Sr. Helena Burns: Every life is fascinating — a nun’s too!
I was recently interviewed by a secular news outlet about a new fictional film featuring nuns. I almost didn’t do the interview. Why not? Because I know better.
Glen Argan: For America, we hope the choice is good over evil
Growing numbers of commentators are warning of “a grave danger” to American democracy — the possibility of a civil war or other anti-democratic actions by right-wing extremists aimed at overthrowing the United States government.
- By Glen Argan
Robert Kinghorn: See amid the winter’s snow
It was one of these soft evenings when a gentle snowfall enveloped the drabness of the streets, and with no breeze to speak of, the chill had been taken from the air. As I walked the downtown streets the ancient hymn came to my mind, “See Amid the Winter’s Snow.”
Peter Stockland: Let’s restore some balance in our time
The small but agitated crowd at the front steps of the Catholic Centre in downtown Montreal mistook me for their saviour.
Gerry Turcotte: Sculpting our memory notebooks
Our world is filled with positive and negative spaces — cracks and openings, fissures and holes. It is human nature to want to fill these spaces, whether through words into silence or action into stillness. How often have we seen someone babbling to fill in an uncomfortable silence, unable to let the stillness take hold?
Charles Lewis: Jesus’ followers need to change culture around us
Around Christmas we often hear about the miracle of God coming to us as a baby. To think of God, the being who is being itself, of whom nothing that exists is higher, made Himself vulnerable and poor. Many scholars think He was born in a cave. It must have been cold as hell.
Glen Argan: In troubled times, Jesus is way to new life
The day of reckoning is upon us; how can we respond?
- By Glen Argan
Fr. Raymond de Souza: A great blessing in a historic church
The topic of residential schools dominated this column in 2021, and too often that story is written as if Catholics and Indigenous peoples are two distinct parties, perhaps opposing or even hostile.
Sr. Helena Burns: So, what was your Epiphany?
The Christmas season has so many wonderful feast days along the way, not least of which is Epiphany, the commemoration of the Magi’s visit to the Christ Child.
Peter Stockland: Love will always prove necessary
Some will sniff that a hierarchical Church is hardly an institution to concern itself with authoritarian politics.
Leah Perrault: There’s something at work in the waiting
For the first holiday outing in our new city, we headed out for the tree lighting in the town square. (It felt very Stars Hallow, for the Gilmore Girls fans, with lots of twinkly lights and a mayor’s words and Santa arriving by fire truck with all the usual characters.) After a line for sleigh rides, a queue for hot chocolate and another turn to take to see Santa, my little girl exclaimed loudly that “Mostly tonight, we were waiting in line!”