What accounts for this undeclared Year of Fatima, in which the world was swept with a wave of consecrations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Four reasons suggest themselves.
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In the face of the great evils that abound, what is needed is something beyond a reckoning. What is needed is for the transgression to be redeemed.
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The Last Jedi generally rehashes old material with sillier characters and locales. I do welcome its exploration of hope, which is barely given adequate treatment.
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We will be back in our splendid “new” Marian church at Christmas — 100 years exactly since the first Mass and one year since the fire.
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I make a plea – to Christian writers at least – to stop using the regrettably ubiquitous adjective “iconic.” It is employed far too often, and rarely with its proper meaning.
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It is an obligation incumbent on whichever power controls Jerusalem to be generous, knowing that it must also prove a worthy custodian of the city’s universal dimension.
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The latest clarification of the proper interpretation of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) raises new questions, with perhaps unexpected answers.
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Spe Salvi is lyrical in its treatment about how only love can free us from the prison of history as just one damn thing after another.
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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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