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Stories about World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia:
Truth begins at home
World Youth Day is something I witnessed only once, when it was happening around me in Toronto, six years ago. It is very much a legacy of the last Pope, and almost an imposition on the present one, Benedict XVI -- titular leader of more than half the world.s Christians, and unofficial spokesman for many of the rest. He sings today the vast Papal Mass at Sydney, Australia, in the city.s Randwick Racecourse.
David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, July 20
Value prayer, silence, Pope urges
400,000 attend World Youth Day Mass
Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, July 21
Stories about Henry Morgentaler and the Order of Canada:
Gilbert Finn joins growing chorus of dissenters against nomination of abortionist
A former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor will return his Order of Canada if Dr. Henry Morgentaler accepts the distinction, joining a growing chorus of dissenters to protest the naming of the abortion activist to the order. "If Dr. Morgentaler becomes a member, the Order of Canada for me has decreased in value," said Gilbert Finn, 87, who served as lieutenant-governor from 1987 to 1994, from his home in Dieppe yesterday.
Times & Transcript, July 10
Let the Order remain
The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Walter Duranty in 1932 for his reporting on the Soviet Union, even though the pro-communist was more Stalinist stooge than honest reporter. Yasser Arafat was awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his intermission in a lifelong commitment to violence and terror. And way back in 1521 Pope Leo X awarded King Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith. When Henry subsequently laid waste to the both the Church and the faith, the title was taken away, but Henry, the dishonourable sort who covets honours, had parliament restore it to him. Henry Morgentaler is not the first to disgrace the company into which he has been admitted.
Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, July 18
'Why not just talk about it?'
With all of the controversy surrounding the naming of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada, I began wondering why I, like so many other women, had been silent on the personal experience of abortion. Why is it acceptable to sit around a dinner table and talk about colonoscopies, hot flashes and Viagra, but not about our abortion experiences? Why don't I know whether any of the women in my book club have had an abortion when I'm familiar with so many other intimate details of their lives?
Cate Cochran, Globe and Mail, July 19
Family returns medal in protest
The family of a deceased Saskatchewan man is returning his Order of Canada to protest the recent naming of abortion rights crusader Dr. Henry Morgentaler to the Order. "We know he would want to return this medal. All of us believe that," said Steve Buttinger, nephew of Alphonse Gerwing, who died of liver cancer last year at age 84. "I know he didn't approve of Henry Morgentaler. (Gerwing) stood for affirming life."
Saskatchewan News Network, July 22
Earlier: Other names on the list
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Stories about the missionary couple attacked in Kenya:
Canadian couple attacked in Kenya planning to return home next week
A missionary couple from Vernon, B.C. who were brutally beaten in Kenya will come home next week, despite wanting to continue their work in the African country. John Bergen, 70, and his wife, Eloise, 65, were beaten with clubs and slashed with machetes and Eloise was repeatedly raped during a night attack last week that put them in a Nairobi hospital in serious condition.
Canadian Press, July 17
Missionary couple decides to return to Canada
A sigh of relief. That's what Robyn McGough says the long-awaited family reunion will be like when her in-laws return to Canada from Kenya following a brutal attack from which they barely escaped with their lives. John and Eloise Bergen were beaten and assaulted by intruders armed with machetes and clubs who broke into their farm near Kitale last week. They've been recovering in Nairobi and have decided to come back to Canada, Ms. McGough said from her home in Chestermere, Alta.
Globe and Mail, July 17
Earlier: Canadian missionaries will return to Kenya, following attack
Other stories from the past week:
Why aren't evangelicals denouncing Pastor John Hagee?
The silence from fellow evangelicals about Hagee's militant declarations are perplexing, given that mainstream Muslims are often criticized for not denouncing their extremist brothers and sisters in the faith.
Douglas Todd, The Search, Vancouver Sun, July 17
Revived from death, again
'There is a God,' Alberta man says after drowning
National Post, July 18
Don't mess with a Sister
Everybody knows it's not good to have a sister mad at you. And it's worse when she's a sister in the Catholic Church, specifically a member of the Sisters of St. Ann.
Douglas Todd, The Search, Vancouver Sun, July 18
For sinners, pressure is off
It is typical to blame the seemingly oppressive Christian concept of original sin on poor, weak Adam, who committed the first evil in the Garden of Eden. His sin was to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit, and that bit of arrogance has been plaguing us ever since. But in a new book called Original Sin, author Alan Jacobs is keen to dismiss this common misconception of Adam's culpability.
National Post, July 19
Conservative Christian is Omar Khadr's last line of defence
It wasn't too long ago that Bill Kuebler was as Red State as they come: a family man, a born-again Christian, a successful business lawyer, a political conservative with an unblemished record of voting Republican. Today, the 37-year-old Navy lawyer is still as committed a Christian as ever, but he spends his time fiercely defending an alleged radical Muslim murderer -- Canadian Omar Khadr.
Globe and Mail, July 19
The perennial challenge of ethical journalism
New directions in journalism can add more voices, but often those voices are vitriolic or lack credibility
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun, July 19
Secret Lives Of Saints
Some are real, some imagined, but all of Frederica Tomas's icons have personality
National Post, July 21
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