Speaking Out

Choosing between an all-girls high school and a co-ed high school is a tough choice for teenage girls. It can determine the quality of their education and their future circle of friends.

I haven’t been a Catholic long enough for the death of Blessed Pope John Paul II and the subsequent papal election to have mattered much to me. A Baptist teen at the time, I was somewhat interested in the goings-on around this strange, other form of Christianity, but my i nvolvement ended there.

“You’re kidding me” was the uneasy response of my fellow classmate as I explained in detail Church protocol pertaining to meeting with h i g h - r a n k ing clergy of the Catholic Church. On this instance, the protocols coincided with Cardinal Thomas Collin’s first liturgical service in Guelph since His Eminence’s elevation to the College of Cardinals.

As the Church transitions to a new pope, there’s a lot of talk about whether the Vatican has become irrelevant in this modern and secular age.

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When in a conversation regarding anything political, I’m often told to keep my religious beliefs to myself and out of the conversation.

It always seems as if a sex scene in a movie begins just as my parents walk into the room and suddenly I feel very awkward watching the movi e. But when I am alone or with my friends, this same sex scene is merely another scene in a movie.

A community bands together to support one another and a grieving family

The safety of free speech on campus has been challenged yet again. The latest confrontation at Carleton University in Ottawa, in which self-described anti-homophobia campaigner Arun Smith vandalized a “free speech wall” in defense of the gay community, has reignited the debate over the morality in censorship.

Think of the most beautiful experiences in life. Holding a newborn baby. Feeling the waves of the ocean crash at your feet. Sunsets. Christmas morning. Cheeks that hurt from smiling. A first kiss.

This semester, I am enrolled in a course on the History of the Reformation, the 16th-century movement led by Martin Luther which caused a break in the Catholic Church and resulted in Protestantism.