Catholic Insight back issues from January 2006:
My perspective on the election.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Once again we face an election full of blunder and bluster while the nation slowly but relentlessly drifts away from meaning and purpose. As I see it, this follows the pattern set out by the prophet Isaiah. Let me put it as bluntly as I can. Go to Chapter One of the book of ...
From Sonia Nason re homeschooling.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... I'm writing in reply to a letter in the November, 2005, edition of Catholic Insight which responded to the article titled "Catholic Homeschooling" (C.I., July/August 2005, p.41). Like the author of this letter, I attended the Catholic school system and have also been homeschooled. I ...
From J.W. Strath to T.D. Waterhouse investment advice.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Attention: Mr. C. Martin Dear Chris, To my considerable dismay I learned from the publication Catholic Insight today that T.D. Bank supports Gay Pride (letter re "Gay Pride" sponsors, November 2005, p. 4). It is none of my business or interest what people do in their private lives, but ...
From Pat Sheahan re leadership and the sexual abuse crisis.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Legislation that is attempting to alter life and morals in Canada has certainly shone a light on our political leaders. Catholic Insight has provided its readers with analyses of these bills and has encouraged the readers to get involved in the process and make their voices heard in these ...
From Paul Morgan to the Peterborough examiner.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Liberals have wrong answers on population (reprinted with permission) Bud Pfaff's letter "Convenient misinterpretation" (Nov. 7) should be mandatory reading for every high school student and should be memorized by everyone considering voting Liberal in the next election. In a ...
From Jean-Nil Chabot re charter.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In the November issue of Catholic Insight you write: "As Cardinal Ouellet pointed out (see September editorial), this Charter is incompatible with the moral teaching of the Church." I was astonished! Is it the Charter that is incompatible with the Church's moral teaching or is ...
From Brian Chapman.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... I look forward to each issue of Catholic Insight. It is reassuring to see the use of the word "Catholic" in the proper constitution ....
From Sandy MacDonald.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... I can't tell you how much I look forward to receiving my Catholic Insight each month. There ...
From John Richards.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... We enjoy your paper very much and wish more people were aware of how truly Catholic it is. The more things change the more they stay the same. All through Church history, it's been the so-called intelligentsia who caused the various ...
From David Douthwright.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Just a wee note to thank you all for your courageous work to bring the truth of our Catholic faith to whoever wants it. It is such a relief to be able to read a magazine ...
From Kathleen Rosilius.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Keep up the GREAT work. I depend on your truth and your honest editorials on matters that are of deep concern to Catholics who care. As a Catholic school trustee, I often have to research the concerns of my constituents to provide them with the ...
From Ted Brown.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The very best Catholic magazine ever. I ...
From Stefan Jetchick.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Congratulations on the article, "I believe in the Charter." I sure wish stuff like that ended up in the Globe and Mail ...
From Norman Lower re Msgr. Foy.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2006; ... I extend my warmest congratulations and thanks to Msgr. Vincent Foy for having recently published the book Birth Control in Canada: Is Canada out of step with Rome? This magnificent publication is a wonderful testimony to (a) your untiring efforts of almost forty years in ...
Virtues, not values.(national values)
Jan 01, 2006; ... By the time you read this, a federal election is likely to be upon us, and values will be in vogue. Have you noticed how politicians often sound off about "Canadian values?" Even educators and church leaders sometimes resort to this terminology. But "values" is a weasel-word, a ...
Holy ambition.(home schooling)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Dan and I recently had an energy-use assessment done on our home. "It's all about climate change," chirped the inspector. My husband bluntly replied, "It's all about saving money." We need a new furnace, and want the available government rebate for said purchase. (Hence the official ...
To the heart of the Catholic universe.(Vatican City)
Jan 01, 2006; ... As a pre-Christmas gift to mark my 21st year as a Roman Catholic, my 'coming of age' in the faith, I finally undertook my first ever pilgrimage to Italy, Rome, and the Vatican this fall. It was an overwhelming, sense-flooding, soul-affirming experience that I expect I will be absorbing for ...
