Editorial

The greatest story

December 19, 2025

In his “Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto,” Catholic literary scholar, novelist, short story writer and poet, Joshua Hren, makes a claim that might startle even the devout of Holy Mother Church.

The Mustard Seed

Joy and grief both open us to God

Glen Argan · December 19, 2025

In the face of seemingly senseless tragedies, such as the death of a child or natural disasters, many have lost faith. The massive suffering caused by such disasters is not easily dismissed. We should and do strive to prevent such suffering. Why doesn’t God lend us more of a hand?

Culture à la Carte

A movie where religious life rang true

Sr. Helena Burns · December 18, 2025

The classic Christmas favourite, “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” is truly a slice of history. I’m an advocate of watching (quality) old movies to get a sense of the past and “the way we were.” Are older Hollywood depictions true to life? In some ways, yes. If priests and nuns in BOSM were portrayed in some totally unrealistic, overly idealized fashion, there would have been a contemporaneous outcry of “foul!” There wasn’t.

Christ is the sacred heart of Mass

Joe Woodard · December 18, 2025

When I was growing up in the 1950s, what ordinary Catholics experienced was nothing like the curated, elite Latin liturgies that traditionalists enjoy today. The fact is, most Catholics always get their ongoing catechesis (if any) from the Mass.

Canada creeps ever closer to baby MAiD

Anna Farrow · December 12, 2025

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see what’s really going on inside your own home. That was certainly the case with the September 2025 issue of The Atlantic. The American magazine’s take on Canada’s experience with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) caused deep consternation among MAID advocates across the country.

Editorial

We believe, so we are

December 11, 2025

Only the uninformed, the stubborn, or the mischievously contrarian would kick against accepting that Canadians missed the boat when we abandoned our historic compacts with Indigenous peoples in the northern half of the continent.

Disquieting events demand quitting comfort zones

Quinton Amundson · December 11, 2025

God always offers a pathway back to restoration if we desire it in our hearts and exhibit our yearning for Him through our actions. If we burst through our comfort zones and embrace the frontier of bold faith, our Lord offers spiritual blessings in our fleeting time on Earth and eternal life with Him.

Not radical to protect life at conception

Andrea Mrozek · December 11, 2025

There is such a thing as a “radical pro-choicer.” There is actually no such thing as a “radical pro-lifer.” There are only people who see that the genesis of human life at its earliest stages is of the deepest moral significance, and then there are those who do not. If you recognize that we all started out as an embryo, and that our own value hinges on the value of that embryo, then you are pro-life. Not radically, but reasonably so.

Questioning Faith

The divine Physician heals the wounded

We are all in need of mercy

Mary Marrocco · December 6, 2025

Human dignity is restored to someone shattered. A dead relationship comes to life. A broken person is made whole. How does it happen?

Editorial

Protect religious texts

December 5, 2025

Compos mentis Canadians will intellectually and instinctively agree that efforts to counter willful promotion of hatred – though outright elimination might prove impossible – deserve country-wide support.