Peter Stockland

Peter Stockland: How long do we wait to face cold reality?

April 29, 2018

Our small English-language parish in a borough of Montreal is hardly a hot bed of serious surprises. Recently, though, we received some rather hard news.

Peter Stockland: Will Canada follow the Middle East's eviction of Christians?

April 12, 2018

Carl Hétu has watched the disappearance of Christians in the Middle East by the thousands. Lately, he’s begun to wonder if he’s seeing it begin in Canada, too.

Peter Stockland: It’s our turn to ride the wave of change

April 7, 2018

There is a deeply Catholic sense of hope in standing on history’s shore watching a major wave break while sensing another building, barely visible, on the horizon.

Peter Stockland: There is nothing silly about this bunny tale

March 15, 2018

Something’s topsy-turvy when a Canadian Christian couple must go to court to clear their names because they refused to lie on the State’s orders.

Trudeau's Indian missteps a lesson for all of us

February 28, 2018

Beneath Canadians’ cringing at Justin Trudeau’s embarrassing Indian amble, there seemed charitable hope he could use the debacle for hard reflection on the difference between image and reality.

Peter Stockland: Returning to conscience at the collapse of the sexual revolution

February 6, 2018

Prudence counsels against turning the #MeToo movement into an epic of #IToldYouSo. Nor is there room, among Christians especially, for schadenfreude as the sexual revolution ends in the disgusting morass we long knew it would.

Peter Stockland: Time to re-think funding in fight for summer jobs

January 9, 2018

Canada’s former ambassador for religious freedom sees recent punitive changes to Ottawa’s Canada Summer Jobs program as the epitome of anti-faith hostility.

Peter Stockland: We have become victims of our own overthinking

December 31, 2017

Some years ago, I would refer a particular fussbudget friend to a spoof self-help group called Over Thinkers Anonymous.

Peter Stockland: Don't blame social media for human bad behaviour

December 14, 2017

There is something seriously laughable, but also laughably serious, about former Facebook bosses bemoaning the global damage caused by social media giants.

Trinity Western University covenant goes on trial yet again

November 30, 2017

Several years ago when the Trinity Western University law school battle was just building, I was shocked to hear a devout Catholic friend trash its controversial Community Covenant.