Religion

Continued discrimination against Christian employers for summer student program

Paul Tuns: Last month, Blacklock’s Reporter revealed that both the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and Canadian Centre for Christian Charities expressed concerns to the House of Commons human resources committee that the Department of Employment and Social Development continues to discriminate against faith-based employers applying to the summer job grants program. In 2016, the Trudeau government mandated that employers sign an [...]

admin2024-02-09T10:28:22-05:00February 9, 2024|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons backs down on limiting conscience rights

Paul Tuns: Following pressure to not change its medical standards that would severely restrict the conscience rights of doctors, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) backed down from a proposal to require doctors to make an “effective referral.” Currently, doctors and nurses are not required to participate in or be complicit in abortion, euthanasia, birth control, or so-called gender-affirming [...]

admin2024-02-08T14:58:01-05:00February 8, 2024|Abortion, Euthanasia, Religion, Society & Culture|

Pope Francis calls for ban on surrogacy

Paul Tuns: During his annual address to diplomats in January, Pope Francis called surrogacy “a grave violation of the dignity of the women and the child” as he called for global ban on the practice of surrogacy. Pope Francis said a child’s life should not be “suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking" and called on the global community “to prohibit [...]

admin2024-02-05T13:20:55-05:00February 5, 2024|Bioethics, Marriage and Family, Religion|

David Hogg, RIP

Interim Staff: David Anthony Hogg, who served as a trustee with the Metropolitan Toronto Separate Catholic School Board, in the 1990s, died Dec. 13 at the age of 94. Hogg, then a director with the Federation of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario, was elected trustee in 1991 – along with Peter Johnson and Michael Del Grande -- with the support of Campaign [...]

admin2024-01-31T10:09:27-05:00January 31, 2024|Abortion, Politics, Religion|

Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn James Walvin (University of California Press, $30, 197 pages) The origin story of the hymn “Amazing Grace” is well-known: John Newton, the captain of a 18th century English slave ship, had a dramatic conversion after surviving a story which led him to become an abolitionist and pastor, with “Amazing Grace” written as a [...]

admin2024-01-11T10:04:06-05:00January 11, 2024|Religion, Reviews|

Catholic bishops affirm stance against euthanasia

Paul Tuns On Nov. 30, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement reiterating the Church’s unequivocal moral teaching against euthanasia and assisted-suicide, reminding Catholic health care facilities that they cannot be complicit in so-called Medical Assistance in Dying. The statement, “On the Non-Permissibility of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide within Canadian Health Organizations with a Catholic Identity,” noted that “Catholic dioceses [...]

admin2024-01-10T11:28:56-05:00January 10, 2024|Euthanasia, Religion|

Vatican causes confusion over ‘blessings’ of same-sex unions

Paul Tuns The Vatican has once again muddied the waters of Catholic moral teaching with the release of Fiducia Supplicans – On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, which was widely reported on the front pages of newspaper and the leads of many news broadcasts as the Roman Catholic Church officially sanctioning the blessing of same-sex unions. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of [...]

admin2024-01-08T14:01:26-05:00January 8, 2024|Paul Tuns, Religion, Society & Culture|

Majority oppose forcing religious hospitals to provide euthanasia

Paul Tuns: An Angus Reid Institute poll released on Oct. 17, shows 58 per cent of Canadians believe religiously affiliated healthcare centres should not be required to provide euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide compared to just 24 per cent who said such healthcare centres should be forced to provide Medical Assistance in Dying. Nearly one in five (18 per cent) were unsure. In June, a Vancouver [...]

admin2023-12-06T10:14:46-05:00December 6, 2023|Euthanasia, Religion|

Solving a good Christmas mystery (or two)

Michael Taube: Christmas is a wonderful time of year. Families enjoy time together. Music and carols are heard in the background. The tree is trimmed. Presents are wrapped. The wreath is on the door. Lights flicker either inside or outside the house - or, in some cases, both. Who knows? You may even be called upon to solve a good Christmas mystery [...]

admin2023-12-04T13:06:35-05:00December 4, 2023|Religion, Reviews, Society & Culture|

Human rights commission slams Christmas, Easter holidays

Paul Tuns: The Canadian Human Rights Commission published “A Discussion Paper on Religious Tolerance” that singles out religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter as a remnant of colonialism that privileges Christians over those of other faiths. The CHRC paper noted that the “ability of an individual to freely practice their religion is a fundamental human right,” enshrined in both international and [...]

admin2023-12-04T12:43:04-05:00December 4, 2023|Religion|

Prince of Peace

When Caesar Augustus decreed that the world should be enrolled (Lk 2:1), he could do so only because of the Pax Romana. The undisputed reign of Rome put entire kingdoms—like that of the Israelites—in their thrall, but it also kept the chaos of war at bay. And so, when Christ later prophesied that, in the last days, “nation will rise against nation, [...]

admin2023-12-04T12:21:22-05:00December 4, 2023|Religion|

The Devil Made Me Do It

Donald DeMarco: Fr. Paul Desmarais is a Catholic priest stationed in Rhode Island and an authority on the occult. He speaks of what he regards as the two great lies that Satan, the Father of Lies, uses concerning abortion. The first lie is prior to abortion in which he tells the woman that abortion is no big deal, just a sensible solution [...]

admin2023-11-17T10:01:21-05:00November 17, 2023|Abortion, Religion, Society & Culture|

Former CLC employee Marianne Dose, RIP

Interim Staff: Marianne Dose, a former Campaign Life Coalition office worker, died on July 12 at the age of 76. Dose worked for CLC from 2000-2006, doing general office work, answering the phone, and inputting names and contact information into the organization’s database. One year, she took part in the Silent No More witness following the National March for Life in Ottawa, [...]

admin2023-11-13T11:30:04-05:00November 13, 2023|Abortion, Religion|

Just before Remembrance Day, military chaplains banned from saying religious prayers

NOTE: After a backlash to the policy, Chaplain Brig-Gen Guy Belisle rescinded the policy banning prayer at public ceremonies involving military chaplains. Paul Tuns: The Epoch Times reported on Oct. 11 – one month before Remembrance Day – that Chaplain General Brigadier Guy Belisle sent a memo to all armed forces instructing them to avoid religious prayers at all official functions. Belisle [...]

admin2023-11-08T10:30:59-05:00November 8, 2023|Religion|

And Then There Was This, October 2023

Is freedom of speech dead in Finland? Paivi Rasanen is an elected Member of Parliament in Finland. In 2022, she and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola faced hate-crime charges for the publication of a 2004 booklet which confirmed the biblical truth that marriage is between a man and a woman. A three-judge panel in Helsinki unanimously decided that it was not the business [...]

admin2023-10-13T11:30:33-04:00October 13, 2023|Abortion, Marriage and Family, Religion|

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