Features
Written on 10 Dec, 2010 at 14:17 in
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Justin Press, a Catholic publishing house, was founded in 2009. It is dedicated to the publication of works of Catholic culture and apologetics that reflect the teaching of the Magisterium.
Justin Press will provide the Canadian public with access to the best thought and writing in the Canadian Catholic world. Among the outstanding initial group of contributors are Michael O'Brien, Douglas Farrow, David Warren, Lars Troide and Fr. Jonathan Robinson; we will maintain the highest standard of quality in our future ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2010 at 13:51 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco, Profiles | Author:
Donald DeMarco I am the proud possessor of a Bob Feller autographed baseball card. On reflection, however, my pride should be tempered for two reasons. According to certain knowledgeable collectors, there are more of his cards around sporting his signature than not. Feller, the former Cleveland Indians ace, has been most obliging at innumerable card shows. At 92 years young he has more post-induction years behind him than any other living Hall of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2010 at 13:53 in
Announcements, Features | Author:
Rory Leishman
Day by day, it is becoming more evident that legalized abortion in Canada threatens both our future economic prosperity and national security. In an attempt to cover up these looming perils to our national well-being, advocates of abortion on demand have taken to obscuring the relevant statistics on abortion rates. Statistics Canada no longer publishes complete, reliable information on the annual number of babies killed by abortion in Canada (British Columbia, for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Dec, 2010 at 12:03 in
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Analysis Paul Tuns Was it because his opponent was gay?
On Oct. 25, Toronto city councilor Rob Ford won the Toronto mayor’s race, defeating openly homosexual former Ontario cabinet minister George Smitherman, 47.1 per cent to 35.6 per cent. Smitherman, who was an early front-runner, lost decisively trailing Ford by nearly 100,000 votes.
Ford ran on a populist and fiscally conservative platform of freezing taxes and city spending, cutting the size of city ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Dec, 2010 at 14:11 in
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Pauline Kosalka Cromwell and communists banned Christmas, too
On Oct. 4, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on the ban on “celebratory religious music” upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the South Orange-Maplewood district in New Jersey. The issue was first raised in 2004 when a parent sued the school board after it issued a memo before its December concert clarifying its ban on religious songs ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Dec, 2010 at 17:18 in
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Paul Tuns International conference features wide array of speakers
More than 325 people from Canada and abroad participated in the international pro-life conference, Building a Global Culture of Life, in Ottawa Oct. 29-31 and organizers are pleased with the results.
John Smeaton, executive director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in the United Kingdom, had to deliver the welcoming ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Dec, 2010 at 16:14 in
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According to the laws of ancient Israel, in addition to the Sabbath observed every seventh year, the people of the Lord were to celebrate a Sabbath of Sabbaths, a Jubilee year: “You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year… It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family” (Lev 25:10).
This festival ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Dec, 2010 at 16:01 in
Announcements, Features, Religion | Author:
Paul Tuns
The New York Times reported that “Pope Benedict has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS.” That was the gist of stories that appeared in the Toronto Star, Guardian and Associated Press after L’Osservatore Romano, a Vatican-based newspaper, printed excerpts from Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, a forthcoming book based on German journalist ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2010 at 13:09 in
Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
Robert Edwards, the inventor of in vitro fertilization, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In a press release, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden declared that his discovery has brought “joy to infertile people all over the world.” The work of British physiologist Edwards, with the help of gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, led to the birth of the world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978. Since ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Nov, 2010 at 7:43 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
A new parliamentary committee is working to find alternatives to euthanasia or assisted suicide for the dying, disabled, and elderly.
On April 21, a news conference announced the creation of the Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care (PCPCC) just hours before Parliament voted down MP Francine Lalonde’s (La Pointe-de-L’Île, BQ) private member’s bill that would have legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada. According to its website, the non-partisan committee is “aimed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2010 at 7:32 in
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Commentary Mark Wegierski During Remembrance Day solemnities in more recent years, we are frequently reminded that World War II was fought to safeguard “freedom and democracy in Canada.” We rarely hear anymore of the defense of Western civilization, or of Christian civilization, with which the Allied rhetoric of World War II was suffused at the time it was occurring (as in one of Winston Churchill’s more famous speeches given at the time of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Nov, 2010 at 10:09 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Amidst the national debate over maternal health and whether it would include abortion this past Spring, Rod Bruinooge, the Conservative MP for Winnipeg South and chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Committee had his name picked to be among 30 MPs who would get their private member’s bills considered by the House of Commons. On April 14, he introduced for first reading, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (coercion) (An Act to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2010 at 7:14 in
Announcements, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns 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. There are more singles, common-law couples, and homosexual unions than ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Oct, 2010 at 6:15 in
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Review Rick McGinnis The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens (Zondervan, $26.99, 224 p.)
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (McLelland & Stewart, $32.99, 435 p.)
As Peter Hitchens began his adult life, like his brother, in the bosom of the British left during its penultimate revival – the ‘60s, when youth and Marxism were popularly supposed to be twinned in sympathy and aspiration. Like his brother he became a journalist and, like his brother, he had ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Oct, 2010 at 6:30 in
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Paul Tuns Two leaders of the international pro-life movement, who have more than three-quarters of a century of pro-life experience between them, will be in Ottawa Oct. 28-30 for the Building a Global Culture of Life conference.
Dr. Jack Willke, president of the International Right to Life Federation, began working in the pro-life movement in 1971. John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, joined the organization in 1974.
Willke, ... (Continue reading)
