National Post — Articles — Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

The U.S. has big problems, but Canada's justice system deserves criticism, too

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?

Edward BurroughsMay 22, 2019National Post, Politics

Drink a Caesar ... for national unity

It is marvellous to have such a delicious drink that is distinctively Canadian, another gift of Alberta to the federation

Edward BurroughsMay 15, 2019Culture, National Post

What Jean Vanier did for us all

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.

Edward BurroughsMay 8, 2019Culture, National Post

Kenney keeps doing what can't be done, and Canada could be about to benefit

What Premier Kenney has done since the early 1990s is to change the parameters of the possible in politics.

Edward BurroughsMay 1, 2019Politics, National Post

The grim toll of Christians massacred at Easter rises again

There is no surprise that it took place on Easter Sunday. Christians are killed on Easter Sunday for being Christian. Every year.

Edward BurroughsApril 25, 2019Culture, National Post

What Notre Dame means to France, and us all

What burned in Paris this Holy Week? Principally a church, the great church of the French people, their culture, their heritage, their nation

Edward BurroughsApril 16, 2019Culture, National Post

The rich abandon their duty to us all

Great wealth imposes obligations to provide for the common good, including works of art, parks and gardens, libraries and music

Edward BurroughsApril 10, 2019National Post, Culture

The good (and bad) of carbon tax economics

The economic problem with a 'tax on everything' is that it leaves few options outside of the 'everything' for consumers to make changes in their behaviour

Edward BurroughsApril 4, 2019Politics, National Post

It's Ralph vs. Rachel in Alberta this election

Alberta can't tax its way back to fiscal health. Spending restraint a la Ralph Klein is the answer, argues author Mike Milke

Edward BurroughsMarch 28, 2019National Post, Politics

There’s a special place in hell for those who shoot people at prayer. And it’s getting crowded

There is, even in wartime, a convention that houses of worship are to be exempt from bombardment. The arms of man ought not touch the house of God.

Edward BurroughsMarch 22, 2019Culture, National Post

Now the OECD is bullying Michael Wernick, too

The clerk bewailed the things said about him on the web 'vomitorium.' Now a respected international organization has added to them

Edward BurroughsMarch 13, 2019Politics, National Post

The most meaningful thing a cabinet minister can do

The truth of the matter is that very few ministers leave any significant traces in the offices they pass through. But the difference a minister makes is never greater than when she resigns on principle.

Edward BurroughsMarch 6, 2019National Post, Politics

Father Tom's plagiarism was shocking, but he is more than his failing

The Catholic Church in Canada does not have a surfeit of priests like Fr. Tom and we need him, in his own voice. And if that voice is now repentant and seeks mercy, as he should, that, too, can be a lesson at the service of the gospel.

Edward BurroughsFebruary 28, 2019National Post, Church Affairs

The Israeli-Polish friendship may be dying

Reconciliation is only possible when the aggrieved decide to cease putting grievances — even legitimate ones — in the face of the other

Edward BurroughsFebruary 21, 2019National Post, Politics, Poland, Israel

It's hard to understand the sentencing of Alexandre Bissonnette

Huot ruled that 'life 50' is unconstitutional, but 'life 40' is not. What about 'life 44' or 'life 47'? The jurisprudence on that fine calibration still awaits

Edward BurroughsFebruary 14, 2019National Post, Politics

The U.A.E.'s low bar for religious tolerance

In the U.A.E., Christians are able to worship but religious liberty does not exist in a fulsome way. The bar is set so low for Muslim countries that the U.A.E. is hailed as a beacon of tolerance.

Edward BurroughsFebruary 7, 2019National Post, Politics

Trudeau is somehow right on Venezuela

Having youthful illusions shattered by reality is painful, but the prime minister is holding up admirably well. He held his youthful illusions well into middle age, so it is past time to let them go.

Edward BurroughsJanuary 30, 2019National Post, Politics

Where sports and the surveillance state collide

Increased technology and oversight are employed, sometimes at great cost and inconvenience, to eliminate even the remote possibility of error.

Edward BurroughsJanuary 24, 2019National Post, Culture