Anna Farrow

Questions of life, death and suffering are squarely at the center of the discourse around MAiD, and it is clear from listening to the Dutch psychiatrists that the Netherlands is now floating in the windless waters that the modern, secular mind struggles to navigate.

It took almost 25 minutes for the crowds gathered in Ottawa for the National March for Life to inch their way from the gates of Parliament Hill and turn the corner from Wellington to Elgin Street.

You would think, given thousands of years of evidence, that we would wise up and recognize a come-on without waiting for the inevitable devolution into tatters and chaos. But the grift is always compelling.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see what’s really going on inside your own home. That was certainly the case with the September 2025 issue of The Atlantic. The American magazine’s take on Canada’s experience with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) caused deep consternation among MAID advocates across the country.

Two years ago, a visibly pregnant pro-life activist undertook an undercover operation in abortion clinics in several Canadian cities. Her mission was to gather evidence on whether or not late-term abortions are routinely procured by Canadian women regardless of medical justification.

In this its 25th year, the Christian think-tank Cardus is expanding its reach into Quebec.

Montreal’s Our Lady of Consolata Church was filled on Saturday, Oct. 18 by parishioners, priests, religious sisters and many bishops for the funeral of Francesco Leo, father of Toronto’s Cardinal Francis Leo.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is once again promising to introduce a bill banning prayer in public, responding to a recent spate of mass Islamic prayer gatherings in the province.

Canadian pilgrims in Rome for the week-long Jubilee of Youth were delighted when Pope Leo XIV made an impromptu appearance in St. Peter’s Square immediately following the conclusion of the July 29 Welcoming Mass.

Just in time for the lazy summer reading season, British Catholic author Simon P. Caldwell has released a second novel that combines the genres of modern thriller with, what one might call, sacramental or Catholic realism.