2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Perhaps it's because, in its obsession and support for the individual, our modern age is willing to diminish the self, the emergence of which owes a great deal of debt to Christianity Why is it then that Christians and others who take religion seriously find themselves so at odds with much of what g...
Implicit, except for the moment when he wandered off script and suggested even factory workers would benefit from learning English, is the reality that Quebecers are comfortable in Canada precisely because they have the security in Quebec and Canada that sovereigntists promised them for decades coul...
Peter Stockland on the demolition of the sovereigntist movement in Quebec.
The combined popular vote for the two parties that campaigned against the whole idea of sovereignty and staging another referendum was almost exactly the same percentage as pre-campaign polls that showed two-thirds of Quebecers rejected the option ...
But as we are in Holy Week, contemplating Jesus' last days on earth, this is a time to contemplate and be amazed by the personal sacrifice of a living, loving God, and in breathless wonder acknowledge that he cannot be placed in a box The God that is revealed to us in Scripture is the creator of the...
My favourite memories still are traveling with Jim in and out of living rooms all over southern Ontario packed full of people wanting to hear Jim's hopeful vision for Ontario ...
Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Alexandre Havard, the Moscow-based author and founder of the Havard Virtuous Leadership Institute ...
And so, the two greatest heroes of most nationalist movements—the peasant and the poet—both share a deep and abiding sense that the modern state is not real Is the Québécois quest for sovereignty a properly modest aspiration fuelled by evident injustices of Canadian federalism or a spiritually disto...
Doug Sikkema writes on how the anticipation of spring, Easter, and March Madness all tell us a little bit about who we are by kindling, albeit subtly, some of our most basic desires.
Of course, good and evil don't map easily onto our sports worlds (unless Duke is playing), but our shared desire to see the underdog succeed, again, seems to almost universally resonate within spectators We await the end of winter with the arrival of spring, the end of Lent with the arrival of Easte...
True, many of these characteristics are shared with organizations that do not claim religious motivations but that does not negate the expectation that an organization that calls itself Christian ought to be doubly attentive to how its identity translates into its ethos, and hold itself accountable ...
Respected as an authority on what it means to be a virtuous leader, Alexandre Havard also had some advice to offer on virtuous followership. With Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings.
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Beauty and the Priest
This is the face of the Church – of Christian life; indeed of the whole life of religious faith – that Pope Francis is asking us to open our eyes upon anew He actually retired from active ministry last year but then – welcome to Quebec – came back rather than have the church stand empty on the weeks...
Our editor-in-chief ponders Justin Bieber’s detrimental instrumentals
Perhaps Canada Post issued them to point out that other Canadian institutions have also been in long-term decline? No, it turns out you can get any team on your stamps What will the new $1 domestic service stamp look like? A Canada goose being gouged? In any case, I am paying more attention to stamp...
From the heart of Christ’s suffering in us comes the grace that releases our fears.
How can we recover the lost meaning of suffering and as Christians strive to transform a culture of death into a civilization of love? For starters, we can acknowledge our own fear of suffering and recognize that this fear is itself a call from God to turn back to the suffering Christ, to Jesus cruc...
Father Raymond J. de Souza on the voices of mercy and prophecy in the papacies of Saint John XXXII and Saint John Paul II
Is the world in which the Church lives basically hostile, or is it genuine but misguided? Is it entrenched in a rejection of the Gospel or only immersed in unsatisfying confusions? Is it open to conversion, or must it be defeated? Does it consider religious faith to be a possible path of liberation ...
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat marks the boundaries of a faith that engages the world without sinking into softness or isolation
RD: Well, I think part of the argument in the book is that it's very easy for observers, both religious and secular, to sort of fall into a kind of binary on exactly that question and to say, "Okay, the story of modernity, the story of the last 40 or 50 years in American or Western life, has been a ...