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Jimmy Lai before his arrest, shown at a Hong Kong protest. Dominic Lee Tsz-king, a legislative council member from the pro-Beijing New People’s Party, has criticized a joint petition calling for Lai’s released. It was signed by 10 Catholic bishops, including Vancouver’s Archbishop Miller. (Acton Institute photo)

Jimmy Lai before his arrest, shown at a Hong Kong protest. Dominic Lee Tsz-king, a legislative council member from the pro-Beijing New People’s Party, has criticized a joint petition calling for Lai’s released. It was signed by 10 Catholic bishops, including Vancouver’s Archbishop Miller. (Acton Institute photo)

Hong Kong lawmaker blasts petition signed by Vancouver Archbishop Miller urging Jimmy Lai’s release 

Canada, Catholic News Agency, International

A legislative council member from the pro-Beijing New People’s Party has criticized a joint petition signed by 10 Catholic bishops, including Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, that called for the immediate release of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai. “The Catholic leaders’ call for Lai’s release is a striking example of religious power being commandeered for...

“The Church addresses people with full respect for their freedom,” Pope John Paul II said; her mission “does not restrict freedom, but rather promotes it.”

Maybe marriage and child-rearing is not as magical as Instagram made it look. The work is draining. Getting older is also draining. Perhaps we have less room and energy for the expansiveness we had hoped to discover post-retirement. Perhaps every corner of life requires effort.

Canadian flags and wooden crosses in a bunker in West Flanders, Belgium. A report on religious freedom by Aid to the Church in Need notes several instances of declining religious freedom in Canada. (Timothy Shawn Hack, Library and Archives Canada,/Flickr)

Religious freedom on decline in Canada, Aid to Church in Need report says

Canada

The report, published by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), showed a rising trend in compelled speech, hate speech laws, censorship, the rise of cancel culture, and a growing intolerance toward some faith-based views in the West.

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