We are today witnessing an alarming resurgence of antisemitic beliefs and attitudes, including among people who claim to be faithful Christians—from celebrity influencers and political commentators to legions of anonymous social media users.

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has publicly acknowledged that he professes Catholicism. It is also true that he has openly declared his unreserved support for abortion rights. Do these things give us enough ground to at least try to start a respectful conversation?

On May 29, 10 days following a joint statement made by Canada, France and the UK which told Israel it was behaving in a way which righteous countries would not put up with, a communion of Canadian religious sisters wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney to express “gratitude for, and solidarity with” the position.

Imagine being a Catholic student on Good Friday, pressured to eat meat by people who don't share your faith. This is a small, but meaningful, example of religious freedom being threatened.

Canadian writer Michael D. O'Brien is one of the great spiritual writers of our age. Though most of his books are novels, they invite one into a deeper contemplation of the great questions of faith and of what it means to be a disciple.

For many reasons, certainly among them challenges that I have been recently called upon to address, I have been reflecting again upon when things in life unexpectedly arise and demand our attention and our focus.

God is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, so far beyond us. And yet, He is also simplicity. He is love.

We need to ask ourselves: does my communication generate hope? If it doesn't, what do I have to do to change it?

When we long for a deeper encounter with God; when we are felled by failure and futility, when we cannot carry on without a strengthening and recommissioning, we can plunge our hands and indeed our whole being into the deep cave of Christ’s heart and wait for His love to revive us.