Catholic Insight back issues from March 2007:
Time for public testimony.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE (JOHN 8:23) In this edition of Catholic Insight we are carrying forward a discussion begun in February under the title "Elections." It is a pedestrian title, and so might mislead some readers into thinking that this is of little interest to them ....
Peter Glover's "Muslim apartheid: Getting behind the veil" (pp. 18-20) and Richard Bastien's "Secularism and Islam: An unacknowledged kinship" (pp. 24) (CI., Dec. 2006).(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... (C.I., Dec. 2006) I am somewhat surprised that Peter Glover ("Muslim apartheid") would throw a veil over the culture of death in the Western world when he comes to the defence of "Western democratic cohesive society" and "national Western civilization values." The fact is that ...
Russia's conversion, and Fr. Bedard.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... In the January 2007 issue of C.I., the column by Paula Adamick ending with the question, "Has Russia been converted?" (p. 8) is a very, very pertinent question for our times. It is part of the message to the three Portuguese children at Fatima, during the first World War. The ...
Abusing the sacraments.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABUSING THE SACRAMENTS, CONTINUED FROM FEBRUARY: Laudetur Iesus Christus! Allow me, Father, to comment on something in the new issue of C.I. Please imagine the following: a child of seven, touched by grace confesses to a priest: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son ...
Show the truth letters.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHOW THE TRUTH LETTERS, CONTINUED FROM FEBRUARY: RE "SHOW THE TRUTH AND CHILDREN," BY AMY GORDON (C.I., Nov. 2006, p. 37) AND LETTER FROM THERESA SMYTH AND PAUL AND CHRISTINA TUNS (C.I., Jan. 2007, pp. 4-5). I write this on the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is in ...
Harper or Dion?(COLUMNIST)(Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Stephane Dion)
Mar 01, 2007; ... In politics, as in so many other endeavours, the best is often the enemy of the good: Consider, in this respect, the 1860 presidential election in the United States. For most voters, the predominant concern was slavery. At the time, Christians in the United States were hardly ...
Coercion of Christians in Britain.(COLUMNIST)(Column)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has been looking distressed lately. In April, legislation will go into effect forcing Catholic adoption agencies to act against their religious principles and place children with homosexual partners. While there had been a dim hope that Prime Minister Tony ...
The religion of secularism.(COLUMNIST)(Column)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The western world is more religious than at almost any me in its history. No, it's not a typing error, not me spasm of absurdity. Again, the western world is more religious than at almost any time in its history. Religious to a fundamentalist, literalist and vehemently screaming degree. It ...
Celebrating some great catholic teachers.
Mar 01, 2007; ... One day, very early on in my teaching career, looked up from my desk to gaze at my entire class, only to ask myself why it is that out of all the great students I have in front of me, I allow myself to get hung up on the few who have no use for what I am teaching them. That was the start ...
How do we interpret the vote of December?(same-sex marriage)
Mar 01, 2007 ... In the February edition we set aside twelve pages of reflections and factual information on the December 7 parliamentary vote on same-sex 'marriage' (pp. 17-28) under the title Elections, Part I. The main subtitle was, "Whom not to vote for." We concluded this section with the article by ...
Culture war to continue.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Social conservatives--by which we mean pro-life conservatives with a social justice conscience--are unanimous in vowing that marriage will continue to be an issue on the political and social landscape. Following the December 7 vote, they forecast that this certainly will not be the end of ...
Judicial appointments / free speech.
Mar 01, 2007 ... This section contains news items about the politics of the culture wars. Other items may be found in the magazine's regular News in Brief, Canada, section.--Editor Judicial appointments Toronto -- The Toronto Star and Globe and Mail newspapers, like so many other ...
The state of Christianity in Canada.
Mar 01, 2007 ... As part of reflecting on what to do in the future it would seem necessary to think about the strength of the Christian community in Canada.--Editor National Post survey From December 23 through December 30, 2006 the National Post ran a five-article survey on the ...
Ghetto Catholics: how Catholics marginalize themselves when called to service.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2007; ... On consecutive days, I was treated to television appearances by two very different and, simultaneously, two very similar men. The first was Christopher Hitchens, who said during the course of his televised lecture that the source of all human failure and its attendant misery is religion ....
