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March 2023

March 1

Archeologists’ race against time in Jerusalem

March 1, 2023

One of Israel’s leading archeologists working on the Pilgrimage Road excavation near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount said that with so much new construction underway around the Holy City the rush is on to document and preserve the past before it’s too late.

Continental synod package getting clearer

March 1, 2023

Ten Americans and seven Canadians have less than 30 days to sum up the life of the Church in North America — everything the baptized know and love and dream and hope for.

Simcoe Muskoka board develops trafficking protocols

March 1, 2023

The Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board has developed a host of protocols to raise awareness about the dangers of sex trafficking.

While theologically lacking, Jesus Revolution still groovy

March 1, 2023

The Woodstock generation gets religion in the warmhearted fact-based drama Jesus Revolution (Lionsgate). Refreshingly free of the usual objectionable ingredients, this generally appealing Evangelically-flavoured look back at a somewhat surprising chapter in Baby Boomer history is doctrinally dodgy but ethically uplifting.

March 2

Patient beware, B.C. man warns on MAiD

March 2, 2023

Beware entering a B.C. hospital if you are gravely wounded, elderly or suffering from dementia, warns Richard Leskun.

Ordinandi Dinner back on track

March 2, 2023

The annual Ordinandi Dinner is back this year with its first in-person event since pre-pandemic days in 2020.

Hearing the Lenten call to conscience

March 2, 2023

As we progress along any journey, we are faced with countless distractions, our own laziness or lukewarmness, and temptations that can lead us astray.

Attending Christ means tending to our humanity

March 2, 2023

We humans need to be tended. Sheep are tended by a shepherd. Gardens are tended by a gardener. Even databases are tended by experts.

Verbatim: Ilora Finlay's presentation to Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on MAiD

March 2, 2023

Transcript of the presentation by Ilora Finlay, Barroness Finlay of Llandhoff, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, professor of palliative medicine, and a Welsh medical doctor, to the Canadian Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.

Eliminate weasel words with extreme prejudice

March 2, 2023

We’ve all heard, ad nauseam to some degree, that words matter. But you sometimes have to wonder, to whom?

Shake, rattle, roil

March 2, 2023

An outwardly immovable obstacle to assessing Pope Francis’ papacy at 10 years is the indisputable and unalterable fact that he is the Pope.

The Christian’s ‘Mission Possible’ is to create hope

March 2, 2023

Every so often a song comes into my life that makes me cry in a flood of deep spiritual emotion. The latest one made my wife cry first. She heard it at a performance where our kid is a Grade 12 student at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. It was a choral rendition of Low Lily’s song “Hope Lingers On,” arranged by Andrea Ramsey. She inspired an online search for it. This article is best read to that soundtrack.

Front-line workers witness failure’s revolving door

March 2, 2023

There is an adage that to get off the streets you need a home, a job and a friend. The reality is that there are not enough affordable homes, few jobs open to those who are homeless and even fewer friends who are willing to walk the harsh streets to sustain hope in the darkness.

March 3

Quebec bishops named to new dicastery

March 3, 2023

After uniting two offices in June to form the Dicastery for Culture and Education, Pope Francis named a full slate of 34 members and 40 consultants for the office which promotes human values in culture and education and works with Catholic schools and universities around the world.

Newly discovered ancient galaxies put spotlight on 'Big Bang Theory,' God's act of creation

March 3, 2023

Robert Jastrow, the NASA astronomer, planetary physicist and popular author who decoded the complexities of space for a generation of Americans until his passing in 2008, told the witty tale of a scientist whose life was ruled by faith in the power of reason. Ultimately arriving at the highest peak in his quest to conquer the mountains of ignorance, the scientist scales the final summit -- only to find himself "greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

‘Pope Francis is different’

March 3, 2023

A humble Nazarene summarizes this papacy: ‘love, love, love, forgive’

Resource offers thorough view of Vatican II

March 3, 2023

Catherine Clifford doesn’t want to just recover the spirit of Vatican II. She wants to be more thorough.

Churches must lead path to healing in Ukraine, experts say

March 3, 2023

Churches must lead the way toward peace and healing in Ukraine and challenge dominant narratives that subjugate Ukraine to an existential battle between good and evil, said a panel of theologians and experts on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Faith must remain in Catholic education

March 3, 2023

In a recent discussion analyzing a Vatican document on the identity of Catholic schools, Matt Hoven highlighted the common yet “problematic” viewpoints circulating within current-day Catholic education.

God's Word on Sunday: Follow Jesus and we will never lose our way

March 3, 2023

Second Sunday of Lent. (Year A) March 5 (Genesis 12:1-4; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Matthew 17:1-9) Since the beginning of time, many people have been forced to flee and abandon their homes and land for a new life elsewhere. Sometimes the hope is very basic: survival. Marauding armies, plagues, social chaos and famine can make survival difficult or impossible. At other times, hopes for a better life for children and descendants can impel people outward. Our own times have witnessed the mass migrations of peoples and the arrival of many immigrants and refugees from all over the globe.