aborted fetal tissue that Americans will have to a COVID vaccine that is of entertainment, I was really spoiled a couple of access to vaccines that are made news in March for in its research or develop- free of ethical concerns, weeks back when I needed to head to the bank. My reported breakthroughs in ment. free from any connection but to encourage and local branch is in a plaza surrounded by seniors’ COVID-19 research, uses The Washington Post to abortion.” The letter was incentivize pharmaceutical residences, so it attracts a certain demographic of aborted fetal cell lines. reported on March 18 that copied to President Donald companies to use only eth- which I’m not a part. My bank, like many others, had Debi Vinnedge, executive the Trump administration’s Trump, Vice President Mike ical cell lines or processes restricted branch access to those seeking a service director of Children of God ban on the use of aborted Pence, and Azar. for producing vaccines.” they couldn’t access online or at an ATM. This was unwelcome news to the elderly folks in the line outside the store who were barred from Global push to declare even accessing the bank when their stated purpose – withdrawing money, checking balances, and so on – could be technically obtained from the ATM. abortion essential While the bank was offering ATM assistance to those who needed it, most simply wanted to bank Interim Staff they consulted with a doc- abortion pill, seemed read- decide they no longer wish the way they always had – directly with the teller. tor over the phone. ily available throughout the to be pregnant.” Despite an abundance of staff, and precautions like In the early weeks of the In Canada, CTV report- country. She said, however, Last month, Antonella masks, gloves and barriers, this wasn’t allowed. coronavirus pandemic, ed that “while all provinces that not all provinces cover Lavalanet, a medical offi- I don’t blame the staff at the bank who were hospitals began prioritiz- and territories have placed the entire $300-$450 cost. cer in the World Health almost certainly taking their orders from above. Even ing care and governments new limits on the kinds of Even before state and Organization’s maternal the higher-ups deserve some latitude for they are began placing limits on surgeries and procedures provincial lockdown orders health team labeled abor- likely so immersed in the world of on-line banking non-essential services, but being provided, they’ve were announced, the tion “essential” and called that they forget others aren’t. in many jurisdictions, abor- confirmed to CTVNews.ca Washington-based National upon countries where con- It was a sobering moment for me as I saw both tion was deemed essential. that regular abortion access Abortion Federation traception and abortion are the powerlessness of some people, and what seemed In the United States, will continue.” While every and Ottawa-based Action legal to guarantee access. like a grim recognition that despite all they’ve lived some states such as province was cancelling all Canada issued a joint state- In its official “guidance through, they’re being forced to adapt to something notes” to countries, WHO Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, elective surgeries and limit- ment calling upon gov- they don’t want and don’t understand. Oklahoma, and Texas ing surgical care to cancer ernments to “ensure that listed the full spectrum of Kudos to the seniors who surf the web, email, or sought to restrict or ban and trauma patients, all ten abortion facilities remain “reproductive health ser- perhaps even text. I don’t fault the ones who don’t. abortion during the pan- provinces and three terri- open.” vices” as essential. My own grandmother, who passed away at 100 demic, arguing that medi- tories either labeled abor- Campaign Life Coalition In Europe, more than in 2017, never used anything more technologically cal supplies should be tion essential or vowed launched a petition to all 100 pro-abortion, femi- saved for frontline health that access would not be provincial and territorial nist, and human rights advanced than a push-button landline phone or a care workers dealing with affected by limitations on premiers urging them to groups such as Amnesty television with basic cable. She, fortunately, had coronavirus patients. Other surgery. close abortion facilities so International signed a family around to deal with the other stuff. Many states such as New York Action Canada for Sexual that medical equipment joint letter calling upon all don’t. declared abortion essen- Health complained that could be reserved for governments to “ensure As I watched this unfold and felt the urge to help, tial. there were “new barriers health care workers bat- that abortion is treated as I couldn’t help but fear the possibility that someone In Europe, the French and old barriers to (surgi- tling the COVID-19 pan- essential and time-sensitive with nefarious intentions may offer to “assist” health minister talked cal) abortion access,” with- demic. The petition stated: health care and guarantee a trusting senior – an exchange that could have about needing to liberal- out specifying the specific “Abortion is not an essen- access to care in a time- disastrous consequences. ize abortion laws while the problems. Action Canada’s tial service. Pregnancy is ly manner,” along with a Whether it’s the senior at the ATM or the pizzeria United Kingdom issued communications director not a ‘disease’ that needs dozen other pro-abortion that loses your order, not everyone adapts to their new rules to allow abor- Laura Neidhart admitted to to be ‘cured.’ Abortion demands, including lifting surroundings so easily when they wake up in a new tion pills to be dispensed the Huffington Post, how- is an elective ‘choice’ for all regulatory or statutory world. to women at home after ever, that Mifegymiso, the ‘pro-choice’ women who limits on the practice. A little bit of grace goes a long way. PAGE 4 — THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 Witness to history n Easter Sunday of 1932, Alphonse can quickly descend into barbarism. OAnthony Maria de Valk was born This descent, however, happens not in in the Netherlands. What used to be the blink of an eye, but gradually, and known as Christendom had just endured in the full view of those who avert their one World War and would soon suf- gaze. Thus, with integrity and real brav- fer another. After living through that ery, Fr. de Valk chose not simply to be a ordeal, the young de Valk took the path passive observer of history but an active of so many Europeans after the war in witness to it. emigrating to North America. Arriving He was a tireless editor of both The in Canada in 1951, he found employ- Interim and Catholic Insight, the lat- ment and education – and then, one ter the magazine he founded and ran day, in his late 20s, as he put it, the for almost 20 years. In each of these “idea of becoming a priest popped into publications, he recorded for poster- my head.” He entered the seminary and ity a detailed account of the continu- was ordained in the Congregation of St. ing corruption of Canadian morality, Basil in 1965. bill by bill, vote by vote, and action by As a Catholic priest in a teaching action. Nor were these invaluable proj- order, Fr. de Valk could have enjoyed ects the extent of his pro-life activism: the comfortable life of an academic, he chained himself to abortion clinics, and he followed this trajectory in his he was arrested multiple times, and he early career, holding posts at St. Joseph wrangled with legal opponents who College at the University of Alberta brought spurious complaints against and St. Thomas More College at the him, intending to silence and penalize University of Saskatchewan. Fr. de Valk him. was a keen student of history, but, dur- But more important than even these ing his doctoral studies, history hap- tremendous acts of service and cour- pened. The legalization of abortion age to the pro-life movement is the was being debated in the pages of the way they were done: in a deep spirit of Canadian press in the late 60s, and Fr. sacrifice and prayer. Fr. de Valk lived de Valk responded by abandoning his as a witness not only to history, but to doctoral research to make use of his the mystery of his own sacerdotal elec- training as an historian in the public – tion. Like the late, great Irish priest, and pastoral – service of truth. Fr. Ted Colleton, Fr. de Valk was a And so, with his magisterial work, missionary from Europe to Canada, a Morality and Law in Canadian Politics: modern-day evangelist to the decadent, The Abortion Controversy (1974), Fr. de post-Christian world. Although he has Valk turned away from the tomes of the now entered into his rest, the value The Interim welcomes letters of 300 words scholar to take up the journalist’s task of and the meaning of his life’s work and or fewer. Letters may be edited. Please send to: writing history’s first draft. As he put it, his prayers are only just beginning to “my entrance into the pro-life movement emerge. came from a realization that an error De Valk was born on Easter in 1932. The Interim 104 Bond St. in principle in a grave matter of life In the Octave of the Easter Season of Toronto ON M5B 1X9 and death either has to be reversed or 2020, De Valk was born into new life. E-mail: [email protected] etters Fax: (416) 204-1027 it will destroy society.” For Fr. de Valk, “Being a priest,” he once remarked, “is L the precedent was all too clear: “Anti- a tremendous vocation. It allows you Semitism in Germany between 1918 ... to live on the highest possible level Interim supports, have Canada’s life and family newspa- and 1939 should have been redressed of ideals.” The most fitting tribute we consoles, informs per delivering the truth at this time. The because the Nazis made use of it and it can give to Fr. Alphonse de Valk is that truth is always essential. (So open up the destroyed Germany. Likewise, legalized he fully lived out the beautiful and I have long considered that The Interim churches, pronto!) abortion will destroy Western societies lofty ideals to which he aspired. And provides an irreplaceable support to the Robert Totten unless we redress it.” his embodiment of those ideals, in his Catholic community in Canada. It have Calgary Fr. de Valk knew that even societies priestly life of work and prayer, is a gift admired The Interim for decades now an with all the outward trappings of mor- to us from the same One who called thank God there was been such a source Call for a als, prosperity, culture and refinement him to that service. of objective truth and support in our National Day of Prayer to Heal country. I am retired and living alone now but Why doesn’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau I derive great support and consolation declare a National Day of Prayer to Heal Infanticide from regular reading of your columns. It is and protect our people and our lands? encouraging to learn what dedication and The Bible states, “If My people who are commitment are contributed with much called by My name will humble them- in an emergency personal effort. I salute you and your selves, and pray and seek My face, and staff who are dedicated to the continuing turn from their wicked ways, then I will uring the difficult days of this pan- makes it so time-sensitive? And what, one endeavour to present objective truth and hear from heaven, and will forgive their Ddemic, spare a thought for the wonders, are the “profound consequenc- information to a public otherwise over- sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will writers of pro-abortion press releases – es” that would follow from its delay? whelming with caustic analysis of commu- be open and My ears attentive to prayer theirs is no easy task. On March 20, two The statement’s tone of urgency strains nity and world events. made in this place.” 