The Liberal trail of broken promises.(Paul Martin, prime minister, Canada)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In reviewing the Paul Martin prime ministerial era, one is struck by the number of pledges and promises that have been broken and cast aside in the time between his campaign for leadership of the Liberal party and the present. Worse still, many of the actions, policies and legislative acts ...
A new A.R.T. form.(adjective removal transfer )
Jan 01, 2006; ... During a Vancouver radio interview, Paul Martin, Canada's Prime Minister, defended his involvement in the legislation of same-sex "marriage" by stating, rather tersely, that "what I've got to do is take the widest perspective possible." Given the temper of the times and the perspective of ...
What's the matter with Catholic voters?
Jan 01, 2006; ... This article is a modest attempt to defend the Judeo-Christian principles upon which Canada was founded and emphasized in the preamble of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. Recent harassments The declaration is necessary today in Canada since it is a matter ...
Further betrayal of the children.(homosexual parents, child behavioral health)(Reprint)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In January 2004, The American College of Pediatricians concluded: "The research literature on child-rearing by homosexual parents is limited. The environment in which children are reared is absolutely critical to their development. Given the current body of research, the American College ...
Are 'gay' priests the problem?(Reprint)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In recent weeks (Sept. and Oct. 2005) much ink has been spilt over the ramifications of two significant developments in the Roman Catholic Church. Both the announcement of a new wave of seminary evaluations and a forthcoming Vatican document reportedly barring "gays" from the priesthood ...
The Vatican on priesthood and homosexuality.(Vatican Document)
Jan 01, 2006; ... EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Our November 2005 News in Brief item, "Homosexuals and the priesthood," pp. 25-26, explained some of the background, opposition, and support during August and September 2005 for what was then still a rumoured document. In early October the Italian newspaper ...
Father Harvey on the strengths of the new Vatican instruction.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Father John Harvey, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, is director of Courage, a support group for men and women with same-sex attractions who wish to live chastely according to Church teachings. He shared his views of the new document with Zenit. THE INTERVIEW ...
Cardinal Cottier on instruction: document shows homosexuals much sensitivity.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2006 ... The new Vatican document on homosexuality and admission to seminaries and holy orders is not an "attack on homosexuals," says Cardinal Georges Cottier. Rather, the document is an effort "to understand their situation" and sufferings, explained Cardinal Cottier, who until today was the ...
Pope's message for 40th anniversary of Nostra aetate.(Vatican)(Pope Benedict XVI)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Vatican City -- Here is a message Benedict XVI wrote for the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council declaration Nostra aetate: To My Venerable Brother, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Forty years have ...
Anglican community the final schisms.(Vatican)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Unnoticed by many, the Anglican community is now split several ways. Worldwide, the final blow came in August, 2005 when Archbishop Peter Akinola, primate of Nigeria, withdrew his community from the church. Fed up with the creeping agenda of the same-sex marriage" lobby, the Nigerian ...
Mixed messages from Beijing: a survey.(China)
Jan 01, 2006 ... The Vatican was expelled from China in 1951, and has had no diplomatic ties with Beijing since. The two have not been able to re-establish relations owing to China's insistence that the Vatican must sever ties with Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province, and that the Vatican ...
Earth Charter expose.(United Nations)(alternative religion planned?)
Jan 01, 2006 ... New York -- Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic : Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), issued a warning in November of 2005 that United Nations radicals, along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong, the Canadian billionaire socialist and friend of Paul Martin, Prime Minister ...
UN attacks public funding of Catholic education in Ontario.(United Nations)
Jan 01, 2006 ... New York -- The United Nations Human Rights Committee has reiterated its demand that the government of Canada eliminate "discrimination" in the funding of education on the basis of religion in Ontario. The matter, first ruled on in 1999, was heard in response to a complaint ...
Newfoundland diocese depleting its property holdings.(Canada)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Cornerbrook NL -- The Diocese of St. George's has a legal settlement of $15 million to pay out by January 2008 for the sexual abuse of 39 boys by one priest of the diocese. It is trying to raise money to prevent having to sell off all its church buildings and other properties to compensate ...
Church closings.(Canada)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Montreal -- The Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation was established 10 years ago to help preserve Quebec's vast religious heritage properties, mostly Catholic. But $135 million later, a comprehensive long-term plan must be put in place to help church properties that are deemed ...
