JOHN CARPAY: Since early 2020, the majority of religious leaders around the world have supported lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccination passports, and other coercive measures that violated the freedom, prosperity, and well-being of millions of citizens. As just one prominent example, in August of 2021 Pope Francis and other bishops praised the new Covid vaccine as “safe and effective.” Vatican City pressured all [...]
Mary Zwicker: This month marks the third anniversary of the World Health Organization’s March 11, 2020 declaration of a global pandemic. This announcement kickstarted the emergency pandemic restrictions imposition in Canada and the United States, as well as across the world, the effects of which nations are still recovering from, and will be for a long time to come. Beginning in March [...]
Interim Staff: The Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) in northern Ontario suspended high school student Josh Alexander, 16, for the remainder of the year because he protested the school's policy of permitting gender-confused males to use the girls’ washrooms. James Kitchen, chief litigator for Liberty Coalition Canada (LCC) said St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew suspended Alexander because the [...]
From the editor’s desk: I have noted before that the greatest influence on my thought and writing is George F. Will, but he has not the only writers to guide my political thinking and career choice. Two others were the historian Paul Johnson and journalist Patrick J. Buchanan. In January, we lost Johnson who died at the age of 94 and Buchanan, [...]
Interim Staff In a late-January interview with the Associated Press in January, Pope Francis said that homosexuality should not be criminalized. Meanwhile, on Feb. 9, the governing body of the Church of England voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the Church’s definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Pope Francis told AP reporters on Jan. 25, that, [...]
Editor’s Note: The following statement was drafted by Jonathan Van Maren (Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform), Eric Scheidler (Pro-Life Action League), Charles Camosy (Creighton University), and Josh Brahm (Equal Rights Institute) in response to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and published Jan. 19. More than 100 pro-life leaders, scholars, and authors, including Interim editor Paul Tuns, Fr. Shenan J. Bouquet [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition reported that an unidentified 19-year-old Canadian girl died after taking the abortion pill on July 4, 2022. Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney discovered that Health Canada’s online adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs tracking system revealed that a hospital reported that a 19-year-old female who had used the abortion pill Mifegymiso to kill her preborn child died herself. Maloney [...]
Paul Tuns: Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton-Melville) introduced her private member’s bill, C-311, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (violence against pregnant women), on Jan. 31. Speaking in the House of Commons, Wagantall said, “It is my honour to rise to introduce this private member’s bill, which would go a long way to addressing violence against some of the most vulnerable [...]
Oswald Clark: During his Feb. 7 State of the Union address to Congress, President Joseph Biden vowed to expand abortion in the United States and attacked states that are protecting the preborn. Biden said, “Congress must restore the right the Supreme Court took away last year and codify Roe v. Wade to protect every woman’s constitutional right to choose.” Biden said the [...]
Paul Tuns: Federal Justice Minister David Lametti introduced bill C-39, to delay for one year its decision to allow people who suffer solely from mental illness to seek euthanasia. This came after a public backlash to Canada’s euthanasia regime, following news stories of numerous cases of people accessing so-called Medical Assistance in Dying for social reasons, and concerns from mental health experts [...]
Interim Staff: On Feb. 2, a child close to birth was killed by abortion, Campagne Quebec Vie (CQV) reported after they became aware of the situation through a social media post of a nurse. Montreal Against Abortion (MAA) informed CQV about the social media post by an anonymous source – since verified by local pro-life activists – that a local hospital, Sacré-Cœur [...]
It should, of course, be cause for celebration: this month, The Interim newspaper will enter its fifth decade of publication. And, to a certain extent, congratulations are due—we need to honor the generosity of donors and advertisers, the efforts of our reporters, columnists, and editorial staff, and, above all, our intelligent, passionate, and longstanding readership, without whom our words would have no [...]
Jim Hughes: Although it might seem like yesterday to some, it’s actually been 40 years since the first edition of The Interim rolled off the presses. The paper’s name came courtesy of the late Carl Scharfe, media man for Campaign Life. He’s also the man who suggested that we needed a presence on the Internet (what’s an internet?) which led to the [...]