Three Catholic weaknesses.(Vatican)(bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Treviso, Italy -- The modern Catholic world suffers from three main weaknesses, says the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. According to Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi: Catholics during the last decades have shown the following weak points: the promotion of ...
Catholic marriage eroding.(Vatican)(Excerpt)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- Pope Benedict XVI has told the Church's highest court (Roman Rota) that relativism is eroding the concept of marriage, even among Catholics. In his address at the opening of the judicial year January 24, he warned against a view that annulments are a canonical way of ...
Worries over Eastern Catholics.(Vatican)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- A committee of experts on Eastern Catholic Churches says that many Eastern-rite Catholic communities lack the means to guarantee their subsistence. Societies For Aid to the Eastern Churches met in the Vatican at the end of January to focus on Eastern-rite Churches in ...
Pope asks for legal status.(Vatican)(Pope Benedict XVI)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- When the Turkish ambassador to the Holy See presented his credentials on January 19, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion to make an appeal to the Turkish government to give legal recognition to the Catholic Church there. Religious liberty is guaranteed to all by the ...
Pope: no to abortion, euthanasia.(Vatican)(Benedict XVI)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- On February 4, 2007 Pope Benedict renewed his appeal to Catholics to reject abortion and euthanasia, saying life was God-given and could not be cut short under "the guise of human compassion." His appeal came days after an Italian doctor, who switched off the life support ...
No exemption for Catholic adoption agencies.(Great Britain)
Mar 01, 2007 ... London -- 'Gay rights' advocates have friends in high places worldwide, including Britain. The British Parliament's Equality Act 2006 comes into force in April 2007. Its sexual orientation regulations ban discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services. The ...
Political correctness defeated.(Great Britain)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... British Airways took exception to one of its employees visibly wearing a small cross around her neck while at work. While Muslim and Hindu employees are allowed to wear turbans, headscarves and bangles while in uniform, BA banned the cross. That is, until a barrage of criticism and ...
Police cover-ups exposed.(Northern Ireland)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ballast -- For years Irish nationalists have claimed that hardline Protestant loyalists entered into collusion with the Northern Irish police to perpetrate with impunity such crimes as murders of their religious and political opponents. Until very recently, this police force was the Royal ...
U.S. may yield on insidious treaty.(United Nations)(United Nations Convention on the Elimination of (All Forms of) Discrimination Against Women)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Washington, D.C. -- Senate Democrats are attempting to force American ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of (All Forms of) Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). While the binding treaty is described as innocuously promoting women's equality rights--and the ...
Canada stalls on another insidious treaty.(United Nations)(Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ottawa -- The Toronto Star reports with regret that under the new Harper government, Canada will not be ready to sign the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations ceremony on March 30 (Feb. 2, 3007). The treaty, which was adopted December 13, 2006, ...
Stem cells from amniotic fluid.(United States)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Winston-Salem, NC -- On January 7, 2007, Dr. Anthony Atala, head of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, announced that scientists had isolated a new type of stem cell from amniotic fluid and from the placenta. They labeled these cells ...
Ukrainian Catholic milestones.(Canada)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Winnipeg -- The Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Winnipeg, which was given recognition by Pope Pius XII on November 3, 1956. Edmonton -- The Ukrainian Eparchy of Edmonton has a new bishop. David ...
Death of Archbishop Mallon.(Canada)(Peter Mallon)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Regina -- Most Rev. Peter Mallon, former Archbishop of Regina, died on February 3, 2007, at the age of 77. He was ...
Death of Archbishop Meagher.(Canada)(Anthony Meagher)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Kingston -- After a four-year battle with cancer, Archbishop Anthony Meagher of Kingston, ON, 66, died in Oshawa, his hometown, on January 14, 2007. A former high-school teacher and basketball coach, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He served in various parishes of the ...
Open sees.(Canada)(appointment of Thomas Collins as archbishop of toronto)(resignation of Marcel Gervais as archbishop )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... With the death of Archbishop Meagher, three Canadian archdioceses need replacements for their incumbents: Kingston, Ottawa and Edmonton. Edmonton's former archbishop, Thomas Collins, was installed as Archbishop of Toronto on January 30, 2007. Ottawa's residing bishop, Archbishop Marcel ...
