The Music of Christendom: A History Susan Treacy (Ignatius Press, $16.95, 235 pages) ”It behooves us,” says Susan Treacy, professor of music at Ave Maria University and music columnist for St. Austin Review, “to immerse ourselves in music of the Western classical tradition, which is so imbued with the beauty of Christ. This is our music!” In The Music of Christendom: A [...]
From the editor’s desk I read a lot. Not only for my job, but for fun so I thought I’d write about a few non-work books that I enjoyed immensely this year. For years baseball was my favourite sport; it has since been usurped by football and I no longer watch the game that I spent years watching and listening to, but [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary Helen Alvaré is a professor of law at George Mason University, and a courageous defender of unborn human life. In her case courage means a willingness to tell the truth when political correctness forbids it. “The government is essentially proclaiming,” she writes, “that there is only one legitimate kind of homicide in the US: killing within the family.” To [...]
Janice Glover Commentary In the pages of The Interim over the past three years, we have been highlighting various “family friendly” policies and legislation that Hungary has been passing in its parliament that have stood out as a model for a 21st century country. The country has been criticized by the European Union and others in the West, including personal attacks on [...]
Interim Staff The trial of Bill Whatcott for an alleged hate crime began at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto last month in relation to the distribution of flyers at the 2016 Toronto Pride parade displaying the potential consequences of homosexual activity. The literature described both the physical and spiritual dangers of homosexual activity and the Crown prosecution says that is [...]
Thirty years ago, in the midst of an American election campaign, then-Vice President Dan Quayle made a speech in Los Angeles. His comments took the recent riots in that city as an occasion to reflect more broadly on the connection between law, society, and family values. While the riots themselves were sparked by a controversial court case and were fueled by racial [...]
Donald DeMarco Commentary: Author, Carly Manes, who describes herself as “white, queer, and Jewish,” together with illustrator May, who goes by that singular name and identifies herself as a “brown, genderqueer cultural worker,” have produced What’s an Abortion Anyway? in a concerted attempt to propagandize children (ages 8+) into accepting abortion. Since nearly 60 per cent of women who have had abortions [...]
Interim Staff: As the push for universal vaccination continues with provinces creating vaccine passports for residents to use in order to access non-essential services such as gyms, restaurants and many other entities including universities and (in Moncton, New Brunswick) Catholic churches requiring proof of vaccination to enter premises, some who are opposed to the vaccines for pragmatic or principled reasons are looking [...]
Sarah Gangl: The Ministry of Education announced a new policy on July 6 mandating the implementation of anti-sex trafficking protocols in school boards across Ontario. The Keeping Students Safe Policy is the first of its kind in Canada, by which every school board will adopt a framework with core components to protect students and equip school communities in the fight against sex [...]
John Henry Newman once wrote that mankind’s most vivid and proximate experience of God is the phenomenon of conscience. He argues that the feelings that accompany moral action yield a “picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, (and) retributive.” The Abrahamic religions, grounded as they are on the Decalogue, affirm this deep and universal intuition: God is a [...]
Andrew Lawton: As I and many others have written previously, the political left has been winning the culture war for years. Whatever little victories have been gained by social conservatives as of late have been dwarfed by a general backslide in society on a number of conscience issues. In my efforts to diagnose this problem, I’ve identified a chief attribute that makes [...]
Paul Tuns: Cannabis became legal in 2018, but the number of legal pot shops in Ontario has exploded in 2021, with no end in sight to new openings, with the number of locations selling marijuana soon to eclipse the number of dedicated liquor and beer stores in the province. According to the annual report of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the province’s [...]
Schadenberg calls for criminal investigation on long-term care deaths Paul Tuns: An assistant chief nurse at a long-term care home in Laval, Quebec was directed by the provincial health department to administer morphine to coronavirus patients instead of caring for them to treat their illness with an eye to survival, an inquest was told. “I had never seen deaths happen so quickly,” [...]
Rory Leishman: What can account for the unprecedented outburst of anti-Christian rage in Canada that has fueled the incineration of 20 Christian churches and the defacing of dozens more with red and orange paint? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blames the Catholic and Protestant churches that operated Indian Residential Schools (IRS) on behalf of the government of Canada. In a statement on July [...]
Donald DeMarco The task of the commencement speaker is a curious one. After all, what more can students learn inside of an hour that they have not learned over the long haul of four years? However, the show must go on in spite of its rich potential for inducing boredom. Humorist Garry Trudeau has stated that, “Commencement speeches were invented largely in [...]