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Remembrance Day should serve as a reminder that Canada is a country worth fighting for
Remembrance Day should serve as a reminder that Canada is a country worth fighting for

Remembrance Day, a day of reverence, reminds us that there is more to Canada’s story than shadows.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 15, 2021Politics, National Post, Popular
War dashes dreams
War dashes dreams

War sees to it that many of the young do not grow old. For those who do, war makes it hard to dream again.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 15, 2021Culture, National Post
Short visit works best
Short visit works best

Pope Francis will visit Canada to further reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians in relation to residential schools.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 9, 2021Catholic Register, Church Affairs
The Witness of the Mafia Martyrs
The Witness of the Mafia Martyrs

The Archdiocese of Catania, Sicily’s second-largest city, has put a three-year ban on godparents at baptism and sponsors at confirmation.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 9, 2021Culture, First Things
President Biden, Pope Francis and Canon Law
President Biden, Pope Francis and Canon Law

If what Biden says the Holy Father said is true, what they were discussing comes under Canon 916, not 915.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 8, 2021Politics, National Catholic Register
Pope St. John Paul II Lived His Priesthood as an Oblation
Pope St. John Paul II Lived His Priesthood as an Oblation

On the 75th anniversary of his priestly ordination, we recall Karol Wojtyła, who ended as he had begun, living a priesthood signed by suffering.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 8, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register
Cardinal George Pell as Biblical Commentator
Cardinal George Pell as Biblical Commentator

The Australian cardinal's prison journal provides readers with many worthwhile reflections.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 8, 2021National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Who Wants the Pope to Die?
Who Wants the Pope to Die?

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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Newman House ManagerNovember 8, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register
Pakistan and England, Orthodoxy and Islamic Extremism
Pakistan and England, Orthodoxy and Islamic Extremism

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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Newman House ManagerNovember 5, 2021National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Don't expect any big climate concessions from China at COP26
Don't expect any big climate concessions from China at COP26

The Glasgow summit makes clear the new reality that China has learned it can conduct itself with impunity.

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Newman House ManagerNovember 5, 2021Politics, National Post
Pope Francis' visit to Canada will be no easy feat, but will be of great importance
Pope Francis' visit to Canada will be no easy feat, but will be of great importance

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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Newman House ManagerOctober 29, 2021National Post, Church Affairs
Government overreach on COVID measures has been about power — not the pandemic
Government overreach on COVID measures has been about power — not the pandemic

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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Newman House ManagerOctober 29, 2021Politics, National Post
A compelling critique of Ontario's vaccine mandates
A compelling critique of Ontario's vaccine mandates

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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Newman House ManagerOctober 20, 2021Politics, National Post
Will Justice Clarence Thomas exact revenge on Joe Biden?
Will Justice Clarence Thomas exact revenge on Joe Biden?

Thirty years ago, then-Sen. Biden presided over Thomas's confirmation hearings, which the judge deemed an attempted 'high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks'.

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Newman House ManagerOctober 20, 2021Politics, National Post
Justin Trudeau's 'punitive' vaccine mandate

The government is not worried about the charter; it just wants everyone to know that punishment is on the way.

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Newman House ManagerOctober 19, 2021Politics, National Post
St. Joseph’s Celestial Appearance at Fatima
St. Joseph’s Celestial Appearance at Fatima

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.

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Newman House ManagerOctober 19, 2021Faith, National Catholic Register
National day for Truth and Reconciliation shouldn't be a break from work

Paid days off have a way of diminishing, rather than enhancing, the reason for the commemoration.

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Newman House ManagerOctober 18, 2021Politics, National Post
Synod on Synodality Launches, Yet Many Questions Remain
Synod on Synodality Launches, Yet Many Questions Remain

The opening day Oct. 9 suggested problems in the first moments of the planetary process: participation, process and previous controversies.

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Newman House ManagerOctober 18, 2021National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
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