Alberta’s energy sector is not asking the government to do anything, but rather to stop preventing necessary things from being done
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The life and service of the late shepherd of the Diocese of Madison tracked in an unusual way the ecclesial shifts of his era.
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An act of faith does not only mean an act of faith in God. We make many acts of faith in those around us. Most of our life is lived that way, in fact.
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There are vast numbers of men for whom recreation consumes more hours weekly than work, and that recreation is an escape from the world of adult responsibilities.
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A bishop cannot serve in parliament, even worse a faux-parliament in Beijing which has the blood of Catholics on its hands.
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Ever since Watergate, scandals have been covered according to the adage: “It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.” The situation of St. Michael’s College School allows to see that media dynamic in action. The story was about how the school covered up the incidents. Did it?
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In terms of how the Great War changed everything, the reference to Pope Benedict XV prompted for me a more local reflection. Not about what happened on the global stage, or at the war front, but about what happened here at literally on the home front for Catholic students at Queen’s University.
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While the annual gathering fell short, it may in fact have signaled a critical turning point on the road to reform.
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America takes great pride in its democracy, but simultaneously is quite ready to consider that it's open to manipulation, even corruption
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The bombshell in Baltimore confirms what the Holy Father has already made clear. He alone will decide when an investigation is needed. Only he will judge, and his judgment will be given without reasons.
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The life of discipleship, a blessing in itself, can be experienced as a burden in a fallen world. That’s true too in marriage and family life.
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Pope Francis has identified “clericalism” as a key factor in the crisis. It’s an ambiguous term that means different things in different mouths, but it must certainly include regarding priestly or episcopal service as a club to be joined rather than a sacrificial service to be offered.
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Fr Robert Taft was a rare figure in Rome who spoke up for persecuted Ukrainian Catholics
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We have been relearning painfully ever since that technological mastery enables us to do more, both for good and for evil
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The Great War was Europe’s greatest civilizational failure, a kind of mass civilizational suicide. Any culture, any political system, any diplomatic apparatus that could give rise to a catastrophe on the scale of the Great War lost its credibility. It was no longer possible to have faith in Europe after Europe had massacred itself.
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It seems Asia Bibi, persecuted for her faith, may be on her way to freedom. She deserves whatever help she can get as the mob waits to kill her.
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Dr Cohen, the Jewish doctor who treated the shooter Robert Bowers, spoke of a desire to forgive – surely a desire born of the worship at that very synagogue.
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The Big Bang, despite being used by scientists weak in metaphysics to “explain” that the origins of the universe exclude divine creation, actually points — suggestively, but not definitively — to a complementarity between astronomy and biblical revelation, righty understood.
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