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Companions ensure evil will not prevail

Robert Poulin was a desperately lonely teenager who sought friends, or perhaps just companions, in the wrong places, desperately wrong places

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Christopher McMullanMay 25, 2025National Post, Faith
Trump prioritizes commerce over shared values in foreign policy gamble

It is the great Trump gamble, that leading with commerce will achieve what shared cultural values backed by military alliances cannot

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Christopher McMullanMay 22, 2025National Post, Politics
Parliament needs to shed its 'Rat Pack' rowdiness

What started as innocent fun has deteriorated into appalling conduct

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Christopher McMullanMay 18, 2025National Post, Politics
All Eyes on Sunday: Leo XIV’s First Words May Cast His Image on Church’s Future

Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but auguring its direction.

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Christopher McMullanMay 17, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
The Two Leos

The new Holy Father made particular reference to Leo XIII reigning in a time of economic and social change; Leo XIV intuits that something similar is afoot.

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Christopher McMullanMay 15, 2025First Things, Church Affairs
Pope Leo XIV’s Connection to the Pauline Chapel

It’s worth noting that the Pauline Chapel, one of three in the Apostolic Palace, is pictured in the Holy Father’s official portrait. The personal chapel of the Holy Father is the official place for the pope’s prayers and Masses.

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Christopher McMullanMay 14, 2025National Catholic Register, Faith
Trump family set to cash in on president's Mideast politicking

Even some of the most devout MAGA souls are blanching at the brazenness of the wheeling and dealing

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Christopher McMullanMay 14, 2025National Post, Politics
Is Pope Leo XIV Leaving Us Clues About Where He’s Headed?

In his first days as Pope, Leo XIV has signaled continuity over rupture, rooted his vision in patristic tradition, and issued a bold call to young people: ‘Do not be afraid.’

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Christopher McMullanMay 13, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Praying that Leo XIV is the Pope we need now

A 'citizen of the world,' the new pontiff brings renewed hope for global peace

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Christopher McMullanMay 11, 2025National Post, Church Affairs
Pope Leo XIV: Initial Impressions on a Papal First

Who the new pope will be is not exactly who he has been — being Leo is different than being Robert, just as being Peter is different than being Simon.

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Christopher McMullanMay 10, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Catholics Welcome Leo XIV, an American Pope

The Chicago native leads the global church as the successor of St. Peter.

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Christopher McMullanMay 8, 2025The Wall Street Journal, Church Affairs
It May Be Time for a Quiet Pope

After the garrulous Francis, the cardinals may conclude that they’ve heard enough.

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Christopher McMullanMay 8, 2025The Wall Street Journal, Chur
Cardinal Re to Electors: Next Pope Must Strengthen Church as Our ‘Home and School of Communion’

Preaching, worship and charity aren’t rival qualities but form a unified mission — and the new pope must live and lead with all three.

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Christopher McMullanMay 7, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
The Cardinal Electors, Then and Now

A conclave constructed by the late Holy Father to exclude Patriarch Shevchuk is one less likely to be an instrument of the Holy Spirit.

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Christopher McMullanMay 6, 2025First Things, Church Affairs
New Pope Must Correct the Declining Course of Catholicism in Latin America

Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and poor governance.

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Christopher McMullanMay 6, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
This Question Shook John Paul II — Now Another Man Must Answer Christ’s Summons

The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter three times, ‘Do you love me?’ — the same Gospel heard in churches around the world this Sunday.

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Christopher McMullanMay 4, 2025National Catholic Register, Faith
While Poilievre is humbled, Carney calls for humility

Prime minister's victory speech the strangest — in a pleasantly surprising way — in memory

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Christopher McMullanMay 4, 2025National Post, Politics
Interregnum: Restoration of the Petrine Office

From the start, Francis mistakenly insisted he was simply Bishop of Rome, which was remarkable; that he would say so to the end is astonishing.

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Christopher McMullanMay 3, 2025The Catholic Thing, Church Affairs
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