Americans are not the only ones facing an election this fall. Their neighbors to the north also head to the polls on October 14 as Canada holds its federal election. Yet one of the biggest issues of the past year…

This is what led me to interview the former youth pastor. Boissoin surprised me by how soft-spoken he was during our interview. He came across as gentle, albeit fervent like most evangelicals (although he doesn’t admit the label, calling himself…

In a decision that foreshadows the possible fate of Fr. Alphonse de Valk, Canada’s leading pro-life voice among Catholic clergy, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal has forbidden evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson from expressing his moral opposition to homosexuality. The tribunal…

“If one, because of one’s sincerely held moral beliefs, whether it be Jew, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, opposes the idea of same-sex marriage in Canada, is that considered ‘hate’?”

The question was not rhetorical. Nor was it theoretical. Fr. Alphonse de Valk,…

Although a Texas court has ordered the return of 416 children seized by the state’s child protection services earlier this year, the investigation continues into whether the children were physically and sexually abused. The children belong to a fundamentalist Mormon…

Harry Forbes, director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Office of Film and Broadcasting, has given a positive review to the homosexually-themed Rent.

Forbes, whose initial positive review of Brokeback Mountain two years' ago was subsequently modified by the…

Well, I finally saw The Golden Compass Friday. I was asked by several concerned Catholic and pro-life organizations to review the film, which I did with another pro-life activist (a Calvinist preacher). It tries to whitewash the books, which are the bigger…

"How many of these children are yours?" the girl asked.

My wife and I had just moved from an apartment to a newer, larger townhouse. Our two older daughters were playing with a ball in the front yard, while our son,…

It appears that the Canadian government, through the form of an unelected bureaucracy, is once again trying to remove freedom of religious expression from Canadians. In so doing, the government appears to have violated two of the most basic principles of…

Growing up Catholic, I knew theologically that my church forbade abortion and contraception. Although the church's stand on abortion was self-evident in my opinion, I didn't really understand why she took such a hard line on contraception until I found…