Contrary to what most of my professors believed, I sometimes paid attention when I was in the diaconate formation program at St. Augustine’s Seminary. Liturgically I may not have known my ambo from my elbow, but when it came to pastoral care I was totally present.
Charles Lewis: One-on-one with the great Jean Vanier
By Charles LewisIn 2007 I started a new assignment as the National Post’s religion reporter and editor. It was at a time I was digging deeper into Christianity so I thought it would be a perfect fit for me.
Leah Perrault: I choose joy and vow to practise it recklessly
By Leah PerraultJoy is an Easter feeling and a virtue in my faith tradition. For reasons fairly obvious to me, it is not the leading line in any description anyone would ever write about me.
Reality of fake news threatens freedom
By Robert BrehlLess than a month after Pope Francis warned about the perils of misinformation and “fake news,” new research unearths some rather disturbing findings about the issue in Canada.
Common sense waits in the wings
By Peter StocklandEven those who resisted expansion of gay rights from the mid-1990s to 2011 ultimately conceded the absurdity of the U.S. military’s so-called “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy.
Vanier’s life a lesson in prayer and patience
By Glen ArganFourteen years. That’s how long Jean Vanier said his life was in “a holding pattern.”
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Re-thinking best spot for the bishop’s chair
By Fr. Raymond J. de SouzaArchbishop Michael Mulhall, our new chief shepherd in Kingston, was installed on the feast of Philip and James, May 3. It was a fittingly grand occasion, with much joy among the priests and the people at receiving our new archbishop.
Charles Lewis: Religion surveys don’t tell the whole story
By Charles LewisTo read statistical surveys of religion in Canada and the United States is to believe organized religion is imploding.
Cathy Majtenyi: Threatened species counting on us
By Cathy MajtenyiScientists warn that Earth is in the early stages of the “sixth mass extinction,” with a decrease of up to 60 per cent since the 1970s of the numbers of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish on the planet.
Peter Stockland: Lives are cursed by culture of fear
By Peter StocklandUntil five minutes before The Curse of La Llorona began, my wife and I were the only people in the darkened void of the theatre at our local Cineplex.
Glen Argan: Goalie’s story is a lesson for us all
By Glen ArganFor fans of the Edmonton Oilers, like myself, the Stanley Cup playoffs are a time of mourning. Our team has only made it to the playoffs once in the last 13 years. Well, we can cheer for another Canadian team, but this season all three which made the playoffs — Winnipeg Jets, Calgary Flames and Toronto Maple Leafs — lost their first-round series.