Speaking Out

Young women and religious sisters pair up for spiritual mentorship during the Lenten Listening retreat.

Speaking Out: My Lent with a spiritual director

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Maybe it’s just me, but it’s so easy to get lost in the little sacrifices and traditions of Lent, forgetting what the real point is behind them.

Cardinal Robert Sarah delivers a public lecture on living a silent Christian life at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto, Mar. 12, 2018.

Speaking Out: I agree with Cardinal Sarah

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His Eminence Cardinal Robert Sarah is truly a fearless speaker. 

"I was finding it hard to commit to a prayer time because I couldn’t decide whether I should spend it in spiritual reading, praying the rosary, reading Scripture or maybe there was an ideal combination of these devotions that I was missing," Mirjana writes.

Speaking Out: Progress on my Lenten practice

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As Catholics, we’re challenged to pray daily. Apart from Sunday Mass, there are more possible ways to pray than I can even list, and I find it hard to decide what to focus on. 

Marie Gamboa realized that living her faith in her public high school can bring about hidden blessings.

Speaking Out: Being Catholic in a public school

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To my peers, it’s no big deal that I’m one of the few Catholics at my public high school, but to me, it’s a huge challenge.
Prime Minister Trudeau meets with his Youth Council, a group of young Canadians who provide non-partisan advice to the Prime Minister and the government.

Speaking Out: Fresh ideas for Canada and Church

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It has been a year of firsts for youth involvement.
A Japanese woman suffers burns from thermal radiation after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in World War II.

Speaking Out: Lessons from Hiroshima

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I was reading Dennis Bocks’ The Ash Garden for English class last semester. The book follows the story of three main characters affected by the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the Second World War.
"I believe that the suffering felt by my mom and aunt for their sister, as well as the suffering felt by my fading aunt, caused a sense of peace and closure for each other," Janelle Lafantaisie writes.

Speaking out: The real dignity of dying

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This past fall, my mother received a call from the care home in Yorkton, Sask., where her eldest sister was a resident. My mother was informed that her sister had taken a turn in health and there likely wasn’t much time left. 

Youth counsellors from St. Benedict parish's SummerDaze program are in danger of losing their Canada Summer Jobs funding because of the new policy.

Speaking Out: Fight for the truth and the unborn

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We live in a country where we are told what to believe, we are pressured to conform, and our religious freedoms are gradually being taken away.

Our society is constantly shouting at us to be better. We are inundated with messages that tell us to give more, do more and be more, Anna Chelmecki writes.

Speaking Out: The problem of perfectionism

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Recently I found myself struggling while writing a paper for class. I had been focused on a specific section, writing and rewriting a paragraph with seemingly no success. No matter what I tried, I wasn’t satisfied with what I wrote. Frustrated, I stepped away from my laptop to take a break.

On average, 1 in 9 people go to bed hungry. Elizabeth Iwunwa writes about what we can do to end hunger in an abundant society.

Speaking out: We can feed the world's hungry

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In our world today, it seems that food is everywhere, but there is not a bite to eat.

Speaking out: Offering my gifts at Sunday Mass

Speaking out: Offering my gifts at Sunday Mass

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I believe it is natural for people to go through a period where they don’t feel the desire or the need to go to Church.

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