A working class hero for the lilies of the alley
It all started with a phone call. When the Daughters of St. Paul arrived in downtown Chicago in 1979, we were in need of a garbage pickup company. Why not continue with the company that had already been servicing our building? When the Sisters called Flood Brothers Disposal, little did they know the lifelong friendship it would kick off. Mike and Joe Flood were fervent Irish Catholics and鈥ractical jokers. They first pretended to be atheists, but eventually came clean (pun intended) and began picking up our trash gratis, along with financially supporting our media mission.
Sifting clutter to discover grace
Saturday morning in early June. Sunshine streaming through lilac bushes. Birds singing from underneath leaves that seem to have grown overnight. And tables full of things we hope other people will like well enough to take home. There are stories attached to the stuff. The kids keep changing their minds and sneaking things back in the house. The seeing and the sifting happen simultaneously.
Readers Speak Out: June 19, 2022
Farrow informative
In her June 12 column 鈥淢AiD to Measure,鈥� Anna Farrow presents an informative history of euthanasia legislation in Canada, showing the advance in sheer ghoulishness over the past seven years.
Editorial: Guiding hands
Distressing as it is that Canadians need urging to step up efforts against the scourge of human trafficking, it remains commendable that the Church continues to provide leadership and leaders for the fight.
Laity loses when Catholic journalism is shuttered
The decision of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to close the domestic operations of Catholic News Service strikes at the heart of the notion of synodality which Pope Francis is encouraging through the Catholic Church. The current reflections on synodality call the members of Christ鱿鱼视频app Body to consider the proper way for authority in the Church to be shared.
- By Glen Argan
MAiD to measure culture of death
There is perhaps no more apt word to describe the grim advance of euthanasia legislation in Canada than that of juggernaut. The word derives from the Sanskrit, 闯补驳补苍苍腻迟丑补, and translates as Lord of the world, and is one of the titles used for Krishna, a Hindu god.
- By Anna Farrow
Reputations ruined over residential school graves
Publicity about the residential schools has focused on the presence of graves on the grounds of or near those schools. Questions are raised about whether the objects identified by ground-penetrating radar actually represent bodies. If we suppose these are indeed graves, what can we conclude regarding what happened in residential schools?
Readers Speak Out: June 12, 2022
See and do
It seems Lise Anglin鱿鱼视频app letter to the editor regarding my article of May 15 did not take into consideration the advisory committee report on racism and discrimination in the Canadian armed forces, let alone the audience to whom it was directed.
Editorial: Where were we?
In the august pages of a leading American business newspaper, a previous head of government relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has excoriated his former employers for their failures on abortion.
Gun freeze reduces threat to common good
The federal government鱿鱼视频app May 30 tabling of legislation that stops handguns from being purchased, sold, imported and traded in Canada is a very welcome move.
The complex calculus of negating racism
We hear and read a lot about critical race theory (CRT). Most of it is raises serious concerns. The idea of CRT, as I understand it, is to teach young children that white people have always had a privileged place in society and that people of colour have paid the price for that supposed racial supremacy.