Editorial

Listen to reality’s truth

February 20, 2026

“Let us ask for the grace of a Lent that leads us to greater attentiveness to God and to the least among us…for the strength that comes from the type of fasting that also extends to our use of language, so hurtful words may diminish and… our communities (become) places where the cry of those who suffer finds welcome.”

Speak the secret of Catholic Social Teaching

Luke Stocking · February 20, 2026

Have the courage to be challenging as Jesus was. And think about the ways you can share the beauty of things like the rosary, adoration, and above all the Eucharist, so that they point to the powerful ideas in Catholic Social Teaching that guide us in how to live with one another and all creation. How pleasing to God that would be.

Barefoot and Preaching

Turning the wheel to reveal ourselves

Leah Perrault · February 20, 2026

This winter finds me in a new micro-climate. Chinook winds blow up over the mountains, creating a rapid warming as the air comes down the other side.

Little Flower’s vessel of love

Quinton Amundson · February 19, 2026

My February pilgrimage to the Normandy Region of France in the company of seven Canadian Catholic priests, a representative from Air Canada and the great team from the Connaissance Travel and Tours was spiritually satisfying and visually entrancing.

Embrace Lent and 40 days of pure bliss

Donna Fagan · February 19, 2026

“Forty days of pure bliss? How great!” This is a likely comment shared between a Lactobacillus acidophilus bacterium in your gut to another microbe.

Editorial

A little Catholic, a bit Davos

February 14, 2026

High on the list of the most frequent letters we receive from readers are calls for Prime Minister Mark Carney to start demonstrating his Catholic bona fides.

Culture à la Carte

Faithful servant Sister Margaret goes home

Sr. Helena Burns · February 13, 2026

I first met Sr. Margaret Joseph when I was a novice. We had many adventures together in our old-truck-camper-converted-into-bookmobile, with the Pauline Family emblem and Ephesians 3:10 emblazoned on the side.

Church on the Street

The bitter cold streets are paths to holiness

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · February 12, 2026

There are many ways in which we meet Jesus in the Church on the Street, often in the guise of the homeless, the suffering, and the addicted. But we must stop and listen to their stories, listen to their pain, listen to their hopes and dreams, to see hidden behind their appearance the suffering Christ.

We journey to Easter with renewed hearts

Fr. Yaw Acheampong · February 12, 2026

On Ash Wednesday Feb. 18, our journey of life brings us to the beginning of Lent. As a hospital priest-chaplain, people often want to know what it is like to celebrate Lent with the sick in the hospital.

Figure of Speech

Mascot Marco makes mark at St. Mark’s

Gerry Turcotte · February 12, 2026

I have done a great many things as a university president, some expected and others completely unanticipated.