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The Synod on the family and marriage raises serious questions on loyalty's meaning.
There are many at the heart of the Church who worry that Pope Francis wishes to advance teachings and practices contrary to Catholic doctrine Kasper, a long-time theological opponent of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, has been given special prominence by Pope Francis, leading many to conclude that the H...
Cardus's Director of Social Cities weighs the newest book on networking and finds it wanting.
Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto) and Lee Rainie (Director of Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center) make is that contemporary society is running on a new social operating system that has been enabled by what they call a triple revolution driven by so...
North American commuters may not suffer like Roman galley slaves, but the thousands of miles they travel to and from work each year can take a toll on health and happiness.
resourcefreak.com) encourages people to “convert [their] driving and commuting time into a rolling university” by listening to audiobooks and teachings that build character and faith or teach life skills After work, we met on the bike path and rode home Although there aren't studies specifically exp...
The movement of workers across borders need not be as brutal as human trafficking for it to have severely dislocating, even debilitating, effects.
Given the challenges in Mesoamerica as well as the dangers and anxiety incurred in trying to reach the States or Canada as undocumented workers, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, begun in 1996, is a wonderful opportunity for those who have no recourse but to find work elsewhere Given that pl...
Looking at the black church in North America and placing its history alongside Pope Francis' new encyclical Laudato si´, the author hears the call for freedom coming from the heart of Christian faith.
Pope Francis, in his first Apostolic Exhortation (Evangelii Gaudium), wrote, "I want a poor Church for the poor and I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own s...
The first Canadian parliamentarian to amend the Criminal Code twice through private members' bills looks back on the uphill struggle to get Canadians to see the horror of modern-day slavery in their own communities.
Under Bill C-36, for the first time in Canada's history, the buying of sexual services would be illegal, prostituted/trafficked women would be treated with dignity rather than as a nuisance, and the government of Canada would provide robust funding to help women and youth escape prostitution June 4,...
Is the prevalent sale of human bodies a real-time consequence of reducing human freedom to ideology?
Without this imago Dei — which the Enlightenment thinkers ultimately rejected (sometimes unwittingly) — one must seek a foundation for human freedom and dignity either in social contracts or in reason: in other words, in "natural states" that could substitute for the Divine origins whence an authent...
While the federal government's legislative action on human trafficking is promising, only the recovery of Christian anthropology can fully protect Canada from its predations.
Do these radically different approaches not reveal a tension at the heart of liberalism, even an unravelling of the logic of liberalism itself ? For in the case of prostitution, two of liberal political philosophy's fundamental tenets — equality on the one hand, and the valorization of individualism...
A beauty pageant queen offers eloquent testimony on the way hyper-fantasized imaging aligns with the squalid sale of human beings for sex.
While working with an after-care home for survivors of human trafficking, I met one young lady with a gentle smile, whom I'll call Karen, who at the tender age of 17 had already survived depression, an eating disorder and two years of commercial sexual exploitation by her pimp-boyfriend, which hurle...
Human trafficking is inseparable from its wounded sibling, prostitution: The demand for prostitution relies upon human trafficking. In turn, prostitution is the purpose for which much human trafficking exists.
The Supreme Court of Canada, in the Bedford case, struck down three laws relating to prostitution but suspended the effect for one year to permit Parliament to bring in new laws I started monitoring the Bedford case in 2010 and became involved in the case in October 2012, acting as co-counsel for th...
The very idea of human trafficking can raise our hackles, yet we may be lulled into overlooking an even more fundamental public health and social justice issue.
Why do we see so many young boys committing acts of sexual abuse and sexual harm and filming them? And expecting girls to take pictures of themselves to send them? Adult men taking their sons to prostitutes as a transition into manhood or show them porn so that they know they're fit, hyper-masculine...
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Can a Mormon team throw a Hail Mary? Tanner Mangum is not just at BYU for football; he returned just this past summer from his Mormon missionary service, for which he delayed college football The American college football season — far more exciting than professional football, by the way — opened thi...
"The Greeks—not unlike other cultures—considered eros principally as a kind of intoxication, the overpowering of reason by a 'divine madness' which tears man away from his finite existence and enables him, in the very process of being overwhelmed by divine power, to experience supreme happiness," Be...
Leaving aside the question of whether it’s possible to have a fair double standard, it seems to me there is a more compelling question for Catholics—and all Christians The headline on a recent column by National Post editor Jen Gerson asked whether Catholics face an unfair double standard ...
RP:It’s about half a dozen candidates and it’s affected all parties equally, so I don’t really think it matters as much as the media attention would suggest RP:The people who show up at campaign events are partisans, and partisans of every party are always frustrated with the press PS:One of the big...