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What Pope Francis’ Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery Could Mean for Canada’s Indigenous People

Opinion

TORONTO (CNS)—A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome,...

Thank You For Ted Schmidt’s Article

Letters to the editor

The Editor: Alas, the Catholic Church seems to be immune to what Israel is doing. History, also, is not irrelevant. While Jews under Christendom suffered...

By Giving Force to the Doctrine of Discovery in Canada, We Misrepresent Our Own History

Opinion

During Pope Francis’s visit to Canada, there were calls for him to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery. Indeed, at his mass near Quebec City, activists...

A Path to Peace in a Time of Polycrisis

Editorials

EDMONTON—Every year at Christmas, we try to recapture the idea of peace. In 2022, with the Ukraine war blazing and even the idea of a...

Victoria Emulates Vancouver with Mega-Parish

Other news

INTRODUCTION This story needs certain background (and foreground) introduction. Historically, even during Bishop Remi De Roo’s progressive era, 1962-1999, Our Lady of the Rosary parish...

Cardinal Czerny: ‘School of the Peripheries’ Enriches Theology

Other news

In his opening address to the participants at the meeting on “Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries,” held at Rome’s Pontifical Urban University, Cardinal Michael...

Synod on Synodality: Where Has It Been and Where is it Going?

Lead story

With the calling of a worldwide synod on synodality, Pope Francis set in motion the most extensive consultative process the world has ever seen. In...

Post Vatican II Perspective: Penitential Pilgrimage of Pope Francis

Opinion

The extraordinary “penitential pilgrimage” of Pope Francis to Canada opens up an array of questions about who we are as Vatican II Catholics. There is...

A Game of Chess in Black and White

Poetry

While Knights upon the chessboard of salvation Do endless battle with the threatening black The dualistic paradigm of light and dark A moralistic, fatalistic bent...