Find Christ’s courage to touch the untouchables

May 29, 2025

For many folks, encountering the homeless, a prostitute or a prisoner is too scary to contemplate, especially if you are alone. You are afraid of being robbed or beaten, not knowing what to say or just getting dirty. But this is where the rubber meets the road.

Pope Leo to conduct renewal from bottom up

May 16, 2025

Pope Leo has seen the world from the bottom up, an experience that can only be life altering.

True dignity has the face of Christ

A Church for the poor has been around for 2,000 years

May 2, 2025

Like Jesus, Pope Francis was a witness to the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Jesus didn’t have a political program and neither did Pope Francis.

Rules for a radical doctrine of love

April 19, 2025

Elections are essential to democracy, but they are not the most crucial element.

Sound the trumpet against Trump the utopian

March 20, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump is not a conservative. He is a right-wing populist who thinks in utopian terms. He heralds a return to a misty time when America was great, which apparently it currently is not. Precisely what made America great in his mind is far from clear.

Trust in God trumps tariff bullies

March 7, 2025

I was praying this psalm about six months ago when these lines jumped out at me as they never had before. What an astonishing proclamation of faith. Even in the face of war, the psalmist would continue to trust in the Lord. I could only ask myself, “Am I up to this?”

Christianity advances a world of love

February 22, 2025

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

Mark Carney a testament to Catholic witness

February 6, 2025

More than 40 years ago a man walked unannounced into my office in Edmonton when I was the young editor of the Western Catholic Reporter.

Taking steps away from bad religion

January 24, 2025

Many things about Pete Hegseth, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, raise serious concerns — his alcoholism and adulterous womanizing among them. What concerns me perhaps even more is his exercise of bad religion.

Where do you stand on Canada?

January 9, 2025

For the first 100 years of Canada’s existence, our country’s leaders mostly held to the belief that Canada had to protect itself from the power of our American neighbours.