2 Chronicles 7:14-15. prominent abortion advocacy groups, the against its own embarrassment: while Peter Gibb I therefore propose this prayer: National Abortion Federation and Action arguing for abortion as “essential care,” Nanaimo, B.C. God, Our Heavenly Father, we are Your Canada, joined “their voices to make sure these depraved individuals within those people, yet we have been unfaithful to You that abortion care remains available in groups cannot bring themselves to face The Interim is essential in word and in deed. We repent before Canada during this time of crisis.” In this abortion’s grim facts. The only medical You and ask You to create in us clean statement “on essential abortion care,” services which should be made available I was wondering whether or not The hearts, and give us holy leaders that desire they argue that abortion “is a time-sensi- during this crisis are those which save Interim would arrive in my mail after Your glory above all else in this life. As a tive, medically necessary intervention,” lives; here, instead, we have a straight- the coronavirus pandemic unleashed an nation we have chosen to not follow You, one that “cannot be deferred without faced case being made for murder in a unprecedented wave of government shut- God, Our heavenly Father. We beg your profound consequences.” Indeed, they global emergency. downs of businesses. Liquor stores and mercy on behalf of our country of Canada. assert, that as “our country moves deeper More ludicrous than this “joint state- pot shops in Ontario remain open while None of us deserves it, but we pray You into this crisis, we must especially protect ment,” however, is the fact that its logic churches are closed; families dependent will pour Your grace out over our lives the human rights of the most marginal- has been accepted by both our own upon wage-earners working for business- and upon our country, and we ask that ized members of society.” We certainly government and that discredited hand- es or charities shuttered by government You allow our nation to turn from the path must, but how, exactly, does “abortion puppet of totalitarian China, the World struggle to make ends meet while abor- of perdition and to become a light to this care” fulfill that mission? Health Organization. During a dangerous tion mills carry on about their business dark world. Thank You for the promise In this statement, we see the prepos- pandemic, those entrusted with power of killing babies. When I read that media in Your word that when we turn to You terous rhetoric of medical care clash remain willfully blinded by ideological was deemed essential, I assumed that humbly and confess our sins, You hear us. with the reality of infanticide. Even here, lies. If our leaders cannot recognize the meant the major dailies would be allowed Thank You for hearing our prayers, heal where murder masquerades as therapy, insanity of their position on abortion dur- to remain open to peddle their left-wing our lands, we pray in Jesus name, amen. obvious contradictions impinge: why, ing this crisis, how can they be trusted to propaganda but The Interim would be Jerome Desilets precisely, is abortion so essential? What handle the crisis itself? shut down. What a pleasant surprise to Via email

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not only the benefits, but also the costs, of govern- ment actions that violate our Charter rights and free- Light is Right doms. Law Matters Restricting the Charter freedoms of Canadians to Joe Campbell move, travel, associate, assemble and practice their John Carpay faith can be acceptable, but only if the government meets its onerous burden of showing that Charter vio- lations are reasonable and “demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” The government can y friend Dingwall has moved into an assisted living legitimately quarantine sick and contagious people Mresidence. When he told me, I said I didn’t think he n 1958, Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong in order to protect the health of others. But locking was ready for assisted living. Iordered his countrymen to kill all the sparrows, down the entire population is not quarantine. “I’m not,” he replied. “I chose it to escape assisted because these “public animals of capitalism” ate grain At the time of writing this column, Canada’s prime dying.” seeds and fruit, reducing the size of harvests. The minister and premiers have yet to answer some very He explained that besides meals, light housekeeping, peasants complied, using every possible method. basic questions about the true cost of government recreation, entertainment and transportation, the resi- Millions of Chinese banged on pots and pans, scaring measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19. dence he chose provides spiritual enhancement. the birds into continued flight, until they dropped For example, how many suicides are projected to “If I should descend into senility,” he said, “I’m con- from exhaustion and fell to the ground. People shot take place as a result of governments having shut fident my caregivers won’t let some euthanizing doctor the birds and destroyed their nests. The campaign down much of our economy, forcing millions of help me commit suicide.” was a great success, killing an estimated two billion Canadians into unemployment, bankruptcy or pov- He went on to say that his timing couldn’t have been birds and driving the Eurasian tree sparrow to near- erty? better. To escape the assisted suicide epidemic, he made extinction. How many Canadians will die because of the rise his move a few weeks before the coronavirus pandemic The following year, crops failed as insect infesta- in drug overdoses, alcoholism, and other addictions “When COVID-19 struck,” he said, “the residence went tions soared. Locusts no longer had a natural preda- that the lockdown and social isolation will cause, as into lockdown and my caregivers not only assist me in tor, and ate the crops. This contributed to the Great the lockdown drags on for weeks or even months? living but, as I’m at a vulnerable age, help keep me from Famine in 1959; between 15 and 45 million Chinese How many spouses will be abused while couples prematurely dying.” starved to death. This brutal famine was eventually remain confined to their homes, in many cases unem- “You like being quarantined?” documented by historians. The book Tombstone, pub- ployed, without money and without their usual social “Of course not,” he said. “I’m a layman, not a clois- lished in 2008 in Hong Kong but banned in China, supports? tered monk. When they closed the common dining room is one example. This is the law of unintended conse- How many children will be put in foster care and fed us in our apartments, I felt like a cloistered mon- quences: a singular fixation on eradicating one prob- because of domestic abuse, or loss of their parents’ key.” lem can cause other (and possibly greater) problems ability to provide for them, or both? “Your apartment seemed like a cage?” to emerge. How many seniors will become sick or die because “Either that or a cell,” he said. “When we went into When looking to solve a problem, proposed solu- they no longer receive regular visitors, resulting in lockdown, it was like being in prison. After they decided tions should be judged not only on their benefits, but nobody noticing changes (e.g. weight loss or gain; to leave the food outside our doors, it was like being in also on their costs. The Canadian Charter of Rights change in skin colour; other ailments), such that solitary confinement.” and Freedoms requires politicians to weigh carefully See, ‘Politicians’ p.11 “You make the caregivers seem like animal keepers.” “Exactly,” he said. “I’m a rational animal and they keep me safe.” “But you’re free to leave your apartment.” Your support is appreciated “Not only the apartment,” he said, “the entire building, although they strongly advise us to practice social distanc- Campaign Life Coalition were experiencing before the ing of at least six feet.” pandemic caused havoc with the economy, we knew we As he rarely carries a tape measure, Dingwall told me had to reduce the number of people who received this that he does a lot of guessing while socializing both inside paper who were not paying directly for their subscription. and outside. This was not an easy decision. CLC could not be fiscally “Others do the same,” he said, “and we continually responsible while continuing to subsidize the paper for shift forwards, backwards and sideways in a kind of so many of its supporters. The pandemic moved up the COVID-19 shuffle or a disconnected coronavirus conga. schedule of what was supposed to be a slower process of “That must be disconcerting,” I said. scaling back our mailings. “Not nearly as disconcerting as entering a room full of This reduction has saved much-needed resources to caregivers wearing medical face masks,” he said. “I feel keep our staff employed and pay our various venders (the like shouting ‘Unclean, Unclean’ as lepers did in Biblical printer, mailing house). The downside is that this impor- times.” tant paper is not getting into the hands of the wider pro- He told me that when he was due for a medical check- life movement. The purpose of The Interim is not to turn up, his doctor didn’t see him personally but surprised a profit but to inform and activate pro-life and pro-family him with an itinerant laboratory assistant who took a Canadians to action. blood sample. The media that peddles a socially liberal worldview “She looked like an alien from another planet,” he is well-funded. The CBC gets billions from taxpayers. From the editor’s desk said, “fully clothed in some kind of protective gear with, The Globe and Mail is part of the deep-pocketed Bell of course, the inevitable mask, want to start this column by thanking you. Many read- conglomerate. We operate on a modest budget and are “What did you say when she arrived unannounced?” Iers responded to my last From the Editor’s Desk col- careful stewards of our limited resources. We take the “I don’t know your name, but your face is familiar.” umn with kind words about how much they appreciate responsibility to care for every dollar you entrust to us He went on to say that it didn’t bother him when The Interim and how much they enjoyed receiving it last very seriously. But we have staff with families, freelancers they insisted he avoid mass gatherings. It bothered him month. We believe that this paper does good and impor- who need to be paid and bills that need to be covered. immensely, however, when they told him to avoid gather- tant work both educating and inspiring readers to action To all of you long-time readers and to new subscribers, ing at Mass. on life and family issues. But it is gratifying when readers we thank you. We thank you for your prayers of support, “Missing Mass on Easter,” he said, “was like denying let us know that the stories they read in the paper are from kind words to donations to renewals to new sub- the Resurrection and made me feel like fomenting an resonating with them. scriptions. Every little bit helps and continues to allow us insurrection.” I’m a voracious reader and regular consumer of about to inspire and educate you, our readers. Thanks. I asked if he had any underlying deficiencies that could a dozen newspapers from around the world (some in Your emails and letters of support over the past month make the virus more serious if he caught it. online form, others in print). One of my regular stops was mean a lot. They encourage us to work harder and get a “Two,” he said. “I’m neither a robot nor an angel. the Canadian Jewish News. In early April it announced great paper to you each and every month. Viruses don’t infect the metallic and the immaterial. that it would cease both print and online publication on Unfortunately, the reality is that our printer, mailing They’re immune. Viruses are only interested in flesh and April 9. Like most newspapers it was already suffering house, and digital support services won’t take apprecia- blood mortals like me.” from the loss of advertising revenue, but the coronavirus tive notes of support as payment. That is why we are “I see your point,” I said. “You’re robotically and spiri- pandemic was the last straw and the impact on revenues trying to increase paid subscriptions and advertising. I tually challenged.” forced it to close its doors despite having a fairly healthy would urge you to seriously consider subscribing to this I wondered aloud whether Satan had anything to do circulation of nearly 32,000 subscribers. (Interestingly, paper, renewing your subscription, or purchasing a gift with spreading COVID-19. They say it originated in bats, a week later, two British Jewish newspapers also closed subscription for a friend or loved one. See the form on which often conveyed a satanic message in the horror due to lack of advertising.) CJN president Elizabeth page 13 movies of the early twentieth century. Wolfe, the National Post reported, said “While we have I would urge business owners to take out an adver- “The virus could indeed be satanic, “Dingwall said, “if always viewed ourselves essential to the Canadian Jewish tisement; our surveys of readers find that many of them the economic shutdown aimed at combatting it, takes and community and our readers, our first priority is to our look first to see if a business they need advertises in The otherwise damages more lives than the pandemic does.” employees,” and the company wanted to ensure there Interim. At a time when many businesses may be strug- “You think that might happen?” was sufficient severance for its few remaining employees gling and unsure of what is to come and advertising may “By far the most vulnerable are the elderly and the rather than “incur losses we could not recoup.” seem frivolous, it is important to remember that your unwell,” he said. “Why not quarantine them and let the That is a tough decision. We view ourselves as essen- advertisement is not only a donation in support of pro- rest keep the economy healthy? Does it make sense to tial to the pro-life movement, providing you, our read- life and prof-family journalism; it can be written off as a lock down virtually an entire society when the vast major- ers, with information and commentary that is not readily business expense. We offer ad sizes for all budgets. ity will escape or survive the pandemic no matter what available in the mainstream media. And while there is If you can, we need you to donate. 