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Red-faced Vatican officials withdraw a medallion that has Jesus' name misspelled. What the L hapened? Our editor-in-chief investigates
Oliver Erazo received an exemption for his son, Jonathan, to opt out of religious studies, but he also wants a court order to force the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board to grant a full pass so the Grade 11 student doesn't have to participate in liturgies or religious retreats at Notre Da...
A Christian and an atheist debate faith and fantasy. Fur flies, but friendship deepens
What then of the evidence provided by the testimony of the Apostles and the cultural heritage of Christian civilization, which was literally built by the Church? Are we to count as nothing the medieval universities from which grew our modern universities; the development of scientific research withi...
Journalist Rod Dreher discovered how good it was to go home again. CBC producer Anna-Liza Kozma finds out why.
The book is subtitled A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life, and the good life here is the one lived out quietly by Dreher's sister, Ruthie Leming, in the sleepy riverside town of St That tug of Ruthie's death on the Louisiana boyhood threads of family and faith and community ...
Psychologist Russ Kosits says David Foster Wallace's great novel continues to reveal fresh meaning five years after the author's suicide.
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Jason Zuidema's research on the consecrated life makes him wonder how its possible to teach someone to be a monk
Though one might contend that the Buddhist traditions of contemplation or monasticism have never needed that kind of theological commitment more akin to Christianity, I am not sure it is entirely unlike the Christian contemplative, monastic traditions Again, the point of contemplation or the monasti...
Convivium regular contributor Diane Weber Bederman meets an artist in Rome who has walked his own way along many roads following holy light
For 60 years, Daniel Lifschitz, on his journey to God, created beautiful works of art, poured out his thoughts and preached his love of God The time has come for all of us to be pilgrims, like Daniel, each of us on our own path, taking our own unique journey, seeking our own "Way" to the Truth and L...
The Canadian Pontifical College in Rome celebrates its 125th anniversary. McGill historian John Zucchi delves into the details of its daily life.
All the students in the College were expected to maintain silence from after night prayer until the end of lauds, or morning prayer, throughout the College, even during mealtimes, when one of the priests, according to his rank, would read a passage In the early years of the College, there was a plan...
Father Raymond J. de Souza tells Conservatives why they need more young people of faith in their ranks, and advises Toronto mayor to make some new friends.
My desire is not to comment upon municipal contracting in Montreal, the gas plant cancellation fiasco in Ontario or the Senate expense scandal in Ottawa, but to ask a more fundamental question: Is politics still seen by religious citizens as an endeavour suitable for the pursuit of personal holiness...
Seeing by a Christmas Light
It is to celebrate the birth of that natural advocate in a sorrowful stable so that He could experience the joy of Easter that allows us to wish Merry Christmas to one and all One of the central images we settled on was that of the welcoming table surrounded by good friends and loving family, making...
Compare the media and public conversations regarding Clinton and Ford, and the only logical conclusion is that we've since become a society of prudes, ready to impose our morality on those who lead us The police chief holds a media conference and makes public "a deluge of salacious details" that hav...
Critics complain this strategy reduces foreign policy to a series of managerial exercises and business deals; it reduces foreign policy to an economic prism Last November, a "leaked copy" of a briefing paper on the new foreign policy strategy made its way into the media, detailing the already unders...
Gideon Strauss, a native of South Africa, where he served as an interpreter for the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission under Archbishop Desmond Tutu, writes on the way we remember Nelson Mandela's life.
And judging by the life of someone like Nelson Mandela, the greater the change involved, the larger the scale on which the change is pursued, the higher the cost to the leader ...
I mean you can learn something about the peculiar way the particular class of people privileged enough to be newspaper editorial writers see your world The editorial, in that weird and wonderful mix of gratuitous influence, self-importance, and detachment from reality that characterizes newspapers a...
Separate our actions from our consequences, and we're safe and sound—but not really living ...
But then I read the article, and I found that what it was really about was how Western capitalism is attempting to use mystic techniques of meditation to advocate "mindfulness", all in service of improving the bottom line Mindfulness emphasizes that there is more to success than material prosperity ...