Catholic Insight happily welcomes a...

Catholic Insight happily welcomes a recently made known contributor to our pages. Dr Roney tackles the clash between aggressive secularism and religion, popularly much debated in North America. He adds a much-need historical perspective.

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novel rulings of the Canadian first Court, notably those on gay "marriage," pit human rights against religion, as allowing these were competing interests.

The notion has become widespread. Heather Mallick in the Globe argued that freedom of religion means "churchy persons ... have no say in government" (1) Arundhati Roy chides U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft for the exposition "freedoms are not the grant of any