SHORT TAKES MICHAEL W. HIGGINS Antigonish Activist The pragmatic idealism of Fr. Gregory MacLeod In his December 2, 2020, entry for the ecclesial blog Go, Rebuild My House, MyroslawTataryn, a...
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MICHAEL W. HIGGINS A Surrogate Creed Quebec's Bill 21 truncates religious freedom in the name of laicite. I t wasn't supposed to happen, but happen it did. Having thrown off the shackles of...
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SHORT TAKE Michael W. Higgins A Dry Time for Catholics LETTER FROM CANADA In 1967 I was a seminarian with the Scarboro Fathers (the Canadian version of the Maryknollers) and spent part of the...
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Michael W. Higgins The Opening of the Canadian Mind JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S VICTORY ENDS A DISMAL ERA IN CANADA'S POLITICS After several weeks of holding its breath, Canada exhaled, and the pent-up gust...
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Larger than Legend Saving Chesterton from the Chestertonians Michael W. Higgins Richard Linklater’s bittersweet 2008 film Me and Orson Welles tells of an impressionable teenager who gets the...
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ARTICLE The Journalist as Theologian A Tribute to Gregory Baum Michael W. Higgins Their number is not legion, and it continues to dwindle. The few remaining Second Vatican Council Fathers alive...
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Michael W. Higgins Prophet of the Electric Age marshall mcluhan’s post-curial catholicism When one thinks of Herbert Marshall McLuhan— literary scholar, communications...
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Rebel with a Cause The Religious Landscapes of David Adams Richards Michael W. Higgins The past few years have been a golden period for those who like bashing religion and its claim to be an...
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The Globe and Mail is the Canadian equivalent of the New York Times. It is a Toronto-based paper (one of four), but it shares the same spot in the national consciousness as the Times, and...
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Commonweal . November 7, 2008 10 A Secure Border Michael W. Higgins IN CANAdA, RElIGIoN & PolITICS doN’T MIx Acampaigns in recent history, we Canadians conducte n i t c e l e l a n o i a n...
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g r e-t g ruthless political repression without even a hint of righteous superiority. Is this the ultimate testament to his conviction about the universally fallen state of humanity?) In...
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