2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Peter Stockland discovers that Cardus and Hillary Clinton may be on the same page about social architecture.
Any Cardus supporters attending Hillary Clinton’s speech to Canada’s self-proclaimed leading progressive think tank might have simultaneously felt at sea and at home ...
But in 2001, the Pathways to Education program was initiated for the neighborhood of Regent Park This is exactly why Cardus*U was developed: it gives us what the Pathways to Education program gives to students in the communities it is involved with ...
And they even do a good job, I'll add, in directing students to swim against the powerful culture-currents that push them to believe the best criteria for deciding on work have to do with money, power, and prestige ...
Faith and Curiosity
Rather, it's the joyful expression of faith driven by a curiosity, a wonder, a wanting to truly know what is in another's heart as much as what is on the other side of life. Richard Bastien argues in this issue that such despair can afflict even the beginnings of life through a culture-wide contrace...
Contrary to the lyrics of the ancient Pink Floyd song, we need to breathe in more than just air, says Father Tim McCauley
Our crisis of hope originates in part from our deficient philosophy of the human person, and from the eclipse of the infinite and eternal After all, it is in this place that the great hope is constantly proclaimed and communicated to us: that in Christ, the infinite and eternal One became man, suffe...
Crossing Joan Rivers, and a happy crackpot for mayor of TO
My colleague at the National Post, Jonathan Kay, is bullish on the Charbonneau commission into that nexus in the worlds of Quebec politics, the mafia and construction: "Yet the real payoff will come in the years and decades to come, as strict new rules for public tendering ensure that Quebec finally...
Convivium editor-in-chief Father Raymond J. de Souza sits down with Poland's Lech Walesa on the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communism
Yet we have to be careful not to overestimate the role of the Pope because John Paul II also visited Cuba, and where is it now? There they did not have the second factor—the capacity of the people to take the Pope's inspiration and lead the fight C: Were you afraid, then, that Poland's future might ...
Alan Hustak's biography of Frederick George Scott takes Convivium readers into the private sanctuary of John Henry Cardinal Newman for a private and personal meeting
In early April 1883, while Fred Scott, a highly self-contained 22-year-old Montrealer, was in England studying to become an Anglican priest, he called upon John Henry Cardinal Newman, the Roman Catholic convert who was far and away one of the greatest religious philosophers of the 19th century Upon ...
Diane Weber Bederman finds sweet honey and indefatigable hope on an Israeli kibbutz
Rapoport understood the thread of hope and heroism that weaves through Jewish history and connected the warriors of the Warsaw Ghetto with the kibbutzniks who fought valiantly in the War of Independence by dressing Mordechai as a member of the kibbutz and placing him in front of the water tower that...
Convivium publisher Peter Stockland takes a stroll from Montreal's past to its present, and finds a hole in a fence that keeps him on the path
In The Feel of the City, Kenny makes the case that Montreal was the ideological and physical 19th and 20th century force that pushed Canada into modernity with all its triumphs and tensions, progress and impoverishment Just as workers' bodies were metaphoric machines, so the physical space of a city...
The ancient Greeks had something to tell us about the failure to have children. Alas, 21st century sophists think they were just kidding
From the point of view of natural law, NFP is in accord with nature, while contraception prevents nature from following its course The question thus arises: How did our whole culture switch from the classical Greek-Judeo-Christian view of sex to the recreational view within a matter of a few decades...
John Zucchi on Father Luigi Guissani's discernment of Christ and Utopia
Our being "modern" (but deep down "modernity" is a temptation of the soul of each person in every time) is documented in this shift of the centre of gravity towards our religious, cultural and operative performance: the Presence, the Fact of Christ, becomes a theoretic a priori, an a priori that doe...
Reviewer Scott Ventureyra on Alvin Plantinga's book Where the Conflict Really Lies
Plantinga, in the same section, argues for a deep concord between science and religion, going so far as to note that the whole success of the scientific enterprise would never have been possible without belief in the existence of a rational God It is unclear why Plantinga admits there is even a supe...
Catherine Gay on G.K. Chesterton reaching across the decades to rescue a young man from political immolation
Whereas one may reasonably expect an exegetical and spiritual journey from the American Scott Hahn, a former evangelical pastor, from one such as Pearce, a political activist, pride of place may be conceded to the intellectual and political over the spiritual and mystical How is it that Joseph Pearc...
Our editor-in-chief revisits 1989 and sees the arc of history turning a sickle into the Cross
"My pastoral visit to the Czech Republic coincides with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the totalitarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, and the ‘Velvet Revolution' which restored democracy to this nation," Pope Benedict XVI said in the historic presidential palace in Prague, addressing t...