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The new abuse law is the biggest reform since 2001
The new abuse law is the biggest reform since 2001

On paper, Vos estis is a revolution greater than that of Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela in 2001.

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Newman House ManagerMay 16, 2019Catholic Herald, Church Affairs
Drink a Caesar ... for national unity
Drink a Caesar ... for national unity

It is marvellous to have such a delicious drink that is distinctively Canadian, another gift of Alberta to the federation

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Newman House ManagerMay 15, 2019Culture, National Post
Re-thinking best spot for the bishop’s chair
Re-thinking best spot for the bishop’s chair

With the cathedra now in the central place, the entire architectural focus of the cathedral is on the bishop’s seat, including at the vast majority of Masses when he is not present.

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Newman House ManagerMay 13, 2019Faith, Catholic Register
Jean Vanier’s Human Communities
Jean Vanier’s Human Communities

Vanier founded a human movement, rooted in the Biblical conviction that the deepest meaning of being human is discovered in God’s revelation that we are made in His image and likeness.

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Newman House ManagerMay 10, 2019Convivium, Faith
Communion and the Church’s mess
Communion and the Church’s mess

A week after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI released his essay on the sexual abuse crisis, the wounded Church of Santiago must set its priorities straight.

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Newman House ManagerMay 9, 2019Church Affairs, Catholic Herald
The Puzzling Pontificate of Pope Francis
The Puzzling Pontificate of Pope Francis

Pope Francis is not guilty of heresy, in part due to the fact his teaching style is not sufficiently clear as to sustain such a charge.

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Newman House ManagerMay 9, 2019Church Affairs, National Catholic Register
What Jean Vanier did for us all
What Jean Vanier did for us all

Jean Vanier is one of the great Catholic founders of our time, and those who saw in him something of Mother Teresa, now a canonized saint, were not wrong.

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Newman House ManagerMay 8, 2019Culture, National Post
Benedict’s Essay Broadens Conversation on Causes of Crisis
Benedict’s Essay Broadens Conversation on Causes of Crisis

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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Newman House ManagerMay 7, 2019Church Affairs, National Catholic Register, Benedict XVI
Alberta's Show of Hands
Alberta's Show of Hands

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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Newman House ManagerMay 3, 2019Convivium, Culture
Kenney keeps doing what can't be done, and Canada could be about to benefit
Kenney keeps doing what can't be done, and Canada could be about to benefit

What Premier Kenney has done since the early 1990s is to change the parameters of the possible in politics.

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Newman House ManagerMay 1, 2019Politics, National Post
Notre Dame as Cultural Moment
Notre Dame as Cultural Moment

The burning of Notre Dame de Paris sparked an inferno of journalistic ignorance about Christianity

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Newman House ManagerApril 25, 2019Culture, Convivium
The grim toll of Christians massacred at Easter rises again
The grim toll of Christians massacred at Easter rises again

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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Newman House ManagerApril 25, 2019Culture, National Post
Why Benedict by-passed the Vatican
Why Benedict by-passed the Vatican

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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Newman House ManagerApril 25, 2019Church Affairs, Catholic Herald
Razing the Temple
Razing the Temple

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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Newman House ManagerApril 18, 2019Faith, Convivium
Newman is a perfect companion for Holy Week
Newman is a perfect companion for Holy Week

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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Newman House ManagerApril 18, 2019Faith, Catholic Herald
What Notre Dame means to France, and us all
What Notre Dame means to France, and us all

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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Newman House ManagerApril 16, 2019Culture, National Post
Pope Benedict’s Essay Is a Summary of His Theological Quest
Pope Benedict’s Essay Is a Summary of His Theological Quest

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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Newman House ManagerApril 16, 2019Church Affairs, National Catholic Register
Archbishop Gregory: the Jimmy Carter of the US Church
Archbishop Gregory: the Jimmy Carter of the US Church

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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Newman House ManagerApril 11, 2019Church Affairs, Catholic Herald
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