Literature for travelling reconciliation’s long road
Reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and entities of the Catholic Church will be a long road to travel. Dr. Natasha Duquette has taken some steps along this road by recently offering an academic course called Indigenous Writers of North America.
18 candles light the Church on the Street
Anniversaries are for reminiscing, and “The Church on the Street” reached its 18th anniversary this month.
The heresy of declaring holy war
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is espousing heresy. His views are heretical because he has enlisted God in a campaign of violence, declaring that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a holy war.
- By Glen Argan
Abuse ruptures faith in Church
Most Catholics experience the crisis of sexual abuse by clergy in relation to headlines, as stories from around the globe or from the local parish where a trusted priest has been removed. Yet the pain of abuse within the Church bleeds somewhere else, in Someone else’s wounds, which are the only place where hope for healing may be found for any of us.
We all need to watch our words
Wacko. Liar. Cheater. Predator.
Recent headlines shine the spotlight on a growing trend polluting our public spaces: name-calling, accusations, put-downs, swearing and other forms of abusive language hurled at those we think are wrong or have failed us.
What the world needs now: kids
Worried about climate change? Hold onto your hat for demographic winter.
Podcast helps pro-lifers learn to listen
Abortion for any reason at any time has become radically normalized. One need look no further than abortion groups’ distribution of abortifacients at pop star Olivia Rodrigo’s concerts to see how much it pervades our culture. As a father of three daughters within the average ages of Rodrigo’s fans, my heart breaks for all women who have been sold the false promises of abortion. Thankfully, the distribution of these drugs has since stopped after widespread media backlash. Nevertheless, scenarios like this show that the lies of abortion are constantly bombarding vulnerable women and girls.
Holy Land bias
I was disappointed with the Register’s April 21 front page and page 5 article. It was a one-sided view of a very complicated situation.
Greater good
When I read Quinton Amundson’s April 28 article “St. John’s closures ‘canonically unsound,’ ” I couldn’t help thinking that it reveals another instance of the Church trying to evade its responsibilities to victims of sexual abuse.
Missing God’s Word
I have very much missed the God’s Word on Sunday column by Fr. Scott Lewis the last three weeks. I hope his column will soon return. Over many years my husband and I have looked forward to reading it every week before attending Sunday Mass.
Anne Jankulak
Thornhill, Ont.
(We’re listening – the Editor.)
Delete ‘barbarians’
I was shocked by the headline on the April 21 issue of The Catholic Register.