Catholics have a right to be both angry and confused, sad and perplexed by the revelation of the L’Arche founder’s grave sexual misconduct.
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That a man such as Vanier could be guilty of such great sins is a stark latter-day confirmation of the biblical truth that the Lord’s anointed can do wicked things.
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Massed police — even if only for crowd control — can be a fearsome sight. Watching the police impassively watching the incendiary vandalizing of the national railway is fearful in a different way.
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Despite Pope Francis’ revival of the great vision the Latin American bishops set forth in 2007, there is little evidence that it will be truly be put into practice.
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Indigenous land claim protests might spell the death of reconciliation if they continue threatening the rule of law.
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The Amazon synod could be paid for but Pope Francis could not be bought, or beseeched, or bullied.
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Progressives the world over were bitterly disappointed by the seeming sense of betrayal by Pope Francis. At the same time, though, the Holy Father did not reject the proposal.
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The genius of the Mafia genre is that, amid brutal criminality, it always pointed toward something more.
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The talents of Christie Blatchford cannot easily be matched. But what made her truly admirable was her courage.
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In Querida Amazonia, as in previous documents, clear questions were posed. Ambiguous answers were given, awaiting clarification by novel maneuvers.
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St. Josephine Bakhita, the flower of the African desert, serves as a powerful intercessor for the victims of these heinous crimes as well as astonishing forgiveness for the perpetrators.
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Argentina is a rich country that has made itself systematically poorer for a century, not due to war or natural disaster, but by generations of failed leadership.
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Martin Scorsese’s homage to Mafiosos movies is ultimately a tale of life experienced from the perspective of eternity.
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The Church’s judgment cannot be contracted out to criminal justice systems that have been unduly influenced by public opinion.
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It was notable that in Trump's state of the union, the only mention of criminal justice and prisons was about getting inmates out of prison.
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The decision removes a source of toxins that the seminary injected in the life of the local Church.
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Last week’s helicopter crash that killed the basketball star and eight others leads us to ponder Jesus’ warning about death and thieves in the night.
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