Whether or not one agrees with Pope Leo’s application of just war theory to the Iran conflict, it’s unthinkable to deny his powerful renewal of the Church’s authoritative moral voice.

The global media machine has, true to form, churned differences of belief between Pope Leo and U.S. President Donald Trump into a war of words regarding the conflict with Iran.

Those who insist Canada courts no danger by removing long-standing Criminal Code protections for religious speech should turn their attention to Finland, of all places.

The Gospel according to St. Luke – Chapter 24

Biologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book prophesying that human apocalypse was at hand bombed in all its predictions. Still, it left behind political and cultural craters that bedevil us still.

Something parliamentary must arguably exist to bring order to the chaos being inflicted by the House of Commons.

The heart of that doctrine, that synthesis of the Law, is what we celebrate this week in marking the 50thanniversary of ShareLife, the charitable fundraising arm of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

In an immediate response to the bombardment of Iran, Pope Leo urged an end to the violence and a resumption of diplomacy – jaw-jaw over war-war in the immortal words of a British prime minister.

The great 20th century journalist G. K. Chesterton famously noted that the proof of Original Sin is the front page of the daily newspaper.

“Let us ask for the grace of a Lent that leads us to greater attentiveness to God and to the least among us…for the strength that comes from the type of fasting that also extends to our use of language, so hurtful words may diminish and… our communities (become) places where the cry of those who suffer finds welcome.”