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August 2014

August 30

The struggle between ideals and pragmatism

August 30, 2014

Crimes Against My Brother by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, hardcover, 416 pages, $32.95). David Adams Richards is a writer who knows the human soul and reveals it to us in dialogue, plot and inner reflection. It’s the author’s extraordinary access to the truth of being human that makes us care about his characters. We know them, and what brings them joy, pain, hope, despair, guilt and peace matters to us.

Teaching life beyond the football field

August 30, 2014

Genius looks like Bob “Coach Lad” Ladouceur, who led the De La Salle High School Spartans into the football history books.

Pope Francis to celebrate wedding Mass for 20 couples

August 30, 2014

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will officiate at the weddings of 20 couples who plan to tie the knot at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sept. 14.

God at Nuremberg: How an American pastor came to comfort Nazis

August 30, 2014

He was a minister to monsters.

August 31

Is James Foley a martyr? A brutal death sparks a faith-based debate

August 31, 2014

From the moment news broke that U.S. journalist James Foley had been beheaded by Islamic State extremists in the Middle East, many Christians, especially Foley’s fellow Catholics, began calling him a martyr, with some even saying he should be considered a saint.

Debating just-war theory in light of Islamic State and past Iraqi wars

August 31, 2014

WASHINGTON - In the days that followed Pope Francis' Aug. 18 remarks on U.S. airstrikes earlier in the month against Islamic State, the buzz was about whether the Pope had actually given his consent to them.

Jesuits turn back clock on farming methods

August 31, 2014

Nineteenth-century missionaries arrived in Africa with a Bible in one hand and a plough in the other. Jesuit Brother Paul Desmarais still has a Bible, but he’s given up on the plough.