Stockland is publisher of Convivium magazine and a senior fellow at Cardus.

Peter Stockland: Let’s restore some balance in our time

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The small but agitated crowd at the front steps of the Catholic Centre in downtown Montreal mistook me for their saviour.

Peter Stockland: Love will always prove necessary

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Some will sniff that a hierarchical Church is hardly an institution to concern itself with authoritarian politics.

Peter Stockland: ‘Make us worthy of the promises of Christ’

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Often when a particular friend of mine says certain things, I don’t react right away. In fact, it might require days. Or impose a prudent pause until the 12th of Never.

Peter Stockland: Commandments set path for journalists

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What was surprising about the Hindustan Times being the first source I was offered on Google for reports of Pope Francis’ weekend message to journalists was how unsurprising it was.

Peter Stockland: Money talks in climate debate

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Granted, there is something beyond the borderline of zany in a journalist urging theologians to look to economics for reform of human behaviour.

Peter Stockland: Individual conscience a COVID casualty

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At the end of a recent long run during which the state of the world is a staple of the conversational smorgasbord, my running partner asked a pressing perspicacious question: When, exactly, was conscience transferred from individual to collective ownership?

Peter Stockland: Delta Hospice Society keeps up fight for life

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The board of a hospice society in suburban Vancouver is fighting for its pro-life life this October. It is also already looking ahead to new life for palliative care in a continent-wide network of euthanasia-free care centres.

Peter Stockland: ‘At least now there is acknowledgment’

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Even in the world of what the late, great Allan Fotheringham called the “shy egomania” of journalism, moments of humility tilt unexpectedly upward their beautiful faces and make you see anew.

Peter Stockland: Vaccine edict sets dangerous example

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Is it just me or does anyone else feel deeply uneasy about a minister of the Crown effectively usurping the role of a minister of the Church?

Peter Stockland: Best, worst of times for abortion debate

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Even for pro-lifer Catholics labouring in the political trenches, it must seem a blessing in disguise that abortion has so far failed to get off the ground as a federal election issue.