Religion

Canadian bishop endorses denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians

Comment made after Carney attends Mass featuring pro-life sermon Paul Tuns: The head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has endorsed denying Holy Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians like Prime Minister Mark Carney. During an April 11 interview with EWTN, Bishop William McGrattan, president of the CCCB, said pro-abortion politicians should not receive the Eucharist. Days earlier, Prime Minister Mark [...]

admin2025-05-02T10:30:27-04:00May 2, 2025|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

And then there was this, April 2025

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 [...]

admin2025-04-15T10:05:11-04:00April 15, 2025|Abortion, Bioethics, Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

Cause of death

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, [...]

admin2025-04-15T10:04:18-04:00April 15, 2025|Euthanasia, Marriage and Family, Religion, Society & Culture|

What’s true about Sugarcane

Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements First Nations issues are evergreen in Canadian politics, rising to prominence regularly, like during the battle over the Meech Lake Accord in the late ‘80s, when Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper and his eagle feather helped scuttle any attempted constitutional amendment (and got Harper elected as an MP shortly after). It was a major [...]

admin2025-04-14T18:51:10-04:00April 14, 2025|Religion, Reviews, Rick McGinnis|

New Quebec bill would ban school staff from wearing a cross or crucifix

Interim Staff: On March 20, the Quebec provincial government of Premier François Legault tabled a bill that, if passed, would expand the current religious symbols ban to include all school staff, including teachers, from wearing any religious symbols including the cross or crucifix. Education Minister Bernard Drainville said, “If we are going to be coherent with this idea that a figure of [...]

admin2025-04-11T08:09:43-04:00April 11, 2025|Politics, Religion|

Three cities drop Christian Heritage Month after atheists complain

Paul Tuns: Three municipalities that declared December Chirstian Heritage Month in 2024 have reversed themselves and will not do so again. In January, The Interim reported that 56 jurisdictions in Canada, including the province of Saskatchewan, and cities such as Calgary, Mississauga, Regina, and Toronto, officially declared December “Christian Heritage Month” after an advocacy campaign by Molly Banerjei, a realtor from Toronto [...]

admin2025-04-07T12:17:33-04:00April 7, 2025|Politics, Religion|

Baseball’s Good Samaritan

Donald DeMarco: The Fifth Annual Report on It was just another game in the long 162 marathon that is the season of baseball. Or was it? Boston Red Sox first baseman Pat Stapleton came to bat in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox with the score tied 2-2. Stapleton hit a line-drive that would have been far less memorable if [...]

admin2025-04-02T12:46:46-04:00April 2, 2025|Religion, Society & Culture|

And then there was this, March 2025

Danielle Smith outraged about euthanasia Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the John Bachman Now Show on Newsmax in January. Toward the end of the interview, Bachman said that the increase in doctor-assisted suicide in Canada was frightening, and asked Smith for her opinion. Smith agreed that “one of the things that the federal government was allowing was a potential for [...]

admin2025-03-27T14:12:58-04:00March 27, 2025|Abortion, And then there was this..., Euthanasia, Politics, Religion|

Lest we forget the Apostle of Life

Donald DeMarco: Fr. Paul Marx founded Human Life International. Rev. Paul Marx, was the 15th of 17 children born to devoutly religious parents, George and Elizabeth, on a dairy farm in St. Michael, Minnesota on May 8, 1920. Coincidentally, and perhaps in some way providentially, Benjamin Franklin was also the 15th of 17 children. It may also be of interest [...]

admin2025-03-25T10:10:51-04:00March 25, 2025|Abortion, Donald DeMarco, Religion|

Has God evolved on homosexuality

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, [...]

admin2025-03-20T10:34:53-04:00March 20, 2025|Marriage and Family, Religion, Rory Leishman|

Msgr Philip Reilly, RIP

Interim Staff: Monsignor Philip Reilly, founder of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants often referred to as “the father of sidewalk counselling,” died at the age of 90 on Nov. 30. The native New Yorker, was serving as a chaplain at a Brooklyn monastery when he founded Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, to, in the words of National Catholic Register, “to awaken [...]

admin2025-03-13T10:57:30-04:00March 13, 2025|Abortion, Religion|

A Litany for Life

Editor’s Note: This is a resource from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops based on 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8a. It could be used in any number of settings including the dedication of pro-life memorials and pro-life prayer services. The editor would like to thank Fr. Edward Murphy of Blessed Trinity Parish in Toronto for bringing it to our attention. Lord, love is patient. [...]

admin2025-03-13T10:55:45-04:00March 13, 2025|Abortion, Religion|

Cardinal Leo calls on Ottawa to pause euthanasia expansion

Paul Tuns: Toronto Cardinal Francis Leo called out the Trudeau government for “normalizing euthanasia” as he condemned the Health Department’s consultation to expand euthanasia through advance directives. In the Feb. 21 letter to Health Minister Mark Holland, the Cardinal stated, “Your government is normalizing euthanasia – by extension, those experiencing loneliness, isolation and depression associated with their medical condition are increasingly vulnerable [...]

admin2025-03-13T10:52:49-04:00March 13, 2025|Euthanasia, Religion|

A History of the Muslim World

A History of the Muslim World: From its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity Michael Cook (Princeton, $54, 895 pages) Michael Cook, a professor of Near-Eastern Studies in Princeton and author of numerous books on Islam, has written a massive, wide-ranging history of the Muslim world, from Muhammad’s birth in the sixth century through is spread over most of the Old World, [...]

admin2025-03-12T12:44:20-04:00March 12, 2025|Religion, Reviews|

The Revelation of Ireland

The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Perriter (Profile, $47, 552 pages) Diarmaid Perriter is a professor of Irish history at University College in Dublin and a columnist for the Irish Times and at times his latest history of Ireland – he has written 14 books on Ireland – seems more journalism than history. That is certainly due to fact that this “history” [...]

admin2025-03-12T12:37:27-04:00March 12, 2025|Abortion, Religion, Reviews|

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