A resolution of reconciliation would start 2015 off right
An American survey from more than a year ago showed that 45 per cent of people usually make New Year’s resolutions and another 38 per cent never make them. But only eight per cent of people are successful in achieving their resolutions. Self-improvement and weight-related resolutions are the most popular, followed by money-related and relationship-related vows.
With His coming, Jesus asks so little of us
They came by the thousands. Young and old, men and women, Francophone and English, the able-bodied and the infirm, they came despite the driving, biting snow and blustery wind to a church in Montreal in mid-December to bid farewell to hockey legend Jean Beliveau.
Over the rainbow is the King's Son
Is it just by coincidence that at the beginning and the end of the Bible there appears a rainbow?
- By Ian Hunter
How has the pledge to end poverty gone? Bloody terrible
Nov. 24 marked the 25th anniversary of a trail paved with good intentions but marred by broken promises.
Catholicism key to mystery of Shakespeare
Before I became convinced that William Shakespeare was a Roman Catholic, I was one of those conspiratorially minded chaps who believed Shakespeare was not the person who wrote the greatest single cache of plays in the English language.
Justice will only be served in forgiveness and healing
The problem with earthly justice is that sometimes it seems to take its good old time and other times it just doesn’t seem to exist at all.
A Catholic education is a unique education
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with some parents who were looking at enrolling their children in a Catholic school. They made that decision because of their own experiences of Catholic education, but also because of their participation in a program run by a number of our school boards called “We’ve Been Waiting For You.”
Bonhoeffer’s conscience condemned him to a martyrs’ death
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor executed by the Nazis in the dying days of the Second World War, has been recognized (perhaps by Protestant more than Catholic theologians) as one of the leading Christian thinkers of the 20th century. He was that, but he was much more: visionary, prophet, spy and martyr.
- By Ian Hunter
Doctrine sprouts and grows
The controversies surrounding the recent extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family have often put me in mind of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the greatest Catholic churchman of the 19th century. Newman wrote eloquently on an extraordinary range of topics, but the arguments around the Synod compel us to look at Newman’s work regarding the evolution of doctrine.
Ask God for help with worldly worries
Sometimes, sleep doesn’t come easy. Dreams are pushed aside by worry and fretting. Counting sheep gives way to counting out real-life scenarios and possibilities late into the night.
Prayer integral in our schools, but there’s more that can be done
Part of the mandate of Catholic schools is to ensure that students develop an appreciation and understanding of the role of prayer.