Jenny Cafiso: ‘Bridging borders’ worth the price for Hondurans
More than 7,000 Honduran migrants including children have crossed the Guatemalan and Mexican borders and are marching toward the United States. Some people, including the American president, are describing them as murderers, rapists, “very bad criminals.” Helicopters are hovering over them, while the border patrol and the military have been alerted. There are calls to close the border.
Church on the Street: Friends stand by with help and prayers
“I’m going down east to try to be reconciled with my father.”
Figure of Speech: Selfies and looking beyond the lens
Recently I Googled the term “selfie” and determined quickly that no further research into the matter was needed. What I found were endless varieties of scantily clad self-representations, with very little analysis about why anyone would transmit these images about themselves, or what the images were meant to suggest other than an easily accessible sexuality occurring in epidemic proportions (79 million images on Instagram alone that fall into this category).
Editorial: Listen to cries
As a caravan of some 7,000 weary migrants trudged across the poorest region of Mexico, heading for the U.S. border, they found sympathy and received donations of food, water and clothing from ordinary Mexicans who themselves had little.
Charles Lewis: Frustrations with euthanasia
On rare occasions I get clear signals of what needs to be done in my life. When it comes, it arrives through people I respect. Each gives me the answer I need but I did not know I needed till I heard it.
God's Word on Sunday: Faith meant to guide all parts of life
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov. 4 (Year B) Deuteronomy 6:2-6; Psalm 18; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 12:28-34
Charles Lewis: St. Francis sets an example for reformers
St. Francis of Assisi means a lot to me. Reading about him during the early days of my conversion really made Catholicism come alive. I even took the name Francis when I entered the Church.
Glen Argan: Truth takes a back seat in Khashoggi case
My plan had been to write this week on the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul’s encyclical The Splendour of Truth, the sainted pope’s most controversial document. However, as often happens, events intervened and I put off writing that reflection. Maybe next time.
- By Glen Argan
Peter Stockland: Religious freedom’s losses are piling up fast
The new Quebec government’s proposed assault on religious freedom by barring public wearing of overt faith markers is worrisome enough.
Francis Campbell: Archdiocese restructuring in face of big challenges
Nobody goes there anymore … it’s too crowded.
Readers Speak Out: October 28, 2018
Rigid adherence
Re: D&P funding remains in limbo (Oct. 7):
It was reported that 12 Canadian bishops did not remit the annual Lenten collection for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace in order to put pressure on the D&P organization to ensure that its overseas partners do not support abortion and contraception.