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Because of our commitment to you, the pro-life 1X9 or call (416) 204-1687. life altering disabilities?” movement of Canada, I never want to pen an announce- Last, and certainly not least, we ask for your prayers. “Those are good questions, Dingwall,” I said. “Do you ment like the Canadian Jewish News’ Elizabeth Wolfe had We know that we are not in this alone and ultimately the have any good answers beyond justifiable complaints?” to last month. work of restoring a Culture of Life is God’s not ours; we “In my present location,” he said, “I may be a hermit. I Due to financial difficulties both The Interim and are mere vessels in a larger plan. - Paul Tuns hope my complaints don’t suggest I’m a hermit crab.” PAGE 6 — THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 Red China: The Fr. Alphonse de Valk, RIP Paul Tuns principles. work at it with your whole became its associate edi- Fr. de Valk was also edi- being. Do it for the Lord tor under Sabina McLuhan. saviour we didn’t Fr. Alphonse Anthony Maria tor of The Chelsea Journal … since you know fully He also helped CLC found de Valk, a Basilian priest and founding editor of well that you will receive Teachers for Life, Nurses for 55 years, passed away Catholic Insight (1993). an inheritance from Him as for Life, and Catholic know we needed peacefully April 16 at the He was a co-founder of your reward.” Active for Life. As Fr. de palliative care unit of the Catholic Civil Rights League Hughes told The Interim Valk told Grace Petrasek for Scarborough General (CCRL) in 1985 and was that a meeting had been her book Silhouettes in the Hospital in Toronto at the heavily involved with the held with Fr. Lawrence Snow: Profiles of Canadian age of 88 after a battle with Marian Movement of Abello, Fr. Ted Colleton, Defenders of Life, “expos- Talk Turkey pneumonia. Priests. In 2013, the CCRL Fr. de Valk – a Jesuit, a ing the truth about abortion Fr. de Valk was born March honoured Fr. de Valk with Spiritan, and a Basilian – consumes most of my time.” 27, 1932, in Rotterdam, their Archbishop Adam and himself in which they Hughes said he attended Josie Luetke Netherlands to Martien de Exner Award for Catholic discussed strategy. Fr. Abello every strategy meeting and Valk and Christina Lutkie, Excellence in Public Life said someone, perhaps that he was brilliant at ana- the fourth of five sons. His for his scholarship, faithful Hughes, should get arrested lyzing political and cultural mother died when he was Catholic witness, and pro- during the pickets at the developments. Petrasek f the mainstream media treated Justin Trudeau the same an infant and his father life activism. Morgentaler abortuary in called him “an intellectual Iway they treat Donald Trump, I wouldn’t need to remind sent his sons to boarding candle.” you that Trudeau once responded that the national admin- school. Their education was Hughes said it was Fr. de istration that he most admired was Red China’s because of interrupted for a year dur- Valk who recognized that how “their basic dictatorship” has grown their economy. ing World War II because abortion was merely one You wouldn’t be allowed to forget. schools were closed due to front in a cultural conflict Over the past year, the absurdity of this answer has air raids in the country. with secular society. The become increasingly obvious, with the treatment of Hong He immigrated to Interim began broader cov- Kong protesters, internment of Uighurs, and retaliatory Canada in 1951 at the age erage of religious freedom, detainment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. of 19 and worked on a sex education, so-called Just for the record, though, pro-lifers have long been farm and cement factory in gay rights, and family life. raising alarm over the injustices perpetrated under the rule southwestern Ontario. He In 1993, Hughes met with of the Communist Party of China. Reggie Littlejohn, found- attended the University of David Dooley, Dr. John er and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has Toronto and entered the Shea, and Fr. de Valk to dis- done yeoman’s work drawing attention to the millions of Basilian Novitiate in 1961 cuss a new endeavour, and sex-selective and forced abortions in China largely thanks and St. Basil’s seminary the so they founded Catholic to their one- (now two-) child policy. Steven Mosher, presi- following year. He received Insight. Fr. de Valk moved dent of the Population Research Institute, has also been a Masters in History from seamlessly from editor of a criticizing the population control efforts of Beijing for the University of Toronto in Fr. Alphonse de Valk (right) concelebrates a Mass in the pro-life paper to editor of a decades. Both have spoken at Canada’s National March 1965, the same year he was office of Campaign Life Coalition in 2015 to mark the Catholic periodical. for Life. Pro-life publications like this one and Lifesitenews ordained to the priesthood. 50th annivesary of his ordaination. Catholic Insight cov- have highlighted these same evils and condemned the per- Fr. de Valk was appointed ered Catholic issues, both secution of Chinese Christians. to St. Thomas More College The Catholic Register Toronto. Fr. de Valk said inside the Church and with- Between these ongoing problems and more recent in Saskatoon, where he reported that during his that Hughes’ leadership in in the broader culture. In headlines about the COVID-19 cover-up, it’s becoming taught for 12 years (1965- time at St. Thomas More the pro-life movement was 2007, homosexual activist near impossible to avoid the elephant in the room that 77). During this time he and St. Joseph’s, Fr. de Valk necessary so he should Rob Wells filed a Canadian is Beijing’s totalitarianism, although Canada, the World worked to salvage historical published more than 200 avoid getting arrested. In Human Rights Commission Health Organization, and the United Nations Human records, books, and periodi- articles on abortion. Many the end, it was Fr. Colleton complaint saying that Fr. de Rights Council are giving it the old college try (bless their cals after Catholic schools of them were published and Fr. de Valk who were Valk and Catholic Insight hearts). Most of the rest of the world, meanwhile, is open- and other institutions through the Life Ethics arrested. published articles allegedly ing their eyes (if they weren’t open already), and acknowl- had been closed in west- Centre which he founded In 1985, Fr. de Valk was hateful toward homosexu- edging what we pro-lifers know: The Communist Party of ern Canada in the 1970s. to promote Catholic teach- arrested with Fr. Colleton als. Ultimately, the Canadian China is very dangerous. He served for two years as ing on moral issues. It pub- and Baptist minister Rev. Human Rights Tribunal While they’ve thrown us all into chaos, they’ve also president of the Canadian lished 36 booklets of 12-24 Fred Vaughan, after they found the complaint base- afforded us an indispensable opportunity for self-reflection. Catholic Historical Society pages by various authors chained themselves to the less, but not before Fr. de Rather en vogue right now is speculating about how our (1974-1976). including Donald DeMarco, gate of the Morgentaler Valk incurred about $20,000 post-COVID-19 world will look like. With the revelation of He returned to Toronto David Dooley, Monsignor abortuary, and he spent a in legal fees. Fr. de Valk the fragility of our geopolitical equilibrium and our resul- to complete his doctorate in Vincent Foy and Fr. Leonard night in the Don Jail. He maintained that he was tant vulnerabilities, has come a surprising turnabout on history. He planned to write Kennedy, among others. In continued to pray and simply presenting Catholic globalization; there have been growing calls for and predic- his thesis on “Hitler and the total, the Centre distributed picket outside the abortu- moral teaching and that “we tions about countries becoming more self-reliant and politi- Church, 1933-1945” and more than one million pam- ary every Friday for almost love the sinner but hate the cal leaders are suggesting an openness to this option. went to Germany to begin phlets. The most important five years. He was arrested sin.” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney retweeted a National Post research in 1969. After of them was Fr. de Valk’s nine more times and at one Fr. de Valk was known statement from former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall Canada brought in abor- 1979 pamphlet “The Worst point faced a fine of $750 for being a bit strong-willed focusing on Canadian oil and gas: “We have an opportunity tion-on-demand in 1969, Fr. Law Ever” about the 1969 or two weeks in jail. He did – Hughes said that he was as a nation to become more self-sufficient, more agile and de Valk changed the topic omnibus bill that effectively not pay the fine nor did he a “hard-headed Dutchman, innovative, stronger on the other side of (COVID-19).” In of this thesis, and in 1974 decriminalized abortion, serve time in jail. like Fr. Ted was a hard-head- my home province, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has stated: published Morality in Law and “Joseph Borowski and Fr. Ian Boyd, who was ed Irishman – but CLC’s “We can never, ever be put in the position again that we in Canadian Politics – The the Trial of the Century,” in also involved with CLC, president emeritus said he are relying on countries around the world to support us Abortion Controversy. 