I will break with custom and comment before I read. Isn’t it a wonderful exercise to review past works to see how well they have aged? I look forward to this essay, as I have been very well edified from all your contributions, here and elsewhere. I’m grateful for the course correction in my viewpoint that is in no small part attributable to the rational thought leadership that comes through in your written work. If I may, to anyone who has yet to read it, recommend your piece on Theopolis: Whether There is a Moral Obligation to Disobey the Coercive Mandates.
Someone needs to take Mr Rath aside and sort him out. One expects (even one who is no fan of Francis) something better from a constitutional lawyer than this ahistorical rant:
I will break with custom and comment before I read. Isn’t it a wonderful exercise to review past works to see how well they have aged? I look forward to this essay, as I have been very well edified from all your contributions, here and elsewhere. I’m grateful for the course correction in my viewpoint that is in no small part attributable to the rational thought leadership that comes through in your written work. If I may, to anyone who has yet to read it, recommend your piece on Theopolis: Whether There is a Moral Obligation to Disobey the Coercive Mandates.
Recommended: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-untold-story-of-the-popes-pilgrimage-to-canada/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=canada
Someone needs to take Mr Rath aside and sort him out. One expects (even one who is no fan of Francis) something better from a constitutional lawyer than this ahistorical rant:
https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/rath-popes-apology-not-well-received/article_6fcd98d0-1f14-11ed-bd07-37becd0d7a2e.html
'"It's important for us to be recognized as human beings, so it's not enough just to apologize. You need to talk about the root of everything," which is the Doctrine of Discovery, Fox told CBC News.' (https://angelusnews.com/news/world/raising-banner-protesters-raise-questions-about-doctrine-of-discovery/). And if the alleged root, as I contend, isn't actually there? But apparently CNS, like CBC, isn't listening, even with the pontiff decked out in head-feathers, just as the latter isn't attending to the fact that no bodies have been found in the wake of those allegations about unmarked graves (https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found). Which suggests a lack of seriousness about the whole show, or, as Rubenstein puts it, the hypocrisy of it all—even as regards the church. There's smudging, in other words, and then there's smudging; on which more anon.(https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/rubenstein-the-hypocrisy-of-the-roman-catholic-church/article_ea8308d2-06b7-11ed-bc12-db7e78a63281.html).