2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Secular society has a duty to encourage a flourishing religious life, argues Paul Donovan
Despite the current perception of religions and religious people, almost all religions, including the most isolated and conservative, believe that con-tributing to the common good of society, especially to the care for its weakest members, is part of their faith Archbishop Lépine observed that, with...
Hobbes gave us democracy as the walking dead. Tocqueville lit a candle. Travis Smith illuminates us on the implications for Canada
Tocqueville knows that happiness is a greater good than social justice, and that there is neither happiness nor justice except among human beings whose character and intellect have been well developed, hence the priority of intellectual, religious and political freedoms Whereas a liberal in the Lock...
Christians invented progress, writes Richard Bastien, but it took modern progessives to separate reason from faith and substitute ideology
The former is a philosophical problem, one that has to do with the question: what is? An sit? The latter is a specifically religious problem, one that has to do with the question: who is He? Quid sit? The notion that there is no God runs in the face of common sense, which tells us that there has to ...
Brave Days
Love or loathe his politics and persona, the genteel bravery of Conrad Black that shines through in his conversation with Father Raymond J Writing in this issue of Convivium shows us, I think, why we should love it much more than heroism as defined above ...
Reginald Bibby smells something a titch fishy about the new Pew study on Religion in Canada
In late June, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a report titled "Canada's Changing Religious Landscape In short, the three trends emphasized in the Pew report hardly signal the demise of Catholicism and Protestantism in Canada, let alone the demise of religion more generally According...
True north, strong and freer than our neighbours to the south, state sponsored public shaming, and a senior citizen who really just likes playing with lego
Speaking of Al Gore, earlier this year he sold his cable news channel, Cur-rent TV, to Al Jazeera for a cool half billion dollars, of which he pocketed $100 million Dominion Day and the Fourth of July came this year with news that, according to the Heritage Foundation, Canada is more economically fr...
Conrad Black meets Father Raymond J. de Souza in Calgary for a chat in which any topic is but a suggestion for digression
I think and I believe my actual very last words were something to the effect that when they see it plain and see—as a great many Americans are very uneasy and all the polls show that—when they see just how completely incompatible the conduct of public policy is with the requirements of a great natio...
Are we turning enough to the deep well of human history? History has many social and cultural lessons to teach, and they may be more applicable to social innovation than we think The most interesting part of the story of Hans Neilson Hauge was that he was born in Norway in 1771, some distance in tim...
One Christmas, as we were carving the turkey (memory provoked perhaps by the stuffing), he reminded my wife: "You tossed away the leader of an entire fictional universe from our childhood Here, no matter what either a reductive materialist science or the Daily Death Rattle might say, is the God-give...
What is it about honesty in music that draws us in? White says that the beauty of a great song is that, "it doesn't have to be intensely personal, because when it is everyone else is left out Peacock draws from this truth when he says of Williams and White, " ...
That is, insofar as we live in such a way that denies the importance of sacrifice, or denies the possibility of positive moral good arising from sacrifice made by individuals and communities, so far do we deny the possibility of solidarity and therefore of a quality common life "Solidarity" refers t...
The birth of another heir and successor to the royal throne is a reminder of those principles Human birth occurs approximately 370,000 times each day; each brings into the world an image-bearer of God and is a miracle to be celebrated ...
In my household this summer, The Hurricane howls: "Old! Useless! Out!" You will appreciate the many nerve-wracking moments when I wondered how long it would before I, too, was lifted and deposited firmly on the curb ...
This is in a country where public debt levels are expected to hit 240 percent of GDP next year Over the last three decades the percentage of Japanese voters over 60 has more than doubled, to 44 percent ...
Youth "open custody" facilities may be a good alternative to prison for the young people involved, but don't locate one across the road from me ...