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Golf confronts its racist past
Golf confronts its racist past

Lee Elder, the first Black golfer to play in the Masters, received a historic honour at this year's tournament.

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Newman House ManagerApril 10, 2021Culture, National Post
Easter Holy Days perfect substitute to March Break
Easter Holy Days perfect substitute to March Break

Only God can create time and by living time according to God’s plan we realize that we belong to Him first, not to the secular culture around us.

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Newman House ManagerApril 6, 2021Catholic Register, Culture
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Easter Sunday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Easter Sunday

I like to think that St. Joseph, from the bosom of Abraham, sent another Joseph to do what needed to be done.

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Newman House ManagerApril 4, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register
National Post Editorial:  In a year of suffering, hope for the future
National Post Editorial: In a year of suffering, hope for the future

At Easter, Christians celebrate salvation from something more deadly than a global pandemic. Or perhaps the original and most enduring pandemic, that of sin, which escaped from Eden and has been haunting the world ever since.

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Newman House ManagerApril 3, 2021Faith, National Post
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Saturday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Saturday

Read slowly more of that most beautiful homily of Holy Saturday morning, and imagine St. Joseph arising to see Jesus coming toward him.


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Newman House ManagerApril 3, 2021National Catholic Register, Holy Week Shadows, Faith
Giving names to evil and salvation on Easter
Giving names to evil and salvation on Easter

The names of the righteous and unrighteous belong to history, each having to answer for the part taken.

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Newman House ManagerApril 2, 2021Faith, National Post
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Good Friday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Good Friday

Joseph would have taught Jesus the Psalms, the prayer book of the Jewish people.

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Newman House ManagerApril 2, 2021National Catholic Register, Faith
Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Dante: Good Company on Good Friday
Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Dante: Good Company on Good Friday

Poignant memories of Good Friday 16 years ago carry special significance today.

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Newman House ManagerApril 2, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Thursday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Thursday

The upper room of the Last Supper – what we call now the “Cenacle” – is of supreme importance in the life of the Church.

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Newman House ManagerApril 1, 2021National Catholic Register, Holy Week Shadows, Faith
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Spy Wednesday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Spy Wednesday

Some Jewish families were likely purchasing their Passover lambs when Judas went the chief priests and offered the Lamb of God for sale.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 31, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register, Holy Week Shadows
Coronavirus and the Seven Last Words of Christ From the Cross
Coronavirus and the Seven Last Words of Christ From the Cross

“In your house I shall celebrate the Passover.” (Matthew 26:18)

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Newman House ManagerMarch 30, 2021National Catholic Register, Faith, seven last words
Good Friday in America
Good Friday in America

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of a much less edifying Good Friday in the history of American Catholic culture.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 30, 2021Culture, First Things
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Tuesday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Tuesday

The purity of St. Joseph made him fitting to see God in his own household. The purity of St. John made him fitting to have the Blessed Virgin in his household.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 30, 2021National Catholic Register, Faith, Holy Week Shadows
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Monday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Holy Monday

Jesus was at home at Bethany. Surely it reminded Him of the home in Nazareth, where the Holy Family dwelt together in the sweet scent of holiness.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 29, 2021National Catholic Register, Faith, Holy Week Shadows
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Palm Sunday
The Holy Week Shadows of St. Joseph: Palm Sunday

Jesus is the son of David, of the royal house of Israel’s greatest king. It is of greatest importance.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 28, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register, Holy Week Shadows
B.C.'s Dr. Bonnie Henry takes her big stick to religion
B.C.'s Dr. Bonnie Henry takes her big stick to religion

It is impossible not to conclude that Henry’s office has been animated by a hostility to prayer and worship during the pandemic.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 28, 2021Culture, National Post
Schism Looms: Pope Francis and the Willfully Rebellious Church in Germany
Schism Looms: Pope Francis and the Willfully Rebellious Church in Germany

The Holy Father’s German gamble failed. He led with an open hand and got a clenched fist in return.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 26, 2021Church Affairs
The Cambridge don who saw beyond Hawking
The Cambridge don who saw beyond Hawking

John Polkinghorne was a pioneer in quantum physics before resigning his academic post in 1979 to study for the Anglican priesthood.

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Newman House ManagerMarch 26, 2021Faith, National Post
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