Religious Freedom After the Sexula Revolution: A Catholic Guide Helen M. Alvaré (Catholic University of America Press, $32.95, 243 pages): Helen M. Alvaré, the Robert A. Levy Chair in Law and Liberty at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, has written a primer, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution, on how to think about a genuine freedom (freedom of religion) in [...]
Paul Tuns: Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney filed Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests to the Canadian Revenue Agency for information regarding the Liberal government’s promise to take away the charitable tax status of pro-life groups such as pregnancy care centres. In the 2021 federal election campaign, the Liberal platform vowed to strip pro-life groups of their charitable tax status for trucking [...]
Mary Zwicker: As attacks on life continue on all fronts, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) Quebec brand, Campagne Quebec Vie, is attempting to found a Montreal Students for Life group in the city. Set to launch this month, the new pro-life group -- the first of its kind in Montreal, as no campuses currently have pro-life groups -- will provide pro-life students from [...]
Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision Alisha Mack and Charles Camosy (Eerdmans, $29.95, 256 pages) Alisha Mack, an assistant professor of nursing at Wesleyan University and Dr. Charles Comosey, a bioethicist and professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, have come together to write the first bioethics book dedicated to nurses and nursing—Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision. [...]
Ray Pennings - Commentary: When Justice Minister David Lametti was a guest on the Toronto Star podcast “It’s Political” on Nov. 18, he stated that doctor-assisted suicide (euphemistically known as medical assistance in dying or MAiD) “provides a more humane way” for Canadians who are physically or mentally incapable of ending their own lives to do so. When asked if the state had [...]
Paul Tuns Amid a growing chorus of opposition to a scheduled March 17 expansion for medicalized killing for people who suffer solely from mental illness, federal Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to working with opposition parties to pass an extension in order to develop protocols to allow people suffering from depression and other psychiatric disorders to access Canada’s Medical [...]
Canada and California have roughly the same population and both jurisdictions legalized euthanasia in 2016. In 2021, California killed 486 people by euthanasia while Canadian doctors medically killed 10,064 patients. Canada is killing people through its system of Medical Assistance in Dying at about 20 times the rate as California’s euthanasia regime. In Canada, one in 25 deaths is deliberately caused by [...]
Paul Tuns Back in 2017, the CBC assured viewers that it is a “misconception” that so-called Medical Assistance in Dying “puts vulnerable people at risk.” Five years later, what can be said assuredly about the CBC’s statement is that if anything, advocates for the vulnerable may have underestimated how wide the euthanasia net would capture not only patients within the medical system, [...]
10. Pelosi banned from receiving communion On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in his archdiocese, to inform her that as a pro-abortion politician she can no longer present herself for Holy Communion when she is in San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone reiterated the Catholic Church's "clear and [...]