Mary Marrocco: The power of love is within our grasp
Do you remember a pop song called “The Power of Love,” from a popular movie called Back to the Future? Fun, lively and danceable, the song is just what it ought to be for its purpose: “With a little help from above, you feel the power of love.”
Robert Kinghorn: Blessings are often a two-way street
Contrary 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
In 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
Joy 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
Less 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.
- By Robert Brehl
Common sense waits in the wings
Even 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
Fourteen years. That’s how long Jean Vanier said his life was in “a holding pattern.”
- By Glen Argan
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Re-thinking best spot for the bishop’s chair
Archbishop 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
To read statistical surveys of religion in Canada and the United States is to believe organized religion is imploding.
Cathy Majtenyi: Threatened species counting on us
Scientists warn that Earth is in the early stages of the “sixth mass extinction,” with a decrease of up to 60 per cent since the 1970s of the numbers of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish on the planet.
Peter Stockland: Lives are cursed by culture of fear
Until five minutes before The Curse of La Llorona began, my wife and I were the only people in the darkened void of the theatre at our local Cineplex.