Thankfully there have been few public expressions of this morbid sentiment during the current papacy, in contrast to the situation during the papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
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Connecting the dots between the killing of Catholic parliamentarian Sir David Amess and the reception of ex-Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali into the Catholic Church.
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The Glasgow summit makes clear the new reality that China has learned it can conduct itself with impunity.
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Since Pope Paul VI started the practice of foreign papal trips, which were subsequently turbo-charged by Pope John Paul II, it is often thought that hosting the pope is routine. Not so.
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It's a very ancient infection to which state agents are prone and for which no effective cure has been developed.
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The province’s circumstances 'do not justify the coercive and disruptive policies' that have been implemented, Cardus think-tank tells Premier Ford.
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Thirty years ago, then-Sen. Biden presided over Thomas's confirmation hearings, which the judge deemed an attempted 'high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks'.
Read MoreThe government is not worried about the charter; it just wants everyone to know that punishment is on the way.
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Oct. 13 is the day of ‘the Miracle of the Sun.’ It’s also another day to consider St. Joseph’s role in the life of his family, the Scriptures and in the Church.
Read MorePaid days off have a way of diminishing, rather than enhancing, the reason for the commemoration.
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The opening day Oct. 9 suggested problems in the first moments of the planetary process: participation, process and previous controversies.
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Aside from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, no curial cardinal achieved more on critically important issues than did the Chilean cardinal, who died Oct. 3.
Read MoreThe Catholic bishops of Canada have made a “financial pledge” with a “target of $30 million” over five years “as a tangible expression of their commitment to walk with the Indigenous Peoples of this land.”
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Not a single intel assessment available to America’s top general predicted that Afghanistan would fall.
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The 79-year-old archbishop emeritus of Caracas died Sept. 23 due to complications from COVID-19.
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Bellarmine is principally remembered for two great theological controversies that touched upon worldly realities, one regarding astronomy and the other the political power of the pope.
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The Burns documentary, more than any other major treatment of Ali, allows the shadows to appear.
Read MoreSurely the position that the human rights of ethnic and religious minorities in Quebec have no defender in the Conservative leader did not help win over new Canadians.
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