I always look forward to the spring. It is when our university celebrates convocation, and while this is usually an all-consuming, logistically complex event, come the day this is feel-good all the way.
Glen Argan: Gospel has path to avoid pitfalls of tribalism
By Glen ArganThe overwhelming election victory of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has heightened fears among members of the nation’s minority religions, including Christians. Yet Christians in the Western world might well learn some lessons, both positive and negative, from Modi’s politics of Hindu nationalism.
Bob Brehl: Greed ultimately leads to strife: Proverbs
By Robert BrehlThroughout the Bible, much is said about money. From “the love of money is the root of all evil” to “give Caesar what belongs to Caesar” to “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Robert Kinghorn: Blessings are often a two-way street
By Robert KinghornContrary to what most of my professors believed, I sometimes paid attention when I was in the diaconate formation program at St. Augustine’s Seminary. Liturgically I may not have known my ambo from my elbow, but when it came to pastoral care I was totally present.
Charles Lewis: One-on-one with the great Jean Vanier
By Charles LewisIn 2007 I started a new assignment as the National Post’s religion reporter and editor. It was at a time I was digging deeper into Christianity so I thought it would be a perfect fit for me.
Leah Perrault: I choose joy and vow to practise it recklessly
By Leah PerraultJoy is an Easter feeling and a virtue in my faith tradition. For reasons fairly obvious to me, it is not the leading line in any description anyone would ever write about me.
Reality of fake news threatens freedom
By Robert BrehlLess than a month after Pope Francis warned about the perils of misinformation and “fake news,” new research unearths some rather disturbing findings about the issue in Canada.
Common sense waits in the wings
By Peter StocklandEven those who resisted expansion of gay rights from the mid-1990s to 2011 ultimately conceded the absurdity of the U.S. military’s so-called “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy.
Vanier’s life a lesson in prayer and patience
By Glen ArganFourteen years. That’s how long Jean Vanier said his life was in “a holding pattern.”
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Re-thinking best spot for the bishop’s chair
By Fr. Raymond J. de SouzaArchbishop Michael Mulhall, our new chief shepherd in Kingston, was installed on the feast of Philip and James, May 3. It was a fittingly grand occasion, with much joy among the priests and the people at receiving our new archbishop.
Charles Lewis: Religion surveys don’t tell the whole story
By Charles LewisTo read statistical surveys of religion in Canada and the United States is to believe organized religion is imploding.