The new head of the class?
A controversial bill gives Alberta parents more of a say in school
View ArticleDo religious universities serve the public good?
If there was a God, he wouldn't let me post this.
View ArticleRespect Muslims–just don’t marry them, cardinal says
A Catholic cardinal in Portugal, once considered a contender to succeed the late Pope John Paul II, has warned European Christian women not to marry Muslims. Though the Vatican discourages...
View ArticleReligion defeats suicide
People who attend religious services, even just once a year, are only half as likely to attempt suicide as those who never attend, according to psychiatric researchers at the University of Manitoba....
View ArticleVatican launches itself on YouTube. What’s next? Twitter?
Following up on its website, the Vatican launches itself deeper into cyberspace with its own YouTube channel. It will broadcast short video news clips updated daily on the Pope’s activities and what’s...
View ArticleMore troubles for the Vatican
The Legionaries of Christ, an influential Roman Catholic religious order, have been shaken by new revelations that their founder, who died a year ago, had an affair with a woman and fathered a...
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Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves
Every day, Mohamed Hadi wakes up before sunrise for morning prayer. The 19-year-old then boards a bus for the 90-minute ride from his home in Richmond, B.C., to the campus of Simon Fraser University,...
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The making of Mary
Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ, rates a mere 19 references in Scripture, and barely dented the consciousness of Western Christianity in the first millennium of its existence. Rather...
View ArticleFaith
Glen Pearson considers politics, arrogance, ethics, civil discourse and religion. The post Faith appeared first on Macleans.ca.
View ArticleChurch and state
John McKay talks to Charlie Lewis about Liberal efforts to reach out and touch faith. “There is a deep feeling in the faith communities … that they have been marginalized and they have not been able to...
View ArticlePolitics before God
Glen Pearson struggles with with the intersection of faith and partisanship. For people of faith, the imperative is there to combine our efforts to live honorable lives, especially among one another....
View ArticleNot tortured, merely insulted
Laurie Hawn, amateur anthropologist, talking last night on CTV’s Power Play about the abuse of a detainee in 2006. We’re talking about an issue of somebody being hit with a shoe, which is, frankly, in...
View ArticlePolitical scientists (II)
Chris Selley considers Jason Kenney and KAIROS. Heaven only knows what went on here. Maybe it’s just general hamhandedness. Maybe they hoped the benefits reaped whilst people assumed they’d taken a...
View Article‘It is a democracy at the end of the day’
Steve Paikin comes perhaps as close as anyone is going to get to having a rational televised discussion about the fact that people with religious beliefs might wish to participate in the democratic...
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High-tech nuns
Ross Parry Agency LTD The Monastery of Poor Clares on Lawrence Street in York, England, is home to just over a dozen nuns. Most are over the age of 80 and, having taken vows of poverty, chastity and...
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Born in the U.S.A.
Keystone Press/ Bob Falcetti/Getty Images Half a century ago, when religion entered the political arena in the U.S., it was as a matter of tensions between denominations, the kind of flare-up in tribal...
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In conversation: Christopher Hitchens
Photography by Tom Sandler The 61-year-old author and Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens is one of the most popular, eloquent and contrarian public intellectuals of our time. His book, The...
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