Harry McAvoy: Staying in the game one day at a time
The Bride and I recently had a return visit with the doctor who specializes in memory problems. New tests had been done, and we were about to receive the results.
- By Harry McAvoy
Brendan Steven: Catholics need to return to centre of political life
Canada’s 43rd federal election is over — and for many Canadians it was dismal. It was a campaign of “gotcha” moments fought in the mud and a symptom of the greater rot in Canadian politics: the continued growth of so-called “affective partisanship,” or the tribal hostility felt by partisans of one party against partisans of another.
Bishop Robert Barron: Newman’s many sides created a saintly figure
I’m still basking in the glow of the splendid Mass of canonization Oct. 13, presided over by Pope Francis and attended by tens of thousands of bishops, priests and faithful from all over the world.
Luke Stocking: When it comes to politics, I am Catholic
I spent the two Sundays before election day handing out small booklets entitled “For Heaven’s Sake, Vote!” to parishioners after Mass. The booklet is a federal election guide published by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
Francis Campbell: Devil travels down an easier road today
To characterize our adult son as a film fanatic might fall short of the mark.
A.A.J. DeVille: Questions to ask about nationalism
A recent exchange of letters between the U.S. publications Commonweal and First Things on the topic of Christian nationalism might seem in Canada to be yet another internal squabble among American Catholics.
Angela Saldanha: Cure for loneliness lies in a willing ear
Doing a late night check around the ward, I found one of the patients, an elderly woman, crying softly into her pillow. “What’s the matter, Mrs. Grey?” I asked. “Why are you crying?”
Carl Hetu: Despair not an option in the Middle East
On July 7, 2018, in Bari, Italy, at an important ecumenical gathering of all Christian leaders from the Middle East, Pope Francis made a jarring reference to a Middle East without Christians.
- By Carl Hetu
Luke Stocking: Institutions play critical role for Church
Some questions for the average Catholic in the pews: Do you know what the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is? How about the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops? Have you ever heard of the Social Affairs Commission of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario?
Harry McAvoy: Creating purpose from life’s lemons
Way back in Grade 10 religion class at Michael Power High School, Sr. Virginia had us read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. In this memorable book about the Holocaust, Frankl writes about why some of his fellow prisoners survived the concentration camps, while many didn’t.
- By Harry McAvoy
A.A.J. DeVille: Did God give man ‘right to bear arms’?
As someone who — thanks to his mother’s birth in Scotland and her emigration to Canada — enjoys both British and Canadian citizenship, never have I felt more of a “resident alien” living in the United States than when it comes to the issue of guns and the so-called right to bear arms which gets invoked after every atrocity, such as the Aug. 31 shootings that left seven dead in Odessa, Texas.