Peter Stockland

Mapping a Brilliantly Coloured Age

March 20, 2026

Canadian medieval scholar Jaqueline Murray will be hosting a day long symposium through the University of St. Michael’s College Institute of Medieval Studies—Mappa Mundi: Mapping the Mediaeval World.

Repatriated Indigenous artifacts 'just the beginning'

December 8, 2025

A deeply prayerful celebration greeted the return of 62 Indigenous artifacts to Canada from the Vatican at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport Dec. 6.

The extraordinary ordinariness of Francis’ funeral

April 30, 2025

The most extraordinary aspect of the funeral Mass for Pope Francis was its astonishingly beautiful ordinariness.

From daycare to campus, God help us

April 30, 2024

The scene had a loopy, feckless, cosplay pathos about it. Then I discerned the menace. I came face-to-face not with the dictatorship of the proletariat, but with the dictates of the phone-atariat.

Israel must prevail... or else

Former PM warns terror will spread to Canada if Hamas and Iran succeed

April 17, 2024

A former Israeli prime minister is issuing a stark warning to Canadians that Hamas-style terror tactics will spread to North America unless the Jewish State achieves its goals in Gaza.

Reconciliation’s two-way street: First, with yourself; then the other

April 12, 2024

At the Easter signing of a Sacred Covenant between the Kamloops First Nation and two Catholic bishops, Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller quoted former Chief Manny Jules: “One cannot reconcile without the other.”

Without truth, there’s no reconciliation

Calgary Bishop emeritus Henry honoured for challenging residential schools’ consensus

March 8, 2024

Calgary’s emeritus Bishop Fred Henry has been named one of the world’s “Top 10 people of 2023” by Inside the Vatican magazine for challenging the consensus on graves at former Indian residential schools.

Love they neighbour — even online

February 9, 2024

Earlier this February, the sovereigns of social media were summoned to Washington, D.C., for what the wise woman of American mainstream media, Peggy Noonan, described in her column as a ritual denunciation and show of outrage by the U.S. Senate’s judiciary committee.

Let the Montreal Irish story be told

‘The last piece of the puzzle’ marks the 6,000 fleeing famine only to be buried in Canada’s largest mass grave

November 9, 2023

‘The last piece of the puzzle’ marks the 6,000 fleeing famine only to be buried in Canada’s largest mass grave