Archbishop denies communion.(Canada)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Halifax -- Bishop Terrence Prendergast, head of the Halifax archdiocese and administrator of the Yarmouth diocese, has written a letter to a 'married' gay couple forbidding them to receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church. One of the partners was the choir director of Stella Maris ...
Bishop Tonnos and ecumenism.(Canada)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Hamilton -- For the third straight year, the Catholic bishops of Hamilton have declined to participate in an annual worship service recognizing the common baptism of Anglicans, Lutherans and Catholics. Catholic leaders fear that their faithful might be confused by thinking that in ...
Humboldt ban withdrawn.(Canada)(Catholic Hospital)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Humboldt, SK -- On September 20, 2006, St. Elizabeth's Catholic Hospital in Humboldt, SK, banned the contraceptive sterilization of women by tubal ligation. At that time, Michelle Boulva, spokesperson for the Catholic Organization for Life and Family in Ottawa, explained that Catholic ...
New Age and retreat houses.(Canada)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ottawa -- Chances are your local retreat house run by religious sisters advertises its services in the parish bulletin. What it advertises may be of concern to Catholics. For years now these retreat houses have used their place in the Church and in society to promote the New Age ...
Morality without religion.(Canada)(Dalton McGuinty)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Toronto -- When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that in 2007 character education will become part of the core curriculum for all elementary and public schools in the province, he emphasized the universal values that transcend the province's diverse ethnic population. Twenty-seven ...
No-fault divorce is found wanting.(Canada)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ottawa -- In 1968, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau widened the grounds for divorce beyond adultery, until then the only ground permitted. Seventeen years later, in 1985, the Parliament of Canada amended the Divorce Act further, adding the grounds of physical and mental cruelty, as well as ...
Professor Dossa 'embarrassing'.(Canada)(Shiraz Dossa attends Holocaust denial conference)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Antigonish, N.S. -- Shiraz Dossa, professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, faced fierce criticism from his university colleagues in December, 2006. Dossa was censured by fellow faculty members after attending a conference in Tehran, ...
Little Sisters' bookstore defeated.(Canada)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Vancouver -- In a rare setback for I homosexual activists, the Supreme Court of Canada, in a 7-2 decision, has ruled that a gay and lesbian "bookstore" carrying pornographic materials will not be entitled to a requested $2 million in public funding for a lawsuit it intended to launch ...
The homosexual pop parade.(Canada)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The mayor of Moscow has pledged not to permit 'gay pride' parades in his city. He is backed by the Russian Orthodox Church, which declared that "people will realize the malignancy of perversions opposing the family in its natural form as bestowed by God." The Muscovite activist, who ...
The silence of Saint Joseph.
Mar 01, 2007 ... MARCH 19, FEAST OF ST. JOSEPH * PATRON SAINT OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH * PATRON SAINT OF CANADA * PATRON SAINT OF HUMAN WORK Beloved Pope John Paul II, who was very devoted to Saint Joseph, left us a wonderful meditation dedicated to him in the apostolic exhortation Redemptoris ...
Pinochet in world historical context.(Augusto Pinochet)
Mar 01, 2007; ... General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile as dictator From 1973 till 1990. He died December 10, 2006, at age 91. A very controversial figure, Pinochet was on the one hand accused of being responsible For political terrorism (3,000 killed) and torture (30,000 victims) by his opponents. On the ...
Avarice and greed.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Introduction Although we are surrounded by it and it encroaches more and more each day into our society and economy, we hear precious few pronouncements against the evil of avarice. It is so much touted as good for the individual and the world economy that Christians tend to ...
Mao: The Unknown Story.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Mao: The Unknown Story WRITTEN BY Jung Chang and Jon Halliday PUBLISHED BY Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, 2005 ISBN: 0679422714, Softcover, pp. 814, $50.00 CND This book is highly praised by several knowledgeable reviewers. It puts an end to the myths about Mad Tse-tung (1893-1976): ...
America Alone: The end of the world as we know it.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... America Alone: The end of the world as we know it WRITTEN BY Mark Stien PUBLISHED BY Regnery Publishing Inc, Washington, D.C., 2006, ISBN: 0895260786, Hardcover, pp. 256, $34.95 CND Thirty-eight years after the publication of Pope Paul VI encyclical Humane vitae, Mark Steyn ...