Peter Stockland

Peter Stockland: Kamloops discovery wallops the Church

June 5, 2021

There’s a unique wallop in seeing your hometown linked by national and international media to the finding of a “mass grave” full of children.

Peter Stockland: Living faith within the realities of life

May 29, 2021

Five minutes into a recent online retreat, I felt myself going spiritually backwards.

Peter Stockland: Beware of Bill C-10 and the bureaucrats

May 22, 2021

What Ottawa won’t do for cats it might end up doing to Catholics, warns a former CRTC vice-chair and leading critic of controversial changes to the federal Broadcasting Act.

Peter Stockland: Long ago debate an echo for today

May 8, 2021

Unfurling Bernadette Devlin, Quebec’s Catholic bishops, Irish nuns and William F. Buckley Jr. in the same thought, never mind one sentence, might be considered psychologically, even rhetorically, impossible. Well, there it is. Impossibility vanquished.

Peter Stockland: Palliative centre a light in darkness

April 24, 2021

Amid the deep shadows of ever-expanding MAiD and examples of hospice care being brutally extinguished, a gesture of transformation by the Archdiocese of Montreal lights a candle in the dark.

Peter Stockland: Community suffers with church closures

April 10, 2021

The Holy Week chaos that hit Ontario churches when the Ford government slammed on its COVID “emergency brake” hours before Good Friday is part of the chain reaction of frustration faithful Canadians are experiencing.

Peter Stockland: What has become of our nation?

March 27, 2021

If my prayer request for one miracle were answered, every Catholic church in Canada would toll a funeral bell two years from now when the first mentally ill Canadian is killed by MAiD.

Peter Stockland: God Squad mission to build role models

March 13, 2021

For a decade of his 31 years with the Calgary Police Service, Sean Lynn worked with at-risk youth.

Peter Stockland: Homicide debate is long overdue

February 25, 2021

Sean Murphy was a Mountie for 37 years and a local coroner for years after that. Yet even he is astonished at how quickly Canadians have become comfortable with obliging health-care workers to perform medically-assisted homicide.

Peter Stockland: Theologian fights charge of bigotry

February 13, 2021

A Catholic theologian and professor is under public attack by students at McGill’s School of Religious Studies who want books he has authored removed, and exemptions granted from required courses he teaches.