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Ukraine-Russia divide beyond religion
COVID has kept Fr. Mykhailo Ozorovych out of Ukraine the last two years, but he knows what the country of his birth is fighting for in Donbass and understands the threat Ukraine faces from more than 100,000 Russian troops massed on its eastern border.
Synod needs to open up spiritual conversation
The Synod on Synodality, on now through the fall of 2023, ought to be different according to Catholics inspired by St. Ignatius.
Border deaths show need to repeal Safe Third Country Agreement
Four die in Manitoba field, Florida man charged with human smuggling
What we learn of the universe leads us to God
The universe is beautiful and we’ve got pictures to prove it. Come May, when the James Webb Space Telescope starts downloading deep space photos, we’re going to have even more pictures, and astrophysicist and cosmologist Fr. Adam Hincks just knows those pictures will be beautiful too.
Mandatory vaccines? Educators have no doubts
The people who work in Catholic schools don’t think there ought to be any uncertainty over whether or not the kids in classrooms are vaccinated.
Solidarity key in COVID fight, Dr. Moore tells Royackers Lecture
Ontario’s long battle with COVID has climaxed and will significantly wind down between now and March, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore told a virtual audience Jan. 19.
Evading Church role harms reconciliation
Repeated comments from bishops, priests and highly placed Catholics minimizing damage caused by the residential school system risk torpedoing efforts at reconciliation, warns a high-profile Indigenous scholar and former judge.
At 75, Collins reflects on a disciple’s life
In an alternative life, Cardinal Thomas Collins might never have been a bishop, an archbishop or a cardinal. He might very happily have remained a professor of New Testament with an intense interest in the Apocalypse of John. He would have dedicated himself to the formation of the next generation of priests at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ont., and happily translated the wisdom he encountered in academic study into homilies that resonate with the worries and hopes of ordinary Christians.
Catholic health feeling pandemic pain
Omicron has spiralled into a crisis for health-care workers — a crisis of physical, mental and spiritual exhaustion.
COVID-positivity on the rise in Catholic health workers
The number of COVID-positive doctors, nurses and other clinical staff at Toronto’s Catholic hospitals has crept up into the hundreds, Toronto’s Unity Health has told The Catholic Register.