It is extremely rare to find anyone who emerges from an audience with the Holy Father without a highly favorable impression and without thinking that the Holy Father shares his position.
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Curling is very, very Canadian in the best sense — challenging, wintry, courteous. Every good shot, regardless of team, is cheered with admiration.
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Access to the Pius XII archives will affirm what is already known but may shed light on why the pontiff did not convoke Vatican II.
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With the saintly founder of L’Arche capable of great wickedness, Father Raymond de Souza asks, what snares imperil the rest of us?
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If energy projects in remote areas require Indigenous consultation and participation, why not go the whole way and get Indigenous ownership?
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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.
Read MoreNo-win because the very institutions that are required to resolve disputes are themselves being considered corrupt and illegitimate.
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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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