1983. said of his late friend: “One had a heart of gold. When with PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).” Trump had Jim Hughes, the long- He resigned as edi- might say that Alphonse’s he saw that Hughes had a already been on this path to more independence, and time president of Campaign tor of Catholic Insight in very Dutch faults were light coat on in winter, he his suspension of WHO funding only indicates that he’s Life Coalition and friend of 2012 following a stroke and qualities that became vir- arranged for him to obtain doubling down. The push for greater self-sufficiency, be it Fr. de Valk, told The Interim his 80th birthday. At a din- tues in his fierce defense a big coat from a deceased in the production of personal protective equipment and that Morality in Law in ner to honour him, Steve of defenseless human life. fellow priest. Fr. de Valk other medical supplies, agriculture, the development of Canadian Politics was a Jalsevac, managing director May God reward him for his also had a wonderful sense natural resources like fuel, etc., has spanned across the must-read – “The Bible for of LifeSiteNews said Fr. de loyal and uncompromising of humour and mischievous globe—from the United Kingdom to France, Russia, India, pro-lifers” he called it, add- Valk was prescient, “a man service to that cause.” grin. Australia, and so on. The more that nations turn inward, ing, “if you will pardon the ahead of his time with his Hughes said that CLC was Hughes recalled going to the more others will be forced to do the same. expression.” It is, Hughes warning of legalizing abor- always blessed with strong St. Thomas More College I’m interested in this possibility, particularly as it per- continued, “rich in every- tion.” Jalsevac also noted spiritual leadership from in Saskatchewan and see- tains to human rights. Certainly, there’s something to be thing that happened in the that more than a decade priests such as Fr. Abello, Fr. ing a William Kurelek mural said for maintaining a relationship with a country (or inter- lead-up to the Omnibus Bill before “same-sex marriage” Colleton, and Basilians Fr. depicting, among others, Fr. governmental organization) in hopes of influencing it for and who was behind it.” entered the political lexi- de Valk and Fr. Boyd, noting de Valk. Hughes said that the better. However, the status quo of routinely turning a In 1978, Fr. de Valk con, Fr. de Valk was warn- that the Basilians played an Kurelek saw in Fr. de Valk blind eye to human rights violations for the sake of eco- was appointed principal ing where the gay rights important role in the forma- the same qualities he saw in nomic interests, as we do with China and Saudi Arabia, is of St. Joseph’s College in movement was headed and tion of Campaign Life, first the subject of another paint- wrong. If we do become more self-sustaining, we will have Edmonton. During a pro- the threat it presented to by providing the space to ing, former Manitoba cabi- an improved ability to rebuke countries and organizations test against abortion in family life. meet and through the spiri- net minister and defend- that are complicit in gross human rights abuses, as we that province, Fr. de Valk During his speech to tual and activist leadership er of the unborn, Joseph could afford to weaken or sever ties with them. Being able famously cut up his Alberta close the night, Fr. de Valk of some of their priests. Borowski. to withstand the repercussions of frankly communicating health card. thanked God for calling him Hughes said that Fr. de Hughes said that Fr. that some actions (like forced abortions) are beyond the In 1983, he returned to to the priesthood. He also Valk was traveling through de Valk’s most important pale is necessary to create a Culture of Life. Toronto and the lifelong praised the grassroots pro- Toronto one day in the early advice to the pro-life move- That said, looking even further down the road, we must scholar turned his atten- life movement, from the stu- 1980s when he invited the ment was “pray and listen be prepared for the prospect that Canada might be on the tion full-time to the pro- dent groups to which he was priest to stay and work with to what God is saying,” and receiving end of this censure. After all, we are a non-com- life movement. He began a chaplain in Saskatoon to CLC. Fr. de Valk said he “not to be afraid of anything munist country wit\hout any law on abortion. Most people working with Campaign national organizations like would if they would have because God is in charge.” find Canada’s embrace of abortion in any and all circum- Life Coalition in 1984 and Campaign Life Coalition. He him and if he was granted Fr. Alphonse de stances abhorrent (and that’s not to mention our tolerance was editor of The Interim, said their steadfast defense permission of his order’s Valk was predeceased of infanticide, promotion of euthanasia, and the LGBTQ Canada’s pro-life, pro-fam- of the sanctity of human life Superior General. Thus by his four brothers. indoctrination and exploitation of children). This prospect, ily newspaper, from 1987 remained strong even when began a 30-year relation- Funeral services could though, should be welcomed by us pro-lifers. Hopefully through 1992. political and ecclesiastical ship. Fr. de Valk’s first task not be held for Fr. de Valk this pressure would prompt an honest examination of the At the same time, he leadership was lacking. was working on a compre- because of the COVID-19 irrationality of these positions, and a subsequent change in helped found the Family “God’s grace has allowed hensive list of pro-life candi- pandemic, but Campaign behaviour. Maybe in an indirect and winding way, Beijing’s Coalition Party in 1987 and us to withstand the sexual dates for the 1984 election. Life Coalition was trying to mishandling of COVID-19 will be what it takes to stop developed its first policies in revolution,” de Valk con- Shortly afterward he began organize a virtual memorial Canada from becoming the next China. accordance with Christian cluded. “Whatever you do, writing for The Interim and service. THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 — PAGE 7 Trans hysteria Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins support from both men and women. Among her more University. In Try to Remember: Psychiatry’s Clash Over remarkable backers is Debbie Hayton, a prominent British Meaning, Memory and Mind, McHugh confessed that he male-to-female transsexual. In a column entitled “We trans National Affairs has often asked: “What’s wrong with psychiatry? I ask it,” women should compete only against men,” published in he explained, “having repeatedly witnessed how faddish The Times of London on Sept. 3, 2019, Hayton derided Rory Leishman misdirections of thought and therapeutic practice sweep the slogan “We trans women are women” as “vacuous across the field to dominate opinion and action for years, rhetoric that has led us away from truth and into a land of only to sink from favor and fade away, leaving wounded make-believe. … Whatever female hormones trans women patients and public scorn in their wake.” might take, we are still on average taller, faster and stron- Among these faddish misdirections of psychiatric ger than women.” thought, McHugh includes sex-reassignment surgery. On this basis, Hayton concluded: “We trans women While stressing that transsexuals deserve compassionate should compete against men in open competition. We alem, Mass., will remain forever notorious as the place psychiatric care, he laments that by fostering sex-reassign- can campaign for separate facilities to protect our dignity, Swhere, in 1692, more than 200 people were accused of ment surgery, we psychiatrists “have wasted scientific and but let’s leave female sport to female people.” witchcraft, 30 were found guilty and 19 (14 women and technical resources, damaged our professional credibility During the Salem witch trials, Governor Phipps took five men) were executed by hanging before Massachusetts by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, just a few weeks to come to his senses and stop the trage- Governor William Phips terminated this travesty of justice. cure, and ultimately prevent it.” dy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had several years to Today, we look back on the Salem witch trials with The political correct view of transsexualism is ground- contemplate cross-hormone therapy and sex-reassignment amazement and many of us assume that such mass hys- ed in the bizarre notion that a man who thinks he is a surgery, but has he shown any concern about the dire teria could not happen today. But that is not true. In The woman is a woman, and vice versa. Yet mere thinking risks posed by these unproven treatments for vulnerable Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Douglas cannot make it so. And neither can any amount of cross- young Canadians? Murray cites several examples of mass delusional thinking hormone treatments and sex-reassignment surgeries Not at all. Trudeau and his fellow Liberals are now that have arisen in recent decades, including fantastical change the sex of a patient. pressing Parliament to adopt Bill C-8, legislation that conceptions of transsexualism. Dr. Jen Wagner-Assali, a champion cyclist and ortho- would make it a criminal offence for the parents of a gen- Murray observes that back in the 1960s and 1970s pedic surgeon from Houston, Texas, is acutely aware der-confused child to consult a psychiatrist like McHugh when experiments with sex-reassignment surgery were of these physiological facts. In 2018, she came in third for help in enabling their child to identify comfortably just beginning, many physicians wondered how a patient in a race for women at the Masters Track Cycling World with his or her sex. asking for the procedure could be distinguished, as he Championships. The winner, Rachel McKinnon, is a male- As justification for this pernicious law, the preface puts it, “from a patient telling a doctor that they believed to-female transsexual who now prefers to be known as to Bill C-8 alleges that psychiatric treatment for gender themselves to be Admiral Nelson and in pursuit of this Veronica Ivy. identity disorder “is based on the myth that a person’s belief wanted their right arm removed? Could somebody In a twitter exchange following the race, Wagner-Assali gender identity can and ought to be changed.” That is wanting their penis removed be any more sane?” complained that it was “definitely not fair” that McKinnon complete nonsense. It is a well-established scientific fact That was, and remains, a good question. Yet in 2013, won. As Wagner-Assali well knows, male-to-female trans- that approximately 80 per cent of children who are diag- the American Psychiatric Association removed gender sexuals retain a decisive superiority in average muscle nosed with gender dysphoria end up becoming comfort- identity disorder from its Diagnostic and Statistical mass over biological women. Regardless, for daring to able with their biological sex at some point during adoles- Manual of Mental Disorders. speak out as she did, Wagner-Assali has been widely cence. Not all psychiatrists agree with that decision. defamed as a hate-mongering transphobe. Sometimes these days it seems that we Canadians are Prominent among the dissenters is Dr. Paul McHugh, However, Wagner-Assali has also got considerable living in a madhouse. May 10-15 Virtual March for Life Interim Staff are asked to tune into the (and a conversation with for Life from 2:30 to 4:30 CLC has developed for the local rules. livestream at MarchForLife. Alex Schadenberg of the hosted by CLC vice presi- week. “We did not want She said the week’s Campaign Life Coalition ca throughout the week for Euthanasia Prevention dent Matt Wojciechowski the plight of the unborn to programs will give “action has scrambled to organize a number of events. Coalition). There will be a and CLC youth coordinator be dropped because of the items” so the March is not a virtual and truly national The schedule of events virtual candlelight vigil with Josie Luetke. On May 15, pandemic.” a “one-day or one-week March for Life the second (see ad on page 9) includes testimonials on May 13 at 8 from 12:30-3 pm, there will Duval said that this event” because “people will week of May after city and a screening of the mov- pm; the Canadian national be a pro-life webinar “run year’s virtual March will take this back to their com- provincial officials closed ies Strings Attached Mass for Life at noon on by youth for youth.” be “a true national March munities to help save lives down events and venues (along with a conversation May 14; “Be Not Afraid,” an Debbie Duval, nation- for Life” because everyone every day.” because of COVID-19, mak- with Obianuju Ekeocha, EWTN special featuring pro- al capital organizer of from across Canada can Duval also said she ing the annual event in founder of Culture of Life life speakers from 1-2:30 Campaign Life Coalition, take part. She said if any looks forward to the March Ottawa an impossibility. Africa) and Fatal Flaws: pm, followed by the Virtual told The Interim, “we have jurisdictions relax the pan- returning to Parliament Pro-lifers across Canada Legalizing Assisted Death Pro-life Rally and March done the best with a tough demic restrictions, people Hill next year. She said it situation” and despite “should put on their pro- is important for MPs to see technological challenges life t-shirts, grab their signs, the masses of pro-lifers and time constraints is and watch the Virtual March demanding justice for the Buying or Selling Real Estate? excited with the program for Life together,” within preborn. CLC to release Voter’s Guide Continued from p. 2 identification to prove who they could immediately sion told The Interim that they were when they mailed resume fundraising and the count will occur shortly in their ballots. 