In Casey, Kennedy ruled that liberty means relativism. If there is no standard of truth to resolve disagreements, then all that is left is power.
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A Latin American Church plagued by scandal, on the back foot on life issues, and unable to evangelise its own interior – this is not the galvanising vision of the then-Cardinal at Aparecida.
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Family separation went from a regrettable side effect to the desired means. That’s why the new policy was widely recognized as immoral.
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Both St John Paul II and Pope Francis agree that young Catholics need more challenge and less comfort.
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In the summer of 1968, it was an open question about whether a peaceable common life could prevail.
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There is no hierarchy of Charter rights, Justice LeBel explained in 2015, only some rights which are more central, even if they do not appear in the Charter itself.
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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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