I Timothy 2:9-10: “In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire, But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.” As a young woman, dressing modestly in today’s society is tough. Women don’t even like the sound of the word ‘modesty,’ much [...]
Five pro-life students were arrested on Monday, Oct. 4 at Carleton University in Ottawa as they tried to put up the Genocide Awareness Project to peacefully share the pro-life message on their campus. Carleton Lifeline had contacted the university in the summer to request permission to have GAP in the Troy Quad, an outdoors, busy area of the campus. The [...]
Two new reports by Canadian think tanks indicate that the traditional family of mother, father and children is becoming a relic of a bygone era with consequences for individuals and society. According to a new report, Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families, by the left-leaning Vanier Institute for the Family, the traditional family of married parents with children is no longer the norm. [...]
The Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy “represents a violation of parental rights and religious freedom,” according to a trustee candidate for the York Region District School Board who is demanding the strategy be repealed. At the same time, a Catholic trustee in the Toronto Catholic District School Board says he believes the strategy is designed with the aim [...]
This past Spring, the Conservative government seemed confused about the message, if not its actual plan, when it came to funding abortion and contraception through its maternal health initiative. When the initiative first appeared in the newspapers, it was reported that Bev Oda, the Minister for International Co-operation and Minister Responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, was being advised by the [...]
A 28-year-old mother of three from St. Catharine’s, Ont., after breaking up with an abusive boyfriend, met a man on Facebook who promised her a rich and comfortable lifestyle if she would work as an escort at Private Genies in Toronto. As the Toronto Sun reported, the mother was inadvertently drawn into the world of sex trafficking with the promise of earning [...]
In an interview with The Interim, Conservative MP Joy Smith (Kildonan-St. Paul) reported on her 10-year fight against human trafficking. She first became aware of trafficking in Canada when her son, an RCMP officer, was in the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit. While she served as justice critic in the Manitoba legislature, Smith started to sit in at stakeouts and become aware of [...]
The African Union (AU) finished its annual summit at the end of July with governments agreeing to make maternal and child mortality a continent-wide priority. The summit in Kampala, Uganda, ended with member states extending the controversial, non-binding Maputo Plan of Action (PoA) for an additional five years and expanding a new initiative called the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality [...]
At a press conference for her new comedy The Switch, about an unmarried middle-aged woman who decides to conceive via artificial insemination rather than waiting for the right man to come along, Jennifer Aniston sparked controversy by telling journalists, “Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to [...]
An analysis of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM No. 199) dealing with “Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools” says that while some goals are laudable, the new policy could imperil the Catholicity of the province’s separate school system. The analysis, prepared for Campaign Life Coalition by a retired educator, says there is “much that [...]
Moral relativism is becoming increasingly prominent in Western society. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he was elected pope, warned, “We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.” It is important to recognize, especially in the Enlightenment thought, the sources of this [...]
Getting whipped up about the rising tide of “crime” appears to be all the rage in Canada these days. The media is filled with stories and opinion pieces which are intended to convince us that our streets have become a brewing cauldron of violence. There are now major newspaper and radio and television stations for whom news broadcasts have become little more [...]
In March 2009, LifeSiteNews.com revealed that Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, the official international development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, had partnered with five different groups that promote abortion in Mexico in unrelated development projects. Later, further reports would show Development and Peace – or D&P for short – partnered with numerous pro-abortion groups around [...]
Life and family translates into growth and change. But change brings challenge. The basic challenges faced at Fe Viva World Missions in rural Guatemala are the same root challenges faced in Canada. Our response, whether Guatemalan or Canadian, is rooted in the depth and quality of our relationships, first with Jesus Christ and then within our families. How do we measure the [...]
There has been much debate about the impact of gambling on society and whether it has an overall positive or negative effect. Besides problem gambling, there are various societal problems – and benefits – that arise from the state monopoly over gambling. A significant societal problem caused by gambling is an increase in crime rates. It is generally difficult to track gambling-related [...]