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“The Church is not ours but His”

Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:46

Richard Chonak

In these days after the Solemnity of the Ascension, it’s proper to reflect on the Church that our Lord left behind.
In the 1985 interview book “The Ratzinger Report“, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) said this to interviewer Vittorio Messori:

…the Church is not ours but his. Hence the ‘reform’, the ‘renewals’… cannot exhaust themselves in a zealous activity on our part to erect new, sophisticated structures…. Saints, in fact, reformed the Church in depth, not by working up plans for new structures, but

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Free speech, part I

Friday, 11 May 2012 15:58

Richard Chonak

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I’ve been thinking about free speech issues lately, and along the way I came across these videos of Canadian journalist Ezra Levant, from his 2008 appearance before the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The HRC called him in for questioning after complaints from a Saudi-trained imam about Levant’s act of publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. (Catholic Light writer Pete Vere and Kathy Shaidle wrote about this case in their book The Tyranny of Nice.)
Throughout the questioning, Levant pugnaciously told the questioner that the Commission, a

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Flimsy excuses to violate religious freedom

Monday, 09 April 2012 20:14

Richard Chonak

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The posh Montreal borough of Outremont is dealing with noise complaints against the Hasidic community by forbidding all outdoor processions — thereby suppressing religious freedom across the board. Next Sunday the Russian Orthodox cathedral in the city will be denied the freedom to carry out its midnight Easter liturgy, which starts with a procession around the church.
Report from Radio Canada International.