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Trudeau government earmarks Donald Trump withdraws U.S. funding could pick up the two-stage abortion pill. The United coronavirus aid to ‘reproductive rights’ from World Health Organization Kingdom and France were among countries that loosened restrictions on do-it-at-home abortions. The Guterres In an April 5 press release from Karina Gould, Minister of On April 15, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he plan would earmark $140 million to the United Nations International Development lauding the Trudeau govern- would withdraw funding to the World Health Organization Population Fund, which supports population control ment’s pledge to help developing countries during the (WHO) and ordered a review of its conduct, saying WHO measures globally. Money would also go to the Minimum pandemic, it was noted that Canada would give $109.5 was guilty of “severely mismanaging and covering up Initial Service Package, humanitarian kits distributed in million specifically for reproductive rights. Weeks earlier, the spread of coronavirus.” The U.S. is the largest con- emergencies that include equipment for “reproductive the Trudeau government pledged $50 million to help tributor to WHO, providing between $400-$500 million health” and directions to medical personnel to refer to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Africa, South and Central annually, more than the next two donors – the United abortions if they cannot in good conscience commit the America, and Asia. Gould said women and children bear Kingdom and the Gates Foundation – combined. Trump deadly procedure themselves. Gennarini says the UN’s the brunt of pandemics in developing countries and “If charged the international organization with toadying to abortion-funding violates the Trump administration’s there was ever a time for countries and governments Red China and said, “had the WHO done its job to get strict Mexico City policy that prohibits funding of interna- to support one another and invest in health globally, it medical experts into China to objectively assess the situ- tional groups that promote or commit abortions. is right now.” The nearly $110 million for abortion and ation on the ground and to call out China’s lack of trans- contraception – which the government calls an “invest- parency, the outbreak could have been contained.” The 5000 Planned Parenthood abortion mills ment” – “aims to ensure that its international partners can move was applauded by the International Right to Life close amid COVID-19 maintain their services for vulnerable populations where Federation (IRTF). The let- possible, including support for sexual and reproductive ter was signed by ten The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) health and rights.” The government release lauds the international pro-life lead- has announced the closing of 5,633 member abortuaries spending as “in line with its feminist international assis- ers, who offered “whole- due to the COVID-19 pandemic and another two dozen tance approach, since this global crisis has the potential hearted solidarity” with the have reduced abortion capacity due to restrictions placed to exacerbate inequalities and reverse development gains. President. Noting that WHO on non-essential services. The IPPF website says there are This is especially true for the women and children who “has a long history of wil- more than 58,000 affiliated facilities worldwide, so about are already among the world’s poorest and most vulner- fully endangering life on a ten per cent of them are closing. In 2018, the latest year for able citizens and who may now be expected to take on global scale,” the IRTF letter which there are figures, IPPF affiliates carried out almost additional caregiving responsibilities in their families and said, “the transgressions of 1.4 million abortions, with just over half of them being communities.” Translation: instead of caring for children, the WHO go beyond this.” chemical abortions. The organization says it is struggling it is better to kill them. Live Action responded to the The pro-life leaders said to access “key supplies” because personal protective equip- Gould-Trudeau policy: “Giving over $150 million to help they wanted to “draw your ment is being prioritized for frontline health care work- ease the suffering from a global pandemic is, without attention to the fact that ers in the pandemic fight. In many states, restrictions on a doubt, a positive and generous thing. But using that the WHO has adopted a elective surgeries have been extended to abortion, while money to sneak in extra taxpayer funding for interna- pro-abortion position and other states have deemed them essential. According to Live tional abortion seems more like exploiting a crisis to push even equates abortion with Action, several Planned Parenthood abortuaries have sus- an agenda.” ‘human rights’.” They also report that WHO has called for pended the limited number of actual health care services the decriminalization of abortion worldwide. Noting that they carry out as they follow an “abortion-only protocol.” Calgary preacher fined for helping homeless the WHO’s “Maternal and Perinatal Health & Preventing Unsafe Abortion Team,” labelled abortion an “essential Hulk Hogan calls for penance On April 3, Artur Pawlowski, who runs the Calgary-based service” in the pandemic, the IRTL said that it (WHO) is during COVID-19 Street Church Ministries, was issued a fine by the Calgary “ruthlessly exploit(ing) a global crisis to expand abor- Police Service for violating Alberta Health Services pub- tion.” The U.K.’s Society for the Protection of Unborn On April 1, former wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan, 66, lic health orders put in place to stem the coronavirus Children’s executive director John Smeaton, who also tweeted to his 2.2 million Twitter followers a Bible verse pandemic. Police said his outdoor service had more serves as vice president of IRTF, said defunding WHO is and encouraged them to repent their sins. He sent two than 15 people in attendance. Pawlowski was distribut- “an important stage of the dismantling of the pro-abortion tweets. The first said, “This is one of the most powerful ing food to the homeless and global order.” C-Fam, a pro-life group that closely moni- gifts to our human race. (It’s) as powerful as it gets here told LifeSiteNews he worked tors the United Nations, said, “From the beginning of the on earth, thank you God. Only love HH.” (HH stands for as quickly as possible to avoid coronavirus crisis … officials of the international health Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea.) He added line-ups. He provided a video agency promoted abortion in a guideline on ‘Clinical an image of 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 to the tweet. That verse to LifeSiteNews that shows management of severe acute respiratory infection’.” The reads: “Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to there were never more than manual stated, “Women’s choices and rights to sexual and eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, if they 15 people in attendance and reproductive health care should be respected irrespective pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they he said he may have to sus- of COVID-19 status, including access to contraception have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive pend his outdoor services or and safe abortion to the full extent of the law.” WHO was their sins, and make their land prosperous again.” He face steeper fines in the future. promoting abortion amidst the pandemic despite there later tweeted: The penalty for a first offense being no known complications for pregnant women in “Word up, can for disobeying public health regards to the coronavirus. you handle physical distancing rules is a the truth my $1000 fine. Pawlowski, who Abortion pill reversal ministry brother only has been running the Street Church Ministries for more sees uptick in calls love HH.” than two decades, preaching the Gospel outside Calgary That tweet City Hall and providing soup and sandwiches to those The Abortion Pill Rescue Network reported a record num- was accom- in need, says he will not pay the fine. He is scheduled to ber of calls for abortion pill reversals in March. Andrea modated with appear in court on June 12. Trudden, director of communications for Heartbeat an image of International, which runs the Abortion Pill Rescue this message: Legal challenge forces Saskatchewan Network, said 105 mothers sought to halt the process “In three short to allow drive-in religious services of their chemical abortions after calling the hotline. The months, just like He did with the plagues of Egypt, God has Abortion Pill Rescue Network was created to help women taken away everything we worship. God said, ‘you want to After legal action was taken against the Saskatchewan who regret the decision to use the abortion pill regimen. worship athletes, I will shut down the stadiums. You want Health Authority by the Justice Center for Constitutional The abortion pill is a two-step process so it is possible with to worship musicians, I will shut down Civic Centers. You Freedoms, headed up by Interim contributor John the correct medical intervention to stop the death of the want to worship actors, I will shut down theaters. You want Carpay, the province rescinded its order banning drive-in preborn chil- to worship money, I will shut down the economy and col- religious services. Initially, the Health Authority included dren and allow lapse the stock market. You don’t want to go to church and drive-in religious services amongst its physical distancing the pregnancy worship me, I will make it where you can’t go to church’.” limitations that prohibited “mass gatherings” – no pun to continue. It is not known who the author of the image’s message intended. It instead has issued guidelines which recognize Supplemental is. The message continued: “If my people who are called the right for churches to hold such services with appropri- progesterone taken after the first pill provides a chance to by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek ate safety precautions as part of the new Saskatchewan save the preborn baby’s life, although it does not always my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear Public Health Order. On April 14, the Justice Centre sent work. Trudden said many women took the abortion pill from heaven and forgive their sin and will heal their land.” a letter to the province arguing, “The COVID-19 outbreak in a panic when the pandemic began because “that is the Hogan encouraged people use the time in isolation to does not, however, suspend the exercise of the Charter. only option they can see.” In addition to the surge in “have a personal revival” and “focus on the only thing in The restriction of public religious gatherings in which interest in their abortion pill reversal network, Heartbeat the world that really matters. Jesus.” Hogan was a star in people exclusively occupy their personal vehicles on a International’s Option Line has seen an increase of 50 per the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in the 1980s parking lot while worshiping is irrational, unnecessary cent in crisis calls for assistance during the early days of and World Championship Wrestling in the 1990s. Although and not a minimal impairment of Charter rights.” The the pandemic. he retired in 2011, he still makes appearances on WWE. Nipawin Apostolic Church had planned a drive-in Easter Hogan, who made a living in sports entertainment fighting, service that respects physical distancing rules by keeping UN $2B coronavirus fund includes abortion is divorced and remarried, had an affair, and is featured in congregants in their cars like they were at a drive-in. The a leaked sex tape. church required that people remain in their vehicles and C-Fam’s Stefano Gennarini reported that UN Secretary- listen to the service via radio. Car windows remained General Antonio Guterres’ appeal for $2 billion in fund- closed and people were encouraged to flash their car ing to assist developing countries battle the COVID-19 lights instead of saying “Amen.” The Saskatchewan Health pandemic “repeatedly high- Authority deemed service a “mass gathering” in violation lights ‘sexual and repro- of the Public Health Order and the church was forced to ductive health and rights’ cancel its planned service or it and the congregants would as a priority area of food face fines. “The Charter protects freedom of religion, security and health policy.” association and assembly not only in good times, but also, Guterres seemingly took his and especially, in difficult times,” said Jay Cameron, litiga- lead from the World Health tion manager for the Justice Centre. “Given the presence Organization, which has of reasonable safety measures, the restriction of such pushed abortion as essen- assembly for religious worship is illegal.” On April 18, the tial during the pandemic. government released new guidelines allowing drive-in The WHO had been advocat- services. Cameron said, “We appreciate the Saskatchewan ing globally for self-admin- government’s reasoned and rational revision to its poli- istered abortions, prescribed through telehealth (by cies on this issue.” phone or online video conferencing) after which women THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 — PAGE 9

