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I’ve just experienced another attack on social media. The harassment on X, as Twitter now calls itself, usually lasts around 36 hours, and while most of the nasties are trolls and bots, I can’t pretend that the hundreds of comments don’t have an effect. I’m a priest, progressive, outspoken. No point in complaining. But a disturbing new aspect of these bombardments are the repeated and constant false accusations of pedophilia – not a libellous dribble, but a flood. It’s not really about me of course, and I’m in good company. Last month in Belleville, Ont., when Justin Trudeau was swarmed...

I wasn’t going to write anything about Billy Graham’s passing simply because I don’t have anything new or interesting to say about him. I never met him, although my grandmother went to hear him out of curiosity at the Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam in 1955 with a fellow nurse. I attend a conservative Reformed church, and so our theology runs to the George Whitefield tradition as opposed to the more Wesleyan tradition of Billy Graham, who apparently preached directly to more than 210 million people—the largest number of anyone in human history. But the response to Graham’s death was interesting,...

Michael Coren, former Catholic apologist and journalist, has been stripped of his papal knighthood following his reception into the Anglican Church of Canada in 2013. Coren is known for his popular work of Catholic apologetics, Why Catholics Are Right, and for his schism from the Church over her doctrine on homosexuality. He is married with four children. Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic made Mr Coren a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre in October 1992, for 'services to Catholic media'. According to an interview with the ultra-liberal Catholic journal, The Tablet, "Coren was stripped of his papal knighthood and asked to return the...

Michael Coren didn't have to be Catholic. Actually, he's had several opportunities to walk away from the enterprise altogether. Born to a Jewish cab driver in Essex, England, in January 1959, he became a Roman Catholic in his 20s while still living in the U.K. After moving to Canada in the late '80s, he abandoned the Catholic Church for evangelical Christianity. A journalist and author known for his bruising honesty, sharp wit, and often provocative style, Coren continued to have a strained relationship with Rome, even though he was married to a cradle Catholic and was raising his children...

This site is one of the best new sites on Islam. From quotes, links, to videos... by far the author spends some time on this topic (at least finding the topic for us to watch). In this post you have Michael Coren interviews the author of "The World Turned Upside Down," Melanie Phillips. There are also links to some of the best video presentations on why progressive secularists seem to be in bed with Islam.

I can't be too hard on those who succeeded in shutting down Ann Coulter's speaking engagement in Ottawa....They are our university and college students, which by definition makes them illiterates who cannot think for themselves. (includes video interview)

Here's the video of Michael Coren's recent talk given at Queen's University on the subject of abortion: Michael Coren - Abortion: Canada's National Shame - Part 1/9"Queen's Alive, the pro-life club at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, presents noted broadcaster, author, and columnist Michael Coren speaking on the subject of abortion. Mr. Coren makes a reasoned but impassioned defense of the rights of the unborn against the outrage of abortion-on-demand." You may have already seen it, but Mr. Coren penned a column about the event: Rebels without a clueQueen's Alive blog: Queen's Alive: Affirming the Dignity of the Human Person...

Heather Mallick must be loving it. The largely anonymous journalist, a legend in her own lunchtime, is now the subject of controversy because she called American Republicans "white trash," said Sarah Palin looked like a porn actress and made repugnant personal comments about the governor of Alaska's family. She did all this on the CBC website, paid for by public dollars. The content of the diatribe is less Oscar Wilde and more Oscar the Grouch, but it's become major news in the United States. This is not a woman whose career has exactly blossomed and the consequent anger and bitterness...

Dogged by oddballs By MICHAEL COREN Last week I wrote a column arguing that people who are obsessed with animals to an extreme and irrational degree are mentally ill. I wrote that we need to care about animals and should never abuse them, but that people matter more. Even bad people. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize. I was wrong. People who treat animals as if they were human and have an animal rights fetish are not mentally ill. They are psychotic and dangerous. In the past week I have received hundreds of supportive letters, but at...

Spare us from the God-haters By MICHAEL COREN Toronto Sun July 22, 2006 In West Virginia local activists are trying to remove a picture of Jesus that has hung on the wall of a local school for many years. Various so-called civil liberties groups claim that such a portrait is an infringement of basic human rights. Elsewhere in the United States assorted opponents of organized religion have been fighting for decades to ban prayer in schools, to force teachers to take down copies of The Ten Commandments from classrooms and to eliminate all mentions of God from public halls...

Ben Affleck changed the world this week. No, of course I don't mean that a tedious movie star actually changed international events. I mean that he personifies why George Bush and the Republicans won the election. They won because Middle America bit back. Simple as that. Middle America bit back. The abused, the marginalized and the mocked decided that they had had enough. Those taken for granted, those patronized, those treated with disdain voted to no longer play the silent victim. For months a daft coalition of the extremely willing played their guitars, sang their songs and read their Hollywood...

New bishop has feeble following By MICHAEL COREN Toronto Sun Saturday, June 24, 2006 Pass another cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich, please. Better still, make it a sherry because, darling, the Anglicans are in a spin. Last week the U.S. Episcopalian Church, the American equivalent of Canada's Anglicans or the Church of England, chose Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the new leader of its 2.3-million-member denomination. The lady bishop is an oceanographer by training and thinks that, "the great message of Jesus is to include the excluded." Golly, who knew? I thought the great message of Jesus...

Background Information Michael Coren is a jew who converted to Catholicism and then became an IslamoFascist appeaser. Because of all the misinformation Michael Coren has been writing and telling people about Islam being a "peaceful religion" and because "God" knows Michael Coren has apparently not read or listened to what the Fundamantalist Christians and Jewish faiths have to say about Islam:  I think its about time he read what more informed people in the Catholic Church have to say about Islam by clicking on this link MAny 'catholics' in the past have been soft on Fascism, but more dangerously,...

LAST WEEK I wrote a column entitled "God Bless America." I said that I was not a fan of many of that country's policies, but that I thought it unfairly treated. Whatever its faults, the United States is still a great and noble nation. Thousands of e-mails later, I'm still amazed. It wasn't so much the vast number of responses, from all over the world, as the depth of feeling. There were only half a dozen negative letters, all from somewhat deranged individuals. The rest were so heartfelt, so sincere, so American. Yes, so American. That wonderful blend of openness,...

Shortly after the mass murder of September 11, 2001, I wrote a column about the United States. I said then that I'd never been a particular fan of many of the foreign and domestic policies of the U.S., and I have no reason to change my mind now. But I have now written an updated version of that column because, frankly, I am sick of the smugness, the hypocrisy and the sheer hatred evinced by so many people towards the United States. I've had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours. I'm tired...