Residential school settlement.(Canada)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Ottawa -- In an attempt to clear the desk before the federal election called on November 29, 2005, the government announced an agreement whereby it promises to pay out almost $4 billion over 5 years to settle outstanding claims brought by aboriginals who attended government-owned ...
"Gay" intolerance frightens St. Joseph Oratory.(Canada)(cancels contract to host National Pro-Life Conference)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Montreal -- Bowing to threats from "gays," lesbians, and other pro-abortion individuals in the Montreal area, the Holy Cross Fathers at St. Joseph's Oratory unilaterally cancelled their contract to serve as hosts of this year's National Pro-Life Conference. They did so less than 24 hours ...
Nationalized baby and child care.(Canada)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Ottawa -- In the waning hours of the Liberal government's control over the country's expenditures at the end of November, 2005, Social Development Minister Ken Dryden achieved his goal of obtaining a child care deal with all ten provinces. Only the territories were left to sign on. The ...
Dr. Rouleau in the war against AIDS.(Canada)(St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and its relationship with Dignitas International)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Toronto -- In our October issue (p. 35) we reported on the problem faced by Development and Peace, in the process of signing a new five-year contract with Canada's International Development Agency (CIDA) which presently funds one third of D&P's $24 million budget. CIDA is a ...
Dr. Lafrance: death of a pro-life doctor.(Canada)(W. Andre Lafrance)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Ottawa -- The Canadian pro-life community was dealt a blow on November 24 on learning that long-time pro-life campaigner Ottawa physician Dr. W Andre Lafrance, 68, had died. Dr. Lafrance collapsed as he walked away from Parliament Hill, after his regular witnessing for the unborn. Police ...
John Muggeridge: death of a Christian gentleman.(Canada)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2006 ... John Muggeridge was the son of Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge. He was born in England in 1933, studied at Cranbrook College, did two years of national service in Kenya, and then took a degree in history at Jesus College, Cambridge. Rather than remain in the shadow of his famous father, he ...
After Fr. Michael Prieur, now Fr. Bill Ryan.(1968 Winnipeg Statement)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In the October 2005 issue, Msgr. Vincent Foy commented on Fr. Michael Prieur's defence of the 1968 Winnipeg Statement. No sooner done than it became necessary to correct Fr. Bill Ryan in his historical survey of the immediate post-Vatican II period which appeared in several Canadian ...
Demands on religious leaders today.
Jan 01, 2006; ... One day I decided to sit through an episode of Dr. Phil, for I had to see whether he had the patience to keep himself from murdering the mother of a young thirteen-year-old girl who would, with her mother's permission, throw drinking parties for her friends. They would consume beer and ...
Women's health care--a new era.
Jan 01, 2006; ... In 1968, Pope Paul VI taught that a husband and wife, in full recognition of their own duties toward God, themselves, the family and society, should respect the fact that in the task of the transmission of life, they must conform their activity to the creative intention of God, expressed ...
'Minor' Fathers in the West.(FATHERS OF THE CHURCH)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Eastern Fathers wrote in Greek; the Western Fathers in Latin. After providing us with sketches of the "Greats" in both East and West, Professor Baldwin turns his attention to the "minor" Fathers. In December he perused those writing in Greek; here he looks at those in the West. In the ...
Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... Michael Power The struggle to build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier WRITTEN BY Mark G. McGowan PUBLISHED BY McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, ISBN: 0773529144, Hardcover, pp. 378, $49.95 CAN Michael Power was the first Bishop of Toronto. He had only a brief ...
The Power of Miracles.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Power of Miracles WRITTEN BY Joan Wester Anderson PUBLISHED BY Chicago Loyola Press, 2005, ISBN: 0829422137, Softcover, pp. 252, $17.50 CAN The author of this book has written fifteen books and more than a thousand articles and stories, and has often appeared on TV programs ....
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Chronicles of Narnia & Philosophy EDITED BY Gregory Bassham and Jerry L. Walls PUBLISHED BY Open Court, 2005, ISBN: 0-8126-9588-7, Softcover, pp. 288, $24.50 CAN In the latest addition to the accessible series of Popular Culture & Philosophy (Open Court Books), twenty-four ...