Reading Time: 3 minutes The Catholic church doctrine was used to justify colonization, subjugation and exploitation worldwide
Tag: Catholicism
It’s too easy to blame Christianity for residential school deaths
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just like any human institution, religions are in a constant state of evolution. Just like any human, religious leaders make mistakes
What Marx and Jesus have in common
Reading Time: 3 minutes Movements always endure if they embrace equality, justice, pursuit of truth, and a deep respect for each person with no exceptions
We all need the moral courage to confront racism
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to acknowledge the impact of racist myths. There is no good or bad race of people, there are just people
The Stuarts, a dynasty brought down by religion
Reading Time: 4 minutes In addition to displaying the Stuart propensity for absolutism, James II publicly converted to Catholicism. The die was cast
What if Brexit leads to the breakup of the United Kingdom?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A separate Scotland and a unified Ireland would certainly face new challenges. But life might be easier for the English
Always ask the fundamental question: Is this life-giving?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We cannot allow profit to be more important than the well-being of the human family
Comic superheroes are the modern era’s version of Greek gods
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this new religion, heroes speak the truth and model the behaviours, values and norms of an increasingly diverse society
Power of the Catholic church can tear down walls – even along borders
Reading Time: 3 minutes History shows again and again that the church can mobilize an unstoppable force driven by a desire for love and peace
Religion helped defeat the first Catholic U.S. presidential contender
Reading Time: 3 minutes Al Smith fell prey to the three Ps – prohibition, prejudice and prosperity – in 1928