Interim Staff In a late-January interview with the Associated Press in January, Pope Francis said that homosexuality should not be criminalized. Meanwhile, on Feb. 9, the governing body of the Church of England voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the Church’s definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Pope Francis told AP reporters on Jan. 25, that, [...]
It should, of course, be cause for celebration: this month, The Interim newspaper will enter its fifth decade of publication. And, to a certain extent, congratulations are due—we need to honor the generosity of donors and advertisers, the efforts of our reporters, columnists, and editorial staff, and, above all, our intelligent, passionate, and longstanding readership, without whom our words would have no [...]
Jim Hughes: Although it might seem like yesterday to some, it’s actually been 40 years since the first edition of The Interim rolled off the presses. The paper’s name came courtesy of the late Carl Scharfe, media man for Campaign Life. He’s also the man who suggested that we needed a presence on the Internet (what’s an internet?) which led to the [...]
The totally understated pro-life message in the 2023 Super Bowl Angelica Vecchiato: The 2023 Super Bowl-- a close game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles-- went down in history for several reasons: the Kelce brothers clashing against one another other on opposite ends of the field, star player Mahomes’ strained ankle, and Justina Miles, the first female “deaf performer,” signing [...]
David Daleiden wins landmark lawsuit David Daleiden, an American pro-life activist who founded the Center for Medical Progress in 2013, produces undercover video recordings to expose Planned Parenthood’s (PP) nefarious activities around the “aborted baby parts trade” (i.e. the selling of aborted fetal tissue and organs for profit). This has resulted in PP being discredited, but has also led to civil and [...]
Interim Staff: Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee Mike Del Grande lost an Ontario Superior Court decision in his petition to quash sanctions imposed on him by the majority of the elected school board for using rhetoric supposedly “offensive” to LGBTQ activists and students in his defense of Catholic sexual and gender teaching. In 2019 and 2020, Del Grande opposed a [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements I have lost track of the number of times I’ve been watching a movie or TV show and wondered to myself if it was filmed in the first vertical shaft of a coal mine, or if I might be developing cataracts. Apparently, I’m not alone; at least three times in the last year [...]
Religious Freedom After the Sexula Revolution: A Catholic Guide Helen M. Alvaré (Catholic University of America Press, $32.95, 243 pages): Helen M. Alvaré, the Robert A. Levy Chair in Law and Liberty at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, has written a primer, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution, on how to think about a genuine freedom (freedom of religion) in [...]
10. Pelosi banned from receiving communion On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in his archdiocese, to inform her that as a pro-abortion politician she can no longer present herself for Holy Communion when she is in San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone reiterated the Catholic Church's "clear and [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Interim Staff CTV announced and posted a teaser video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing on a spinoff of the television show Canada's Drag Race, much to the tittering excitement of Canadian journalists. CTV News said in a statement, "Justin Trudeau is swinging by the 'werkroom' on an upcoming spinoff of 'Canada’s Drag Race'." The statement continued: "Producers of the drag [...]
Mobile abortuaries The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the regulation of abortion to the states. Planned Parenthood had to rethink and regroup to ensure that its facilities continued to be available to pregnant moms. That is, it had to ensure that its annual revenue of $1.6 billion was not sacrificed. It’s OK to sacrifice unborn babies and their [...]