CLC, CHP call on pro-lifers to vote conscientiously this election Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition gave Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre (left) an F, People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier (center) a C+, and Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor (right) an A+. Two weeks after winning the Liberal leadership, Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28. Carney, [...]
Danielle Smith outraged about euthanasia Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared on the John Bachman Now Show on Newsmax in January. Toward the end of the interview, Bachman said that the increase in doctor-assisted suicide in Canada was frightening, and asked Smith for her opinion. Smith agreed that “one of the things that the federal government was allowing was a potential for [...]
Donald DeMarco: Fr. Paul Marx founded Human Life International. Rev. Paul Marx, was the 15th of 17 children born to devoutly religious parents, George and Elizabeth, on a dairy farm in St. Michael, Minnesota on May 8, 1920. Coincidentally, and perhaps in some way providentially, Benjamin Franklin was also the 15th of 17 children. It may also be of interest [...]
Paul Tuns: Pro-life researcher Patricia Maloney, who blogs at Run for Life, revealed that the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (AARC) lobbied the federal government to restrict pro-life activism by stripping pro-life groups of their charitable tax status, a policy that the Trudeau government would later propose. Maloney revealed that according to the Canadian Registry of Lobbyists, AARC director Joyce Arthur had [...]
Oswald Clark: New Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy announced he will investigate the safety of the abortion pill. After being sworn in as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told Fox News that he would study the dangers of the abortion pill. Kennedy, who said he was pro-abortion when he [...]
Same abortionist ordered to pay fine in Texas case Oswald Clark: Abortionist Margaret Daley Carpenter has been indicted in Louisiana and fined by the state of Texas for illegally prescribing the abortion pill to residents of their states after girls were hospitalized after ingesting it. On Feb. 13, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced he signed an extradition warrant for New [...]
Paul Tuns: The National March for Life in Ottawa on May 8 will call for “Protection at Conception” as the official theme of the event Campaign Life Coalition announced during a Feb. 6 video release by CLC. “In the past, our themes have always been biblically based,” said CLC Youth Coordinator Maeve Gainey. “They’ve corresponded to some Scripture.” Gainey explained that, “This [...]
By any measure, the bygone days of the Biden administration were dark ones for the pro-life movement in America: no position seemed too radical, and no progressive agenda—from gender ideology to the criminalization of public, peaceful pro-life witness—was left behind. In a strange way, however, the very strides that this administration made towards the dystopian nightmare of left-wing ideology were what sealed [...]
Oswald Clark: Nellie Gray, president of the March for Life Fund, at the March for Life rally near the White House in 2004 As part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026, President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes which will feature at least 244 significant [...]
Interim Staff: Monsignor Philip Reilly, founder of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants often referred to as “the father of sidewalk counselling,” died at the age of 90 on Nov. 30. The native New Yorker, was serving as a chaplain at a Brooklyn monastery when he founded Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, to, in the words of National Catholic Register, “to awaken [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a resource from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops based on 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8a. It could be used in any number of settings including the dedication of pro-life memorials and pro-life prayer services. The editor would like to thank Fr. Edward Murphy of Blessed Trinity Parish in Toronto for bringing it to our attention. Lord, love is patient. [...]
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Perriter (Profile, $47, 552 pages) Diarmaid Perriter is a professor of Irish history at University College in Dublin and a columnist for the Irish Times and at times his latest history of Ireland – he has written 14 books on Ireland – seems more journalism than history. That is certainly due to fact that this “history” [...]
Interim Staff: Linda Gibbons with the sign she witnesses with, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” Linda Gibbons was arrested Feb. 13 for silently witnessing outside the Morgentaler abortuary in Toronto, her fifth arrest since last May. She was holding her sign showing a baby with the caption, “Why mom? When I have so much love [...]
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 1, Manitoba’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act came into effect, prohibiting all forms of pro-life speech near abortion facilities. Passed last spring after the then new NDP government came to power, the new law bans demonstration, picketing, or sidewalk counselling intended to deter women from obtaining an abortion. The bill created a 50-meter buffer zone around stand-alone [...]
Paul Tuns: The House of Commons Finance Committee has recommended to the federal government that it change the Income Tax Act to remove the “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose under the tax code and, in another recommendation, strip all pro-life groups of charitable status. Among the 462 recommendations made by the Finance Committee to the government as part of the [...]