Will the new relationship between the Holy See and the Russian Orthodox require ongoing sidelining of Ukrainian Catholic concerns?
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Solzhenitsyn's brilliant, iconoclastic speech was perhaps the most thoughtful, articulate, and challenging commencement address ever delivered.
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The Russian president will exploit the event for his imperial pretensions. Will the world permit that, or use the spotlight to challenge him?
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It seems only the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome will be able to resolve the issues.
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With the German intercommunion case, as with the Chile crisis, may it be that public criticism from senior cardinals prompted the Holy Father to reverse course?
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Ontario’s political options are dismal, but this is not a unique problem; all over the world there is a dramatic lack of leaders equal to their task.
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The Chile crisis reflects the distinctive managerial style of Pope Francis, in which he acts as his own centre of initiative, bypassing entirely the officials of the Roman Curia.
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Ontario has a problem with pay-to-play corruption, and the disappearance from the stage of various actors ought not forestall a reckoning on that front.
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Fifty years after Humanae Vitae, its vision, made clear in the “theology of the body,” shapes everything from youth groups to adult catechesis to marriage preparation.
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Canadian celebration of the Irish referendum result reflects a view that abortion is a good to be promoted abroad, akin to clean water and habeas corpus.
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Blesseds Pino and Leonella sealed with their blood the Church’s denunciation of criminal violence and religious violence.
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Greater observation of Thou shalt not steal and Thou shalt not bear false witness would have gone a long way toward preventing the scale of the financial crisis.
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The federal government is putting up billions to ensure that what a private firm wants to do for the benefit of Canadian energy exports can be done instead at public expense.
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Pope Francis’ cardinal choices reflect his interest in peripheries he has visited: in the past, Sweden and the Central African Republic; this time, the poor of Rome and earthquake victims of L’Aquila.
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Bishop Curry, oddly enough, did not speak about marriage at all, much less how it was the path by which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would help each other toward eternal life.
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The Canadian Justice Minister’s proposed reform acknowledges “the negative outcomes and conflicts that are the sad reality of separation and divorce”.
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It would be better if comments reportedly made by the Pope in private remained in private, not splashed around the world by news media.
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The conclusion of the Chilean summit clarified three characteristics of the Holy Father’s pastoral style.
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