The Mustard Seed

Creation in God’s image just the beginning

Glen Argan · October 10, 2025

What does it mean to be created in God’s image? We know from Genesis 1.27 that people are created in God’s image. However, since God is unseen and unseeable, our response to this question must necessarily be the result of groping in the darkness.

Barefoot and Preaching

How we shift Creation’s spiritual energy

Be courageous in trusting yourself

Leah Perrault · October 10, 2025

My whole life, I have been a doer. I love to roll up my sleeves. Tackle a big job. Make things happen. I love this about me, and I think it is safe to say that others often appreciate it too. And, there are many times in life where that is neither my job nor what is needed.

The ‘God Moment’ of renewing older friendships

Harry McAvoy · October 10, 2025

While performing my duties as Sacristan or ‘altar grandpa’ in St. Joseph’s chapel, at Holy Cross Cemetery, I noticed a woman staring at me. As I was setting up for a funeral Mass, our eyes connected on a few occasions.

Editorial

End pointless war now

October 9, 2025

Eman Badah, 31, gave birth a few days ago and while her premature son lies in an intensive care unit, she and her husband live in a bombed-out Gaza building with an insect-infested tent for a toilet.

Donald Trump for Nobel? How about Pope Francis?

Mickey Conlon · October 8, 2025

Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, our own Lester Pearson — just some of the names that justifiably have been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. Could that list soon include Donald Trump?

Catholic schools must also bear the Cross

Miles Smit · October 4, 2025

As students have bid farewell to summer and settled back to school, Catholic education in Ontario may be at a crossroads.

Editorial

Contempt for Christians

October 3, 2025

There is unquestionably some comfort in the federal justice department’s reassurance that, as the Register reports this week, churches and places of worship will be protected under Ottawa’s amped up anti-hate legislation.

‘Feed on this bread of angels’

Donna Fagan · October 2, 2025

The debate of ideas has always been part of the human exchange whether it is over a good cup of coffee, a beer or a drink of scotch. Whatever it is, wherever it is, the luxury of speaking openly seems to have shifted a little in this year of 2025.

Rescuing Catholic education from Progressive politics

Free our young from the State’s lust for power

Joe Woodard · October 2, 2025

Reading classics such as Anne of Green Gables, Farmer Boy, or To Kill a Mockingbird, some parents meditate on the adolescents portrayed—teenagers eager to master the virtues of free, responsible citizens. We wonder if our schools are getting it wrong.

Culture à la Carte

Smoke, mirrors and Charlie Kirk’s death

Sr. Helena Burns · September 26, 2025

Anything media-wise can be faked today. Anything. We are living in a world of smoke and mirrors and deep deception like never before, because we have powerful tools of deception like never before.