Sunday, December 29, 2024

In proclaiming Year of Jubilee, Pope Francis calls for debt forgiveness for the world's poorer nations

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On Dec. 24, when Pope Francis opened the holy door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome to launch the 2025 Year of Jubilee, he called on wealthy ...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Role of White Christian churchgoers in election of Trump to White House

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What with Trump threatening to take back the Panama Canal, suggesting Canada should join the U.S. and musing about taking over Greenland, it...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Slaughter of the innocents and the war in Gaza. Can we avert our eyes?

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  It’s a haunting painting. Titled Scène du massacre des Innocents (“Scene of the massacre of the Innocents”), it was painted by the French ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

“A divided church has no message for a divided world.” World Council of Churches leader speaks in Winnipeg about the importance of Christian unity

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“A divided church has no message for a divided world.” That’s what the Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Chur...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Oblates, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation sign agreement for release of personnel records

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The personnel records of Oblate priests who worked at residential schools in Canada are now available to survivors, Indigenous communities a...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

When it comes to protests about the Middle East, can we keep the kids out of it?

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Like most children, I believed everything my parents told me when I was very young. Among other things, that included believing that we, as ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

What would happen to society if religion disappeared? Nothing worth worrying about, according to a new book

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What would happen if all places of worship closed tomorrow? No services at churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras or temples, and nobody s...