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Law Matters John Carpay Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declared in 1969 that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” and that the government should ignore “what’s...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/some-tough-questions-about-bans-on-conversion-therapy/

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian World by Rod Dreher (Sentinel, $34, 262 pages) Journalist Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option is a rarity: a socially conservati...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/what-is-the-benedict-option-and-will-it-help/

In It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies (Harper, 192 pages), Mary Eberstadt documents how faithful Christians throughout the Western world are now living in fear of esc...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/religious-freedom-precarious-in-the-west/

For more than three decades, The Interim and Campaign Life Coalition have reminded readers and supporters of the responsibility of all citizens, but especially Christians, to prioritize life issu...

https://theinterim.com/politics/voting-and-christian-responsibility/

Donald DeMarco was honoured by the Catholic Civil Rights League. On June 18, the Catholic Civil Rights League bestowed their Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life to ...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/demarco-wins-ccrl-award-lewis-calls-for-christians-to-get-involved/

A philosopher once pithily observed that “the map is not the territory.” The same can certainly be said of statements about the Roman Pontiff made in the mainstream media: they do not offer t...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/a-misunderstood-encyclical/

The slaughter of the cartoonists and staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic terrorists last month forced us to define precisely what we mean by “freedom of speech.” T...

https://theinterim.com/features/charlie-hebdo-and-pope-francis/

Faith and Life Father Ted Colleton “God so loved the world that He sent His only Son, that we might have life through Him.” – First Letter of St. John There is a story, really a parable abo...

https://theinterim.com/issues/marriage-family/humble-origins-have-an-eternal-reality-2/

With all of the talk about the deadly Ebola virus I have been reminded about how pro-lifers and Catholics in particular were treated when we dared to criticize conventional wisdom about how to de...

https://theinterim.com/issues/society-culture/christian-compassion/

On Christmas morning, children in our homes—and in the homes of our grown children—will bound down stairs to wonder at the arrival of wrapped gifts. Straining at the limit of a joy which is a...

https://theinterim.com/issues/dare-we-hope/

I'm a big Duck Dynasty fan. The show is about a family who became wealthy by making and selling duck calls. The show celebrates entrepreneurship, family, hunting, and faith. Each episode ends wit...

https://theinterim.com/soconvivium/duck-dynasty-promotes-faith-family-and-pro-life/

There are many ways to contribute to the pro-life movement – political action, education, fundraising – but these would not be possible without prayer. In his book I’m Still A Radical, the ...

https://theinterim.com/issues/pro-life/saving-babies-and-women-through-prayer/

On May 26, Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Primate of Canada, said in a press conference jointly hosted with Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, that “the abortion debate is on and w...

https://theinterim.com/issues/pro-life/cardinal-ouellet-and-archbishop-prendergast-%E2%80%9Cthe-abortion-debate-is-on%E2%80%9D/

On May 14, a three-judge panel of the Ontario Divisional Court unanimously delivered in Ontario Human Rights Commission v. Christian Horizons another blow to freedom of religion in Canada. This r...

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On June 3-5, the Faith and Freedom Alliance Conference was held in Toronto, during which they educated the public about the threats to religious liberty and trained lawyers to fight back to prote...

https://theinterim.com/issues/marriage-family/faith-and-freedom-alliance-provides-free-training-to-lawyers/