Culture & Society Articles
The price of fear-mongering
Getting whipped up about the rising tide of “crime” appears to be all the rage in Canada these days. The [...]
D&P attacks CLC, LifeSiteNews
In March 2009, LifeSiteNews.com revealed that Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, the official international development arm [...]
Growing up in Guatemala
Life and family translates into growth and change. But change brings challenge. The basic challenges faced at Fe Viva World [...]
Society, not just individuals, pay price for gambling
There has been much debate about the impact of gambling on society and whether it has an overall positive or [...]
The problem with gambling
As legal gambling becomes widespread, dangerous addictions grow Gambling has become a widespread practice in Canadian life. It may be [...]
Pro-life implications of the Haiti disaster
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth [...]
Global battle over abortion as a right
15 years after Cairo, abortion controversy rages In October, the UN General Assembly held a high-level meeting for the 15th [...]
Author worries about decline in values, Canada’s demographic crisis
Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values by Brian Lee Crowley (Key Porter, $34.95, 360 pages) In [...]
Prostitution law challenged by sex trade activists
Canada’s anti-prostitution laws are being challenged by a prostitute, a former prostitute and a dominatrix, who argue that decriminalizing bawdy [...]
More than a billion killed by abortion since 1980
41.6 million abortions annually, yet report frets about access The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion think tank, has released a study [...]
Who deserves our respect?
Titus Brandsma was a small, gentle, bespectacled man. He spent years working with the Dutch underground movement to [...]
9/11 on screen
The sign outside the fire hall in Malton, just near Toronto’s Pearson airport, read “Remember 9-11.” It was just a [...]
Borlaug proved Malthus wrong
Agronomist who helped double agricultural production dies at 95 Norman Borlaug, one of the most important people of the 20th [...]
Abortion issues continue to stymie health care reform
In an attempt to address concerns about expanding abortion coverage that might result from changes to the U.S. [...]
Internationally renowned speakers address SPUC conference
In September, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held its national conference in conjunction with the annual meeting [...]