Given the prevalence of confusing public conversation about residential schools, it might be helpful for Catholics to recall what has already been done in terms of financial compensation.
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In Canada, civil authorities and the Church have collaborated, negotiated and even litigated over pandemic protocols. Yet in the province of Quebec, the Church was being ignored.
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There is no hierarchy of Charter rights, Justice LeBel explained in 2015, only some rights which are more central, even if they do not appear in the Charter itself.
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Ontario has a problem with pay-to-play corruption, and the disappearance from the stage of various actors ought not forestall a reckoning on that front.
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The federal government is putting up billions to ensure that what a private firm wants to do for the benefit of Canadian energy exports can be done instead at public expense.
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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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This week we mourn with Humboldt. At the vigil, Pastor Brandow reminded us that what is needed more than anything is to hear from God, to encounter Jesus.
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The wounds are still fresh in Humboldt. The scars will come in time, Pastor Brandow told us. And the Christian puts his faith in the God who has scars.
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Fr. Rosica did a service by calling Trudeau's "dictatorship of imposed ideologies" out by name.
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We need to re-examine our default habit of inviting to Catholic events those who seek to drive Catholics to the margins of our common life.
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The new altar at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa speaks of the sacrifice of Christ, as all altars do, as well as Christ as the light of the nations.
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The only logic that holds the CPSO decision together is that freedom of religion and freedom of conscience are relatively unimportant in a “free and democratic society.”
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To the tens of thousands of people that Patrick Brown brought into the political process, only to betray them as soon as he thought advantageous, he taught them that his first rule of politics was to use and exploit others.
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How can the government tell faith-based groups that their beliefs are not part of their 'core mandate'? What — literally in God’s name — is the point otherwise?
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How could the investigation have been conducted with such haste that the contradictions inevitable in the story of an 11-year-old telling a fib, went uncovered by police, let alone the media?
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The everyday battle of the Christian disciple is within our hearts. Some pieces of our hearts, corrupted by the world, must be destroyed so that, purified in the fire of the Holy Spirit, we may be free to choose God.
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The future of Catholicism in Canada depends upon the fidelity of immigrants from Asia. If our presence does not make this land more holy, what it is the point of our being here?
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What the government is demanding of summer employers is coerced speech, using its power to force assent to a political position.
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