Oswald Clark: Nellie Gray, president of the March for Life Fund, at the March for Life rally near the White House in 2004 As part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026, President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes which will feature at least 244 significant [...]
Interim Staff: Monsignor Philip Reilly, founder of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants often referred to as “the father of sidewalk counselling,” died at the age of 90 on Nov. 30. The native New Yorker, was serving as a chaplain at a Brooklyn monastery when he founded Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, to, in the words of National Catholic Register, “to awaken [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a resource from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops based on 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8a. It could be used in any number of settings including the dedication of pro-life memorials and pro-life prayer services. The editor would like to thank Fr. Edward Murphy of Blessed Trinity Parish in Toronto for bringing it to our attention. Lord, love is patient. [...]
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Perriter (Profile, $47, 552 pages) Diarmaid Perriter is a professor of Irish history at University College in Dublin and a columnist for the Irish Times and at times his latest history of Ireland – he has written 14 books on Ireland – seems more journalism than history. That is certainly due to fact that this “history” [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Linda Gibbons was arrested Feb. 13 for silently witnessing outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto, her fifth arrest since last May. She was holding her sign showing a baby with the caption, “Why mom? When I have so much love [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Manitoba’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act came into effect, prohibiting all forms of pro-life speech near abortion facilities. Passed last spring after the then new NDP government came to power, the new law bans demonstration, picketing, or sidewalk counselling intended to deter women from obtaining an abortion. The bill created a 50-meter buffer zone around stand-alone [...]
Paul Tuns: The House of Commons Finance Committee has recommended to the federal government that it change the Income Tax Act to remove the “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose under the tax code and, in another recommendation, strip all pro-life groups of charitable status. Among the 462 recommendations made by the Finance Committee to the government as part of the [...]
CLC has a wish list for the government Paul Tuns: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called an election 18 months early with polls indicating that he could grow his majority. On Feb. 27, he was re-elected with virtually the same caucus in which Liberal leader and former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie failed to even win her own seat. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won 2.15 [...]
By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]
Donald DeMarco While slavery was being hotly contested in the United States in 1858, three years before his presidential inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made his most succinct statement against slavery: “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is not democracy.” [...]
The 19th-century German statesman, Otto von Bismarck, once observed that “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.” As we continue to take stock of the post-Dobbs moment—ushered in the overturning of the infamous decision of the American Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade—it is helpful to bear this remark in mind. Although, in the Canadian context, [...]
Editor’s Note: This question and answer between Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, and Rod Taylor, leader of the Christian Heritage Party, occurred on Jan. 29. The Interim: The federal election is scheduled for October but the Liberal leadership switch and potential loss of confidence in a parliamentary vote could mean a spring election. Is the Christian Heritage Party ready for an [...]
Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey I came across an Instagram reel of a massive centipede-like creature in the desert and the only reason I thought it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is because I have never—in my over 28 years on this planet—seen anything like it before, which made me wonder if, had I been younger, I would [...]
Paul Tuns: King Baudoin of Belgium was the head of state from 1951-1993 except for a 36-hour period in April 1990 when he briefly deposed from the throne with his consent in order to not sign a law decriminalizing abortion. A devout Catholic who refused to be implicated in allowing abortion in his country, King Baudoin, the fifth king of Belgium, is [...]
Oswald Clark: Operation Rescue issued a report for 2024 in which it notes there were 39 documented medical emergencies at abortion mills in the United States. Anne Reed, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue, said that those are the emergencies which Operation Rescue knows about, often because of first-hand witnesses due to the fact facilities “go to great lengths to hide and [...]