We really do have an amazing nation!

As we celebrate Canada Day, it’s not too difficult to get down on our country right now.

Palm trees surround the former Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., which was purchased for $57.5 million by the Catholic diocese of Orange, Calif., in February. The diocese announced June 9 it has renamed the structure Christ Cathedral.

A cathedral, California-style

GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. - On the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the parish of St. Callistus will have a procession, but not any ordinary procession. This being California, it will be a motorcade. And the congregation won’t be coming back.

June 23, 2013 issue

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A modern telling of the ‘Little Way’ strikes a chord

The book I’m forcing on everyone this month is The Little Way of Ruthie Leming by Rod Dreher.

Immigration and the American Church

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - Last week the American bishops met here to pray, study and reflect upon the role of the bishop in the New Evangelization. But before they began, the Latino leadership of the American bishops devoted their attention to the emerging new America, on the pressing subject of immigration reform.

Bill-52 should die so that we can all live

The Parti Quebecois’ so-called Act Respecting End of Life Care, the horrifying Bill-52, is cynicism wrapped in subterfuge blanketed by the blackness of ideological blindness.

June 16, 2013 issue

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Children from a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan, whose house was burned by a Muslim mob, take refuge in a tent.

When do we finally say that enough is enough?

Media reports this past week about the anti-blasphemy law in Pakistan got me angry, then it got me thinking.

Jeanne Mollen of Falls Church, Va., protests outside the Department of Health and Human Services March 23, 2012, in Washington. The rally was held to oppose the HHS mandate, which forces Catholic institutions to support contraception and abortion services in health insurance plans.

Religious liberty and the New Evangelization

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - The American bishops are gathered this week in a special assembly — and a special one it is. The American episcopate meet twice a year, in November and in June, and every third year the June meeting is given over to a retreat rather than a business meeting.

June 9, 2013 issue

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Despite our differences, I still prayed for Dr. Morgentaler

About 30 years ago I met the late Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, a co-founder of the U.S. abortion movement and back then a self-described atheistic Jew.

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