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Conservatives ponder how to 'meet the moment'

Federal election top of mind at annual Tory conference

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Christopher McMullanApril 13, 2025National Post, Politics
The 1,700-Year Quest for a Common Easter

The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But unity around the great feast of the Resurrection remains incomplete.

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Christopher McMullanApril 11, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
What Theodore McCarrick Taught Us About Clerical Corruption

The Temple needed to be cleansed in the time of Caiaphas. It still does. It always will.

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Christopher McMullanApril 7, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Playing the new election game of 'who's out today?'

Mark Carney's treatment of disgraced MP Paul Chiang a reflection of Liberals' historic coziness with China

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Christopher McMullanApril 6, 2025National Post, Politics
History repeats itself in the federal election campaign

A Tory leader at odds with the Conservative premiers of Alberta and Ontario. Liberals bringing in a new face and vying for a fourth mandate. It's all happened before

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Christopher McMullanApril 1, 2025National Post, Politics
Notre Dame’s Presidential Commencement ‘Tradition’ More Nuanced Than Some Assume

Since the first presidential speaker at spring commencement in 1960, seven of the 12 presidents in office have not been invited to Notre Dame’s commencement.

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Christopher McMullanMarch 31, 2025National Catholic Register, Church Affairs
Spiritually Toxic News

This Lent, as has increasingly been the case over the last half-dozen years or so, more and more penitents are confessing that they are following the news.

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Christopher McMullanMarch 29, 2025The Catholic Thing, Faith
The legendary George Foreman was a big man, with an even bigger heart

Careers like Foreman’s are often called redemption stories. His actually was

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Christopher McMullanMarch 27, 2025National Post, Culture
30 Years Ago Today, John Paul II Issued His Boldest Battle Cry for Life

The message of the landmark encyclical, ‘Evangelium Vitae’ is needed now more than ever.

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Christopher McMullanMarch 26, 2025National Catholic Register, Faith
Poilievre must pivot from his apple munching ways

The politics of humiliation have fallen out of fashion in Canada

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Christopher McMullanMarch 23, 2025National Post, Politics
Tendency towards enhanced executive power on rise in U.S. and Canada

The potential for grift, unintentional or otherwise, is one that should not be overlooked

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Christopher McMullanMarch 21, 2025National Post, Politics
Justice gets a boost in Canada

New independent commission will review potentially wrongful convictions

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Christopher McMullanMarch 16, 2025National Post, Politics
Pope Francis’ Distinctive Eucharistic Piety

Although he has not celebrated Mass publicly since 2022, the Holy Father has made Eucharistic adoration a main focus.

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Christopher McMullanMarch 13, 2025National Catholic Register, Faith
A case for expanding the Governor General's role in Canada

All British PMs meet weekly with the monarch. Should our PM not meet regularly with the King's representative here?

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Christopher McMullanMarch 12, 2025National Post, Politics
Travel-happy Trudeau will be remembered for shunning Israel

The prime minister did well by visiting Ukraine several times. Why didn't he do the same for Israel?

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Christopher McMullanMarch 9, 2025National Post, Politics
‘Conclave’ Cardinal’s Homily Mirrors Some of Pope Francis’ Actual Words

The film’s prescription for a future pope coincides with the current Pope’s autobiographical reflections. Why might that be?

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Christopher McMullanMarch 7, 2025National Catholic Register, Culture
A lion's voice from the 'bloodlands' roars back at Trump

Lech Wałęsa and other former Soviet-era political prisoners express 'horror and distaste' for U.S. president’s treatment of Zelenskyy

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Christopher McMullanMarch 6, 2025National Post, Politics
Trump a master negotiator no longer

The president's behaviour may mean others will be less eager to make deals with someone not bound by his own words

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Christopher McMullanMarch 1, 2025National Post, Politics
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