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Abandoning Canada's religious heritage, says Douglas Farrow, is the greatest threat to the country's existence.
Many of these take Augustine seriously as well, recognizing that common loves are decisive and that, among these, the love of God and the love of neighbour are two loves that a happy, hopeful and well-governed people cannot do without But anyone who thinks politics idolatrous when it refuses to allo...
Faith and reason are the two wings on which the human spirit rises, argues Richard Bastien.
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Dr. Ryan Topping makes teaching, preaching, literature, and divinity indivisible.
Ryan Topping delivered this text, titled God and the Great Books: Why Only Religion Can Save the Liberal Arts in Canada, at the national conference on Great Books education—Great Books, Great Questions—at King's College in Halifax last June Is reason free to discover truth that is universal? Or, lik...
What will bring new life to religious communities in Canada? What "deaths" must happen, Jason Zuidema ask, for that new life to arise?
Further, because of the mixed nature of many of these communities, including ones with married members, it has taken time to figure out how they ought to be understood within the structure of Catholic religious life So even with new communities and immigration, will the religious life die in Canada?...
On its silver anniversary, Andrew Fuyarchuk ponders new thinking about Allan Bloom's book.
At the welcoming ceremony at the White House in 2008, Pope Benedict XVI said, "From the dawn of the Republic, America's quest for freedom has been guided by the conviction that the principles governing political and social life are intimately linked to a moral order based on the dominion of God the ...
Saskatchewan native Alan Hustak goes home and finds that the new cathedral in Saskatoon leaves him wondering if he's wandered into a strip mall by mistake. The building committee assures him he has not.
In addition to the octagonal worship space with its fan-shaped seating for 2,000, the project ended up as a 19,800-square-metre complex that houses the Catholic Pastoral Centre, a banquet hall, meeting rooms, the diocesan archives, a rectory and a bishop's office There is nothing wrong with the over...
Cardus director of research Ray Pennings discusses a new study of private education and the public interest.
RP: Well, I think, to answer the second part first, in terms of faith, believing in and participating in our common life together, I think you mentioned it earlier, graduates of non-government schools become as much a part of public life as do graduates of government-funded schools What the data sho...
It is not enough to teach our children about faith, says John Zucchi. We need to teach them to search for meaning in every action.
We have the great gift of freedom, for "what kind of salvation would a salvation be that was not free?" We can either recognize that the Mystery dominates our lives or we can draw back from our freedom and pretend that we can tackle all of our challenges in life, including the immense challenge of e...
Our editor-in-chief examines deep-fried lunch, Olympic Original Sin, Nanny State wake-ups, and toys that teach boys.
Was Churchill wrong when he stated in June 1940 "that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour"? He was, for less than a hundred years later, CTV apparently thinks that beach volleyball rather than fighting on the beaches is...
Killing education with Ontario's Bill 13.
Yet as Andrew Fuyarchuk writes in his essay commemorating the silver anniversary of Closing, Bloom had the conviction of a true believer that the intellectual malfeasance inflicted on—and through—the North American educational system from the 1960s forward had become a devastation Designed to curb b...
The weakness of Lance Armstrong's LIVESTRONG is its lack of love, says Father Raymond de Souza; revisiting Yad Vashem.
The new plaque is an improvement, and while there is nothing in the new caption that was not known in 2005, it is a concrete effort by Yad Vashem to treat Pope Pius XII according to the facts of history rather than the legends of anti-Catholic propaganda The reaction of Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, to...
Here are a few things that can foster this re-weaving, in no particular order: hospitality (invite people over); common recreation (set up a neighbourhood baseball game); worship (connect to your tradition in an actual location); time in public places (parks, squares, festivals, concerts); embracing...
It is a speech in which Scripture is the foundation, the wellspring of the great dream that changed American life and helped to overcome its original sin ...
In a public discourse that cringes from the language of good and evil, and which places objective reason as the anchoring foundation for sorting through the questions of how we live together, this is all unsettling As I noted in a Globe op-ed on this case last year, the Christ-less Christianity Brei...
Yet while they may share a desire for liberal outcomes in society, those groups are actually more divided at their foundations than are conservatives and liberals/progressives who agree on markets as fundamental to economic success (Here it is worth remembering that in terms of politics, Canada's "T...