Recently added articles from Catholic Insight:
Looking to the future.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; de Valk, Alphonse ... Some people are confused about Morgentaler. He did not bring abortion to Canada. Abortion was made legal in 1969 by the Liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. From then on, abortions were permitted in hospitals, after approval by so-called TAC's, the misnamed therapeutic abortion ...
Humanae vitae 40 years later.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Kremer, Elmar ... (C.I. July/August p. 11) In an otherwise excellent article, "Humanae vitae, 40 years later," Msgr. Vincent Foy makes a mistake when he lists Elizabeth Anscombe among those who, at a conference at St. Michael's College in 1967, "were agitating for change in the Church's teaching ...
Morgentaler's Order of Canada.(Henry Morgentaler)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Thompson, Joseph ... I was in the doctor's office yesterday, and, while waiting, picked up a copy of Maclean's Magazine containing an article by Andrew Coyne on Henry Morgentaler's being awarded the Order of Canada last July 1, Canada Day. It was good to see some movement in the direction of respect for the ...
'My country Canada'.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Maingot, Gerry ... It is now 50 years that I have resided in my country and I say 'my country' because I chose to live here. I have always loved this country (having completed my education here) and my aim was always to return--I felt it had so much to offer ... but now I say "Poor Canada!" For a ...
July/August NIB "Children are exploited and abused during Toronto (Lesbian) 'Dyke March'".(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Morris, Anthony ... (C.I. July/August, p. 27) The "Dyke" March is not simply a "parade." It is a protest march, an education, a celebration, and a reclamation of power, dignity and pride. The term itself, "Dyke" has even been reclaimed from its origins of bigotry. I'm saddened that you didn't ...
Edwina Gately.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2008; Anderson, Brian ... This year's "Disney world like dissent lest" gathering of Catholic educators (http://www.catholiccurriculumcorp.org/wfmp/XIIIprogram.pdf) has dissident church basher Edwina Gately as a keynote speaker. She has been banned from speaking in several dioceses in America. Too bad ...
A 'hideous pagan idol'.(COLUMNIST)(Column)
Sep 01, 2008; Coren, Michael ... July saw another World Youth Day and, tragically, another opportunity for the usual Catholic-bashers to come out of the secular or sectarian closet. Their complaints are various but it's always deeply significant to see how many moans within their bitter liturgy are based around sexuality ....
On the rocks.(COLUMNIST)(Anglican Communion)(Column)
Sep 01, 2008; Adamick, Paula ... The slow and torturous demise of the Anglican Church confirms yet again that the Roman Catholic Church is the one, true, holy and apostolic Church instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is also an object lesson in what happens when one (or many) depart from orthodox Catholic teaching, as ...
Government must uphold God's law.(COLUMNIST)(Column)
Sep 01, 2008; Leishman, Rory ... Iris Robinson, a British MP based in Northern Ireland, has provoked a storm of controversy, by reaffirming what used to be a commonplace truth--that government has "the responsibility to uphold God's law." Robinson made the remark during a debate on abortion broadcast by BBC ...
World Youth Day 2008: Benedict's 'New Age' in Sydney.(FEATURE ARTICLE)
Sep 01, 2008; Rosica, Thomas ... In a message sent to the people of Australia prior to his arrival "down under," Pope Benedict XVI wrote: "My prayer is that the hearts of the young people who gather in Sydney for the celebration of World Youth Day will truly find rest in the Lord, and that they will be filled with joy and ...
Pier Giorgio Frassati: his culture of life: "verso l'alto: upward to heaven and deep into the heart of God".(FEATURE ARTICLE)
Sep 01, 2008; Rosica, Thomas ... On Monday evening July 14, 2008, Father Thomas Rosica, presided at a Prayer Vigil and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Mary's Cathedral in downtown Sydney, Australia, on the eve of the opening of World Youth Day 2008. Fr. Rosica had served as National Director and C.E.O. of World ...
The Catholic Church in Hungary.(FATHER LASZLO MAGA)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Hungarian bishops were received by Pope Benedict XVI in May 2008 at their five-yearly ad limina visit to the Vatican. The Pope seemed aware of many of Fr. Maga's concerns such as lack of priests and the effects of secularization, with the same symptoms as other Western countries. In ...
Humanae vitae: a summary.(A SUMMARY BY CATHOLIC NEWS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SINGAPORE)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Humanae vitae is the encyclical issued by Pope Paul VI on July 25, 1968, "On the Regulation of Birth." It re-affirms the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding abortion, contraception, and other issues pertaining to human life and the family. The encyclical ...
Humanae vitae: reflects the teaching of Christ.(FEATURE ARTICLE)
Sep 01, 2008; Foy, Vincent ... The full text of Humanae vitae may be found on the Vatican website under Encyclicals. The encyclical teaches nothing new, but reaffirms the teaching against contraception "which has been handed down from the beginning until now" in the words of Pope Pius XI, on Dec. 31, 1930, in his ...
The moral difference between contraception and Natural Family Planning (NFP).(FEATURE ARTICLE)(Column)
Sep 01, 2008; McManahan, Doug ... For the past twenty years I have had to find ways to make the Church's teaching on contraception intelligible and convincing for young people, and I believe that I have done so--at the price, mind you, of a very dry presentation. It is much easier to teach adolescents about the immoral ...
Whatever happened to our taste for the future?(FEATURE ARTICLE)(Column)
Sep 01, 2008; Farrow, Douglas ... It was about thirty years ago that I first heard someone say, "I would never deliberately bring a child into a world like this." The someone in question was not a Bangladeshi or an Ethiopian or a citizen of some other impoverished or war-torn land. He was a motorcycling buddy of mine, and ...
The Beijing Olympic Games.(China)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The message one can deduce from the Beijing Olympic Games is this: no matter how much a dictatorship punishes and oppresses its people, it will still get gushing adulation from most world leaders and business elites. Many of these world leaders and corporate elites pay lip service to human ...
AIDS not a general pandemic.(United Nations)(Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... New York -- Since HIV/MDS first intruded on the public consciousness in the 1980s, a whole industry has grown up around it, a self-serving industry with a special talent for avoiding the truth. The fervent connivance of the media resulted in the disease being presented to the public as one ...
World Health Organization.
Sep 01, 2008 ... At a June 7, 2008 UN meeting in New York, Dr. Kevin de Cock, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) top HIV epidemiologist, confirmed that while the disease was still rampaging among its traditional subjects in the developed world, it had made no significant inroads within the general ...
The threat of the Human Rights Commissions.(Canada)
Sep 01, 2008 ... I. Christian Horizons appeals Ontario HRC ruling Toronto -- An evangelical Christian ministry that is the largest provider of community living services in Ontario, serving 1,400 developmentally disabled individuals in over 180 residential homes, is appealing part of a ...