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This means that we hesitate to acknowledge something really important about the model for teaching and learning offered by the rhythms of life in a cathedral school community standing at the heart of the city Clearly the graduates of this particular school have unprecedented access to social institu...
PS: The one I was struck by yesterday was the point you made after the Alberta election of Rachel Notley, that the electorate itself functions for most of them and most of the time in a state of disinterest and un-interest ...
There is no lower we can go than crushing interior freedom by denying the truth of the spiritual life.
The necessary condition of human existence, in other words, is meaning that gives truth, spiritual truth, not mere material fact "As John Paul II said in his famous encyclical, Fides et Ratio, 'Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth ...
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But the question arises: Why does the Ivy League, which boasts the brightest students in the country and from around the world, require four years to teach men that being beastly to women is wrong? A possible answer might be that some of the other things promoted on Ivy League campuses might encoura...
From May to August 2014, Catholic Christian Outreach sent 11 university students and three staff members on a mission of renewal to Quebec City. Working with the archdiocese, their mission was to welcome visitors on pilgrimage to Notre-Dame de Québec, the oldest cathedral in Canada. The students gave tours of the cathedral and welcomed visitors through the new holy door, which was installed in celebration of the church's 350th anniversary.
It asks, "What is a man's heart? What does it long for? What are the obstacles to finding fulfilment?" My experience last summer helped me answer those questions and strengthened my identity as a man of God She was eager to learn about the faith and it was beautiful to see God filling her with love ...
In his convocation address to a private religious college, the holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies at McGill urges graduates to return to core Christian truths to go forward in the world.
So, I commend to you both the writings and the example of Saint Anselm: his love of the truth, his prayers and spiritual discipline, his theological labours, his service to the poor, his concern for the welfare of a country not even his own, his courage and wisdom, his foresight and perseverance I l...
Academic freedom at Trinity Western University, it’s argued, comes from its community covenant. So why are people hiding their TWU degrees?
After all, shouldn't basic Christian commitments naturally catalyze Christian community? The missing piece in the discussion is that TWU is open to all students, whether or not they are able or willing to sign a Christian creed By doing so, members accept reciprocal benefits and mutual responsibilit...
As students across North America head back to class, Convivium contributor Doug Sikkema considers the common ground between education, ecology and our common home
If you read the tales of social disintegration in books such as Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone or follow some of the work being done by Cardus's Milton Friesen regarding social capital in urban spaces, it seems that the notions of the commonwealth, the civil society concerned for the common good, is ...
We all think we know what is meant by education. For most of us, education means what we went through in the formal school system. But a new book from McGill- Queen's University Press, Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime, edited by David W. Livingstone, makes the case that education shifts, not just as a matter of pedagogical method but in its very nature as lived through its perceived purpose.
In his essay, excerpted below, Livingstone traces the lofty educational ideals of McGee, ideals that maintained that a distinctly Canadian education would not simply "inform" the best and brightest Canadians but form them with the civic virtues that would make Canada a distinct nation with its own d...
Even when closing schools seems an economic no-brainer, communities should fight back.
The Toronto District School Board comprises 560 schools that are attended by almost 290,000 students Rather than shutting down schools, good systems should be finding innovative ways to increase school choice in and out of the public system And once every three years, the wide variety of students mu...
secularists who oppose conscience rights and religious freedoms also seek to impose a moralism that denies faith and defies reason, argues Convivium's Richard Bastien
Secularists arguing that freedom of conscience or religion is a source of unwarranted social discrimination are, in effect, making a bold but unacknowledged assumption: that the right of same-sex couples or pregnant women to be served trumps the right of the service provider to refuse such services ...
Through years of loving conversation, Scott Ventureyra accompanies his 94-year-old godfather back to the Christian faith he lost in his student days
Over the years, I bought my godfather some important books, including There Is a God by the late atheist philosopher Antony Flew, who, on the evidence of modern science, changed his mind about God's existence before his death The influence of this man weakened my faith, but I remained a Christian ag...
Convivium reviewer Graeme hunter, after reading John rist's Augustine Deformed: love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition, explains why you shouldn't
Even if we are prepared to entertain the claim that the last 1,600 years have been nothing but a sorry history of moral decline, why should we consent to accompany Rist on the 400 pages of penitential pilgrimage from Augustinian probity to secularist depravity, which he somehow thinks he has to infl...
Canada’s new Chaplain General helps soldiers get ready to die.
Chapdelaine recently attended the fourth European conference of military bishops in Paris, where he presented a short speech on "The Experience of a Canadian Military Chaplain in the Face of Death Reverend Chapdelaine's first priority as Chaplain General, he says, will be to recruit religious leader...
You say you wanna revolution? Don’t blink. It just roared past.
Yet in the rush to hustle the Serra statue out of the Capitol, not a few protested that it was simply rude to banish the Franciscan's statue just before his canonization by Francis, a Latin American pope coming in part to celebrate the Latino future of the American Catholic Church The great putting ...