Our Amusements columnist Rick McGinnis has a non-moralizing piece on the ubiquity of zombies in popular culture in the December edition. We ran the column under a headline that came with double cheese, for which the editorial staff, not the columnist is responsible. An excerpt from the column: The Walking Dead glistens with gore, which you would have to expect from drama [...]
Dennis Prager on the growing acceptability of swearing in music, including a Grammy-nominated song entitled "F--- You": [T]he music industry, from producers to artists, is largely populated by people who regard social and cultural norms as stifling. Their professional lives are dedicated to lowering that which is elevated, destroying that which uplifts, and profaning that which is held sacred. I don't entirely [...]
If you asked Canadian pro-lifers to compile a list of the five most important pro-lifer activists and leaders in Canada over the past 40 years, British Columbia activist Heather Stilwell would be on most everyone's list. She played leading roles in every major pro-life organization in the country including Campaign Life Coalition, Alliance for Life Canada, REAL Women, and the Christian Heritage Party, as well as provincial [...]
At MercatorNet, Michael Cook writes about St. Nicholas. Here's how the tradition began: [H]e was once regarded as the patron of unmarriageable girls. A nobleman in the town of Patara had three daughters. He had been reduced to such poverty that he could not provide them with dowries for their weddings and decided to sell them into prostitution to keep them from [...]
The Interim's December editorial, "The Festival of Forgiveness," is now online. It is not easy to come up with an editorial every December that says something new about Christmas and pro-life, but I think this month's may be our best Christmas-themed editorial in years. An excerpt: Emboldened, then, by the echo of angelsong, we find the courage at Christmas to change our [...]
Our coverage (stories and lots of photos) of the Building a Global Culture of Life international conference held in Ottawa October 28-30 is now online.
From our December edition: "Media got story wrong about Pope Benedict and condoms." An excerpt: The Toronto Star dutifully quoted liberal Catholics and African homosexuals applauding the seeming shift in the Church’s moral teaching. Christian Weisner of the dissident We Are Church in Germany said, “one can be happy about the pope’s ability to learn.” David Kamau of the Kenya Treatment Access [...]
One of the arguments that advocates of legalizing prostitution make is that eliminating restrictions on the sex trade -- prohibitions on communicating for the purpose of prostitution, living off the avails of prostitution, and running a bawdy house -- will make life safer for prostitutes. Legalization of prostitution means the state can regulate it and regulation will make it safer. But Marina [...]
Robert Latimer has been granted full parole. I am not surprised by the decision, just ticked off. It sends a terrible signal to society that the life of a person with a disability is less valuable than the life of an able-bodied person. That is sick and perverse and dehumanizing. Canada is better than that. As the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's Alex Schadenberg says, "The EPC has always [...]
Writing in the Globe and Mail, "L. Allen" relates her feelings of pain over having two abortions. No doubt many women have the mixed feelings the author describes: the relief from responsibility for a child that abortion makes possible with the sense of some sort of loss of the child that was killed by abortion. There is no delving by Allen into why a mother would [...]
Science Daily reports: Reprogrammed amniotic fluid cells can generate all types of body cells. High hopes rest on stem cells: one day, they may be used to treat many diseases. To date, embryos are the main source of these cells, but this raises ethical problems. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin have now managed to convert amniotic [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports that C-510, Rod Bruinooge's anti-coercive abortion bill, will be debated on December 13 and voted on two days later. It was originally scheduled for a vote on December 2 and then it was moved to February and now it will be voted on in mid-December. First reading was November 1 and if it passes second reading next month, it will be sent to [...]
Today is the day we send the dead tree version of the paper to the printer. It's always crazy around here when we are finishing up so there is no time to blog. You can subscribe to the paper edition of The Interim here. We are still honouring the out-dated two years for the price of one promotion.
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 [...]