It’s probably a safe bet that Ontario’s new premier has never read Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on marriage, parenthood, procreation and contraception.
Canada’s bishops typically are cautious when passing comment on public policy. So they grabbed our attention when, in the first paragraph of a recent press release, the bishops predicted Canada’s new marijuana law will have “disastrous effects” on society.
If mercy and justice prevail, by the time this editorial is being read the American government will have reversed its immoral practice of separating migrant children from parents and sending children to separate detention centres.
Sport is a pervasive phenomenon of 21st-century culture. Therefore, asked the Vatican, “how could the Church not be interested?”
Last month Pope Francis had Catholics worldwide scratching their heads after he seemed to suggest German bishops would have his blessing if they reached a group consensus to circumvent Church teaching and make it easier for some Protestants to receive Communion.
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.
They are desperate, poor and usually forgotten until violence erupts and the world takes note of them burying their dead.
As spring turns into summer, Canada is about to face a test of its generosity.
Maybe they didn’t get the memo. Maybe it was simple human error. Maybe they simply don’t care.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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.