Catholic Insight back issues from November 2007:
Ontario's October election, a wake up call.(THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE (JOHN 8:32))
Nov 01, 2007; ... Ontario's October 2007 election has confirmed the utter inadequacy of the pro-life, pro-family lobby's strategies, and its powerlessness under the current situation. Family and social issues were simply not on the horizon for the voters. In Ontario the pro-life, pro-family ...
Persecution of the Church in Mexico (Sept. 2007).(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... This well-written article by Mary Hansen shocked me. Even at my "senior" age, I had not heard of the situation in Mexico prior to 1940. I suppose too much was happening in Europe for many to be concerned about poor Mexico. This information should be printed in every Catholic ...
Mother Teresa (C.I., October 2007, p.21).(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... I would like to make two points in response to the many commentaries and articles which have recently appeared following the posthumous publication of Mother Teresa's spiritual letters. The first is that the darkness and doubts experienced by Mother Teresa are not at all a rare ...
Joe Woodard and the Western Standard.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Editor's comment. In our September, 2007 edition, page 30, we carried a news item "Editor fired," in which we reported that Joe Woodard had been fired as editor of the Western Standard Magazine. The reason, we said, was "that he (Joe Woodard) was taking the WS in a direction its secular ...
Civil disobedience.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... When does obedience to God involve civil disobedience? The drama is unfolding. But unlike other moments in turbulent Catholic history, this one is "tricky." Why? Because order out of chaos is exactly the goal of the adversary. A management-by-crisis scenario on local and macrosociological ...
Contraception.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... In 1968 the CCCB taught that contraception is a matter of personal conscience. If this is not still the teaching ...
HPV.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [The following letter was sent to the Editor of the Evening Telegram, St John's, Nfld, and forwarded to us by the author.] In his piece on August 10th, "Right to Life Association confuses health issue with promiscuity", Brian Jones is short on or seems not to want to face facts, ...
Capital punishment.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The latest news out of Europe is that the European Union has failed to get unanimous consent among its members for support of a resolution at the United Nations banning capital punishment. It appears that both Poland and Malta, and to some extent, Ireland, have refused to sign on, citing ...
Are the names God and Allah interchangeable?(COLUMNIST)
Nov 01, 2007; ... In the years when I was an Anglican, I often chuckled at Anglican bishops; the Archbishop of Canterbury, in particular, could usually be relied upon to say something fatuous--as, for example, when at the end of a performance of the musical Godspell, the incumbent leapt to his feet, in full ...
We don't do death.(COLUMNIST)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The other day, my girls and I were playing the "Communion of Saints" Catholic board game. The object is to get to heaven by moving a token through the various stages of life. You land on squares marked "Grace," "Sin," "Sacrament," and pick up instruction cards. Along the way, you collect ...
Insight columnist stalked by love-crazed MP.(COLUMNIST)(Sue Barnes)(Column)
Nov 01, 2007; ... With dread, misgiving and not a little embarrassment, I've prepared my family for the fallout to come and I'm publicly blowing the whistle right here. Some time this month or early next month, I know I can expect another one of her mystifying missives. No, I don't know what it all means ...
Making all things new.(Derwent College)
Nov 01, 2007; ... "It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed toward "having" rather than "being," and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself. It is ...
Sacred art and the Sulpicians of Montreal.
Nov 01, 2007; ... It is a remarkable convergence that two events of importance and interest to all Canadians of the Catholic faith land particularly to Montrealers should fall into place together with such convenience. To mark the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Company of Sulpicians, the Montreal ...
Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, P.S.S. 1918-2007.(Cover story)(Obituary)
Nov 01, 2007; ... "A faithful pastor who, with an evangelical spirit, consecrated his life in service to Christ and His Church"--Pope Benedict XVI. In the death of Cardinal Gagnon, a member of the Sulpicians (P.S.S.), Canada has lost one of its most illustrious churchmen. He was a holy, learned ...
In search of Polish anti-Semitism.(reprint of Jan Gross's article on antisemitism and Pope Pius XII)(Reprint)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Over the last 40 years certain historians, mostly Jewish but also former Catholics, have expended great efforts in accusing Pope Pius XII of being friendly towards Nazis, indifferent to the fate of Jews, and wholly occupied with extracting the Catholic Church at any cost from the turmoil ...
Pope in Austria.(Vatican)(Benedict XVI)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Rome -- The short three-day trip (Sep 7-9) to Austria followed a combination of liturgy and anniversaries. On September 8, the feast of Our Lady's birthday, Pope Benedict stopped at the great pilgrimage centre of Mariazell, celebrating its 850th anniversary. He called upon Austrians to ...
Guidelines on food and water for PVS patients.(Vatican)(permanent vegetative state)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has issued replies to two questions posed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), regarding the supplying of nutrition and hydration by artificial means to PVS (permanent vegetative state) patients ....
Dissident theologians investigated.(Vatican)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Vatican City -- Against a backdrop of an upcoming investigation into yet another prominent theologian whose work and views cause concern, Pope Benedict spoke out on September 16 against arrogant Catholic intellectuals who know about everything, except God. "God cannot come to us and speak ...
