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One of the sweetest attractions of off-the-grid summertime breaks is the opportunity to push out the parameters of your usual reading routines. This summer I decided it was time to finally immerse myself in the writings of St. Augustine (354-430 AD) and read the two works for which he is best known, Confessions and The City of God.

Leaders in the Catholic Church, like leaders in any organization, hate scandals. They wish that they never happen, and when they do, they try to deal with them internally so as not to get a lot of bad publicity.

Nothing unites the bishops more than being attacked from the outside. And if there was ever any doubt about the bishops’ campaign for immigration reform, Steve BannonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp recent attack will encourage the bishops to double down.

The tragic case of a 77-year-old woman, known only as AB, who had been wracked with intolerable pain for more than three decades, was resolved in August through doctor-induced death.

Or was it?

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Listen Up! Listen Up!�

Making something out of nothing. When somebody pulls that off, it tends to evoke wonder and admiration.

Rome in June is notoriously hot. But Rome in June wearing a wedding veil is even hotter.

My wife and I, in our 40th year of married life, are renewing our vows this month at a special Mass in the Marian chapel of our home parish at LondonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. PeteröÏÓãÊÓƵapp Cathedral Basilica.

ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp been one year since terminally ill Canadians have been legally free to choose medical intervention to end their lives. In that time, some 1,400 people have chosen assisted suicide.

In the May 21 issue of The Catholic Register Peter Stockland wrote a sincere Comment piece about the need for renewal within organizations. I agree with him on this point.