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LIVE STREAM AT MARCHFORLIFE.CA #WHYWEMARCH #BENOTAFRAID #MARCHINGFROMHOME PAGE 10 — THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 Sheltered in place candidates will have to be as interesting (read: outland- quickly returned to the “old normal” with time. This ish) as possible,” she writes. wouldn’t have been considered outrageous to almost “Nice-but-boring politicians can make it in retail anyone alive at the time. politics, but they’ll be a tougher sell in an online-dom- “For the medieval mind, this was a far easier out- Amusements inated political environment ... Those of us who want come to comprehend than for us,” Gummer writes. “In less shtick and more gravitas from our leaders will have a pre-liberal worldview, one’s place in the world was Rick McGinnis to adjust.” I would respond that we passed this baleful divinely ordained, and change outside the turn of the point long ago, back when shopping for groceries was seasons was neither inevitable nor expected.” a banal chore and not a gamble with fate. And I can’t “It is a conclusion we find almost impossible to imagine it’s a problem that a political communications accept now,” as a people raised for generations on a expert wouldn’t relish, secretly or not. narrative of historical “progress,” and a curious notion Commentator Joel Kotkin sees cities as big victims, that history, like a good novel or a miniseries, has to s I write this, it has been five weeks since life as since urban density, alongside cheap international air end in a place notable different from the one where it Awe knew it ended. This sounds like the first line of travel, is the most reliable amplifying factor for disease started. It was a hard sell as a conclusion for his own a post-apocalyptic novel or the rough draft of a sci-fi transmission. His scenario has the big metropolises los- history of the plague. As Gummer says, “‘Millions dead: movie script. If you’d e-mailed it back in time to me ing population to smaller cities and towns, as the pub- things go on as before,’ makes for a poor quotation on two months ago it might have triggered a panic attack, lic transit networks that are the antithesis of social dis- the flyleaf of a new book.” so I would like to reassure February 2020 me that, tancing make life in the big cities more inconvenient. “This pandemic will bring nothing to an end,” he really, it’s not as bad as it sounds. It’s a plausible theory, provided our subsequent fear of concludes, “nor create anything anew. When historians I want to imagine re-reading these lines in five years COVID-20, 21 and 22 permanently transforms us into look back in seven centuries’ time, they will hope- and chuckling at how strange and exceptional the an agoraphobic society. fully divine the truth of our age: that we were already spring of 2020 felt. I want to remember how suddenly In an article published on the Federalist web- embarked upon great change – coping with an ever the onset of a virus from China rampaged across con- site on April Fool’s Day, Sumantra Maitra insists that more interconnected world, the dismemberment of tinents, ended lives and, (less tragically, though you “Coronavirus Has Driven A Stake Through Globalism’s traditional community, huge structural changes in the wouldn’t know it from most media coverage) cancelled Heart.” He details the story – familiar enough to con- nature of work, and our existential effort to cease the everyone’s plans. But I also want to remember how servatives – that big international institutions have wanton destruction of our planet and manmade cli- quickly we adapted, how well we recovered, and how failed their way through the decades, with the World mate change – well before pandemic flu temporarily fortuitously it transformed our lives. Health Organization face-planting spectacularly in its stopped everything in its tracks.” But that would be how an optimist looks at the plodding response to the outbreak of COVID-19, most- The last few weeks have hardly been a hardship for world, and I am not an optimist. ly by carrying water for the government of China. me. While people have died and jobs lost and front line We were still hoarding toilet paper and trying to log Maitra is adamant that the globalist ideal has shown workers – in hospitals and morgues as well as super- on to Zoom for work meetings when articles imagining itself to be misguided, even sinister, as nations have markets and delivery services – have worked overtime, the future post-lockdown were being written or pub- pulled away from organizations like the European I have not seen a huge change in my own life. Apart, lished; what you imagined depended, as ever, on what Union, strengthening their borders and making their of course, from finding my wife and children at home you wanted to see. In late March, barely a week or so response regional and local. “In a crisis,” he writes, with me nearly every hour of every day. after the lockdown had decimated March Break and “people trust their own government more than others, I am one of those people for whom social distancing heralded empty classrooms for the rest of the school and their nation-states realize it is always easier to safe- is a habit of a lifetime, and while whatever paying work year, the Washington Post published an article predict- guard your own citizens.” I might have had as a photographer and journalist has ing “How the coronavirus will change our lives forever This is, of course, the preferable future for anyone effectively evaporated, I’ve been able to turn my atten- – from music to politics to medicine.” sympathetic to the anti-globalist political idea. And it tion, with gratitude, to personal projects in the comfort The introduction looked back to the last great pan- might be a better one, though I don’t see its appeal of our kitchen. I have watched more TV than I have demic, the Spanish Flu of 1918, and how it changed to the people I read every day online defending WHO wanted, and read fewer books than I imagined. And if the world, with the qualification that, when it was all head Tedros Adhanom or howling in outrage at Donald what I’ve been reading online is worth believing, many over “people rushed to regain their sense of equilib- Trump defunding his organization. of us have been grudgingly grateful for being able to rium and normalcy.” But life did change, in ways we On the Unherd website, an article titled “The cul- live in sweatpants and pyjamas and abjure onerous might consider obvious a century later: ture wars are far from over” doesn’t share Maitra’s social obligations with a clean conscience. “Certain habits did change,” the Post noted. triumphalism. Columnist Mary Harrington writes that But it has to end, and soon. The death toll is one “Americans never returned to the common drinking the coronavirus hasn’t, as some writers have imagined, price to pay, while subsequent economic devasta- cup, outlawed during the crisis and previously com- ended the world of mere months, when we argued tion will be another, and possibly more devastating. mon in schools, offices and railway cars; they frowned about whether sitcoms like Friends were racist, or if Weighing one against the other is, emotionally, a cal- on public spitting. Public health leaders celebrated comic book movies needed to reboot themselves with lous equation. But it’s one that we, the comfortably their success in providing basic education on sanitation more female, gay, and trans superheroes. Harrington afflicted, and our political class, apparently and finally and personal hygiene.” sees the brief silencing of these debates in a world sud- engaged in real work, have on our minds all the time. Musician Rosanne Cash, speculating on the effects of denly concerned with life and death as a cease fire, not Other difficult periods in history have been remem- the pandemic on the music industry, notes that as her a victory. “Critical Social Justice is recalibrating,” she bered with slogans like “I Want YOU for U.S. Army” and last tour came to an end earlier in the month, she had writes. “It is waking up to the political opportunity pre- “Keep Calm And Carry On.” This one might be illustrat- already stopped letting guests and fans into her dress- sented by the pandemic and beginning to shift its lens ed in some future history book with a Facebook meme ing room after shows for crowded meet-and-greets. from the relatively trivial business of canceling 1990s about saving the world by sitting on your couch and “Three weeks later, I’m still thinking, ‘If I get sick, I’ll sitcoms to genuinely emotive topics such as treatment watching Tiger King. We will get off the couch, but it’s know who to blame.’” She couldn’t bring herself to of healthcare workers.” best not to imagine that the world we walk back into, stop autographing albums for fans, though her tour Harrington insists that “social justice activists are paler and probably fatter, will look much different. manager carried around a pocketful of Sharpies in his regrouping, mustering the institutional power they pocket so she wouldn’t have to borrow one. already have and seeking more...I also suspect that She also acknowledges that her experience comes when they do, their arguments will have not less, from privilege – a name artist who will have tours and but considerably more impact than they did Before albums lined up as soon as this is all over. Cash goes Coronavirus.” on to explain that she’s on the board of an arts organi- Rare among the articles I’ve read imagining the zation that is trying to alleviate the lost income of musi- future After Coronavirus, this piece sounds credible cians lower down the status ladder, who have had tours enough, if only because it imagines an outcome it and recording sessions canceled and music schools doesn’t personally favour. and classes shuttered, cutting off their last scrap of “Coronavirus will change nothing” boldly states professional income. I’ve seen this first-hand with my another article on Unherd, written by Ben Gummer, own friends in music and the arts, suddenly having to former UK MP, member of Theresa May’s cabinet, and 905-734-6676 pivot to living room “house concerts” on YouTube and author of The Scouring Angel, a history of the Black Instagram and feverishly increase their social media Plague in the British Isles. Like those 14th century postings. Britons, confronted with a pestilence exponentially www.timberwoodkitchens.com Cash tries to end on an upbeat note. “I can’t help more deadly than the one we’re currently suffering, thinking there is a Darwinian reset taking place, but we’ve identified portents and signs preceding the cri- it remains to be seen what evolutionary advantage is sis, attempts to find “evidence of a disequilibrium that paramount – a sense of community and compassion, I neatly puts the pandemic into a comprehensible con- Crush your field hope.” text.” stones in place American political consultant Liz Mair imagines Gummer’s own study of the Black Plague reveals an upcoming campaign season conducted remotely, that the changes wrought by the horrible deaths of 50 with interviews on Skype and appeals to voters made million people – over half of Europe’s population at through social media and the lurching attention span the time – were profound, but that the “new normal” of what remains of mass media. “The bad news is that, to make a name for themselves without meeting voters, Justice Centre Max Underhill’s for Constitutional Freedoms Farm Supply Ltd.

