By J.M. Glover: March for Life Ireland 2025 On May 5, thousands of Irish men, women, and children marched in Dublin, Ireland, under the banner “Pro-Woman, Pro-Baby, Pro-Life.” Busloads of pro-lifers from all over Ireland descended on Dublin to join the March. Since the abortion law took effect in 2019, there have been a staggering 51,000 abortions in Ireland. This does not [...]
Interim Staff: In March, Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, to add “gender expression” to the province’s human rights law. The law, if passed, would amend the Manitoba Human Rights Code and Wiebe said it would “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, makeup, body language and voice,” and that the [...]
Paul Tuns: After at least two major corporate sponsors dropped their financial backing of Toronto Pride, host of the largest annual LGBQT festivities in Canada each year, the city of Toronto came to the organization’s rescue. The city increased their share of funding to 15 LGBQT festivals in the city by 33 per cent to $2.5 million. The municipal largesse was not [...]
Paul Tuns: On May 8, white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel to indicate that the Conclave had chosen a new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, appeared on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square, have chosen the name Leo XIV. Much was made that Leo XIV is the first “American pope” but he has [...]
June is commencement season, a time when the graduating classes of colleges and universities receive parting words of wisdom from eminent guests who enjoy general respect and wide repute. But, as we all know, such speeches have become joyless and platitudinous affairs, featuring the dreary rehearsal of predictable commonplaces. This was not always the case: 50 years ago, University of Chicago undergraduates [...]
Paul Tuns, Review I … Do? Why Marriage Still Matters by Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell (Cascade Books, 115 pages, $30 paperback) Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell are with the Canadian Christian think tank Cardus and their recent book I … Do? is an important and timely little tract on the why marriage matters – or more accurately, why it is [...]
The Interim went to press days before the April 28 federal election and whatever the results, there does not appear to be much good news for pro-lifers. As we report on page 10, the Conservatives and Liberals are both committed to the abortion and euthanasia status quo which kills more than 100,000 preborn children and 15,000 vulnerable patients annually. It is a [...]
No aborted baby parts to be used in NIH research Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, economics, and health research at Stanford University, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya came to international recognition and criticism when he co-authored, with Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, The Great Barrington [...]
At what point will the size of Canada’s so-called “Medical Assistance in Dying” program become cause for alarm? What percentage of our vulnerable, elderly, infirm, or disabled fellow citizens need to choose death (or have it chosen for them) before we feel chastened by our outrageous indifference, and our national conscience is, at long last, pricked? The statistics for 2023—which, curiously enough, [...]
Paul Tuns: Manitoba Justice Minister Matt Wiebe tabled a government bill that, if passed, would enshrine “gender expression” in the province’s Human Rights Code, and “cover anything from behavior or appearance, such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice.” The NDP government of Wab Kinew introduced Bill 43, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, on March 18, adding “gender expression” to [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]