Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Walking on Rosary Path is prayer in motion
Here’s a novel way to pray the rosary: In the middle of a field, with rosary beads so large an adult can kneel inside them, in the company of a gaggle of geese — mom and dad with five goslings in tow.
Glen Argan: Can Bill 21 ignite new spark of faith?
Since the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Quebec governments have been bent on driving religion out of their culture. Ironically, this campaign has co-existed with the broader campaign to preserve Quebec’s uniqueness in an English-speaking North America.
- By Glen Argan
Bob Brehl: Is Klotho the key to solving Alzheimer’s?
Invited to the Ideacity conference in June, I was listening to an eclectic string of interesting speakers, from a British historian describing what Jesus really looked like to the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada and around the world.
- By Robert Brehl
God's Word on Sunday: We are all called to discipleship
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, June 30 (Year C) 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62
A calling can come without warning and be expressed in surprising ways.
Gerry Turcotte: There’s plenty of gain from this pain
Recently I experienced a rather serious injury. The official version is that I fell off a 15-foot ladder while rescuing a child from a burning building.
Leah Perrault: Cultivating curiosity in God’s gardens
Curiosity is not my first response. The little voice is so imploring: “Is there just one more packet of seeds in this drawer, Mommy? I just need to plant one more packet of seeds.” I am making dinner, on a timeline, and the combination of little hands in the junk drawer and the garden boxes raises my blood pressure. I just want to finish cooking. Who has time for curiosity?
Charles Lewis: Orwell’s world too close for comfort
I read George Orwell’s 1984 when I was in high school. We were still in the midst of the Cold War and were taught it was a book about the evils of communism.
Peter Stockland: Conscience battle hits ‘cuckoo’ stage
I can never decide whether it’s the optimist or the masochist in me that believes the relentless assault on conscience rights is set to collapse under its own absurdity.
Glen Argan: We all share in fate of Indigenous women
In our liturgy, Catholics confess that we have “greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.” Sin takes more than one form, and often what we fail to do makes as much space for evil to grow as do our overtly sinful actions.
- By Glen Argan
Bob Brehl: Arts degree a good investment in future
As proud parents, we basked at the Queen’s University convocation ceremony earlier this month where our son received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History.
- By Robert Brehl
God's Word on Sunday: God is beyond all our descriptive words
Trinity Sunday, June 16 (Year C) Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15
God cannot be contained within any word, concept, image or symbol.