Diplomats have a weakness, namely to value the reaching of an agreement itself over the purpose the agreement is intended to achieve.
Read MoreThe existence of the liturgical calendar is something of a liberation from the mundane tyranny of what is going on today, or as we lamentably say now, what is trending.
Read MoreIn Nicaragua, as in Venezuela, there appears to be a new boldness from Latin American bishops in the face of bad governance and human rights violations.
Read MoreCounterintuitively, at the heart of this pontificate are the priorities and personnel of the most worldly local Church on earth.
Read MoreDr. Diab was unjustly sent to France in part because senior officials in the Canadian justice department did not disclose evidence that strongly pointed to his innocence.
Read MorePhil Lawler’s Lost Shepherd is a telling of a tale that the author himself hopes is wrong. It is an insightful book, but not a pleasant read.
Read MoreWe ought to note the translation of Cardinal Beran’s remains, a reminder of the heroic witness offered by the Church’s pastors in the age of the totalitarians.
Read MoreThe competence of Const. Lam reminds us that good policing does not cause unnecessary deaths, even of those who have just engaged in mass killing.
Read MoreThe Gospels give many accounts of Jesus actually showing mercy instead of telling parables about it – and yet the Parable of the Prodigal Son remains central to our sharing of the mercy of God.
Read MoreIt is quite simply not the business of the Parliament of Canada to tell the Catholic bishops of Canada what they should or should not do in their relations with the pope.
Read MoreDuty, honour, country. Faith and family, too. They not only belong to another era, but were more fruitfully lived in that earlier generation for which Barbara Bush was a model.
Read MoreHoly Thursday 2018 summarised the entire pontificate of Pope Francis in one day.
Read MoreWhat can be expected after the extraordinary letter, initially well-received in Chile?
Read MoreThis week we mourn with Humboldt. At the vigil, Pastor Brandow reminded us that what is needed more than anything is to hear from God, to encounter Jesus.
Read MoreThe wounds are still fresh in Humboldt. The scars will come in time, Pastor Brandow told us. And the Christian puts his faith in the God who has scars.
Read MoreMartin Luther King has been reduced from preacher to teacher in our culture's memory, but his Biblical preaching testifies to the transformative power of the Gospel.
Read MoreIf the papal apology accepted in 2009 was no longer acceptable in 2015, what is the point of doing it again?
Read MoreFr. Rosica did a service by calling Trudeau's "dictatorship of imposed ideologies" out by name.
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