Posts in the "News" category
News regarding the Christian world or of particular interest to Christians.
Pope Benedict appointed a new apostolic nuncio to France (Paris), Archbishop Luigi Ventura, currently the nuncio to Canada- (since june 22 2001)
(source : Zenit -news in french)
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Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume on the life of Jesus is likely to be completed next spring, a Vatican spokesman said.
The book is expected to cover Christ’s childhood, Passion, death and resurrection. The first volume, “Jesus of Nazareth,” was published in 2007.
Father Federico Lombardi told Catholic News Service Sept. 13 that next spring was a [...]
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Every once in a while the Atlantic Monthly comes out with a serious article that is worth reading, even if it is pretty long. Nicolas Carr has put out a long, dense piece about the impact of Google on how our brains are now humming along. I’m sure many people have seen this piece pop up in [...]
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You may have heard about the abortion debate that never happened at York University because it was shut down by the powers of the Graduate Students Association. Two debaters we’re going to discuss one of the most important issues of our time, and yet unbelievably, such a debate was deemed not to have a place in our [...]
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According to the General Social Survey by the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago), priests are the “happiest people”. Time Magazine has published the results, which can be found HERE !
And here are some related links
www.vocations.com
Grand Séminaire de Montréal
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According to Marco Tosatti of La Stampa, we’re about to see a new encyclical from B16, and it will likely be out before Christmas. It will deal with hope, which makes sense after his encyclical about charity, though some had imagined that his second encyclical would be on social doctrine. We can hope [...]
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The National Post currently has an ongoing “Fixing Canada Series”, in which a number of prominent writers are being asked a simple question: If you had the power to change a single thing about Canada, what would it be?Raymond de Souza recounts the different proposals in today’s Post. Among them it is worthwhile reading Michael Coren’s impassioned plea to [...]
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The old template for this website included a box that contained the latest ZENIT headlines. With the upgrade to WordPress 2.2, this box had to be temporarily disabled. But now, thanks to the launch of the new ZENIT website, we don’t even need that custom code anymore. The headlines are once again [...]
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Bishop Bob Harris has been appointed as diocesan bishop of St. John, New Brunswick.
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The release of Karla Homolka from prison has stirred up a lot of passions among people. How is a Christian to respond?
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