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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In an age when the Church is emphasising anew the priority of missionary discipleship, the relic pilgrimage of St Francis Xavier gives us a sharp challenge to renew our missionary zeal.
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The relic pilgrimage of St. Francis Xavier's arm across Canada is proving to be the largest Catholic event of the year in the places it has visited.
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The visit of St. Francis Xavier’s relic shows that tradition is more attractive to young people than innovations, and that immigrants are making our country more religious, not less.
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Friendship with Christ is the reason for mission. Friendship with fellow disciples makes that mission possible.
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The relic of St. Francis Xavier is making a Canada-wide visit this month, reminding us that the great missionary mandate to the nations is never exhausted.
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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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