Marriage and Family

A tale of two men

Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life It was the best of tweets, it was the worst of tweets. It was a pearl of wisdom, it was a moment of misguided masculinity. It was a tale of two men that began with a social media post by one of the most controversial influencers on the internet. On Feb. 16, [...]

2025-04-16T12:04:43-04:00April 8, 2025|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture, Victor Penney|

Has God evolved on homosexuality

Rory Leishman: In The Moral Vision of the New Testament (1996), Richard B. Hays, renowned New Testament scholar and professor emeritus at Duke University, convincingly demonstrated that the “New Testament offers no loopholes or exception clauses that might allow for the acceptance of homosexual practice under some circumstances.” Yet in his last book published last September and co-authored with his son Christopher, [...]

2025-03-20T10:34:53-04:00March 20, 2025|Marriage and Family, Religion, Rory Leishman|

What might pro-lifers expect from the new Trump administration?

Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Personnel is policy - Key members of Trump’s team: Donald Trump’s appointments to cabinet and other important roles include (from top left going clockwise) Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Robert Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, and Elise Stefanik as the U.S. Representative to the United [...]

2025-01-20T09:38:17-05:00January 20, 2025|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Politics|

And then there was this, November 2024

  By J.M. Glover British Catholics fight against assisted suicide bill A recent CBC online story has reported that Russian On Oct. 16, British members of Parliament began debating a Labour bill to legalise assisted suicide. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, released a pastoral letter to Catholics reminding them that “the evidence from every [...]

Here’s the reality of the AI-porn pandemic

Joanna Alphonso: Today’s technological advances, intended to benefit humanity, have a significant capability to harm every one of us, especially as long as they remain legally unbridled. Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence (AI). What is AI? AI makes it possible for computers to learn from experience based on inputs of its human users. It has exploded over the last year [...]

2024-11-07T09:08:57-05:00November 7, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Million person march for children

Interim staff: On Sept. 20, 2024, the second Million Person March for Children, organized by “Hands off Our Kids,” was held in communities across Canada. Although numbers were down in many locations compared to last year according to one-the-ground reports, one organizer said “the message was still clear that parents of all faiths want their children protected from the dangers of LGBTQ [...]

2024-11-07T09:01:41-05:00November 7, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

CLC blankets N.B. with info on transgenderism and kids

Paul Tuns: Ahead of the New Brunswick general election officially called on Sept. 17, Campaign Life Coalition distributed thousands of postcards with information about transgender indoctrination in schools. This raised the ire of politicians opposed to Premier Blaine Higgs’s policies requiring parental consent to use names and pronouns at odds with a student’s biological sex. CLC distributed postcards to households in August [...]

2024-10-28T17:05:28-04:00October 28, 2024|Marriage and Family, Politics, Society & Culture|

Provincial policies on class exemptions differ widely

Almost impossible to completely shield young students from LGBTQ propaganda in schools Gideon Spivak: The LGBTQ+ ideology is a part of most elementary and high school curricula across the country, some including teaching the latest politically correct Newspeak as early as kindergarten to describe same-sex couples. Many of these lessons about homosexuality and gender theory are not isolated within a sex-ed curriculum [...]

2024-09-13T08:21:43-04:00September 13, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Million Person March for Children organizers expect larger 2024 turnout

Interim Staff: Last year, the nation-wide Million Person March for Children drew an estimated 1.5 million Canadians to demonstrate for parental rights and in an interview with LifeSiteNews, Muslim pro-family activist Kamel El-Cheikh, head of Hands Off Our Kids, said his group has quadrupled in size in the months leading up to the second Million Person March. Hands off Our Children is [...]

2024-09-13T08:13:54-04:00September 13, 2024|Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

Queenie Yu steps down as head of the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda

Paul Tuns: xr:d:DAFvAWe_UX8:35,j:433883658353322572,t:23121319 On July 2, the Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda (STNSEA) announced it had “undergone a big change” as it bid adieu to its founder and president, Queenie Yu. Yu first ran as an independent candidate in the 2016 by-election in Scarbough-Rouge River to bring awareness to Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum. She finished fourth with 582 votes, good [...]

2024-07-23T12:44:43-04:00July 23, 2024|Marriage and Family, Politics|

Ontario parents can exempt children from province’s explicit sex-ed curriculum

Paul Tuns: Lou Iacobelli, a former educator who blogs at Everyday for Life, says parents should inform their children’s schools that they want to exempt their children from the province’s Human Development and Sexual Heath expectation for the child’s grade. Iacobelli said that all children in Grade 1-8 are expected to learn the sex-ed curriculum as part of the Ontario Health and [...]

2024-07-23T12:07:00-04:00July 23, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Getting married is good for individuals and society

Paul Tuns: Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox (Broadside Books, $39.50, 293 pages) Sociologist Brad Wilcox, director of the National Family Project at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, promises a lot – or at least argues that marriage promises a lot – in [...]

2024-07-17T12:00:23-04:00July 17, 2024|Marriage and Family, Reviews|

NFL star causes furor over commencement address

Paul Tuns: Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is a conservative, Latin Mass Catholic, who was asked to deliver the commencement address at this year’s graduating ceremonies at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His speech raised the ire of feminists and liberal Catholics. On May 11, Butker, who has won three Super Bowls in the last five seasons, told the graduating class, [...]

2024-07-13T09:10:42-04:00June 30, 2024|Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

Reality versus ideology in N.B. Court

John Carpay:  The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has filed a court challenge against the right of parents to be fully informed about what is happening with their own children at school. One of Canada’s oldest civil liberties groups has fully embraced woke ideology, including the claim that gender is determined by identity rather than biology. In other words, if you feel [...]

2024-06-21T08:40:26-04:00June 21, 2024|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Divorce rates fell during pandemic

Paul Tuns: Data from Vanier Institute of the Family According to a report by the Vanier Institute of the Family, the number of divorces fell to below 50,000 for the first time since 1974. The Vanier Institute’s Family Counts 2024 study relies on Statistics Canada data, and the report shows that the gradual downward trend of divorce that began in [...]

2024-06-14T07:10:56-04:00June 14, 2024|Marriage and Family|
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