The Canadian Justice Minister’s proposed reform acknowledges “the negative outcomes and conflicts that are the sad reality of separation and divorce”.
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It would be better if comments reportedly made by the Pope in private remained in private, not splashed around the world by news media.
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The conclusion of the Chilean summit clarified three characteristics of the Holy Father’s pastoral style.
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Tom Wolfe did not confuse being serious with being somber, and no one described better the clothes-less emperors of our time.
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To Israel’s credit, the international community holds it to the standards of London or Paris or Ottawa, not those of Moscow, or Beijing or Damascus.
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Much depends on whether there is consensus on the short-term path the Holy Father has laid out for the Chilean bishops. Will they follow it?
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Rihanna at the Met was a one-off. Fashion catastrophes are a consistent Catholic problem.
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Ave Verum Corpus is a masterpiece of compactly expressed doctrine and piety, and the source of a moving memory from Rome.
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Macron and Trudeau are friends with similar priorities and styles, but the French president shows a far better understanding of how citizens’ religious beliefs impact their contributions to society.
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The dignity of refugees is first violated by their own countries, long before they might find a hostile welcome elsewhere.
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Diplomats have a weakness, namely to value the reaching of an agreement itself over the purpose the agreement is intended to achieve.
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The existence of the liturgical calendar is something of a liberation from the mundane tyranny of what is going on today, or as we lamentably say now, what is trending.
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Counterintuitively, at the heart of this pontificate are the priorities and personnel of the most worldly local Church on earth.
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Dr. Diab was unjustly sent to France in part because senior officials in the Canadian justice department did not disclose evidence that strongly pointed to his innocence.
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Phil Lawler’s Lost Shepherd is a telling of a tale that the author himself hopes is wrong. It is an insightful book, but not a pleasant read.
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The competence of Const. Lam reminds us that good policing does not cause unnecessary deaths, even of those who have just engaged in mass killing.
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The Gospels give many accounts of Jesus actually showing mercy instead of telling parables about it – and yet the Parable of the Prodigal Son remains central to our sharing of the mercy of God.
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It is quite simply not the business of the Parliament of Canada to tell the Catholic bishops of Canada what they should or should not do in their relations with the pope.
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