Let God take the lead in conversation

Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 19: Sunday, October 20 to Saturday, October 26

Lea Karen Kivi · October 18, 2024

Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 19: Sunday, October 20 to Saturday, October 26

Know the truth of live birth abortions

Andrea Mrozek · October 11, 2024

Infants born alive after abortion has come up recently. But why discuss this most electric of third rail issues? Babies born alive after an abortion in the second trimester is “common.”

Culture à la Carte

A practice for making progress in prayer

Sr. Helena Burns · October 11, 2024

Did you ever make an Hour of Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and wonder if there was a more fruitful way?

God is always available through prayer

Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 18: Sunday, October 13 to Saturday, October 19.

Lea Karen Kivi · October 11, 2024

Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read for week 18: Sunday, October 13 to Saturday, October 19.

Figure of Speech

Always the right time to give thanks

Gerry Turcotte · October 10, 2024

“Every day is Thanksgiving. That’s what the Eucharist is for."

Bishop Remi De Roo embodied Vatican II

Glen Argan · October 10, 2024

Remi De Roo named a bishop just as the Second Vatican Council opened in October 1962. He was 38 years old, the youngest bishop in the world. De Roo attended all four sessions of Vatican II, and the experience changed him for life. He gained a new understanding of the Church, one more inclusive than the hierarchical model he had learned in the seminary.

Editorial

Sharing the light

October 9, 2024

Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo’s elevation to Cardinal this week gives added cause for the celebration of Thanksgiving this weekend.

Changing the world with egg-cellent words

Words give shape to our world

Leah Perrault · October 4, 2024

I suppose it is not a surprise to say that a writer loves words. Thinks words are powerful and important. Spends minutes and hours thinking up just the right way to express feelings and ideas with words.

Roots of faith mean protecting peasants

Luke Stocking · October 4, 2024

Peter Maurin, from the Catholic Worker movement, was known to proudly assert, “I am a peasant. I have roots.” Most would not share Peter’s pride. Thanks to the Middle Ages and Western pop culture’s treatment of it — the word is considered derogatory. That is something that needs to change.

Euthanasia empties life of its meaning

MAiD has nothing to do with good medicine

Charles Lewis · October 4, 2024

In 2013, I wrote a column for the National Post about Dr. Donald Low, a microbiologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He spoke about his cancer diagnosis, his fear of tremendous pain that might be looming and the loss of his dignity. He spoke without self-pity and urged Canada to make physician-assisted death legal. He died eight days later.