The key to the mystery of Bernard Lonergan’s appeal may be that he has helped so many move toward a greater understanding of themselves, the universe and God.
Canada
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The ‘Trump effect’ on Canada’s immigration restrictions
“Carney is responding to the [immigration] backlash but also to the Trump effect, which is placing more pressure on Canada to tighten its border.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Interview: What Toronto’s Cardinal Leo, one of the youngest in the conclave, wants in a new pope
Cardinal Frank Leo, the 53-year-old archbishop of Toronto, told Gerard O’Connell that he does not think age or nationality is an important factor in choosing the next pope. His top priority? A leader who listens.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Oscar-nominated ‘Sugarcane’ finds beauty after the terror of Canada’s residential school abuses
“Sugarcane” is, surprisingly, a story of healing, although the healing does not come from the church or its ministers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A priestly ministry on hockey skates
‘Hockey Priest: Father David Bauer and the Spirit of the Canadian Game’ shows the interplay of spirituality and sport in the world that Father Bauer helped create.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A Catholic Canadian on Trump’s threat to make his homeland the 51st U.S. state
Canada. The true north, strong and…free? Not if President-elect Donald J. Trump has anything to say about it. And he does.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Quebec was once a Catholic stronghold. Now it’s a haven for New Age spirituality.
Quebec has played host to a number of cults and alternative religions over the years, from the Ant Hill Kids, the cruelly abused followers of Roch Thériault to the U.F.O. believers of the Raelian Church.
Posted inFaith, The Weekly Dispatch
After 35 years, a final settlement reached in the Mount Cashel Orphanage sex abuse cases
A court-empowered third-party insolvency monitor has ordered the Archdiocese of St. John’s to pay over 104 million Canadian dollars (about $76 million) to 292 survivors of Mount Cashel who were victimized behind its walls.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Remembering Canada’s Jacques Monet, S.J., historian of Jesuits and the monarchy
Jacques Monet, S.J., passed away peacefully on May 14 at the age of 94, leaving behind a great legacy to his church and nation.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Will Canada allow autism to become a justification for assisted suicide?
A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis.