There is, even in wartime, a convention that houses of worship are to be exempt from bombardment. The arms of man ought not touch the house of God.
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Mulroney at 80 does not then need the vindication of history for his premiership. He needs long years to put distance between himself and his post-premiership
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A titan of the European Church since the late 1970s, Godfried Danneels died as a symbol of an exhausted liberal Catholicism resuscitated by Pope Francis.
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The Holy Father’s choices have been much less impactful than the diverse range of Church luminaries St. John Paul II appointed early in his own papacy.
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If the Basilians decide, understandably, that Fr. Rosica must be removed from educational and media work, that does not mean that he is cast aside, and hardly means that he has nothing further to offer.
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To a certain Canadian mindset, the religious disputes over the identity of the land here in Israel and Palestine seem a touch primitive. But the same arguments are becoming more fashionable in Canada.
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Does the Church have enough confidence in her own canon law to defend judgments which might be at variance with secular proceedings? Especially when it appears that justice has not been done.
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The clerk bewailed the things said about him on the web 'vomitorium.' Now a respected international organization has added to them
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The Victoria police have not earned “maximum respect” in Victoria. Why do they enjoy it at the Vatican?
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Frustration has been widely expressed at the lack of progress on sexual abuse reform. But on finances, things are getting worse
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Did the friendship between the two influence the decision of Philpott to resign from cabinet because she had lost confidence that the prime minister was respecting the independence of criminal prosecutions?
I certainly hope so.
Read MoreThe truth of the matter is that very few ministers leave any significant traces in the offices they pass through. But the difference a minister makes is never greater than when she resigns on principle.
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Attention has been focused on the prospect of Donald Trump abusing the power of his office to thwart criminal investigations, a Nixon for our time. Who would have thought that it was Trudeau that we should have been worried about?
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The prosecution of Cardinal Pell has been a monstrous miscarriage of justice, a religious persecution carried out by prosecutorial means.
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There was undoubtedly a good spirit at the summit, a sense that a corner had been turned. But there are storm clouds ahead.
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The Catholic Church in Canada does not have a surfeit of priests like Fr. Tom and we need him, in his own voice. And if that voice is now repentant and seeks mercy, as he should, that, too, can be a lesson at the service of the gospel.
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The summit meeting will have little to offer countries like Canada which have already been dealing with the problem of priestly sexual sins and crimes for decades.
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Reconciliation is only possible when the aggrieved decide to cease putting grievances — even legitimate ones — in the face of the other
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