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THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 — PAGE 13 God’s choice Editor’s Note: Chiara of her baby while battling a refused to attend her first disease was discovered in ed to record a video for it deserves the same rights Fricano, of Cathedral uniquely challenging preg- sonogram appointment. his only child. Her father her future child where she and the opportunity to live. High School in Hamilton, nancy situation. Although Tasha is already faced with warns, “I’ve seen what this said, “I want you to know No sane being would ever Ont., finished first in the some individuals may multiple reasons to con- disease can do firsthand, that whatever happens, I save the life of an adult 2019-2020 Fr. Ted Essay argue that this film depicts sider ending her baby’s and baby, I don’t wish that chose you. You are loved over that of an innocent Scholarship. This is her the clearest circumstance life to save her own and on you . . . you really need and I will always, always child full of potential, yet winning essay. where a mother deserves simplify her upcoming to think about the pos- be here with you!” proving given Tasha’s cancer, her to choose the ending to fight against cancer, yet sibility of this child grow- her commitment to sac- child’s life was underval- Chiara Fricano her story, it offers a differ- she never wavers in her ing up without you.” Not rifice herself to provide ued. One woman at the ent mindset, namely that decision. only does he fear for his her baby a chance to live. therapy group told Tasha her baby has a right to live According to a survey of daughter and her baby’s This video would have to “adopt a baby” instead even against the advice abortion patients in 1987, health, but also the child’s been made so that if she because the child in her of medical professionals, women stated several fac- emotional well-being of passed, her baby would womb was not worth her familial support, and per- tors that contributed to possibly having to grow know that it was loved and life. However, when Tasha sonal health. their decision to follow- up without a mother’s wanted. These are simi- visits another doctor in As a teenager, Tasha through with their abor- guidance. Even before his lar words that one would an ongoing attempt to already knew her dream tion plans. Although some wife’s cancer diagnosis, tell an adopted child. Pro- find support to continue of “a house full of chil- may argue that these sta- Melvin was an involved life advocates often offer her pregnancy, she finally dren, “yet this fantasy tistics could be considered father who constantly scared mothers in these finds hope for her situa- was crushed when she outdated, women today recorded moments he difficult situations, who tion. Dr. Lopez agrees with discovered her infertility. are still faced with the same deemed special, hoping to may choose abortion, the the previous advice given, After seven years of failed obstacles that may warrant capture everything impor- option of giving their child stating that “it’s normal pregnancy attempts, Tasha advice from friends, fam- up for adoption rather practice to suggest termi- and her husband, Bernie, ily, or even doctors to ter- than ending the baby’s nation in the first trimester learned the heart-warming minate their pregnancy. As life. Often, adopted chil- when there’s cancer pres- news of their expected noted in the above survey, dren may wonder why ent” given that “hormones child at an annual check- three quarters of women their birth parents didn’t that your body’s produc- “It is a poverty to decide up. Unfortunately, this admitted to choosing want them, leading to a ing during your preg- that a child must die so news was coupled with an abortion because the constant question as to nancy will only cause the that you may live as you the discovery of a mass pregnancy would interfere why they were undesir- tumor to grow and possi- wish,” as society is remind- found on her left breast with their work, school- able. These children are bly spread.” Unfortunately, ed by St. Mother Teresa. during a mammogram ing, and responsibilities; reminded that they were Tasha is reluctant to begin How does one measure that further testing proved two-thirds of the women given up providing them a chemo until after her preg- wealth? How does one malignant. The doc- feared their lack of finan- better life, and they were nancy, remembering how measure worth? How does tor immediately recom- cial capabilities to support chosen by their adoptive it “sucked the life out of one add up the pros and mended that Tasha end the child; and half of the parents, therefore, deem- her mother” and doesn’t cons? When one discusses the fetus’ life and begin expectant mothers did not ing them special. Tasha think it is possible for her life and death, who merits chemotherapy treatments want to raise their child wanted her baby to know baby to survive. When the the power to decide, or to save her own, invoking alone due to an unsta- that he or she was of doctor suggests an immedi- is this beyond our scope opposite responses from ble relationship. Tasha’s great value. Every human ate left breast mastectomy as humans? Widely con- the couple. Bernie admit- complicated pregnancy life is without measure; followed by small doses of sidered a crime across the ted that if they needed situation would interfere in fact, experiences and chemo that wouldn’t hurt globe in the past, yet legal- to choose between Tasha with her health, becoming tant on film to later be love make someone rich. her child but would give ized in Canada in 1969, and the baby, his wife’s a costly endeavor as she viewed again. For exam- Although Tasha did fear her the opportunity to abortion is a highly con- life was his main concern, received medical advice ple, at Tasha’s 30th birth- her child growing up with- survive to raise her baby, troversial moral and politi- whereas Tasha had already from multiple profession- day party, all the guests out a mother like herself, Tasha’s sole concern is for cal matter. decided on a different out- als, as well as cancer treat- gathered to watch the tape she recognized the bless- her baby’s safety during Pro-choice groups come. Some may say that ment, but a main concern of Tasha’s birth video. As ing of her child, even dur- the surgery rather than her argue that the mother has Tasha is part of a pro- would be surviving her well, although Bernie ing this stressful time in own beauty or the pain the right to decide the choice argument when extra difficult pregnancy didn’t attend Tasha’s first her life, telling her father, associated with this proce- actions taken on her body, she exclaims, “my body, without support from her sonogram appointment, “I want to have our baby. dure. Nonetheless, Tasha whereas pro-life groups my choice” or “this is my husband. Melvin arrived with his Whatever time I have left finds the courage to begin advocate for everybody’s life, mine.” However, she In addition, Tasha lost camera, finally showing on this Earth, I would treatment while continu- right to live, including the is battling for her baby, the approval of her father, his daughter that he sup- rather spend having a ing to prioritize her baby. unborn child in the womb. choosing the life inside of Melvin, when she first ported whatever decision baby to love than with- Her husband, Bernie, is This moral issue, debated her womb rather than her announced her decision she made and would stand out one. Daddy, this is a relieved to hear of this new for decades, continues to own. These convictions to continue her pregnancy by her side. Later in the miracle; this baby is a gift plan, as well. Although be a pressing topic in the instantly create tension rather than save her own film as Tasha struggled from God!” Tasha was unsure about media. In the 2018 film, and create a rift between life. Tasha’s father raised with her fears of raising Not only did Tasha begin the available options to written and directed by Tasha and Bernie. Tasha her alone after her moth- her child and facing this this journey without her take care of her health so Christel Gibson, Her Only must fight for her own life, er’s death following a frightening pregnancy husband’s support or her she could grow a healthy Choice, a newly expectant as well as that of her child hard-fought battle against alone, she found strength father’s approval, but mul- child in her womb and mother faces her personal without the support of her breast cancer, and now the from the past actions of tiple doctors also recom- survive to raise her baby, decision regarding the life husband. Bernie has even same mutated gene and her father and she decid- mended the termination she never wavered in her of her pregnancy. 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She never con- 2 years $80 the main debate concern- siders ending the baby’s Address ing the ethics regarding life, recognizing the mira- 3 years $120 abortion begins with the cle involved in its concep- United States: $55 (CA$) City and Province question as to when a fetus tion and thanking God for is considered a human this gift, given her past Bulk and group rates also available - child, the reason why abor- pregnancy struggles. This call Dan DiRocco at (416) 204-1687 Postal Code tion clinics will limit the film promotes the Catholic Please send a cheque or money order timeframes acceptable to values linked to human perform this procedure. life, ending with the birth payable to Telephone According to our Catholic of Tasha’s healthy baby Interim Publishing Publishing Company to faith and scientific studies, and the remission from The Interim human life begins at the her cancer. It is imperative 104 Bond St. Toronto ON moment of conception. that in our darkest hour Canada M5B 1X9, or fill out the credit Visa/MC# Exp. Even though the single- we maintain our hope, card information here. Signature celled embryo does not trust in God and place the resemble a human child, highest value on life. PAGE 14 — THE INTERIM, MAY 2020 Dr. John Shea, RIP And then there was this … Interim Staff were immoral. In 2002, he Canada seem to be completely missing.” Yuan has announced published a short book, a series of steps his company is taking to strengthen its A long-time pro-life activist The Safer Sex Illusion. In a move it calls “gender diversity,” the Canadian Armed platform. Meanwhile, the FBI has issued a strong warning and