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Crime novelist Louise Penny's The Beautiful Mystery projects pop culture's take on religious life, Jason Zuidema writes.
Though The Beautiful Mystery is only one of a wide range of stories with the religious life as a backdrop, it is representative of trends in popular culture that present the veneer of veracity rather than more nuanced portraits In an age of blogs, Facebook "friending," and tweets, how is religious l...
Sporting matters and aboriginal follies
In 1987, Father Richard John Neuhaus published The Catholic Moment, an argument he made while still a Lutheran that Catholics had a special role to play in preserving the American constitutional tradition of limited government, human rights and vibrant religion Notre Dame has a national following, b...
Does the Quebec Court of Appeal's Loyola decision abolish religious freedom, Douglas Farrow asks.
First: is it true—as the Ministry and now the Court of Appeal claim—that Loyola's determination to maintain, in this subject as in every other, the defining posture and pedagogy of a Catholic school renders impossible the two main objectives of the ERC, which are to cultivate "the recognition of oth...
Lars Troide on the differing paths to God of musical geniuses Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner.
The Adagietto movement is a love song to Mahler's wife, the beautiful and talented Alma Schindler, who after Mahler's death would marry, first, the architect Walter Gropius and, second, the novelist Franz Werfel, who wrote The Song of Bernadette Perhaps the most rewarding parts of Mahler's Seventh S...
Paul Allen says Roger Scruton's latest book should wake up progressives and conservatives alike.
Political so-called conservatives (SCCs) will find themselves sideswiped by Scruton's withering references to the consumer society, agribusiness conglomerates, and corporatism, and his judicious distinction between those goods that should be subject to market exchange and those things that can't be ...
Our editor-in-chief traces the path from Constantine's victory to Paul Henderson's goal.
Consider: 1,700 years since Constantine I won the Battle of the Milvian Bridge; 500 years since Michelangelo completed the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling; 200 years since the War of 1812 began; the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II; 50 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis and the opening...
Father Ian Boyd's 40 years of dedication to the great Edwardian writer.
C: Speaking of the parallel relationship between civilization and barbarism, you started your work as a Chestertonian in Saskatchewan but moved to New Jersey some years ago to produce The Chesterton Review and run the Chesterton Institute C: If someone were approaching Chesterton for the first time,...
Diane Weber Bederman decodes Chesterton to understand Saint Francis and Botticelli.
Whether our world was created by chance or design, Saint Francis, born in Assisi in the late 12th century, teaches us to be in awe of all of God's creations, great and small, including the inorganic, because each is specialandunique.WereadinGenesis,"And God saw all that He had made, and it was very ...
Cardinal Collins on how to lead, how to follow and how to avoid mountain goats.
In England in the 19th century, the Catholic Church was blessed with two great leaders who both faithfully served the community, though they seemed personally not to have been able to get along with one another—God writes straight with crooked lines: John Henry Cardinal Newman, the leader of influen...
We not only got Convivium off the ground with our preview issue in October 2011 but also got such great support from across the country that we met our first year benchmark for memberships and our budget objectives as well ...
An important letter from a friend.
If we spared ourselves this, which is the work of life, then we would fail in our task of witnessing, for which the Lord gave rise to the charism of the Movement in the Church, and which continues to arouse curiosity and interest, as I was able to verify at the Synod Hearing the call to conversion t...
Father de Souza checks out Big Daddy but keeps an eye out for paparazzi. Also: marriage begets babies—who knew?; a sister's true love
The chief executive of the Toronto District School Board, Chris Spence, resigned after being caught in plagiarism of a rather spectacular sort in a column he wrote for the Toronto Star More puzzling were the comments of chairman of the board Chris Bolton to the Toronto Star: "As in all learning situ...
Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, on the family of faithful that sustains him
C: I was at a wonderful event in Vancouver last February, a thousand people in the convention centre, and at the dismissal, Archbishop Miller said, 'Go from this place remembering that, yes, chastity is part of the Ten Commandments, but charity is the first Commandment C: Is there one thing that peo...
The hope of Christmas is this: The Lord himself invades the grave, and like a candle in a dark room, casts light all around.
But I often think—as I do about many passages in Scripture—how difficult it is to understand the hope that comes from a light shining in the darkness The boys took turns running to the farthest corners of the room, and into nooks and crannies, to see if the light penetrated the darkness ...
While some may be critical of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the controversial niqab case, I, for one, prefer the setting out of clear guidelines If women from certain religious communities know they cannot wear their niqab in court, they will be unlikely to report the crime or be willing...