When the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI first appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica this past April, he was smiling broadly - a surprise, perhaps, for those accustomed to the cartoon of Joseph Ratzinger as "God's Rottweiler."
The National Post is conducting a search to find Canada's most important "public intellectual." In today's installment, Father Raymond J. de Souza profiles Christian intellectual Father Richard John Neuhaus.
In the summer of 1986, 21-year-old Susan Conroy left her family and friends and headed off to Calcutta, India alone to assist the Missionaries of Charity. "This is a story about how 'all things are possible with God,'" she writes. "It is a treasury of the lessons of love that I learned from Mother Teresa and her beloved poorest of the poor."
Of wealth and war, Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989) knew much and said little.
Here is a translation of the interview Benedict XVI gave to the public television station in Poland. It was broadcast today, Pope John Paul II Day.
To this day, George W. Bush is sure he saw her. Swears by it. He caught her small head barely rising above the backseat of his parents' green Oldsmobile as it pulled in front of Sam Houston Elementary School in Midland, Texas, in the fall of 1953.
We always saw her smiling, but we never knew how much we didn't know about Mother Teresa.
Soldiers, commanders, children, parents: The human face of a natural disaster.
"After the great Pope John Paul..." What this period meant for the Church was the cause of trepidation in some quarters after the Holy Father's death. After Cologne, there is a measure of relief, and a measure of heightened expectation Benedict has made John Paul's stage his own.
