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.
Read MoreMuch 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?
Read MoreRihanna at the Met was a one-off. Fashion catastrophes are a consistent Catholic problem.
Read MoreAve Verum Corpus is a masterpiece of compactly expressed doctrine and piety, and the source of a moving memory from Rome.
Read MoreMacron 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.
Read MoreThe dignity of refugees is first violated by their own countries, long before they might find a hostile welcome elsewhere.
Read MoreDiplomats have a weakness, namely to value the reaching of an agreement itself over the purpose the agreement is intended to achieve.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn Nicaragua, as in Venezuela, there appears to be a new boldness from Latin American bishops in the face of bad governance and human rights violations.
Read MoreCounterintuitively, at the heart of this pontificate are the priorities and personnel of the most worldly local Church on earth.
Read MoreDr. 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.
Read MorePhil 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.
Read MoreWe ought to note the translation of Cardinal Beran’s remains, a reminder of the heroic witness offered by the Church’s pastors in the age of the totalitarians.
Read MoreThe competence of Const. Lam reminds us that good policing does not cause unnecessary deaths, even of those who have just engaged in mass killing.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreDuty, honour, country. Faith and family, too. They not only belong to another era, but were more fruitfully lived in that earlier generation for which Barbara Bush was a model.
Read MoreHoly Thursday 2018 summarised the entire pontificate of Pope Francis in one day.
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