Michael Swan

Crisis? What crisis?

March 23, 2023

Roxham Road migrants turn to Canada as a safer option than U.S.

Dealing with abuse a work in progress

March 22, 2023

Publishing the names of credibly accused child sex abusers, as Canada’s Jesuit Fathers did March 12, is one small step toward creating a better Church, but it’s not enough for abuse survivor John Swales.

St. Joseph embodies the mission God gave us

March 18, 2023

Joe Grogan is proud of his working class origins in Toronto’s tough Parkdale neighbourhood. He’s proud of a lifetime of labour activism, following in the tradition of his father who was active in the Textile Workers Union of America throughout the 1940s and ’50s.

Putting the Catholic in Catholic teaching

March 17, 2023

In his new book Educating for Eternity, Regina archdiocesan theologian Brett Salkeld does not argue that everything can be Catholic. He insists that everything in every classroom already is Catholic.

Updated: Jesuits of Canada name abusers among its ranks

March 14, 2023

Canada’s Jesuit Fathers have published the names of 27 of their own men who, over a span of 70 years, have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children and young people under 18.

Morality and the market

March 11, 2023

Individually, economists need to be saved as much as any other poor sinner. Collectively, the rest of us need to be saved from the fallen state of economics, says Catholic economist Tony Annett.

Pay up: taxes and the common good

March 10, 2023

If paying your taxes seems complicated, the morality of finishing the job isn’t, according to Catholic authorities from St. Thomas Aquinas through to Pope Francis.

UN reconciliation review skips bishops

March 9, 2023

Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people is getting a check-up and Canada’s Catholic bishops want to be part of it. Whether or not they get the chance is still up in the air.

Resource offers thorough view of Vatican II

March 3, 2023

Catherine Clifford doesn’t want to just recover the spirit of Vatican II. She wants to be more thorough.

‘Pope Francis is different’

March 3, 2023

A humble Nazarene summarizes this papacy: ‘love, love, love, forgive’