Paul Tuns: Toronto Cardinal Frank Leo wrote an open letter dated April 20 to Prime Minister Mark Carney and federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser, encouraging the government to block the expansion of euthanasia to people suffering solely from mental illness. Noting that both he and Carney are Catholics, the Cardinal wrote “our Catholic faith opposes the taking of any human life” and [...]
Review: Making Sense of Suffering, by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press, $17.95 USD, 215 pages) Ignatius Press has re-released Peter Kreeft’s 1986 book Making Sense of Suffering and although the causes of our suffering might have changed, mankind’s reaction to suffering has not. It was, and remains, one of the main arguments against God: how could an all-powerful, all-good being allow innocent people to [...]
Modern Monsters: Political Ideologues and Their War against the Catholic Church: George Marlin (St. Augustine’s Press, $45.50, 227 pages) Version 1.0.0 George Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need-USA, has written an accessible examination of a dozen or so intellectuals whose ideas have, in his estimation, greatly harmed society by attacking the Catholic Church and the Christian view [...]
Pro-lifers dodge a Molotov cocktail at Portugal’s March for Life On March 21, thousands of people marched in Lisbon and a number of other cities around Portugal. The Portuguese Federation for Life stressed the focus of the March was on “the dignity of all human beings for life from the moment of conception until natural death, and for families.” The March was [...]
Josie Luetke: For years now, Canadians have slumbered through—or even cheered—the steady erosion of our civil liberties. It has thus been a pleasant surprise to see a notable pushback against Bill C-9, the so-called Combatting Hate Act, from a population that prides itself on hating hatred. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Labour Congress, and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and [...]
Rory Leishman: Over the past 40 years, left-wing, secular zealots in the courts and legislatures of Canada have mounted an escalating attack on the rights and freedoms of theologically orthodox Christians -- Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical -- who uphold the traditional teachings of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Supreme Court of Canada got the process underway in 1985 with its [...]
From the editor’s desk: Radical pro-abortion NDP MP Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) was complaining about the Carney government’s lack of funding to support “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” people. The Alphabet People’s acronym is a fluid construction, with endless amendments and additions to ensure that everyone is included, except for, apparently, white males, Christians, and conservatives. That plus sign at the end is supposed to represent [...]
Paul Tuns: On March 31, the Alberta government announced proposed legislation to ban politics from the classrooms of the province’s schools. The government Bill 25: An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, 2026, would, if passed, “support safe and respectful schools and ensure students can learn without political and ideological influence. A statement from the [...]
Oswald Clark, US Correspondent: Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. Casey Means to the position of Surgeon General is facing stiff opposition as some pro-life groups are calling on the U.S. Senate to reject her nomination and some Christians have criticized her for practicing witchcraft. After Trump could not get his first choice for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, approved by the Senate, [...]
Rory Leishman: On Jan. 26, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights delayed consideration of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. That is not sufficient: Parliament should defeat this freedom-stifling bill altogether and also repeal the anti-hate law provisions in the Criminal Code. Government should not stifle the expression of any political viewpoint, no matter how vile. Experience [...]
The pro-life movement in Canada strives to secure legal protection for the unborn; it seeks to establish robust defenses for those menaced by the prospect of euthanasia and the temptation to assisted suicide; and it advocates for sane policies regarding marriage, family, and the recognition of both sexes. The issues and controversies which our threefold campaign impels us to engage are myriad; [...]
Paul Tuns: Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, died at the age of 84 on Feb. 17. Jackson is famous for having marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and in 1971 founded People United to Save Humanity (Operation Push), later renamed People United to Serve Humanity. He was [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of The Lord of the Rings and The Brothers Karamazov by Peter Kreeft (Word on Fire, $24.95 USD, 164 pages) Philosopher Peter Kreeft says that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (BK) are not merely masterpieces but the two greatest novels ever written because [...]
National Affairs, Rory Leishman: For the past several years, the secular mass media in Canada have fanned the flames of anti-Christian hate, by publishing uncorroborated allegations of mass murder, torture, and other atrocities in the Church-run Indian Residential Schools. On Dec. 11, The Globe and Mail was at it again, this time defaming dedicated Catholic nuns who cared for unwed mothers and [...]
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have a report on it in “And then there was this” on p. 17. I wanted to highlight one part of the on-going debate on that side of the lake, namely Lord Falconer’s comment during the third committee stage debate that the Terminally [...]