Catholic Insight back issues from October 2007:
More from Frankenstein.
Oct 01, 2007; ... On September 5, 2007, Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority decided to allow the creation of hybrid (human-animal) embryos for use in medical experiments; these are to be killed after fourteen days. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Vatican Pontifical Academy for Life, ...
From John O.S. O'Callaghan re "Canada is a dying nation" C.I., July/August 2007, pp. 22-23.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Terminology that is repeated sufficiently often tends eventually to insinuate itself into general usage. There are today many instances of this that gravely undermine the effect of what is written and spoken to further truth and justice. I wish to draw attention to two prime examples of ...
From Stephen Volk re faith and politics.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Archbishop Terrence Prendergast told the Halifax Daily News that "people of faith" in politics should "take their faith into full consideration in the decisions they take for the good of the people" (LiFeSiteNews, May 23, 2007). Recently, I spoke with Cal O'Brien, whose brother ...
From W.J. Curran re Catholics and the throne.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007; ... I read with interest a story in the Ottawa Citizen entitled: "Marrying a Catholic will put Queen's grandson off succession list." It dealt with the forthcoming marriage of Ms Autumn Kelly and Peter Phillips, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth. Ms Kelly is a Catholic so the grandson will have ...
From Giuseppe Gori re Family Coalition Party: 1+1=14.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007; ... How many candidates could a family field, at the same time, in the same election? What is the record in Ontario's history? Perhaps two? Running as a candidate for the Family Coalition Party is not an "open" competition. Our candidates need to be pro-life, pro-family, agree with ...
From Valarie Witzaney re: contraception is the cause.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Thanks to Janice Glover for her article "Canada is a Dying Nation" (C.I., July-Aug. 07, pp. 22-23). However, I have to disagree with her statement, "The fact is that Canadians are incredibly fertile; unfortunately, they choose to turn their backs on their fertility by killing their ...
What about the Crusades?(COLUMNIST)
Oct 01, 2007; ... The unholy trinity. The Crusades, the Inquisition and the Church doing nothing during the Holocaust. The three grenades thrown at Catholics by people who know even less about Catholicism than they do about history. If these don't work, toss in some nonsense about Galileo or clergy abuse ....
The Great Global Warming Swindle.(COLUMNIST)
Oct 01, 2007; ... HOW easily the buzzwords "Global Warming", "Climate Change" and "Carbon Footprint" have slipped into common parlance. How easily they have been accepted as "fact." Ditto for the related money-grubbing scams. I'm referring, of course, to the levying of "green taxes" and the ...
Capital punishment exists in Canada.(COLUMNIST)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Opponents of capital punishment have been quick to underline the significance of the unanimous decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal to quash the long-contested murder conviction of Stephen Truscott in the 1959 rape and death of his 12-year-old schoolmate, Lynne Harper. Truscott would ...
The Ontario election: some last words.(ONTARIO ELECTION * SECTION A)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Ontario voters are preparing to go to the polls in the October 10 provincial election. It is worth re-emphasizing some of the main points Catholic Insight has made in offering guidance to Catholics who are seeking to cast their ballots in support of candidates who, to a significant extent ...
Catholic school boards bowing to secularism.(ONTARIO ELECTION * SECTION B)
Oct 01, 2007; ... While Ontario's Progressive Conservative party pushes for the public funding of faith-based schools other than Catholic, Catholics are struggling with the Trojan Horse phenomenon mentioned, under Section A. Since full funding for Catholic schools arrived in 1985, some Catholics have been ...
The Rosary Apostolate in the schools: celebrating ten years of evangelization.
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Rosary Apostolate in Ontario is an apostolate of evangelization through prayer which began in the schools and later extended to the families and the forming of parish prayer groups. It all began in 1997 with a humble request to pray the rosary with children in our Catholic schools. At ...
Islamic immigration raises questions.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Since its founding, Canada's steady economic, demographic and infrastructural expansion has extended a mari usque ad mare. Key to this were the shared Judeo-Christian values of immigrant populations, which were the sine qua non that enabled nation-building. Reflecting on the current ...
Southern Africa and AIDS: why chastity, not condoms, is the answer.
Oct 01, 2007; ... AIDS is endemic in Africa and the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (MIC), with headquarters in Montreal, and the Children's Fund of Canada (JMJ) are trying to do something about it. On March 6, 2007, during a side event at the 51st meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women ...
Mother Teresa endured God's silence.
Oct 01, 2007; ... AS a respected Boston lawyer once remarked of recent biographies, "It's tough times for the dead." A case in point was the cover of last week's Time magazine. Splashed across the front page ran the headline "The Secret Life of Mother Teresa," accompanied by the gloomiest picture you ever ...
The Church must speak about the devil.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Church must speak about the devil. Though he sinned, the fallen angel has not lost all the power he had, in the governance of the world, according to God's plan. Now he uses this power for evil. John's Gospel calls him "the prince of this world" (John 12:31) and also in the First ...
On the Church, Part II.(Vatican)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Rome -- As a follow-up to the document "On the Church" (see the September issue, pp. 23-25) the following comments may be useful. Q: Pope Benedict's statement that other Christian churches are not really churches and that the Catholic Church is the one, true Church seems rather ...
Billings' work flourishes despite his passing.(Australia)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Victoria -- The month of April, 2007, was a time of both sadness and joy for the World Organization Ovulation Method Billings (WOOMB), based in Victoria, Australia. On April 1, Dr. John Billings, pioneer of the Billings Ovulation Method (BOM), passed away at the age of 89. With ...
Another domino to fall.(Britain)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... London -- Sexual relations between close blood relatives; i.e. incest, has, with few but notable exceptions, been historically unacceptable both morally and legally in most civilized societies. A BBC News report (March 12, 2007) notes that a German brother ...
