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The Virgin Mary receiving the Eucharist from St. John the Apostle.

God's word on Sunday: Loving one another builds path to God

Second Sunday of Easter, April 8 (Year B) Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 118; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31

An Indigenous woman looks through archived photos of residential schools in Canada.

Peter Stockland: It’s our turn to ride the wave of change

There is a deeply Catholic sense of hope in standing on history’s shore watching a major wave break while sensing another building, barely visible, on the horizon.

Lucy had an unpleasant encounter with the neighbourhood coyote population.

Bob Brehl: Coyote attack a sign of upside down world

Do you ever wonder if sometimes the world is upside down?

Cardinal Robert Sarah delivers a talk on silence at St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica in Toronto, March 12, 2018.

Charles Lewis: Silence much easier said than done

Many of us were fortunate enough to hear Cardinal Robert Sarah speak at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica last month. He is truly a holy man and strong voice in a world of banalities. How many people do you know whose cause is silence?

Writing for the April 2 issue of America Magazine, Fr. Rosica addressed Trudeau’s position on the Canada Summer Jobs “attestation.”

Fr. Raymond J. De Souza: Rosica pulls back curtain on ‘a new dictatorship’

Fr. Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt & Light Catholic Media Foundation, published a blistering assessment of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the pages of a Jesuit magazine, identifying in practice what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger memorably called the “dictatorship of relativism.”

God's word on Sunday: The yeast of Christ will lead us to the truth

God's word on Sunday: The yeast of Christ will lead us to the truth

Resurrection of the Lord, April 1 (Year B) Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118; 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-18

The Church on the Street: Searching for divine power in the eyes of a stranger

The Church on the Street: Searching for divine power in the eyes of a stranger

Some nights it does not take long for the temperature to plummet. I don’t mean the thermometer, but the temperature of the street. 

St. Joseph’s School occupied the corner of Brock and Napier for 65 years, closing in 2015.

The unique landscape of my youth fading fast

Passers-by hardly give it a glance. A Kingston place key to my past is about to vanish, forever.

Jordan B Peterson debates with University of Toronto students at 2016 rally.

Herman Goodden: Outspoken prof is Church’s ally

Canadian Catholics and Christians generally are not paranoid if they harbour suspicions that their governmental overlords are unsubtly trying to control their rights of free speech, religion and assembly. 

A 2017 CBC investigation found black people were three times more likely to be street checked in Halifax than white people.

Francis Campbell: Jesus has some advice about social justice

Words are seldom minced from the pulpit of the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax. A couple Sundays past was no different as pastor Rhonda Britton and the congregation tackled the recurring issue of racial discrimination. 

Lucas Warren, the 2018 “Gerber spokesbaby,” is the first child with Down syndrome selected to be a “Gerber baby.” Speakers at a recent United Nations panel said aborting a child with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome is a gross violation of human rights.

Mary Marrocco: Power of compassion can overcome rage

An article defending the widespread practice of abortion for babies with Down syndrome disturbed me.  

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