Catholic Register, Special to The Interim: Jim Hughes confessed to us that his life as the godfather of Canada’s pro-life movement began in a state of disbelief. Hughes died May 18 after more than 50 years of fighting the good fight against abortion and its dark shadow twin, medical assistance in dying. But as he told The Catholic Register in a 2024 interview [...]
Mary Ellen Douglas: It is difficult to write, in such a small space, my comforting and almost 48 years of memories of Jim Hughes. It would take a book. I first met Jim in 1978 when I travelled to Toronto at the request of Paul Dodds who was recruiting small pro-life groups, like our VITA group in Kingston, Ont. We were gathered [...]
Gwen Landolt: Jim Hughes possessed a rare combination of qualities seldom found in one individual. Jim understood people and dealt with them with tact, empathy, kindness, and humour, which encouraged them in their pro-life work. He never wavered in his vision for life and in his tenacity to protect it. Jim also had great resilience. No matter the catastrophe, he always came [...]
Josie Luetke: When I was still a high school student, my dad pointed out to me Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes, unassumingly standing at the back of a Halton Pro-Life event. I don’t think he spoke; I think he just attended because he was available, and his heart lay with this cause. He quickly grew fond of me (I believe), [...]
Donald DeMarco: Tulsi Gabbard stated, in her May 22 letter of resignation, that she has quit her post as the Director of National Intelligence. Her husband, Abraham, had been recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. “At this time,” she wrote, “I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this [...]
Richard Dur, Special to The Interim: By early afternoon the neighborhood has settled into its familiar rhythm. Children drift toward the park. Parents linger on benches. Traffic comes and goes. Across the street stands the old Grand Trunk School. It still echoes with the ghosts of children who once filled its classrooms. The nearby park rings with the laughter of children alive today. [...]
From sandwich bag to healthy 13-year-old Blake is a thriving British 13-year-old, with tousled blondish hair and blue t-shirt, smiling into the camera. The first time his mom, Lauren, saw Blake was as a preemie, delivered 13 weeks early by caesarean, being carried in a sandwich bag immediately after birth to the neonatal intensive care unit. As unlikely as it seems, the [...]
Victor Penney: All things work for the good of those who love God, for those who are called according to His purpose – even baseball and blasphemous drag performers who mock Catholic nuns. What am I getting at? Well, in this case, it has to do with an undercover exposé by the O’Keefe Media Group, an organization founded by James O’Keefe, the [...]
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Republican senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) and Mike Rounds (South Dakota) introduced legislation banning the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure (D&E abortions), which critics calls dismemberment abortion because it involves cutting the preborn child apart in utero with surgical instruments and extracting the child piece by piece. Hyde-Smith said “the fact that this horrifying procedure is still being done to [...]
Rory Leishman: In the remarkable case of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia on May 15, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada was subjected to devastating criticism by a significant authoritative source, namely, three dissenting judges on the same court. The case arose out of divorce proceedings initiated by Amrit Pal Singh Ahluwalia in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The trial judge, [...]
Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements Rick McGinnis Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy When the writer Walker Percy wrote to explain why he converted to Catholicism for the forward of a book about Catholic converts, he began by stating that “my tradition was scientific.” Born into a Presbyterian but essentially agnostic Southern family and trained [...]
Rick McGinnis: A nagging question has been percolating through what passes for the conservative movement these days: What, if anything, has conservatism conserved? At its finest point the question asks what conservative politicians and governments have succeeded in preserving – in society and domestic policy, never mind in economics and foreign policy? But essentially, it’s a question about just what conservatism means [...]
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: Same-sex “marriage” is slowly creeping into Poland through recent court decisions which have allowed for the recognition of out-of-country unions, despite the country’s traditional stance on marriage. On May 14, Warsaw officials formally registered the union of two Polish men whose “marriage” took place in Germany, despite the fact that Poland’s constitution strictly adheres to the definition of [...]
Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A small European country is temporarily pausing efforts to decriminalize abortion amidst ongoing discussions with the Vatican. The Principality of Andorra, a small, majority Catholic country located in the mountain range between France and Spain, is stalling the implementation of their fully drafted bill on the decriminalization of abortion. “I hope this debate moves forward,” said French President Emmanuel [...]
From the editor’s desk: This “From the Editor’s Desk” could focus exclusively on pride month events – or “pride season” as the Liberal government calls it. Depending on where you live in this great country of ours, you could be exposed to pride day, pride week, or pride month (or all three) any time in June, July, August, and presumably September. Heritage [...]