UN pressures Latin Americans on abortion.(Latin America)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Brazil -- The current position here states that abortion is permitted when it is a "health risk" to the mother, or in the case of rape However, there are several bills in the works at the National Congress in Brasilia seeking to expand these conditions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
EU hypocritical with regard to the "right to life".(Poland)(European Union)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Warsaw -- The European Union has proposed designating October 10 as World Day against the Death Penalty. In a 2006 statement, the EU had said that "the European Union considers the death penalty as a cruel and inhuman punishment and a violation to the right to life." Poland and ...
On Orthodox and Catholic relations.(Romania)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Bucharest -- Pope Benedict XVI assured the newly enthroned Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church that he can count on collaboration from Catholics. The Pope sent a delegation to Bucharest on Sept. 30, to participate in the solemn enthronement celebrations of Patriarch Daniel Ciobotea, ...
Belarus to deport foreign priests.(Russia)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... In Minsk, Belarus, the Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Kosinets has declared that all foreign Catholic priests will be banned from the country over the next few years. Of the roughly 350 Catholic priests in the country, the majority are foreign and almost all of these are Polish. Belarus ...
New archbishop for Moscow.(Russia)(Paolo Pezzi)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... On Sept. 21, 2007, Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who has led the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow for 16 years, as archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, in Belarus. "I am going home," the Belarus native told Vatican Radio today after the appointment had been ...
Confession is avoided.(United States)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Chestertown, MD -- Father Paul Campbell of Sacred Heart Church in Chestertown, MD., has published an article on the decline of the Sacrament of Reconciliation in recent years. A 2005 poll of adult Catholics in the USA shows that 42% never go to confession, 32% go less than once a year, and ...
Archbishop resigns amid trumped-up charges of adultery.(Zimbabwe)(Pius Ncube)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Harare -- Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo, a leading African Catholic cleric and unrelenting critic of President Robert Mugabe's dictatorial regime, has resigned in the face of charges of adultery (allegedly with his secretary) (See CI June 2007, p. 20-21 for background on Ncube's ...
Canadian sectarians excommunicated.(Canada)(The Army of Mary)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Ottawa -- In a September 12, 2007 statement, the Canadian bishops' conference announced that The Army of Mary group based in Quebec has been excommunicated. The letter to this effect by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) was issued in Rome on July 11. It expressed ...
Three-parent case appeal refused.(Canada)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Ottawa -- On Sept 13, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal of the Ontario Three-Parent case. In its January 7, 2007 decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal recognized that a child could have more than two legal parents. The appeal had been put forward by ...
McGuinty again spites his Catholic faith.(Canada)(Dalton McGuinty)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Toronto -- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has again spited his Catholic faith, this time at a Catholic high school in Markham, ON, a suburb of Toronto, where he stood in front of neatly uniformed students to declare that his "private" Catholic faith does not decide his approach to ...
Controversy swirls over new HPV vaccine.(Canada)(human papillomavirus vaccine)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Toronto -- In September one Ontario Catholic school board delayed the introduction of the HPV vaccine in its schools until trustees had a chance to debate the measure and vote on it. But others went right ahead and allowed the vaccination of their students. The speedy adoption ...
City officials skirt answers on 'gay pride' excesses.(Canada)(Toronto)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Toronto -- In response to media reports of apparently criminal, moral and sexual excesses associated with this year's "gay pride" events in Toronto this past summer--and what seemed to be a police conflict-of-interest with respect to them--the Life Ethics Information Centre (LEIC), ...
The Lord Is My Shepherd.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Lord Is My Shepherd ILLUSTRATED BY Regolo Ricci PUBLISHED BY Tundra Books, 2007, ISBN: 0887767761, Hardcover, pp. 24, $22.99 CND Just in time for the gift-giving season is The Lord is My Shepherd, a captivating illustration of everybody's favourite psalm. Not surprisingly, ...
Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Faith and the Historian Catholic Perspectives EDITED BY Nick Salvatore PUBLISHED BY University of Illinois Press, 2007, ISBN: 0252073827, Softcover, pp. 208, $40.50 CND This book contains the autobiographical sketches of eight professional historians, born between 1927 and 1959, ...
Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Reasons to Believe How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith WRITTEN BY Scott Hahn PUBLISHED BY Doubleday Publishing, 2007, ISBN: 0385509350, Hardcover, pp. 240, $27.95 CND This book is intended to encourage Catholics to spread the gospel message and, if ...
His Dark Materials trilogy: (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) WRITTEN BY Philip Pullman PUBLISHED BY Random House Children's Books, 2003, ISBN: 0440419518, Softcover, $29.97 CND Evil. This one word describes Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy ....
Catholic women in ministry: Changing the way things are.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Catholic women in ministry Changing the way things are WRITTEN BY Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers PUBLISHED BY Novalis, Ottawa, 2007, ISBN: 2895078394, Softcover, pp. 204, $21.95 CND There is nothing new in this book that has not already been written and rewritten for the past ...