Spare a thought, but not a tear, for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, the greatest behemoth in Canadian political history, which administered a long-overdue self-execution last Saturday in Alberta.
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Cardinal Robert Sarah’s call for “liturgical reconciliation” between the Extraordinary Form and Ordinary Form of the Mass, and my comment upon it in these pages, generated a quick, thoughtful, and mostly negative reaction from the EF community. The responses are noteworthy.
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Cardinal Sarah wrote in favour of the “mutual enrichment” of the two forms of the Roman Rite, a phrase of Benedict XVI’s arguing that both forms have riches that would enhance the other if incorporated.
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Hebron thus is at the heart of the promises made by God and the ownership of the land. That makes Hebron a rather intractable sort of place of religious conflict. UNESCO was foolish to declare itself on the matter, which was not necessary.
Read MoreThere was a surprise at the funeral Mass of Cardinal Joachim Meisner on July 15 in Cologne; a message was read from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, dated July 11. The message was not as explosive as some commentators with short memories made it out to be; it was vintage Ratzinger, always alert to the precarious state of the Church.
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I certainly enjoyed this year’s festivities for Canada 150 in Ottawa, mainly because I spent my time at the inspiring events put on by my Cardus colleagues for our Faith in Canada 150 project. But as I watched those taking part in the official ceremonies, I wondered if they’ve thought of Canada Day 2017 as the last one.
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Making saints is the entirety of the Church’s mission. How official saints get “made” - or better recognized - in the life of the Church is thus of supreme importance.
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If Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro was not the editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, his recent attack on the “ecumenism of hate” he diagnoses in the United States never would have been published in that venerable journal.
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Trump was full of praise for Poland’s two centuries of courage and fidelity on the front lines of freedom. Very specifically, he identified the key date in recent Polish history as the day that St. John Paul II returned home for the first time:
Read MoreTrump lacks credibility on lived values. Yet he delivered a powerful argument that Western civilization — rooted in certain ideas about God, the human person and liberty — depends upon more than force of arms or a surfeit of material goods to survive.
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It’s possible to be banal in either language. The government had erected an enormous multi-storey billboard behind the building soon-to-be-known-as-the-building-formerly-known-as-the-Langevin-Block. The message the government chose to inspire Canadians? Building on our past for tomorrow.
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President Donald Trump was full of praise for Poland’s noble past on Thursday in Warsaw, but his presence here ahead of the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, is an attempt to shape a different European future, where the eastern countries have a larger role.
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St. John Paul’s longtime papal spokesman offered a most extraordinary — and successful — service, one that has lessons for today.
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The sexual abuse charges against Cardinal George Pell by the Victoria police are a test for Australian criminal justice, the Australian Church and for the cardinal himself
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Tolerance for religious minorities was written into the very establishment of Canada, more than a century before the country was established in 1867. Today, religious liberty and religious pluralism are under siege the world over. The 150 years – and more – of the Canadian experience have much to offer.
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Coast to coast. It is a defining element of Canada, the sheer vastness of a land mass that extends, extends, extends to the horizon and beyond, finding an end in the only thing more vast than the land itself — the sea.
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Over seven days of formation and fellowship at a new seminar on Wolfe Island, thirteen young Catholics inspired me by their commitment to witness to the transcendent dignity and destiny of the human person in every sphere of society.
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Newfoundland is so fittingly Canadian, it is hard to imagine it was ever otherwise: the sea, the coast, the north, the indigenous people and the first European explorers, the closeness to Europe and the opening to a new continent. And the moose.
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