Inside the Insight

Fascism has come to Canada

The latest events in Canada’s legislative and judicial world force the editor – again – to draw a grim picture.  State bullies are intruding more and more into the spiritual realm and governments act as if it is the most normal of things. 

Jerusalem

On the anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, Michael Coren visits the Holy City and feels his emotions conflicted.

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Our Lady of Laus

Paula Adamick announces the re-emergence of an almost forgotten shrine to Our Lady in the French Alps. 

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Leishman (Free Speech in Canada)

Human Rights Commission mandates vary from province to province, observes Rory Leishman. In addition, some commissioners would like very much to extend their powers.

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Fr. Titus Brandsma

Mary Hansen describes him as “a martyr for the cause of freedom of the Catholic press.” The Dutch priest, scholar and journalist, was put to death by the Nazis in 1942.

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Freedom of expression and the “Conservative” government

Stephen J. Gray argues that this government, having announced their intervention in a Human Rights Commission case, may consist of “political hypocrites.”may consist of “political hypocrites”, having announced their intervention in a Human Rights Commissions case.

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Pope Benedict XVI

We print the address given by the Holy Father in New York at the General Assembly of the United Nations in April 2008.

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The crisis in Quebec’s schools

The Quebec government is charging ahead with its new “religion curriculum,” Douglas Farrow hastens to sound the alarm over this.

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Worship God’s way

“To encounter the Living God”, notes Cale Clark, we should worhip the way He likes, not following our own personal preferences

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News in Brief: 25-32

Plan B or not Plan B

Many Catholic hospitals in U.S.A. permit use of the “morning-after” pill. Dr. John Shea analyses its mechanism and effects to determine whether or not it is an abortifacient.

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The demographic winter and the barren left

No, it’s not just a Christian right-wing conspiracy, says Steven Mosher, as he takes a feminist, “pro-choice” ideologue to task.

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The flawed logic of the “pro-choice” stance

This is evidenced, says Richard Bastien, in their criticism of sex-selection abortions. There is a basic point, somewhere, that these people miss.

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Book Reviews:  pages 40-43

Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

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Saint Philip Neri

Fr. Daniel Callam’s homily on a saint who seemed an unlikely hero of the Counter-Reformation. But founder of the Oratory “understood the human condition.”

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Fr. Anthony Van Hee: a pro-life spirituality?

This erudite Jesuit has kept up his pro-life witness on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, for 19 years the author attempts to find out what makes him tick.

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An inside look at the devil

is delivered by Fr. Gabriele Amorth, exorcist of the diocese of Rome

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10 myths about priestly paedophilia

Deal Hudson maintains that the majority of sexual abuse cases in the U.S.A. scandal were wrongly characterised. Most should be described as “ephebophilia” (homosexual attraction to adolescent boys)

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