Amnesty International affirms pro-abortion stance.(Britain)
Oct 01, 2007 ... London -- Catholic leaders have condemned the move by the global human rights organization Amnesty International--which was founded by a Catholic layman, Peter Beneson, in 1961--to affirm the pro-abortion position its executive committee had taken last April. The affirmation took place at ...
Religious freedom limits continue.(Britain)
Oct 01, 2007 ... London -- Catholic Insight has this year published several items on attacks on religious freedom in Britain, attacks of which Catholics have become very aware. (See "Coercion of Christians in Britain," Paula Adamick, C.I., March 2007, p.12; "Religious freedom under attack", Rory Leishmann, ...
Abortion and related news.(Britain)
Oct 01, 2007 ... London -- Conservative MP Ann Winterton brought in a private member's bill in the House of Commons requiring mandatory counselling followed by a 7-day cooling-off period before an abortion could be performed. The bill was defeated by 182-107. It was the third unsuccessful private member's ...
IPPF launches a new abortion campaign in Europe.(Europe)(International Planned Parenthood Federation)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Brussels, Belgium -- Using strongly anti-religious language, the European branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has recently issued a document entitled "Why We Need to Talk about Abortion," calling for the legalization of abortion in the European Union (EU) ....
Sarkozy clamps down.(France)(Nicholas Sarkozy)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Paris -- At the end of his first "Hundred Days" in office, "conservative" French President Nicholas Sarkozy is retaining public confidence that his government intends to straighten out the country. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest reports from Paris contain his ...
Death of Cardinal Lustiger.(France)(Obituary)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Paris -- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the former Archbishop of Paris, died there Aug. 5, 2007, after a long illness. Born in 1926 to a family of Polish Jewish emigres, he was originally named Aaron. His parents, who did not practise Judaism, placed their children with a Catholic family in ...
Death of Orthodox Patriarch.(Romania)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Bucharest -- The head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Teoctist, passed away on July 30, 2007, aged 92. Pope Benedict sent messages of condolence to the Orthodox faithful as well as a high-level Holy See delegation to the funeral. Teoctist was the first Orthodox leader to invite ...
New seminary started.(Serbia)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Subotica -- This diocese is to be the site of the first Catholic seminary in the country, the foundation stone being laid in August, 2007. Before the 1991-95 Balkan war, there were six seminaries in Yugoslavia, but all were located in what are now other republics. Serbian primate ...
The UN's questionable actions continue.(United Nations)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Pressure persists on Nicaragua to liberalize its abortion laws. Several UN officials argued against those laws before Nicaragua's supreme court earlier this year. In 2000, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said it would halt aid to the country, since its family-planning programs ...
Bella to be released October 26.(United States)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... New York -- Bella, the heart-warming independent film that took the 2006 Toronto Film Festival by storm, has now officially secured a major distributor for US audiences. It is reported that Roadside Attractions has acquired the rights to distribute Bella, making the independent film its ...
New film investigates crushing of dissent from Darwinian orthodoxy.(United States)(Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed)(Brief article)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2007 ... "If you have questioned Darwinism, that's it, your career is over." "I was viewed as an intellectual terrorist." "I have been told to shut up." The quotes come from interviews with research scientists featured in a new film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring the New ...
Atheist book to atheist movie.(United States)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Hollywood -- Just in time for the holy season of Christmas, another anti-religion novel series will hit the big screens. The Golden Compass is based on the "Dark Materials" trilogy of atheist children's author Phillip Pullman, a series he wrote promoting antagonism to all religion, ...
New bishop for Pembroke.(Canada)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Pembroke, ON -- In July Pope Benedict appointed Msgr. Michael Mulhall, 45, as Bishop of Pembroke. Msgr. Mulhall was the Vicar-General of the diocese of Peterborough, ON. He served as an official of the Congregation for Oriental Churches in Rome from 1994 to 2002, when he returned to his ...
Mennonite families leave Quebec over school dispute.(Canada)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Quebec -- Members of Quebec's only Mennonite community have opted to leave the province rather than hand their children over to a school system that teaches subjects they find objectionable. They comprise 15 well-established and well-liked families in Roxton Falls, a town of 1,308 people ...
Debate over stem cell research at McMaster University.(Canada)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Hamilton, ON -- A debate over the ethics of embryonic stem cell research erupted after a Hamilton businessman made a $15 million donation to Canada's first human embryonic stem cell library at McMaster University (McMaster Daily News, June 27, 2007). The claim was that David Braley's ...
The rhetoric of "choice" and the arrival of bureaucratic despotism.(THE FUTURE OF CANADA)(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; ... In the spring of 1980, less than a decade after the American Supreme Court delivered its infamous Roe v. Wade decision (1973), I was sitting in the campus coffee shop of a relatively exclusive college in the American southwest, chatting with one of the school's well-heeled, even pampered, ...
Bourne again.("THE FAITH EXPLAINED" SERIES)
Oct 01, 2007; ... On the same day my wife and I became godparents for the first time, we saw the smash movie, The Bourne Ultimatum. Afterwards, I was struck by the similarities between Bourne and being "born again." Confused? Let me explain. The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon, is the third ...
My conversion.
Oct 01, 2007; ... This is another instalment in our converts series.--Editor I was a cradle Anglican for some 76 years. I was raised Anglican both culturally and spiritually by my family. After so many years I was able to recite from memory the prayers, the collects, the creeds-in fact almost all ...
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz An Essay in Historical Interpretation.(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Fear Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz An Essay in Historical Interpretation WRITTEN BY Jan Tomasz Gross PUBLISHED BY Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0691128782, Hardcover, pp. 336, $30.92 CND Professor Gross begins his argument with the following declaration ...