I just completed my story on Pope Benedict's comments on condoms for our December issue. I wish I could have included these comments by Fr. Roger J. Landry, but we didnt' have room in our jam-packed Christmas edition: Pope Benedict in his response also states that, while in an individual case the use of a condom in an immoral circumstance may open someone [...]
Blazing Cat Fur is being sued for a half-million dollars for linking to a Mark Steyn article by, you guessed it. And yes, you read that correctly: $500,000. You can show your support for BCF, the blogger husband to blogger extraordinaire Five Feet of Fury, at a Chanukah party/fundraiser on December 1 organized by JDL. Here's the info: JDL Chanukah Party to [...]
As you read more about the controversy of the Catholic Church supposedly reversing course on condoms, you more you realize there is nothing to the story. Pope Benedict XVI is not promulgating a new teaching on contraception but the moral responsibilities of a dangerous but extremely tiny cohort of the population. Again, I wish he avoided adding ambiguity to a discussion in which [...]
Birthornot.com, as you probably know by now, is the website of the couple who is having the public vote on whether they should keep their unborn baby or kill it through abortion. When you hear about the concept it is extremely offensive, but if you look at the website, you can't but help but think it is a way for a pro-life [...]
There is a new parliamentary committee looking at end-of-life issues. Yeah, I get how boring that sounds, but this story from the November issue is really important: "Parliamentary committee examines palliative care." It is a positive story about the pro-active strategy of Canadian politicians -- not all of them pro-life -- to oppose euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide rather than always playing defense while reacting to the [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has redesigned their website. Looks very good. Alas, LSN has blogs.
There has been plenty reported in the media over the past day or so about Pope Benedict XVI giving his endorsement of condoms in certain situations based on an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Light of the World. I was going to warn that we should wait for some clarifying remarks before accepting the media line that the Catholic Church has changed [...]
“Welcome to Earth – population zero,” goes the ominous tagline at the start of every episode of Life After People, the History Channel-produced documentary series that aired its second season just recently in Canada on History Television. It’s our cue to get cozy and enjoy an hour’s worth of empty cities falling to pieces, if they’re not inundated by rivers and seas, [...]
On Sept. 28, the Ontario Superior Court threw out Canada’s three Criminal Code restrictions on prostitution, leading advocates of the sex trade to cheer, editorialists to call for decriminalization of prostitution, and pro-family and religious groups to decry the ruling and its faulty assumptions. Technically, prostitution – the exchange of sex for money – has never been illegal in Canada. In her [...]
I Timothy 2:9-10: “In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire, But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.” As a young woman, dressing modestly in today’s society is tough. Women don’t even like the sound of the word ‘modesty,’ much [...]
We appear to be living in the darkest of Dark Ages. We have a convicted bombmaker, Inderjit Singh Reyat, as per the Toronto Star (Sept. 10), who repeatedly told the Air India trial, “I don’t know,” “I can’t remember,” “I can’t recall” and lied 19 times during his testimony, according to Crown lawyer Len Doust. Reyat already pleaded guilty to supplying bomb [...]
A new parliamentary committee is working to find alternatives to euthanasia or assisted suicide for the dying, disabled, and elderly. On April 21, a news conference announced the creation of the Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care (PCPCC) just hours before Parliament voted down MP Francine Lalonde’s (La Pointe-de-L’Île, BQ) private member’s bill that would have legalized assisted suicide [...]
Earlier this week in Ottawa, the Carleton University Students’ Association rescinded the official club status of Carleton Lifeline, a campus pro-life club saying that Lifeline's opposition to abortion violates the student union's Discrimination on Campus Policy which (for some reason) includes upholding “a woman’s right to choose.” In a letter to the club, CUSA said that it would reconsider its decision if Lifeline amended its [...]
The Canadian government is funding abortion-on-demand for refugees under a health plan meant to provide “emergency and essential health-care,” the Toronto Sun revealed. In the government’s handbook on the refugee health-care program, which is administered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), abortion is singled out from all other surgeries, which are only covered if a doctor deems them to be an [...]
In early October in Ottawa the police arrested five students from Carleton and Queens universities for displaying a pro-life exhibition at Carleton. They were peaceful, merely expressing an opinion and showing people the realities of abortion. Some of the pictures were graphic in nature but then abortion is graphic in nature and death and killing are bloody and nasty. In an [...]