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index.feed.received.today — 26 avril 2025National Post

Pope Francis remembered by mighty and meek as pope of the people

26 avril 2025 à 13:15
VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes as pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed him at the basilica across town where he will be buried. Read More

Raymond J. de Souza: Francis remained faithful to the truth during ‘pilgrimage’ to Canada

26 avril 2025 à 12:00
In their comments upon the death of Pope Francis, both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre referred to the Holy Father’s visit to Canada in 2022 — the “penitential pilgrimage,” in his characterization, to offer an apology related to Indigenous residential schools. Read More

Conrad Black: Pierre Poilievre is the obvious choice for Canada

26 avril 2025 à 12:00
We are finally at the watershed that everyone agrees is one of the most important elections in Canadian history. I realize that regular readers would already be familiar with my opinion of the merits of the contending parties and to some extent I'm putting old wine in a new bottle while, in a scandalous melange of metaphors, preaching to the choir. The Liberal campaign is a gigantic fraud. It pretends that since they have a new leader, though that leader is up to his eyeballs in the failed policies of the debunked Trudeau regime, it can simply slink out of its responsibility for the clangorous Gong Show of misgovernment of the last 10 years. It pretends that it has the ideally qualified candidate, when he has never been in active politics, has never actually run anything except a central bank, and in that capacity in Canada he tinkered with the interest rate while Finance Minister Jim Flaherty navigated Canada through the financial crisis of 2008-9, and he was a catastrophic failure as governor of the Bank of England. He was almost tarred and feathered as he left London’s Heathrow Airport. He represents now that he warned the British about the dangers of leaving Europe and that they now regret that decision. He tried to terrorize the country into remaining in the EU, which Britain had never voted for, (they voted for a common market, not a European government), and his projections of disaster have not occurred. The British left Europe and have shown no disposition to return and despite an unprecedented six successive incompetent governments in ten years, Britain has performed better economically than the EU. Read More

Why Pope Francis’s signet ring must be destroyed with a silver hammer

26 avril 2025 à 11:00
Pope Francis was to be buried at the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome on Saturday following a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square. The ceremony began at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET). Among the oldest traditions that mark the funeral preparations for Pope Francis is the destruction of his signet ring, the Ring of the Fisherman, one of the most storied pieces of papal regalia. Kissing the pope’s ring as a sign of respect is such a famous gesture that is has become a general expression for deference to authority, and the practice occasionally bothered Francis so much on grounds of hygiene and infection control that he would sometimes withdraw his right hand when people went to kiss it as they met him. Each pope gets his own new ring made at his investiture, which is then destroyed at the end of his papacy, which usually but not always coincides with his death. The National Post runs through the history and significance of this ring that is known in Latin as the “Anulus piscatoris.” Read More

World leaders gather for Pope Francis funeral after 250,000 mourners paid their last respects

26 avril 2025 à 04:37
VATICAN CITY -- More than 250,000 people paid their last respects to Pope Francis over three days of public viewing by ordinary mourners, church and political leaders that ended Friday, when his coffin was sealed ahead of his state funeral in St. Peter's Square and burial in a basilica outside the Vatican's walls. Read More
index.feed.received.yesterday — 25 avril 2025National Post

Ukraine says another Russian drone attack kills 3 after Trump rebuked Putin

25 avril 2025 à 15:20
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- A Russian drone struck an apartment building in a southeastern Ukraine city, killing three people and injuring 10 others, officials said Friday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump rebuked Russia's leader for a deadly missile and drone attack on Kyiv while Washington is endeavouring to stop the more than three-year war. Read More
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