'Sheen Affair' on tap for Somerville election
TORONTO - A slice of American-Canadian relations, examined in the battle to get Bishop Fulton Sheen on Canadian TV back in the 1950s, will be the subject of the annual Somerville Lecture on Christianity and Communications.
Professor Mark McGowan, historian, author and principal at the University ...
Read more...The mighty fall... at the poor's expense
While global capitalism went into convulsions at the Wall Street end of Manhattan Island, Archbishop Celestino Migliore was at the midtown headquarters of the United Nations wondering about the economic fate of 1.4 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day.
“How are we able to find fu...
Read more...Fine line between politics and faith
TORONTO - When he was 23, Liberal Party candidate Gerard Kennedy read Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum, touted as the document marking the birth of Catholic social teaching.
In it, the pope wrote about the church’s duty to intervene in social matters and help the poor, as well as the...
Read more...The spirituality of politics
TORONTO - Guidance for participation in Canadian political life can be found in the church’s social teachings, but that doesn’t mean there is a simple formula for voting, according to Catholic observers interviewed by The Catholic Register in advance of the Oct. 14 federal election.
“We do ...
Read more...Gratitude keeps our society human
TORONTO - Margaret Visser is much too civilized to tell about the incident which sparked her new book, The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual.
“There is a story, but I’m not telling it because it’s so horrible,” she told The ...
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