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Derek and Frances Baars.

Peter Stockland: There is nothing silly about this bunny tale

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Something’s topsy-turvy when a Canadian Christian couple must go to court to clear their names because they refused to lie on the State’s orders.

Julie Payette's delivering her installation speech as Canada's 29th Governor General on October 2, 2017. The Governor General’s anti-faith sneers in her speech to a national science and public policy conference did not seem, at first blush, reason to make sweet hosannas ring. But then the thunderclap outrage began building, and it was truly cause for prayers of thanks.

Comment: People of faith given reasons for optimism

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In the hatches-battening critical storm that crested over Governor-General Julie Payette’s recent derision toward religious believers, where, I ask, was the gratitude?
Bishop Paul Terrio of St. Paul, Alberta, talks with Deacon Raymond Chan, who serves at St. John the Baptist Parish in Fort McMurray, Alberta, after Mass May 8 at the Church of the Resurrection in Edmonton.

Giving back fully

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The question, Rabbi Kliel Rose says, is not whether to help. It is not even how to help in the most efficient way. It is how to help in the fullest way.

Janet Epp Buckingham

Religious liberty at stake

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It’s doubtful Janet Epp Buckingham ever dreamed the dream of a law school at Trinity Western University would turn into a crucial test case for religious liberty. 

A couple embraces at the foot of the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Oct. 23. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier, was shot and killed the previous day while on duty at the nearby National War Memorial.

We are all His own

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Two days before its crews tidied up the National War Memorial in Ottawa on All Souls Day, Public Works Canada issued an advisory that flowers and other mementos would be removed. 

Supreme Court of Canada

Front line euthanasia ethics

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At this month’s Supreme Court hearing on assisted suicide, much time was spent arguing whether Canadians have a right to be killed. Few moments were spent considering those who would have to do the killing. 

A voice for life

A voice for life

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Not so long ago, it would have been considered the kiss of death for Canada’s Catholic bishops to launch a national campaign against medicalized killing. 

The question of divorce

The question of divorce

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In late August, shortly after my wife and I celebrated our anniversary, the secretary-general of the Italian Bishops Conference, signalled a possible massive change in Church teaching on marriage. 

Don’t squander time

Don’t squander time

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The subject was sausages. Specifically, another round of breakfast-table jibes about my habit of cooking sausages in the microwave. 

Ezra Levant

Resist being neutered

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Should we be jubilant or alarmed that a Jewish kid from Calgary was the one who stood up for Canada’s Christians against a blatant act of political discrimination? Equal parts both.

No comfort in words

No comfort in words

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On the very day Quebec legalized medical killing this month, I committed an act of euthanasia. 

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