Church on the Street

A street minister’s prayer to remember

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · June 27, 2024

I always admire people who seem to be able to come up with a Scripture quotation for every occasion. You know, when you are working away quietly at home and your spouse calls out, “As it says in John 16:16, ‘In a short time you will no longer see me, and in a short time you will see me again.’”

Figure of Speech

A voice that brought angels to tears

Gerry Turcotte · June 27, 2024

I don’t like to brag, but I was a member of my school’s award-winning choir when I was young. I sang alto and bass though admittedly, because of puberty, it was usually during the same note.

AI gives “eyes” to blind choir member

Lea Karen Kivi · June 27, 2024

The word ‘impossible’ does not exist in Natale Giangioppo’s vocabulary.

Questioning Faith

God reveals Himself, but remains a mystery

Mary Marrocco · June 27, 2024

My mother was an eager learner, but with little patience for pretence. She’d recount her dismay at asking a school teacher about the dogma of the Trinity, only to be shut down by being told: “It’s a mystery.”

Editorial

This is how healing is done

June 27, 2024

Flaws will be found, objections raised, and nits picked with the Sacred Covenant made between Catholic and Indigenous leaders regarding the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C.

Editorial

‘Is MAiD made for prisoners?’

June 21, 2024

The appalling contemporary throwback known by its cutesy euphemism “medical aid in dying” (MAiD) is now making its death fingered presence felt in the nation’s jail houses.

The Lord’s presence is with us

Lea Karen Kivi · June 20, 2024

The Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week, Sunday, June 23 to Saturday, June 29, 2024.

Culture à la Carte

Six sins that thwart God’s mercy

Sr. Helena Burns · June 20, 2024

A recent Sunday Gospel was about the puzzling “sin against the Holy Spirit.” Puzzling and terrifying because Jesus is clear about its consequence: this sin “will not be forgiven in this life or the next.” (Mark 3:20-25)

Being Catholic is knowing the Presence burning our hearts

Daniel Bezalel Richardsen · June 20, 2024

Structurally, within our very life, the human person is one who thirsts and expects something beyond ourselves. Consequently, faith is a response to these authentic needs already ineradicably embedded in us.

The Mustard Seed

The indiscretion driving up our debt

Glen Argan · June 20, 2024

My father was a frugal man who categorically rejected going into debt. He warned me against this way of life more than I can recall. When he and my mother bought their modest home in Regina in 1954, they paid cash. Dad bought used cars, again always paying up front.