Every five years between five million and six million Canadians move. Stability, a job for life, roots are not the hallmarks of our age. But it’s still a good idea to buy a plot of ground or a crypt in a mausoleum in anticipation of your final resting place.

Grief comes in all sizes, all shapes. Sometimes it lingers. Sometimes it searches you out in the middle of the night. Sometimes it brushes you on the way out the door.

The three Abrahamic faiths have all sorts of things in common, in addition to their significant differences. But the unique meeting point for Islam and Christianity may be their shared memory of a Jewish peasant girl who gave miraculous birth to Jesus.

Interfaith dialogue doesn’t start with an exchange of creeds or comparison of theologies. It begins with friendship.

TORONTO - When Marshall McLuhan woke up on a typical work day he didn’t immediately grab a New Testament. He grabbed three. One in the original Greek, the Vulgate Latin translation and then a version in another language he felt a need to work on — German, Portuguese, maybe Italian.

TORONTO - Calling the situation of Christians in the Middle East “catastrophic,” the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has issued a document decrying the perils faced daily by Christians from Iraq to Egypt.

There was a time in El Salvador when Sr. Jeannette Bolduc and Sr. Amabilis Deveau used to carefully scan a bus before they got on board. If there was a soldier on the bus, they would wait for the next one.

Jesuits take their vow of poverty seriously, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need money. It just means they spend it on things that will help them work harder, longer and better on the spiritual well-being of everybody else.

The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is directing $5.4 million of Canadian government funding to Syrian refugees who are living outside official refugee camps.

TORONTO - To most Israelis and most of the world’s Jews, Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek wields a theological cudgel that threatens their very existence.