medical advisor, Dr. In 1988, when the Forces has decreed that it will no longer refer to its about using Zoom, and the ranking member of the Senate John Bernard Shea, passed Supreme Court of Canada employees as he or she but will use the pronouns they Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee has sent away Feb. 11 at the age of struck down Canada’s abor- and them. No superior will be allowed to use pronouns a letter to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate 93. tion laws, Dr. Shea was part that designate or refer to a person’s biological sex. Zoom’s deceptive practices. We are just saying: be careful Shea was born in of a Canadian Physicians Remember when pronouns were about being grammati- what you say on this platform. Gallway, Ireland, and like for Life press conference, cally correct, not politically correct? many in his family became representing 2400 physi- International United States a doctor and scholar. He cians nationwide. He stat- On April 1, China was appointed to the influential U.N. emigrated to Canada in ed that abortion violated The last remaining pro-life Democrat Congressman, Dan Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a subsidiary of the 1955 and met his wife the Hippocratic Oath to do Lepinski from Illinois, has been ousted in the Democratic United Nations General Assembly. The council’s man- to-be, Janet Casey, when no harm to patients, insist- primary leading up to the elections in November by a date is “to promote and protect human rights around he interned at St. Michael’s ed that abortion was not progressive challenger who attacked him for failing to the world.” This appointment might be surprising given Hospital in Toronto. They medicine, and called upon support abortion rights. The seat had been held first by China’s flagrant human rights abuses in its own country, would be married for 62 the government to pass his pro-life Democrat father Bill, and then by him, since but for the fact that there has not been unanimity from years. legislation to protect both 1983. The Democratic Party, nationally, has been travelling member states in recent years in condemning China’s He trained in radi- the unborn child and the down the abortion trail for many years, gathering support abuses. The Trump administration removed the United ology and became the conscience rights of health from the National Abortion Rights Action League, Planned States from the UNHRC in June 2018, stating that its first chief of radiology at care workers. Parenthood, and abortion rights’ women’s groups, all of legislative efforts to hold China accountable on human Centenary Health Centre whom were more than willing to fork out financial sup- rights was not working. A senior fellow of the Brooking in Scarborough. He also port in exchange for abortion support. At the state level, Institution said, at the time, that “China and its allies are served on the hospital’s however, pro-life Democrats are still able to be elected – filling the vacuum and, over time, will neuter, if not fun- Medical Advisory Board and at least for now. damentally redefine the core precepts of universal human Credentials Committee. He rights.” was a pioneer in diagnostic Zoom is a video-conferencing service that has ‘zoomed’ tools such as ultrasound to prominence recently, where physical distancing users In 2010, Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party, running on a pro- technology and other – friends and family, teachers and co-workers – are able family platform, won the federal election in Hungary, imaging techniques. to keep in touch during the present crisis. There are after eight years of socialism that nearly destroyed the Dr. Shea was active in even instances where mourners who are unable to attend country. In contrast to countries like Britain that have Catholic and pro-life cir- a funeral in person due to distancing rules, are using seen a dramatic fall in the marriage rate, Hungary’s mar- cles, helping found the Zoom. In December, according to Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan, riage rate has increased nearly 100 per cent since 2010, Catholic Doctor’s Guild there were about 10 million users; by March, the number and the birth rate has increased by 9.4 percent per year and became its first presi- had grown to over 200 million users. Yuan wrote that the since 2010. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of abor- dent, and serving as presi- platform was built for large businesses and institutions tions dropped by more than 33 percent from 40,449 to dent of the Marguerite with their own IT departments: “we did not design the 28,500. Government officials say such dramatic drops Bourgeoys Society for nat- Dr. John B. Shea product with the foresight that, in a number of weeks, are possible through pro-adoption and pro-family poli- ural family planning. every person in the world would suddenly be working, cies, including tax credits and payments, that encourage He was medical advisor At the same time, Dr. studying, and socializing from home. … our product (is adoption and family formation. The government also to Campaign Life Coalition, Shea was instrumental in being used) in a myriad of unexpected ways, presenting instituted a three-day waiting period between requesting providing both medical publishing the Toronto us with challenges we did not anticipate when the plat- an abortion and obtaining one. The Orban government and philosophical knowl- Catholic Doctors’ Guild form was conceived.” These challenges have included began its pro-family approach as soon as it assumed edge for the national pro- statement on abortion. It hackers crashing and harassing video chats in what is office. In 2018 it reported held a country-wide consulta- life group to strategize. He said from conception to being called “zoombombing.” Graphic, obscene, and tion on family policy with an eye to increasing marriage worked especially closely death “the human being pornographic pictures as well as racist comments might and decreasing abortion and divorce. Hungary Minster of with them on bioethical is at all times a human appear on the screen while the zoom chat is taking place. State for Family, Youth, and International Affairs, Katlin issues such as reproductive person.” Age or illness in Zoom has admitted that it has allowed Facebook to col- Novak, regularly tweets about the success of the country’s technologies and organ no way diminishes “the lect unnecessary data from people on Zoom who have pro-life and pro-family policies. By encouraging couples transplants. Dr. Shea was humanity or personal no connection to Facebook. It has also admitted that its to have children, Hungary is overcoming its demographic brought in for a series of value of the human being.” claim of end-to-end encryption is untrue, meaning it is decline without resorting to mass immigration. Breitbart. conference calls with MPs The statement concluded, not secure. A security researcher who previously worked com has reported that Hungarian officials say, “the proper during the embryonic stem “The State must respect the at the U.S. National Security Agency said that, “strong response to Europe’s demographic decline has become and cloning debate in the truth in the enactment of encryption, strong privacy controls, strong security, just one of the biggest sources of disagreement between early 2000s. Mary Ellen laws. The State must also European and Hungarian politics.” The Orban govern- Douglas, former national protect the innocent. If it ment has also rolled out a plan that includes new trees organizer for Campaign fails so to act, it loses its being planted for every baby born in Hungary, so that by Life Coalition, told The moral right to respect and SAPIEN S T E I D A Interim he was a “shining obedience, and such laws E E 2030 the proportion of the country’s forest area will be S

V light” during the debate, become a crime against E T I increased to 27 per cent. R I B T A AS ER VOS LIB and his medical arguments humanity.” When we read about Amanda Liberty, 36, from Leeds, won over several MPs to Douglas told The Interim England, we figured this story was a joke. Unfortunately, the pro-life side. Douglas that Dr. Shea advised on while it reads like a clever story from the parody website noted that he was so per- issues from contraception Babylon Bee, it is real. The English woman claims to be suasive with former Liberal and abortion to stem cell in a long-term relationship with a 92-year-old chandelier, MP Paul Szabo who became research and organ dona- which she named Lumiere. Jane Moore, a columnist with a leading opponent of his tion. The Sun, a British tabloid, mocked the relationship and own government’s legisla- Dr. Shea, a pianist, also Liberty filed a complaint with the Independent Press tion, that he wrote a book co-published with Toronto Standards Organization (IPSO). She said that Moore’s col- on the benefits of somatic Symphony Orchestra umn violated the regulator’s code of conduct which states stem cells over embryon- principal bassoonist that prejudicial or derogatory language when referencing ic stem cells in medical Christopher Weiat a paper sexual orientation should be avoided. The Sun argued research. identifying new insights that the code’s definition of orientation only applies to Dr. Shea also wrote into how the body actually human beings. For once, common sense prevailed, and about abortion, bioeth- operates when playing a IPSO ruled the attraction “did not fall within the defini- ics, and contraception for wind instrument. tion of sexual orientation.” We feel that Amanda Liberty, The Interim and Catholic Dr. Shea leaves his wife nee, Whittaker, is a publicity seeker. She claimed to Insight, serving on the Janet and children Peter, have previously been in a relationship with the Statue of latter’s editorial board, Daniel, Gregory, Mary and Liberty, hence the name change. The problem, of course, among other publications, Pauline, and nineteen is what seems like a joke or publicity stunt today ends up warning that various scien- grandchildren and great- BARRY’S BAY, ONTARIO WWW.SEATOFWISDOM.CA being tomorrow’s human rights. tific and medical advances grandchildren. IN MEMORIAM Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy George Arksey Bill Barrett Colin Bennett Jean & Joseph P. Borowski Joyce Bryan Mary, Sam, & Jim Calderone Mr. & Mrs. W. 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