Sr. Helena Burns: Five solutions to feminism gone wrong
“Feminism” is not a dirty word. At its most basic level, I define feminism as “the protection and promotion of women.” “Radical feminism” denies any significant differences between men and women beyond a few reproductive body parts, which, of course, is patently false, unscientific and demeaning. I was a radical feminist for a good portion of my life until I discovered John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
Peter Stockland: God Squad mission to build role models
For a decade of his 31 years with the Calgary Police Service, Sean Lynn worked with at-risk youth.
Francis Campbell: Strike three, and with God, you still aren’t out
Lent is a time for reflection and renewal.
Readers Speak Out: March 14, 2021
Love story
Re: Is technology threatening our humanity? (Jan. 17):
My youngest son was born in 2015. On the third day of his life, the geneticist told me that my son was born with Trisomy 21, otherwise known as Down syndrome.
Editorial: A hopeful reality
How many times over the past year have you heard the phrases “getting back to normal” and “putting COVID-19 behind us”?
Cathy Majtenyi: Glass houses and safe drinking water
It’s an end-of-March deadline that’s not going to be met. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has failed to deliver on his election promise that public water systems on all First Nations reserves will be potable by March 31, 2021, says Canada’s Auditor General.
Charles Lewis: Stupidity abounds in an arrogant world
We often bemoan the state of the world. A word such a “tragic” is often used. War and famine still plague much of the world and here in Canada we live under an anti-life government. So yes, tragic is fitting.
Glen Argan: Beware the traps of self-righteousness
Sometimes, morality is the enemy of justice. Leading a morally upright life should lead one to act with integrity and compassion. Society itself cannot be good unless a critical mass of its people is morally good. But when we try to make other people good and judge them harshly when they don’t live up to our standards, we become repressive.
- By Glen Argan
Sr. Helena Burns: Gospel of the Body needs to be heard
Since the Daughters of St. Paul have always printed papal encyclicals and works of the popes, we naturally collected and published John Paul II’s extraordinary “Theology of the Body” — a series of catechetical talks he delivered in the early 1980s.
Readers Speak Out: March 7, 2021
Open doors
Re: Woman granted voting rights for bishops’ synod (Feb. 14):
After reading the article concerning the appointment of Sr. Nathalie Becquart to the general secretariat of the synod of bishops, it made me think of Jennie Trout and Emily Stowe, the first female physicians in Canada, some 140 years ago, and the suffragist movement which very gradually gave the vote to women in Canada.