Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope: R.J. Snell (Angelico Press, $28 pb, 182 pages) R.J. Snell, editor-in-chief of The Public Discourse and director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute at Princeton, has written an important short brief against modern malaise, the false idylls that promise but fail to address that malaise, and the recovery of hope to escape the malaise. [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements First of all, in the interest of full disclosure, I have eaten crickets – and many other bugs besides. There was a couple of culinary events for “foodies” showcasing not just insect ingredients but the skills of chefs tasked with making them palatable. And then there were trips to places where bugs are [...]
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Oswald Clark: Photo credit: Post Millennial After the June debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, it became obvious that the incumbent was unable to mount a vigorous campaign for re-election and about a month later he was convinced that it would be better for the Democrats if he would step down as the party’s presidential candidate. [...]
Paul Tuns: Linda Gibbons was in court on August 20 to work out details for her upcoming trial after being charged with violating Ontario’s “Safe Access to Abortion Services Act,” a 2017 law that established a 50-150 metre anti-free speech “bubble zone” around abortion mills. Gibbons will return to provincial court on Sept. 3 at 10 a.m., when she will be handed [...]
Fulton Sheen (Cluny, US$20, 233 pages) In 1940, Bishop Fulton Sheen, wrote Freedom Under God, a meditation on the extremisms of liberalism and totalitarianism that idolized the individual and society respectively with no appreciation of the interdependency of the individual and society. Both extremes were guilty of making “redemption and brotherly love” irrelevant, although in different ways. Christianity, Bishop Sheen, the popular [...]
Antoine Campagnon, translated by Catherine Porter (Belknap Press, $29.95, 168 pages) A Summer with Pascal is a light, breezy introduction by Antoine Campagnon to one of the most important Christian apologists, Blaise Pascal. Campagnon, who has written about other French writers (Montaigne, Proust) turns his eye to the 17th century writer who famously gave us Pascal’s Wager, which posits that it is [...]
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Leire Douros: Tracy Polewczuk of Quebec was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that causes weak bones. Recently she told CTV that twice she was told of her eligibility to be euthanized despite not initiating the topic herself. Several years ago, Polewczuk suffered an accident which caused her leg to break. She hasn’t been able to heal properly which requires her [...]
Paul Tuns: New Cardus report says that medicalized killing of patients is now ‘routine’ According to Alex Schadenberg, there were approximately 15,280 euthanasia deaths in 2023 and a total of more than 60,000 from when so-called Medical Assistance in Dying was legalized in Canada in 2016 through to the end of last year. Based on data released from Alberta, B.C., Manitoba, Nova [...]
By J.M. Glover: Dermot Kearney: Pro-life hero Dr. Dermot Kearney, a British Catholic cardiologist who spoke at the National March for Life in May, has been honoured for his work on the medical abortion pill reversal (APR). (See The Interim, June 2024.) In April, he received the Anton Neuwirth Prize for the Protection of Life Award in Slovakia “for providing medical care [...]
Luka Granic: This year, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign marks 20 years in Canada, and in an exclusive interview with The Interim, Angelina Steenstra, the national coordinator for Canada as well as the regional coordinator for the Province of Ontario for Silent No More, reflected on the influence of the organization over the past two decades. Steenstra said, “The point of [...]
Nathalie Comrie: According to several news reports, laxed rules surrounding the abortion pill is making it easier for men to coerce women into having abortions, sometimes without their knowledge. In one case in September 2013, John Welden from Tampa forged a prescription using his pharmacist father's notepad to obtain the misoprostol pill. He then deceived his partner into taking the pill. ABC [...]
Luka Granic and Paul Tuns: Abortion advocates claim not only is abortion a human or civil right but that it is medical care for women, but recent incidents show that the care provided women seeking abortions is anything but caring or respectful of women. Hope Clinic is an abortion mill based in Granite City, Illinois which has become notorious for botched abortions and [...]
Rory Leishman: Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is not and never has been, a sincere pro-lifer. As evidence, consider some of the serious damage he has done to the pro-life movement over the past year. Last September, he denounced Florida Governor Ron DiSantis for signing into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks. In Trump’s misguided opinion, the bill [...]