One unambiguous success from the Second Vatican Council has been the deepening of devotion to sacred Scripture by Catholics in the pew.
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The Afghanistan debacle has convinced Putin that the Biden administration is not only weak, but lacks even basic competence
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Being co-opted by a corrupt regime is worse than being controlled by it — that’s the lesson relevant to China today.
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It could be argued that the Queen's singular failure as a sovereign has been her children
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It's no surprise Australian border officials trod on Novak Djokovic's rights, considering the past miscarriages of justice that have occurred there
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A New York Times investigation found some non-invasive prenatal tests to be wrong up to 85 per cent of the time
Read MoreThe late Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski knew how badly some of his brother priests and his superiors had betrayed the Society of Jesus.
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Archbishop Tutu received praise as a social reformer and less as a Christian pastor; that was fitting, as Tutu’s record on the former was more admirable than the latter.
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In 2021, everybody saw that the football stadiums are as full as they used to be. The Catholic churches are not.
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Forty years later, the papal correction Pope St. John Paul II directed at the Society of Jesus still hasn’t taken hold.
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The Canadian identity suffered lethal assaults on three fronts in 2021
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The thrilling contests of the 1980s are no longer as teams concentrate on three-point shots
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The idea of special “holy years” has become a key pastoral tool for popes in the last century
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The whole world has been athirst for life against its perils this pandemic; Christmas is a birthday, and every birthday is another affirmation of life.
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Pope John Paul II was not one to gloat about the total annihilation of Soviet communism and the liberation of a continent, a history-shaping project of which he was a leading protagonist.
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The majority of Indigenous peoples in Canada are Christians, hence Catholic-Indigenous relations are not a matter of the Church dealing with those outside the household of faith, but those within the family.
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Many of the the treasures of the the Roman Martyrology remain mostly hidden. But on Christmas Eve, the martyrology emerges from the darkness for its moment in the light.
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Forty years ago, Dec. 23, 1981, the U.S. president gave perhaps the most Catholic Christmas address any president ever has.
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