Recognizing that war has consequences for nations and borders and capitals is to acknowledge reality, a necessary foundation for peace.
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The recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel strikes me as both defensible and anticlimactic
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The Rohingya persecution in Myanmar (Burma) is a complex religious liberty issue that challenges the way we often think in Canada.
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How does one celebrate a 1,950th anniversary? Not much in the way of precedent for that, and this year’s anniversary of the martyrdom of Peter and Paul was left unmarked.
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The Clintons’ lifetime ambition for power is now exhausted. Hillary’s defeat means that no longer is the Clinton defence necessary.
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The long marriage of the Queen and the Duke should not go unremarked.
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What will follow Mugabe remains to be seen. But let Zimbabweans take a moment of satisfaction at the passing from the scene of the last of the African “liberation” leaders who was anything but.
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Hefner or Her Majesty, the cad or the queen. The latter ruled the realm, but the former ruled the culture.
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The viri probati proposal is not advanced as a good in itself, but, rather, as a concession to a sustained missionary failure.
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Every so often the COPs conclude a big agreement on emission targets, as they did in Kyoto 1997 or in Paris 2015. Countries like Canada and the United States then ignore the targets.
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Even a quarter of a century after the dissolution of the communist party and the Soviet Union itself, the restoration of Russian Orthodoxy remains a generational challenge.
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Communist philosophy, being materialistic, therefore had no room for freedom, and no room for those who chose to exercise it.
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Julie Payette’s mocking of those who believe that God has a role in the origins of human life, has been widely derided, and justly so. I add three points on history, philosophy, and character.
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While the early martyr-popes were quickly venerated as saints, the canonization of popes is not the norm. To the contrary, there were periods where many of them were far from exemplary Christian disciples.
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The culture of rebuke cannot be the only mode of ecclesial discourse, even as we give it greater prominence following the Holy Father’s lead.
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Full communion is not around the corner, but to agree about justification is an astonishingly large step forward.
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The Church is meant to be a sign of the fundamental unity of all peoples, already partially realized. The Christian Church, from its earliest days, was never a national project.
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Anniversaries of importance for the universal Church have abounded this year. For the Church in Canada, two modest anniversaries — 10 years — were celebrated this past fortnight.
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