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Technology has politicized motherhood by providing new ways to impregnate a woman and to terminate the pregnancy if so desired. For instance, abortion politicizes pregnancy because the unborn child becomes depersonalized as only a part of the body and the procedure, which destroys the child's chance of self-fulfillment is called a choice. Likewise,surrogate motherhood alters the value of the child who is viewed as a tenant in the host mother who is an incubator. Likewise, in surrogate embryo transfers, the biological source is a donor and the donated ova is humanized into a baby after it is fertilized.

Bad Habits Confessions of a Recovering Catholic WRITTEN BY Jenny McCarthy PUBLISHED BY Hyperion, 2012, Hardcover, 240 pages ISBN: 978-1-40132-465-0, PRICE $26.99 To order please see our bookstore ads. IS [...]

Ayn Rand, who passed away in 1982, is still very much with us and, through the various literary and organizational outlets she has bequeathed to us, remains both popular and [...]

My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state. --C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Screwtape: I am proposing a new method for promoting hatred. Wormwood: [...]

On January 26 of this year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the country's law against child pornography was constitutional; i.e., not opposed to the Charter of Rights. Viewing […]

Catholic insight regularly returns to the issue of contraception. Why? Because in society as well as in the Church it is and remains a central issue of the day. Eve […]

The last thing that interested Monique Dostie was achieving status as a celebrity. Her chosen profession seemingly guaranteed that such status would not only be unlikely, but impossible. She had […]

Joseph Pearce, Tolkien: Man and Myth (San Francisco, CA: 1998) 242 pp. $24.95 hard cover. ISBN 0-89870-711-0 This book raises a question that intrigues Catholics and incenses the opposition: Did […]

In January of 1936, a meeting took place between Mohandas Gandhi and Margaret Sanger. The subject of their conversation that day was contraception. Mrs. Sanger was, at that time, the […]

In April, 1998, St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto assumed responsibility for the former Wellesley Hospital's programs as part of the hospital restructuring that is occurring throughout the province of Ontario. […]

My 14, 1998, at 8:00 p.m., EST. That is the time my San Francisco caller had selected to do a book interview with me. "Don't you realize," I said to […]

It is hard to believe, if not impossible, that a society that finds it difficult to practise the most elementary virtues - temperance, prudence, justice, honesty - is able to […]

Approximately 150,000 women die each year in the United States of anorexia! Startling? Shocking? Unbelievable? Implausible? Well, it must be true. Gloria Steinem said so on page 222 of her […]

A high school teacher (let us refer to him as JB) has called upon his city's largest circulating newspaper, the Toronto Star, to report on the roots of homophobia (Toronto [...]

Editor's note: Readers will be aware that Human Rights Commissions and Tribunals are extra-judicial agencies. They are not(yet)part of the regular Court system but in the meantime do a great [...]

The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, founder and editor of the highly influential magazine, First Things, was Canadian-born. After returning to the Ottawa Valley in 2007 for his annual summer [...]

A friend once confided in me that he had but two moral weaknesses--alcohol and women. I thought that these two were more than enough to undo whatever virtues he possessed. […]

The cancellation of Pope Benedict XVI's address at La Sapienza University in Rome in January, 2008, has received a great deal of attention around the world. A particular comment by […]

What is marriage? During his talk with the Pharisees, who had asked Christ about the indissolubility of marriage, he referred twice to the beginning: "Have you not read that he […]

This essay is not a reflection on C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, which discusses the great divide between good and evil, Heaven and Hell. Nor is it a commentary […]

Earlier this year a court in Venice, Italy ordered a gynaecologist to pay for the food and maintenance of a child until he comes of age because his birth was […]

No distinguished American ever began his life under less promising circumstances. He was born to a slave woman on a farm near Diamond Grove, Missouri. His year of birth remains […]

The scene was an outdoor wedding reception. The newlyweds seemed cool and calm, but it was the father of the groom who was showing signs of apprehension. The burden had [...]

Sherlock Holmes and his able companion, Watson, were camping one night. About 3 o'clock in the morning, Holmes wakened his partner and commanded him to look up and tell him […]