Finding Jesus in the rock of community
We are last to push off from the shore into Oxbow Lake. I am in a canoe with Steph and Ava, two high school students from the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Ahead of us are 30 other TCDSB students ranging from Grades 10-12. For many of them it is their first time paddling a canoe. We are bringing up the rear to ensure no one goes astray. Leading the pack at the front is Greg Rogers, founder of this week-long Catholic Leadership program at Camp Olympia near Huntsville, Ont. He is taking us all to see Jesus.
Where's the proof
Canada鱿鱼视频app True North has reported that 83 churches have now been desecrated, vandalized or burned to the ground since the announcement that graves were found near residential schools in Kamloops, British Columbia. However, no actual graves have been excavated and no definitive wrong proven. But those who don鈥檛 like Catholics and the Catholic Church were given the green light to attack churches and frighten believers. And what has been the response to the destruction from the bishops and the government? Silence.
Editorial: More pronoun absurdity
Canada鱿鱼视频app Federal Court may have unwittingly brought us to peak gender pronoun nonsense. We can only hope 鈥 or better yet pray 鈥 for a return to earth it puts our feet back on sensible ground.
Verbatim: Letter from Bishop Hansen to his flock following NWT evacuations
Mackenzie-Fort Smith Bishop Jon Hansen was among the thousands of evacuees forced to flee the Northwest Territories due to the wildfires. The bishop has been keeping in touch with his flock online.
The kit and caboodle of Catholic priesthood
If you鈥檝e ever wondered: 鈥淲hy do I need to confess my sins to a priest?鈥濃e need to talk. I truly don鈥檛 mean to be insulting or condescending, but any Catholic who asks this question is in need of remedial catechesis. But, I get it. We haven鈥檛 been catechized properly, enough or at all 鈥 and we haven鈥檛 kept up studying our faith as adults.
New life after the wound of divorce
Every year over a million children experience a tragic milestone: seeing their parents divorce. In fact, when combined with unmarried parents who split up, it鱿鱼视频app now estimated that fewer than half of all children today will spend their childhood together with their parents in a unified home.
Find grace and joy in riding the waves
Every summer, I wait and hope for our plans to cooperate with the weather and give us a day or two on the lake with my parents鈥 beautiful boat. We need the sunshine to keep us warm enough and the wind to stay mild enough that we can pull the tube behind the boat. The driver and the wind work together to make waves, and the riders delight at the efforts to stay on or fall in. On these rare and perfect days, I might be the biggest kid of all.
Diplomacy must trump the barrel of a gun
Some World Youth Day pilgrims in Portugal were critical of Pope Francis for failing to condemn Russia鱿鱼视频app brutal invasion of their homeland.
- By Glen Argan
Sin and error
In 鈥How the Church Failed Sinead O鈥機onnor鈥 (Aug. 13-20 issue) Katherine Bennett implies that the Church is responsible for the sad life and death of singer Sinead O鈥機onnor.
Editorial: Speak right or be cast out
In the deep mists of mid-20th century Quebec political mythology there glowered a tribe of hybrid juggernaut-Amazonian English-speaking women popularly known as 鈥淪peak White鈥 Eaton鱿鱼视频app counter clerks.
Verbatim: CCCB contribution toward Health Canada's consultation on palliative care
Part of the Canadian bishops鈥 contribution toward Health Canada鱿鱼视频app consultation on palliative care.