Sr. Helena Burns: Dealing with ‘the gender talk’
Parents generally loathe having “the sex talk” with their children. Today they will also need to have “the gender talk.” Let me explain.
Robert Kinghorn: Little by little, broken lives can be healed
Have you ever had an experience in your life and you are not sure if you dreamt it or lived it? Mine goes back at least 50 years and it is as vivid today as if it happened yesterday.
Peter Stockland: Kamloops discovery wallops the Church
There’s a unique wallop in seeing your hometown linked by national and international media to the finding of a “mass grave” full of children.
Francis Campbell: Setting course on road back to normal
A glimmer of light is now visible at the end of our 15-month-long tunnel of unnatural existence.
Readers Speak Out: June 6, 2021
Rights violated
June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. Recently, the Toronto Catholic District School Board passed a motion to fly the rainbow flag and celebrate Pride month in June. We believe the vote was wrong on moral and legal grounds.
Editorial: Take action — now
It came like a punch in the gut. The news of the discovery of the bodies of 215 children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have shaken us to the core. How could this happen in Canada? How could this happen under the roof of an institution run by Catholic religious orders? Despite all the stories of abuse at residential schools, despite the chronicling of horrors in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report of 2015, despite the history of systemic racism that has victimized Canada’s Indigenous people … this news rips opens wounds that have not even come close to healing.
Charles Lewis: Uighurs need a Good Samaritan
One of the greatest passages in the Bible is the story of the Good Samaritan.
Peter Stockland: Living faith within the realities of life
Five minutes into a recent online retreat, I felt myself going spiritually backwards.
Glen Argan: Mother Mary is ‘our tainted nature’s solitary boast’
Marian devotion and the Church’s preferential option for the poor come together in the feast of the Visitation, celebrated May 31. The feast marks the beginning of Mary’s three-month visit to her cousin Elizabeth.
- By Glen Argan
Fr. Raymond de Souza: Symbols matter
Several Ontario Catholic school boards have decided to fly the Pride flag during the month of June. Many officials don’t want to talk very much about it; witness the briefest of stories which appeared in this newspaper.
Readers Speak Out: May 30, 2021
Worthy fight
RE: Lindsay Shepherd carries on fight for free speech (May 11):
Ms. Shepherd innocently “fell into” her situation at Wilfred Laurier University. Her mother suggested recording the meeting that she had been mysteriously called to by her supervisors. Otherwise, Ms. Shepherd would have left the meeting feeling guilty of misdirecting students on gender ideology. Instead, she blew open for all to see one of the biggest crimes of our time.