Matthew Wojciechowski Commentary On Oct. 22, the United States, along with 32 other nations, signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a historic joint agreement reaffirming that every human being has the inherent right to life and that the natural family, the fundamental unit of society, must be protected. This is a significant development at the international level. It’s also the same message Campaign [...]
The Christian scriptures abound in “hard sayings,” statements which are difficult to interpret—or difficult to implement. Who, for example, finds it easy to enact the exhortations of Sermon on the Mount to “love one’s enemies” or “turn the other cheek” (Lk 6:27–28)? One of the hardest sayings in Scripture, however, is not about our actions but about God’s. In the book of [...]
Pro-family, faith groups concerned about broad implications of C-6 By Interim Staff On Oct. 28, the Trudeau government’s C-6, which, if it becomes law, prohibits conversion therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria, passed second reading in a 308-7 vote, with the unanimous support of the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois, the Greens, and vast majority of the Conservative Party caucus. C-6 [...]
The Interim invited a number of pro-life leaders and contributors to the paper to suggest a book or two that would make a great Christmas gift. Joe Campbell When, as a student, I told an aging priest that I had never read anything by G.K. Chesterton, he declared, “If I had tears, I would cry for you.” I was so impressed by [...]
By Oswald Clark Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, $28, 276 pages) The economist and erstwhile columnist Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. He wrote a regular column for 25 years and wrote more than three dozen books. He is what National Review’s Kevin Williamson calls “that rarest of things among serious academics: plainspoken.” His books have tackled [...]
By Michael Taube Family gatherings will undoubtedly be smaller and more intimate this year. We’ll have to regularly wash our hands, and maintain proper amounts of social and physical distancing, for health and safety purposes. This will make it more challenging to eat together at the dining room table, trim the tree, sing carols in the crisp night air, and open beautifully [...]
In September, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne (Independent Senators Group) introduced her private member’s bill, S-203, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit materials. If passed, the bill would require commercial pornography websites to verify their consumers are adults to access their content. While there is little public appetite to tackle pornography despite its often degrading and dehumanizing depiction of women [...]
Doctors, disability groups call for better support for vulnerable people By Paul Tuns Pro-life, religious, and disabilities groups have expressed opposition to the government’s expansion of euthanasia and assisted-suicide as the Trudeau government rushes C-7 through Parliament. On Oct. 29, C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), was passed at second reading in a 246-78 vote, and [...]
Interim writer, Rory Leishman, National Affairs By Rory Leishman In a press release on August 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) certified that Africa is now free of the wild poliovirus. But, alas, this does not mean that the irreversibly paralyzing and incurable virus has finally been eradicated from the entire African continent. To the contrary, in this same press [...]
Alex Schadenberg Special to The Interim It removes the requirement that a person’s natural death must be reasonably foreseeable to qualify for death by lethal injection. It permits a doctor or nurse practitioner to lethally inject a person who is incapable of consenting, if that person was previously approved. This contravenes the Supreme Court of Canada Carter decision which stated that only [...]
By Paul Tuns Two new vaccines aimed to protect people from COVID-19, from Moderna and Pzifer, have been lauded by some U.S. pro-life groups, but still pose ethical problems. In early November, within days of each other, Moderna and Pfizer announced that they were close to getting a vaccine to market as early trials indicated a success rate of protecting 95 per cent [...]
Low fertility rates, not over-population, present challenge “Demography is destiny,” the French sociologist Auguste Comte reportedly said. Population trends – fertility rates, infant survival, ageing, and other facts that are literally about life and death – greatly influence the economy, politics, culture, and world affairs. Demography may not be destiny, but it is nonetheless a powerful force and one that often seems [...]
Paul Tuns, Editor of The Interim Newspaper By Paul Tuns A parable of Saint Matthew’s Gospel describes a master who, before going on a journey, entrusts his property to three servants. Their charge is not a light one. They have, after all, been entrusted with the wealth — the very substance — of their lord. The talents imparted to them [...]
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Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements By Rick McGinnis The term “social media” wasn’t in widespread use over 10 years ago, when I started writing this column. Back then we still worried about television and the general amount of “screen time” our children were spending on increasingly smaller and less expensive devices. Re-reading my old columns, like almost every exercise in [...]