Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, our own Lester Pearson — just some of the names that justifiably have been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. Could that list soon include Donald Trump?

As students have bid farewell to summer and settled back to school, Catholic education in Ontario may be at a crossroads.

Reading classics such as Anne of Green Gables, Farmer Boy, or To Kill a Mockingbird, some parents meditate on the adolescents portrayed—teenagers eager to master the virtues of free, responsible citizens. We wonder if our schools are getting it wrong.

In both Judaism and Christianity, we are taught that God placed us in this world with a mission: to repair what is broken, to pursue justice, and to bring peace. That work cannot be accomplished if we look away from evil, or if we justify hatred cloaked in the language of righteousness

In my recent column centred on the traits and actions we should practice to ignite a New Evangelization, I shared how my Mom’s deep desire to seek the Lord at all times is a wellspring of inspiration.

Has Sean Feucht left Canada yet? I suppose the bigger question is: Would anyone have known he was even here if CBC hadn’t launched an all-out crusade against the Christian singer?

Whenever I take my kids anywhere in public, I get comments. "All boys?! Didn't you ever try for a girl?" "Five?! You must be crazy!" "Are they all yours?"

St. Carlo Acutis and I were born just over a year apart in the early 1990s.

When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure -- a national shrine and sacred image -- within reach every day. I was that child, born in Czestochowa, home of the Black Madonna and a beloved place of spiritual refuge for St. John Paul II.

When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure — a national shrine and sacred image — within reach every day. I was that child, born in Czestochowa, home of the Black Madonna and a beloved place of spiritual refuge for St. John Paul II.