No Catholic cleric in the 1970s could have more powerfully made the argument that the pro-life movement was the proper successor to the civil rights movement for progressives and liberals.
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We pay attention when the accused is a senator or head of the navy; what happens when it happens to the poor and vulnerable and unknown?
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Under Father Hesburgh, and continued by his successors, Notre Dame was clearly pro-life but chose not to use its prestige to that end in the public square.
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Stories out of the Masters 2019 were rife with anecdotes about the chastened, perhaps converted man. It was not just a comeback to winning, but a comeback to decent conduct.
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On paper, Vos estis is a revolution greater than that of Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela in 2001.
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It is marvellous to have such a delicious drink that is distinctively Canadian, another gift of Alberta to the federation
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With the cathedra now in the central place, the entire architectural focus of the cathedral is on the bishop’s seat, including at the vast majority of Masses when he is not present.
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Vanier founded a human movement, rooted in the Biblical conviction that the deepest meaning of being human is discovered in God’s revelation that we are made in His image and likeness.
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A week after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI released his essay on the sexual abuse crisis, the wounded Church of Santiago must set its priorities straight.
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Pope Francis is not guilty of heresy, in part due to the fact his teaching style is not sufficiently clear as to sustain such a charge.
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Jean Vanier is one of the great Catholic founders of our time, and those who saw in him something of Mother Teresa, now a canonized saint, were not wrong.
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Benedict’s essay expresses and contributes toward a new moment in the life the Church, where it is possible to speak broadly and deeply about the sexual-abuse crisis.
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Premier Jason Kenney’s no-frills swearing in gives time to turn from politics to art and find beauty in the work of human hands.
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What Premier Kenney has done since the early 1990s is to change the parameters of the possible in politics.
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The burning of Notre Dame de Paris sparked an inferno of journalistic ignorance about Christianity
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There is no surprise that it took place on Easter Sunday. Christians are killed on Easter Sunday for being Christian. Every year.
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Why did Benedict employ the means that he did to release his essay? Because he knows that neither those in Rome nor in Germany are trustworthy.
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This Good Friday, will we feel – at the moment that the death of Jesus on the cross is liturgically commemorated – that something greater than Notre Dame has been lost?
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