Structural sin is both apples and oranges
“The game is over. Everyone repeat after me now, the game is over.” I speak with authority in a commanding voice. 40 high school students at the Catholic Leadership Camp in Huntsville repeat after me, “the game is over.” They calm down and we begin to debrief together the chaos of the last hour.
Gird your loins for gruelling politics
The duty to engage in politics is not negotiable in John McKay’s view. “You have the absolute right not to vote”, the Scarborough-Guildwood MP asserts with this warning to those politically asleep at the wheel, “and I have the absolute right to impose a $100 fine on your tax return.”
Discussion of family back on the table
Discussions of family size have increased in political and religious discourse as North American birth rates hit historic lows. Catherine Pakaluk, an economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., recently authored Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.
- By OSV News
Editorial: God’s love never fails
As the long days of summer fade and autumn’s cool, crisp air starts to settle in, it’s hard not to feel a shift in our spirits, too. But there’s so much to praise about fall.
Two letters from Pope Francis to cardinals
Two letters from Pope Francis: one welcoming 21 new cardinals, including Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo; one to the College of Cardinals concerning financial reform.
Know the truth of live birth abortions
Infants born alive after abortion has come up recently. But why discuss this most electric of third rail issues? Babies born alive after an abortion in the second trimester is “common.”
A practice for making progress in prayer
Did you ever make an Hour of Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and wonder if there was a more fruitful way?
Winnie’s sins
The true story of how Prime Minister Winston Churchill appeased Stalin, and the way his British government abandoned Poland, should be known by everyone, especially since we just commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
Sharing the light
Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo’s elevation to Cardinal this week gives added cause for the celebration of Thanksgiving this weekend.
Bishop Remi De Roo embodied Vatican II
Remi De Roo named a bishop just as the Second Vatican Council opened in October 1962. He was 38 years old, the youngest bishop in the world. De Roo attended all four sessions of Vatican II, and the experience changed him for life. He gained a new understanding of the Church, one more inclusive than the hierarchical model he had learned in the seminary.
- By Glen Argan