Canada’s continental offspring are mobilizing for one single aim—a large, co-ordinated, pan-European presence in Brussels, home to the EU’s main institutions, on Monday, February 14th.
Whilst escape from the city for the sake of prayer and meditation is a recurring motif of Western literature, and one that plays an important role in the life of Jesus Christ, one of the great achievements of our civilisation has been that of sanctifying the city.
In the wake of the Anglican Church’s move to phase out the parish system, an informal group called Save the Parish is asserting the importance of local worship and of retaining sacred places set aside for devotion.
The issue of tense relations with Armenia does not seem to be at the heart of the European negotiations. Energy imperatives take priority, and the destruction of Armenian cultural and religious heritage in Artsakh continues without major international reaction.
In a press release, the religious community, the Dominicans of the Holy Spirit, said the Holy Father’ s letter “marks a milestone for them and opens a new path.”
Pope Pius XII was perfectly aware of the reality of the Shoah, so much so that he created an office within the Secretariat of State specifically dedicated to these issues. Pius XII tried—in vain—to alert the American authorities to what was happening in Europe, but the Americans did not believe it.
A COVID law proposed by Poland’s ruling PiS party has been rejected by the Polish Parliament. While opponents of COVID restrictions celebrate, some members of the opposition predict the downfall of the PiS.
The ECB predicts that for the first three months of 2022, euro-zone inflation will be 3.0%. With 5.1% in January, for their forecast to become reality, a sharp deceleration in consumer prices will have to take place in February and March.
What then is the conservative approach to the question of foreign policy intervention? The answer is reassuringly inconclusive: it depends.
Today’s Russia is not yesterday’s Soviet Union. What Putin does to his country is unacceptable, but unlike the leaders of the communist state of the last century, he does not have an ideology that compels him to eliminate the economic and political system of the West.
Many other countries decided to boycott the Beijing Olympics, Polish President Andrzej Duda met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and attended opening ceremonies.
After a Dutch journalist was forced off-camera by security guard, the incident quickly gained international traction and pointed a floodlight on China’s draconian approach to journalists.
