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Fr. de Souza talked with the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, at the Faith in the Public Square Conference in Toronto. Archbishop Chaput shared his advice for believers who lack the confidence to share their faith with others.
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Randy Boyagoda took some time to discuss his work on Fr. Neuhaus with Fr. Raymond at the Faith in the Public Square conference in Toronto August 5, 2014.
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Meanwhile, Boko Haram kidnapped Christian girls in Nigeria in an egregious example of acts that have been occurring in the region for some time The Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako has issued an urgent appeal to the global community to protect the Christian community in Iraq ...
From the site of his own baptism on August 1, 1971, Fr de Souza considers why baptism is something to be thankful for.
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Dressing Up
Finding something we can work with and benefit from may be the perfect modus operandi for fostering faith in common life, not least for contradicting, and even resisting, the Bossy Boots State when it presumes to dictate what we should wear or how we should share ...
Christophe Potworowksi discovers friendship is the fruit of ecumenism
We are powerless to bring unity about, and this powerlessness, that is, our dependence on Christ, must be at the heart of our common witness to the world The point of their dialogue was not to get the other to come to their side; it was not to change the other but to seek, through dialogue, a strong...
Our editor-in-chief eyeballs Hogtown snobs, political droning and the spiritual meaning of malls
5 In unrelated news, Amazon announced plans to have pizzas delivered by drones within five years.6 And in further unrelated news, the Archdiocese of Washington became the first Catholic diocese to own a drone, which it first used to film overhead shots of a procession in honour of the newly sainted ...
Convivium catches up with House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer on dealing with MPs who turn Parliament into adult daycare
C: Most of the time that you've been in politics, there has been a sense that people who seek to enter into the public life, or advance in public life, might have to trim or even hide their faith C: There's no shortage of stories of MPs whose families break apart after election to Parliament because...
As the Conservative leadership race approaches its climax, we bring you Convivium contributor Alan Hustak's 2014 interview with Andrew Scheer. Examining the role of faith in public and personal life, the former Speaker of the House of Commons shares his perspective on parliament and his own robust Roman Catholic faith.
The Cross, made of olive wood from Jerusalem, was a gift to Andrew Scheer from his father when he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons "I absolutely think that each member of Parliament has a different kind of faith — a different level of faith — and it is up to each member to determine how m...
A single course taken years ago with McMaster University’s Janet Ajzenstat turned Travis Smith into a life-long lover of liberal democracy
For 2014's annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Calgary political scientist Rainer Knopff organized a round table in honour of Janet Ajzenstat, professor emeritus of political science at McMaster University, celebrating her distinguished career and the publicat...
Sister Marie Azzarello returns to the birthplace of Marguerite Bourgeoys, Canada’s first schoolteacher and female saint.
Once again, I knew I was on land that holds a sacred story not only of the sisters and the young women of Marguerite's time but also of Marguerite herself That June day, I wondered how many times Marguerite had crossed that portal to meet with the other young women and with Sister Louise? What did s...
Ottawa lawyer Don Hutchinson finds the Supreme Court looking forward and backward on religious freedom cases
(1985), the Court set out a robust definition of religious freedom that mirrored the wording in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, which includes the right to share one's beliefs openly with others, the right to worship,...
Wearing the niqab is “other” only if non-wearers insist on making it so, argues University of Ottawa law professor Natasha Bakht
Contrary to the prevailing view that male family members force women into this attire, the study suggests that many women, in fact, faced familial opposition to their personal decision to wear the niqab Muslim women who wear the niqab represent "stranger strangers A new report from Ontario, produced...
Doug Sikkema discovers that prophets of the past can help make us whole
The work, then, becomes finding ways to recover the "home place" by re-membering the past and employing these community ideals in suburban or urban or whatever new contexts in which we might find ourselve. As Port William's barber, Jayber becomes not only the purveyor of the community's stories and ...
Democratic principles demand that Ontario’s private schools be welcomed into a respectful partnership with public education, Derek Allison writes in a research paper of Cardus
What discussion there was primarily revolved around Shapiro's plan for private schools to negotiate agreements with public boards to share board services and provincial funding, much as has been the case in Saskatchewan since the mid-1980s.1 Since then, funding for Ontario's private schools has been...