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BC photographer, Rebecca Rempel, photographs a special lesson in global awareness to children in the Ukraine, pointing out where they are and where she journeyed from.
The earth’s circumference is 40,075 kilometres, yet we hear the adage “what a small world ...
In helping young women grasp the fashion industry’s power to shape social attitudes, Shannon A. Joseph discovers an adolescent meme with almost magical potency to impair judgement. What do you think? Are you, your friends and family concerned about the effects of fashion on female high school students?
Did they feel there were pressures on girls to look or dress in certain ways? Can you really do you? Or are individual senses of style influenced by media, other teens, and social expectations? As part of the discussion I showed the students pictures of girls much younger than themselves, performin...
John Weston finds a new book on leadership to be a crowning moment in the faithful and sagacious public life of the Reform Party founder
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When the world goes dim, do you slow and listen to the Lord's still, small voice?
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Convivium editor in chief Father Raymond J. de Souza reports on the cross Canada pilgrimage of the relic of St. Francis Xavier. Learn more about the legacy of faith and friendship that St. Francis Xavier imparts to us all.
In the treasury of letters that Francis and Ignatius exchanged in later life we see the beauty of their friendship, sustained even after Francis departed for the missions in India and Asia, never to see his friend again Francis Xavier could only do what he did because of the friendship that St The t...
Convivium’s Peter Stockland learns why a major Christian evangelical group and a gay rights network are both denouncing the “ideological silencing” behind changes to a federal student employment initiative
Yet different as the two associations clearly are, they have independently, and in strikingly similar ways, raised alarms over what would seem at first blush to be the most innocuous federal government initiative imaginable – the Canada Summer Jobs Program “It confirms the group think within governm...
BC photographer, Rebecca Rempel, spots a creative’s corner in Budapest, Hungary.
An artist sets up shop in a corner of Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest, Hungary ...
As Oprah urges us to speak truth to power, a Canadian Coptic bishop teaches us to speak with powerful grace by correcting Justin Trudeau's mockery of Christians, Don Hutchinson writes
Many of us have seen a recent picture, where the Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his brother are (each) wearing a sweater that depicts Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with an emoji of a smiley face seated at the last supper On the Julian calendar’s Christmas Eve – January 6 2018...
Father Deacon Andrew Bennett, director of Cardus Law, celebrates Christmas with hundreds of Millennials who respond to old holiday questions with a new zeal for Truth
May the students of CCO, and those other young people of whatever faith who live their faith openly and with authenticity and integrity, be a witness to us as we build our common life I am that religious fundamentalist, and glory to God on high for that! The second half of my Christmas break, or the...
In her continuing series for Convivium seeking to put into daily life the lessons of the Rule of Saint Benedict, writer Breanne Valerie learns from stillness why God is a Person of few words
Benedict urges “even good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence,” and if the silence is where we find the Gospel, the Word, we must enter in to this practice more in the name of finding the presence of God within ourselves and in the image of God in the other’s words We no longer nee...
Once primarily a tradition of older students helping young students having academic difficulties, tutoring has exploded into a billion dollar profession in Canada. Estimates show a third of Canadian parents will turn to tutoring for their children. In cross-country conversation with educational experts, Convivium's Peter Stockland explores how the change might alter our very concept of schooling.
“You have parents paying [tutors] out of their own pockets so their children can learn what they aren’t learning in school, and you don’t want to know how many there are, or why? What that tells me is, you don’t want to admit you have a problem But with what she dismisses as “postmodern” educational...
"On any given Sunday, you can walk into the kitchen of our church and see an enthusiastic red-head running a team of pancake flipping, toast buttering volunteers with more efficiency than an experienced army general could ever hope to attain. Well, you could. But I suppose that's getting ahead of myself."
The Sunday that Maggie announced to the church that she had cancer started out like any other On any given Sunday, you can walk into the kitchen of our church and see an enthusiastic red-head running a team of pancake flipping, toast buttering volunteers with more efficiency than an experienced army...
Changing the way we apologize, Cardus executive president Ray Pennings writes, can change the way we live our whole lives
Yet the person responsible seems to expect friends to rally around in support on the basis of “I’m sorry” regardless of the legal, social and moral consequences of the behaviour It is worth reminding ourselves that in Christian theology, Jesus came to pay the price for sin, to satisfy Divine justice...
Photographer Peter Stockland reflects on the gift of light in illuminating an affirmation of everlasting faith.
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Next week, the campus evangelical group Catholic Christian Outreach begins a cross-country veneration of bones from Saint Francis Xavier. Convivium’s Peter Stockland asks CCO co-founder Angèle Regnier why.
It was during a trip to Rome and the Gesù several years ago with Ottawa Archbishop Terence Prendergast that Regnier first raised the idea of bringing the saint’s arm and hand to Canada to help CCO with its evangelizing work Regnier is emphatic that without the help of Prendergast and his fellow Jesu...