Francis Campbell: We have the time … let’s use it well
I can’t find time for that.
COVID-19 has laid bare many of the popular excuses we use to appease ourselves for skipping the things we know we ought to be doing.
Francis Campbell: There is much to learn from social distancing
A Saturday afternoon walk seemed a healthy idea during the social distancing edicts foisted on citizens everywhere to fend off COVID-19 risks.
Gerry Turcotte: The Wiki and wacky world of St. Isidore
As I was driving to work this week, I saw a sign outside a neighbourhood church. It read: “Prayer is the original wireless form of communication.”
Cardinal Thomas Collins: Bill C-7 makes slope even more slippery
The federal government has introduced new legislation expanding the eligibility criteria for euthanasia. The inaccurate term, medical assistance in dying (MAiD), is currently used to describe what this law would allow, but the process is more accurately called euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Francis Campbell: Fact and fiction of Lenten fasting
Families lived frugally in the rural Nova Scotia community I called home until early adulthood.
Francis Campbell: A history brewed in faith and fortitude
The old teapot is steeped in history, fortitude and faith. If it could talk, whistle or chatter, what a tale this 200-year-old china cauldron might tell.
Francis Campbell: Doing your best is 2020’s best resolution
The early days of 2020 have already relegated many best intentions and New Year’s resolutions to the try-again-next-year bin.
Francis Campbell: Time to say a prayer for more praying
Prayer books, prayer groups, prayer meetings, prayer beads, prayer mats, common prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, a wing and a prayer.
Deacon Greg Kandra: Making Advent matter requires some patience
Christmas is still weeks away and already we’re exhausted.
Angela Saldanha: Prayers for departed needed all year
Traditionally, November is the time when we especially remember to pray for departed family members, friends and (maybe) enemies.
Bishop Thomas Dowd: Documentary sets stage for challenging dialogue
The fall meeting of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops brought with it an unexpected invitation. The group SNAP (Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests) organized a viewing in Cornwall of the documentary Prey, a film that sheds light on the predatory actions of Hod Marshall, a now-deceased Basilian priest who was convicted for sexually abusing minors.