Editorial: It’s safety first
As Canadian churches continue to re-open, it would be wise to heed advice Pope Francis offered to Catholics everywhere.
Bob Brehl: Is politics hurting cause of social justice?
The other day at a neighbourhood “social distancing” soiree, while discussing the protest movement following the brutal killing of George Floyd by a bad cop in Minneapolis, I got lectured by a white women in her early 60s.
- By Robert Brehl
Peter Stockland: PM taking a knee strikes hollow note
It’s hard to reconcile continued restrictions on kneeling in church and last week’s images of Prime Minister Trudeau kneeling on Parliament Hill to protest racism in Canada.
Gerry Turcotte: Scratching the surface of cat psychology
I have been plagued by cats almost my entire adult life. (OK, maybe I like them just a little.) Dogs, I feel I understand. They’re reasonably straightforward. You know when they’re happy, when they’re guilty of chewing your favourite shoe and when they’re sulking.
Leah Perrault: A time to practise honesty and kindness
Honest is hard. There is nothing like a season of physical distancing to remind me of that truth.
Charles Lewis: Conversion therapy bill on a risky path
In the midst of the COVID-19 virus it is easy to forget what other dangers lurk in our society. We must remember that our government has been involved in a great and destructive program of social engineering — and it is about to get far worse.
Readers Speak Out: June 14, 2020
Beautiful sculpture
Re: Jesus 2020: A clay model for our times (April 26):
Thank you Timothy Schmalz for the most incredibly beautiful sculpture I have ever seen. I was physically and emotionally moved, as I turned to Page 6 in The Catholic Register and saw how you captured our Most Holy Lord in such beautiful movement.
Editorial: Pope’s voice needed
The cancer of racism is too widespread and too entrenched for one man to remedy alone, but if any one man could command international attention and speak with moral authority on the issue it would be Pope Francis.
Fr. Jonathan Robinson, longtime head of Toronto Oratory, dies at 91
The death of Fr. Jonathan Robinson of the Toronto Oratory is a sadness both for those who knew him and those many more who admired him from afar.
Robert Kinghorn: The noble journey can be torturous
I have always wondered about the names they choose for sports teams: the Vikings, the Giants, the Predators. Vicious sounding names that strike fear into the hearts of the opposition.
Glen Argan: The beauty of our cosmic symphony
Creation is a symphony, a symphony which only God hears in its fullness. I hope God is listening. I hope that in creation’s symphony, my out-of-tune voice will be gathered with the voices of more exquisite singers to sing a song of joy and praise to the beauty of God and the beauty of creation.
- By Glen Argan