The Catholic Register - Guest Columns Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:22:10 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Angela Saldanha: Cure for loneliness lies in a willing ear /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30349-angela-saldanha-cure-for-loneliness-lies-in-a-willing-ear /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30349-angela-saldanha-cure-for-loneliness-lies-in-a-willing-ear

Doing a late night check around the ward, I found one of the patients, an elderly woman, crying softly into her pillow.   “WhatƵapp the matter, Mrs. Grey?” I asked. “Why are you crying?”

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Guest Columns Sat, 28 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0400
Carl Hetu: Despair not an option in the Middle East /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30283-carl-hetu-despair-not-an-option-in-the-middle-east /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30283-carl-hetu-despair-not-an-option-in-the-middle-east

On July 7, 2018, in Bari, Italy, at an important ecumenical gathering of all Christian leaders from the Middle East, Pope Francis made a jarring reference to a Middle East without Christians. 

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carl.hetu@catholicregister.org (Carl Hetu) Guest Columns Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:12:21 -0400
Luke Stocking: Institutions play critical role for Church /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30279-luke-stocking-institutions-play-critical-role-for-church /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30279-luke-stocking-institutions-play-critical-role-for-church

Some questions for the average Catholic in the pews: Do you know what the VaticanƵapp Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is? How about the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops? Have you ever heard of the Social Affairs Commission of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario?

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lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) Guest Columns Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:24:42 -0400
Harry McAvoy: Creating purpose from lifeƵapp lemons /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30246-harry-mcavoy-creating-purpose-from-life-s-lemons /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30246-harry-mcavoy-creating-purpose-from-life-s-lemons

Way back in Grade 10 religion class at Michael Power High School, Sr. Virginia had us read ManƵapp Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. In this memorable book about the Holocaust, Frankl writes about why some of his fellow prisoners survived the concentration camps, while many didn’t. 

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Guest Columns Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:54:36 -0400
A.A.J. DeVille: Did God give man ‘right to bear arms’? /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30222-a-a-j-deville-did-god-give-man-right-to-bear-arms /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30222-a-a-j-deville-did-god-give-man-right-to-bear-arms

As someone who — thanks to his motherƵapp birth in Scotland and her emigration to Canada — enjoys both British and Canadian citizenship, never have I felt more of a “resident alien” living in the United States than when it comes to the issue of guns and the so-called right to bear arms which gets invoked after every atrocity, such as the Aug. 31 shootings that left seven dead in Odessa, Texas.

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Guest Columns Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:26:52 -0400
John Milloy: Secularism can be a positive force /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30185-john-milloy-secularism-can-be-a-positive-force /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30185-john-milloy-secularism-can-be-a-positive-force

Is secularism good or bad?  

Canadians of faith are struggling with that question these days.  Our increasingly secularized world seems intent on removing religion from public life.  

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Guest Columns Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:08:18 -0400
Bishop Fred Henry: No reason to ban conversion therapy /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30134-bishop-fred-henry-no-reason-to-ban-conversion-therapy /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30134-bishop-fred-henry-no-reason-to-ban-conversion-therapy

George Orwell wrote in “Politics and the English Language” that “political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” 

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Guest Columns Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:06:45 -0400
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
Luke Stocking: Keep the planet in mind for travel plans /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30032-luke-stocking-keep-the-planet-in-mind-for-travel-plans /opinion/guest-columnists/item/30032-luke-stocking-keep-the-planet-in-mind-for-travel-plans

“We’ll be coming to visit from July 22 to July 30,” I told my mother-in-law, who had come to Windsor from her home across the border in Michigan to see my son play soccer. 

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lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) Guest Columns Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:09:36 -0400
Francis Campbell: Sunday without a priest isn’t quite the same /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29954-francis-campbell-sunday-without-a-priest-isn-t-quite-the-same /opinion/guest-columnists/item/29954-francis-campbell-sunday-without-a-priest-isn-t-quite-the-same

Sleeping late on a Sunday morning a few weeks back, I decided to substitute the 9 a.m. Mass at the church just down the road in our home parish for an 11:30 Mass in a nearby parish.

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fcampbell@catholicregister.org (Francis Campbell) Guest Columns Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:16:14 -0400