Benedict’s essay expresses and contributes toward a new moment in the life the Church, where it is possible to speak broadly and deeply about the sexual-abuse crisis.
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Premier Jason Kenney’s no-frills swearing in gives time to turn from politics to art and find beauty in the work of human hands.
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What Premier Kenney has done since the early 1990s is to change the parameters of the possible in politics.
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The burning of Notre Dame de Paris sparked an inferno of journalistic ignorance about Christianity
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There is no surprise that it took place on Easter Sunday. Christians are killed on Easter Sunday for being Christian. Every year.
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Why did Benedict employ the means that he did to release his essay? Because he knows that neither those in Rome nor in Germany are trustworthy.
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This Good Friday, will we feel – at the moment that the death of Jesus on the cross is liturgically commemorated – that something greater than Notre Dame has been lost?
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To contend with God’s purposes is a perplexity that serves Him, for His purposes then occupy our minds and hearts.
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What burned in Paris this Holy Week? Principally a church, the great church of the French people, their culture, their heritage, their nation
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As the pope emeritus has found time and again, when everything unimaginable is before us, the only path back is back to God, revealed in Jesus Christ.
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Only after the Watergate years could a man run for president making the rather modest pledge to not lie. And only after the last year in Washington would a new archbishop be wise to begin by promising to meet such a low standard: telling the truth.
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We have spoken out loud when we see that the rights of the people are violated, or an injustice is done to any person or any sector. We speak the truth to power!
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Great wealth imposes obligations to provide for the common good, including works of art, parks and gardens, libraries and music
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The dominant pastoral advice of Christus Vivit concerns mistakes to avoid rather than indications of paths to pursue.
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New abuse norms suggest the archbishop had a point about Vatican secrecy
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The economic problem with a 'tax on everything' is that it leaves few options outside of the 'everything' for consumers to make changes in their behaviour
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If “choosing not to hear” is as fabulous a manifestation of diversity as “choosing to hear,” then it explains why the Liberal Party is diverse even when it chooses not to be.
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Given his well-known homosexual affairs, and the archdiocesan money he used to cover it up, it is astonishing that Archbishop Weakland’s name was still on a church building in 2019
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