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Pope Francis poses for a selfie as he greets the crowd outside St. Mary Josefa Church as he arrives to celebrate Mass at the parish in Rome 2017.

Editorials: Selfies blur reality

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Pope Francis often cozies up to young admirers as they raise their smartphones to snap selfies.  But it seems he may be having second thoughts about humouring the selfie generation.

Palestinian relatives in Gaza City mourn eight-month-old Layila al-Ghandour May 15 who died one day earlier from tear gas inhalation during clashes at the Gaza-Israel border. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Vatican's observer at U.N. agencies in Geneva, urged people on both sides May 18 to let "wisdom and prudence prevail."

Editorial: Assault on dignity

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They are desperate, poor and usually forgotten until violence erupts and the world takes note of them burying their dead.

Two-year-old Evanston, whose family stated they are from Haiti, watches as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer pats down his mother before the two cross the U.S.-Canada into Quebec Aug. 29, 2017.

Editorial: Time for kindness

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As spring turns into summer, Canada is about to face a test of its generosity.

Editorial: Return the money

Editorial: Return the money

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Maybe they didn’t get the memo. Maybe it was simple human error. Maybe they simply don’t care.

Torontonians 'take back' the stretch of Yonge Street near Mel Lastman Square where a van attack killed 10 and injured 15 in Toronto.

Editorial: Good triumphs

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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 

CCCB president Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil at a news conference on Parliament Hill April 18.

Editorial: Misguided debate

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Canadian bishops must not have seen the hornets nest they were stepping into March 28 when they issued a somewhat ambiguously worded letter to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. 

A mother and child on farmland managed by Development and Peace in Ethiopia 2015.

Editorial: A blast from the past

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Here we go again. Development and Peace, an organization created by Canada’s bishops, is back on the hot seat over allegations it failed to properly screen some overseas partners. At least 11 dioceses have withheld funds from the organization after suggestions that several of its partner agencies are offside on issues that include abortion, contraception and gender theory. 

Rohingya refugee children are seen through a rain-covered window Sept. 2017 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Editorial: A call to action

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In his report on the crisis in Myanmar, Canada’s special envoy to the region fell short of labelling Rohingya persecution a genocide. But that detail should not stop Canada from acting as if it is one.

Phil Fontaine, former leader of the Assembly of the First Nations, received an apology from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during his visit at the Vatican April 29, 2009.

Editorial: More work to do

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The Catholic relationship with Canada’s Indigenous peoples no doubt wobbled with the announcement that Pope Francis is not coming here to offer the apology so explicitly called for by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. After so much suffering, it could hardly be otherwise.

Fra Angelico, The Women at the Tomb Italian, 1440-1442 Florence, Museo di San Marco

Editorial: Be not afraid

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Do not be afraid, the angel said to the frightened women at the empty tomb. Do not be afraid, the risen Christ told His anxious disciples behind locked doors.

Men carry a large wooden cross during a procession on the Via Dolorosa, "The Way of Sorrow," the path believed to be taken by Jesus Christ to his crucifixion on Calvary, on Good Friday April 14, 2017, in Jerusalem's Old City.

Editorial: Hope for the Holy Land

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Pope Paul V was a controversial leader in turbulent times. His biography cites a fondness for luxury, penchant for nepotism and persecution of Galileo, but also lauds his completion of St. Peter’s Basilica, contributions to education and the arts, encouragement of New World missionaries and the canonization St. Charles Borromeo.

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