Peter Stockland

Peter Stockland: Abortion is a failure to create alternatives

October 15, 2018

From a pessimistic perspective, a McGill University conference marking 30 years since the Morgentaler decision might seem another predictable festival of defensive triumphalism from pro-choice warriors.

Peter Stockland: Canada on hot seat for freedom forum

October 1, 2018

The phrases “hot ticket” and “religious freedom forum” appear only infrequently in the same sentence, especially on Parliament Hill where the operative word is secularism, secularism and more secularism.

Peter Stockland: The Church will always right herself

September 11, 2018

Earlier this summer, I came as close as I’ve ever come to proverbially setting my hair on fire over the unfolding catastrophe seeming to cripple the Church. And that was before the infamous j’accuse letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò alleging Pope Francis was well aware of the sexual scandal roiling around former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Peter Stockland: Archbishop Vigano takes a dubious path

August 29, 2018

Pope Francis famously asserted his preference for a Church that is “bruised, hurting, dirty” and has the mud of the street on her shoes.

Peter Stockland: Scandals put faith in Church to test

August 22, 2018

After Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trials and convictions, Canada’s great comedian Norm Macdonald delivered a piercing bit about public refusal to acknowledge the heinousness of the crimes.

Peter Stockland: New Catholic hymnal nothing to sing about

July 24, 2018

Proof that the Church has no shyness about irony is affirmed by news that Canada’s new Catholic hymnal will be unleashed during Lent two years hence.

Peter Stockland: There’s a silver lining in the Trinity Western decision

June 21, 2018

Anyone looking for hope from the June 15 Supreme Court of Canada decision on Trinity Western University can find it shining in the pages of the judgment itself.

Peter Stockland: Irish turn their backs on faith and history

June 7, 2018

If tradition is the democracy of the dead, as G.K. Chesterton famously said, surely abortion has become a tyranny of the living over life past and future.

Peter Stockland: Pro-lifers fight on with a tireless spirit

May 28, 2018

When Dr. Cathy Ferrier was announced as the Bishop Adam Exner Award winner by the Catholic Civil Rights League last week, she responded with the deep grace familiar to all who know her.

Peter Stockland: Faith is alive and well in our mainstream

May 11, 2018

Calls for reinvigorating religious public life within our seeming secular monoculture have traditionally relied heavily on morally grounded arguments.