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I attended Regent College, a non-denominational graduate school in Vancouver, in the 1980s. The school is of some renown internationally in evangelical circles. J. I. Packer co-supervised my thesis...

Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’s motu proprio “on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reform of 1970,” appears at first glance to be business as usual in...

Over the past fortnight, some dozen churches in Canada, many serving indigenous people, were torched. A dozen more, most in non-indigenous contexts, were vandalized. “Burn it all down,” tweeted...

Aylmer, Ontario, is a town of some 7500 people on the north shore of Lake Erie. It was founded in 1817 by a settler from New York State named...

The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers that he is not arguing either with those who imagine there is...

Easter without Mass? Of course not! Mass will be said, and my family and I will prayerfully hear it said. But though we are not under sentence of excommunication,...

The Church,” says Gaudium et spes, “has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel.” A...

The Synod of the Amazon is a sign of the times. So its Instrumentum laboris says. Who could disagree? And what times these are! Some are saying hopefully that...

That All Shall Be Saved:Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvationby david bentley hart yale, 232 pages, $26 David Bentley Hart, familiar to readers of these pages as an intellectual pugilist...

Family violence can take many forms,” says Madam Justice Marzari of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, including “unreasonable restrictions or preventions of a family member’s personal autonomy.” To...

St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness, the son of perdition,”...

During the rollout of our university’s Preferred First Name Policy (PFNP), the McGill Reporter offered this apologia from one of the policy’s key architects: “One’s name and gender are...

Is the pope Catholic?” used to be an answer, not a question. Alas, it has become a question; or rather it has become five questions, in the form of...

From Alanus Anglicus to Pope Nicholas V, a false understanding of the papacy and of papal authority insinuated itself into the Church, finding expression, for example, in the notorious...

The famous Montreal poet and songster died earlier this week. Here is a song he wrote at one troubled point in his life, a “murmured prayer” that he mouthed...