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Month: July 2020

Czerny: Pandemic made people grasp role of migrants as essential workers

The coronavirus pandemic “opened our eyes to the peripheries in our midst,” specifically to the contribution of migrant workers in essential services such as health care, transportation, sanitation and agriculture, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.

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The reconquest of Hagia Sophia?

The status of Hagia Sophia is not exclusively about Islamist populism. It is also about Turkey’s standing in world politics and Erdogan’s self-appointed role as a defender of Islam.

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Ignatius and His Companions of Jesus

When we read the life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), perhaps to our surprise, he seems to belong more to the early days of the desert Fathers, or, perhaps, to the mediaeval ‘fools for Christ’, who gave up all to follow Him – begging for alms, sleeping outside, pilgrimaging from place to place –[…]

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St. Ignatius of Loyola: Madman or Militant Monk?

Saint Ignatius of Loyola: Madman or Militant Monk?In times of insanity, only the relatively insane have the courage to be sane. In this paradox lies the paradox of salvation itself: that the seemingly mad are the ones to save the world from madness. St. Ignatius of Loyola was a knight errant for Our Lady who charged the giant windmills of his lifetime […]

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