“Where are you going, Frank, in such a big hurry?” my wife, Ileen, asked me recently. “Dear, I just got a call from the Toronto Police Services Board asking me if I would come down and help them out in an emergency situation.” “I never knew you to be that crazy about the police.” Ileen said. “Oh I am, dear,” I said. [...]
Today people have a tendency to hold their ha nds up and make pretend quotations marks when they use the phrase “family values” as though they’re embarrassed about it and want to qualify or justify what they’re saying. There’s no need. Family values are obvious – as natural as family itself. We can argue the politics, but for once let’s [...]
Moral relativism is becoming increasingly prominent in Western society. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he was elected pope, warned, “We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.” It is important to recognize, especially in the Enlightenment thought, the sources of this [...]
Dear Readers, The Interim thanks you for your understanding and unwavering support for our pro-life publication. As we explained last August and again in March, the revamping of Heritage Canada’s policy for assistance to the Canadian publishing industry resulted in a huge challenge for The Interim. Your response to our initial appeal to rally round The Interim ensured its survival in the [...]
On July 17, Mary Florence Hughes, mother of pro-life leader Jim Hughes, passed away shortly after becoming seriously ill in her 101st year. Mary raised Jim and his sister Patricia on her own in Toronto in the 1940s and ‘50s, working a variety of jobs to support her own children and an extended family of cousins. Her husband Charles Hughes [...]
A pair of Rasmussen polls are demonstrative of the political power of social conservatism in U.S. politics. In Illinois, the Republicans have a pro-lifer, Bill Brady, challenging the incumbent Governor Pat Quinn. Brady is leading Quinn, an abortion rights suppoters, by a decisive 48%-35%. This will be a great pickup for the Republicans, and pro-lifers. In the Illinois Senate race, the Republicans [...]
Yesterday I noted that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and I wanted to expand on that today. Judge Lamberth found that Barack Obama's relaxed regulations on ESCR funding -- which jumped from $40 million during the Bush administration to nearly three times that number today -- violated federal statutes restricting research that depends on [...]
Today we were finishing off the September issue. Larger than usual (24 pages compared to the typical 20, 16 pages in the Summer months) and I couldn't find the time to blog. I'll get back to blogging on Wednesday. In the meantime, enjoy some good news from the U.S. on the decision by Judge Royce Lamberthof U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block [...]
Andrea Mrozek explains that the linear trajectory of binge drinking to bad decisions to abortion is a sign that "we are raising our girls wrong."
The International Pro-life Conference, entitled "Building A Global Culture Of Life," is co-sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and the International Right to Life Federation, and will be held in Ottawa, October 28-30. LifeSiteNews.com has an article on the just-announced lineup of speakers. You can register online here or call CLC at 1-800-730-5358. In the September issue, we have an interview with Catholic novelist Michael O'Brien, who will [...]
"'Research unclear on how daycare affects child development"is a must-read column by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, in today's Montreal Gazette, succinctly explaining a lot of data from a recently released study. Mrozek concludes by making an important point: The childcare research field does not lend itself to unequivocal statements, or easy guilt-free [...]
My interview with lawyer John Carpay, who represents the pro-life students at the University of Calgary, is online. The Q&A will also appear in the forthcoming (September) issue of the The Interim.
Editor’s Note: Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, interviewed John Carpay, former executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and who continues to represent the students involved with Campus Pro-life at the University of Calgary, about the case and freedom of speech on campus for pro-life groups in general. The Interim: How did you get involved with the Campus Pro-life students [...]
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart says that conservative lawyer Ted "Olson delivers a succinct and eloquent rebuttal to conservative arguments against same-sex marriage." You can read Olson's words for yourself, but notice that they don't really rebut the conservative argument against SSM, but rather merely repeats standard liberal talking points about allowing gays to marry (it's a matter of equality and it is [...]
Info is here.