The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:59:14 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Herman Goodden: Bishop Sherlock always a true pastor at heart /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30085-herman-goodden-bishop-sherlock-always-a-true-pastor-at-heart /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30085-herman-goodden-bishop-sherlock-always-a-true-pastor-at-heart

With the death of Bishop John Michael Sherlock on Aug. 12 at the age of 93, I expect that I am not the only member of the sprawling Diocese of London whose sense of bereavement is mixed with bursts of jubilation at a race that was so well run. 

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:19:14 -0400
Herman Goodden: Making the most of ‘spiritual weapon’ /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29534-herman-goodden-making-the-most-of-spiritual-weapon /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29534-herman-goodden-making-the-most-of-spiritual-weapon

A mere 35 years after my Catholic conversion, I suppose I should be a little embarrassed that it is only now that I am finally getting the hang of the rosary and finding it a very powerful devotional instrument in the way that it commands and directs and focuses my prayer. What took me so long? 

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Tue, 21 May 2019 16:05:10 -0400
Herman Goodden: No signs of defeat on path of resistance /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29516-no-signs-of-defeat-on-path-of-resistance /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29516-no-signs-of-defeat-on-path-of-resistance

Though my legs and lower vertebrae sympathetically throbbed at the prospect of spending another 16 out of 24 sleep-deprived hours sandwiched into a chartered bus barreling back and forth between London and Ottawa for the National March for Life, I thought it was important to support the largest annual protest in our nationöÏÓãÊÓƵapp capital each year. 

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Thu, 16 May 2019 14:54:11 -0400
Small Ontario town was about to lose its last Christian church... until a Catholic pharmacist intervened /item/28833-small-ontario-town-was-about-to-lose-its-last-christian-church-until-a-catholic-pharmacist-intervened /item/28833-small-ontario-town-was-about-to-lose-its-last-christian-church-until-a-catholic-pharmacist-intervened

LONDON, Ont., – In the week before Christmas, a 58-year-old pharmacist, Egyptian immigrant and devout Roman Catholic named Michael Haddad had his quarter-million-dollar bid accepted to purchase a recently shuttered United Church in Hensall, Ont. HaddadöÏÓãÊÓƵapp sole reason for making this purchase is so that this town of 1,200 situated about an houröÏÓãÊÓƵapp drive north of London will not lose its last remaining Christian church.

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Canada Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:08:42 -0500
A trip of peace, protest and patience /opinion/columnists/item/27414-a-trip-of-peace-protest-and-patience /opinion/columnists/item/27414-a-trip-of-peace-protest-and-patience

OTTAWA – Prodded by an increasing intolerance for those who profess pro-life convictions — most pointedly and menacingly by no one less than our prime minister — my wife and I decided it was time to walk the walk and made our way up to Ottawa for the 21st annual National March for Life. I had attended one of the very earliest of these marches back around the turn of the century and had a pretty good idea what we were in for.

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Register Columnists Wed, 16 May 2018 13:37:36 -0400
Herman Goodden: Outspoken prof is ChurchöÏÓãÊÓƵapp ally /opinion/guest-columnists/item/27085-herman-goodden-outspoken-prof-is-church-s-ally /opinion/guest-columnists/item/27085-herman-goodden-outspoken-prof-is-church-s-ally

Canadian Catholics and Christians generally are not paranoid if they harbour suspicions that their governmental overlords are unsubtly trying to control their rights of free speech, religion and assembly. 

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columnists Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:15:22 -0400
A New YearöÏÓãÊÓƵapp party? Bah, humbug! /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26600-a-new-years-party-bah-humbug /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26600-a-new-years-party-bah-humbug I’ve never had much enthusiasm for New YearöÏÓãÊÓƵapp celebrations. Partly this is because of the utterly perverse timing of the holiday.
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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columnists Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:09:31 -0500
Andy WarholöÏÓãÊÓƵapp world: Confusing... and Catholic /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26333-andy-warhols-world-confusing-and-catholic /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26333-andy-warhols-world-confusing-and-catholic When I converted to Catholicism in 1984, my decision was at least partially influenced by the testimony and example of people I admired who happened to be Catholic — particularly writers as diverse as John Henry Newman, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Knox, Flannery O’Connor and Dorothy Day. ]]> herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:06:33 -0500 Comment: Writings of St. Augustine can lead us to City of God /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26094-comment-writings-of-st-augustine-can-lead-us-to-city-of-god /opinion/guest-columnists/item/26094-comment-writings-of-st-augustine-can-lead-us-to-city-of-god

One of the sweetest attractions of off-the-grid summertime breaks is the opportunity to push out the parameters of your usual reading routines. This summer I decided it was time to finally immerse myself in the writings of St. Augustine (354-430 AD) and read the two works for which he is best known, Confessions and The City of God.

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:28:16 -0400
Comment: This time, Jesus is invited for our wedding vows /opinion/guest-columnists/item/25684-comment-this-time-jesus-is-invited-for-our-wedding-vows /opinion/guest-columnists/item/25684-comment-this-time-jesus-is-invited-for-our-wedding-vows

My wife and I, in our 40th year of married life, are renewing our vows this month at a special Mass in the Marian chapel of our home parish at LondonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. PeteröÏÓãÊÓƵapp Cathedral Basilica.

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herman.goodden@catholicregister.org (Herman Goodden) Guest Columns Fri, 14 Jul 2017 04:58:00 -0400