John Carpay An extreme pessimist would say that the only thing man learns from history is that man learns nothing from history. In support of his argument, the extreme pessimist could point to the massive daily violations of the Nuremberg Code, created by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in the case of United States v Karl Brandt et al., one of the Nuremberg [...]
Donald De Marco He was born in a stable to poor parents. There were no nurses or doctors in attendance, but some animals and a few nearby shepherds. His home would be the small town of Nazareth about which it was said, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” This is a most unpromising beginning of a revolution. And yet, despite all its unpromising circumstances, it [...]
Our story starts in Paradise. The very word, “Eden,” cannot fail to conjure images of perfection, of a natural world which offers bliss without brambles, a habitat in which the Almighty Himself walked with us in the cool of the evening (Gen 3:8). Indeed, Adam, Eve, and God made a kind of “trinity,” a harmonious community of humanity and divinity, a perfect [...]
Harley Price It tells you something about the times that when you Google “Jesus Christ” one of the first suggestions that pops up in the auto-fill menu is “Jesus Christ Superstar.” As a ubiquitous phenomenon of popular modern culture, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been one of the most effective forces for the infantilization of the Western mind of the [...]
Mary Zwicker In a moving tribute to the power of spiritual warfare, a 40 Days for Life group in Winnipeg has recently informed The Interim that their prayers during a 40-day prayer initiative have saved a child from abortion. Maria Slykerman, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Winnipeg, said that despite losing many volunteers over the years to age or sickness, [...]
Paul Tuns On Nov. 9, a pair of NDP MLAs called upon the Saskatchewan Party government of Scott Moe to guarantee more surgical abortions be committed in the province by introducing a province-wide intake system and opening two abortion centres in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Official Opposition Status of Women Critic Jennifer Bowes and Democracy and Ethics Critic Meara Conway were leading [...]
Paul Tuns Pope Francis recently named six new members to the Pontifical Academy for Life for five-year terms, including five who oppose the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion and contraception: economist Mariana Mazzucato, former Botswana health minister Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, Monsignor Phillipe Bordeyne, Father Humberto Miguel Yáñez, and bioethics professor Roberto Dell’Oro Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Pope John Paul II founded the Academy [...]
Mary Zwicker In an alarming new threat to the sanctity of human life and the integrity of medicine in Canada, a group of medical students at a Canadian university are calling for medical schools across the country to provide comprehensive abortion education to all future doctors as a mandatory part of their programs. On March 10, an organization known as SexMed, founded [...]
Mary Zwicker Despite selling its building due to lack of government funding, an abortion mill in New Brunswick has been given temporary permission by the building’s new owners to continue offering its gruesome services from that location. Clinic 554 in Fredericton, the only privately run abortion mill in New Brunswick, was forced to shut its doors and sell their building in September [...]
Mary Zwicker Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has responded to charges from a left-wing group – and repeated in the corporate media – that has labelled the pro-life organization a “hate group" for its pro-life, pro-family stance, specifically regarding LGBTQ ideology. In recent months, Campaign Life Coalition has been targeted by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which released multiple articles calling CLC a “reactionary far-right” group for [...]
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis (Regnery: $38, 296 pages) Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis have written the definitive book that works as both an extended critique of abortion and as an invaluable and insightful reference about its detrimental effects. The authors note in their introduction that “Abortion harms every single [...]
No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental Right Becca Andrews (Public Affairs, $37, 267 pages) In No Choice, Mother Jones journalist Becca Andrews offers accounts of abortion before and during the Roe v. Wade era to argue that the battle for abortion is not merely part of a larger battle for women’s rights, but [...]
Paul Tuns, Review Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It by Richard V. Reeves (Brookings, $38, 242 pages) Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition by Nicholas Eberstadt (Templeton, $17, 238 pages) Richard Reeves of the liberal Brookings Institute has written an important, if at times annoying, book about the plight of boys [...]
Oswald Clark On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the On Nov. 16, during a lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act – a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July– a version of which was passed in the House of Representatives in July -- that repeals [...]
Paul Tuns A current Conservative MP and the leader of the People’s Party of Canada have both condemned Canada’s permissive euthanasia laws that are resulting in people who have treatable conditions but living in poverty being approved for so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis criticized Canada’s euthanasia regime as a money-saving measure the government is using to “rid society” [...]