Peter Stockland
Peter Stockland is a Cardus Senior Fellow and Publisher of the Catholic Register.
Bio last updated April 4th, 2022.
Articles by Peter Stockland
Navigating True Compassion
By Peter Stockland
November 1, 2016
Paradoxically – some might say Providentially – Ian was part of an experimental electronic medical records program that gave Tompkins full access to every detail of his care Such large-scale forgetting, Tompkins believes, is why even seasoned practitioners in the public health care system frequently seem nervous, awkward, even evasive when the time comes to talk about dying and death Anxiety was a constant personal burden for Tompkins in addition to the inchoate anger both she and Ian felt at the injustice of a life just coming together being cut so short by death In the end, before it came time to “pull out the file,” Ian had, through Tompkins’ gentle guidance, become acquainted with hospice care in Canada After six days of “being with him as two people loving each other in a relationship” – plus a birthday celebration of an ice cream cake and champagne shared with friends of more than 30 years – Ian died at age 66 The effect on patients and their caregivers can be a monumental frustration of the kind Tompkins felt when Ian was first diagnosed in August, 2009
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Ecclesiastes
Peter Stockland
October 27, 2016
The world as seen from the literal perspective of the holy book.
In Stephen Radford’s photograph of this English church, no breath disturbs the pages of the Bible or its red ribbon page markers ...
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Curving Highway
Peter Stockland
October 20, 2016
Questions of movement, journey, and destination are all evoked in Alejandro Gonzalez's photograph of a highway curving into the distance.
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'Til Death Do Us Part' Might Delay Death
Peter Stockland
October 14, 2016
29 by Cardus Family must prompt a serious conversation in the medical world, among politicians, and even in schools about the positive health outcomes of long, strong marriages Now we’ve got numbers that we can put to it to change that conversation, to promote healthy marriages and make changes in t...
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Instant of Reflection
Peter Stockland
October 13, 2016
Examine the role of reflection, silence, prayer and place in Joshua Jackson’s photograph of a young man caught at an instant of quiet.
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Face to Face
Peter Stockland
October 6, 2016
How shall we then see through a glass darkly? Where is the holy in the shadow?
We know him in part, yet all around pools that full light by which we shall know even as we are known ...
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Solitude
Peter Stockland
September 29, 2016
Join us in being prompted to a sense of awe in the possibility for intimacy that solitude holds as inspired by David Marcu’s photograph of a single human being atop an outcropping in a Romanian forest.
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Elections are About the Electorate
Peter Stockland
September 28, 2016
The fruits of his approach, Seymour says, were born out two decades after Jackson’s last unsuccessful run for president, when voters in “both the rural south and the urban North help(ed) create the consensus that would…twice elect the country’s first African American president They give us only Dona...
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A Knock at the Door
Peter Stockland
August 23, 2016
Peter speaks with Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan about her spiritual journey. For her, interfaith work means being rooted deeply in your faith, then reaching out.
But Duhan Kaplan says many Christians, and even Western secularists, have no clue how much fear endures among Jews because of historic persecution As would be expected for someone with strong roots in the ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Duhan Kaplan is profoundly engaged by both the ideas and id...
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Full of Life
Peter Stockland
August 19, 2016
Kevin Daudlin’s vocation has taught him to seize the day. As a funeral director, he comes face to face with the reality that life is short. That's why his faith means so much to him. Read more here.
On the contrary, long before he took us his calling dealing with death, Daudlin began living his deep Catholic witness through charitable work as a member of the Knights of Columbus fraternal order Daudlin, a funeral director in Maple, Ontario, says the profession he first pined to join in universit...
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Publisher's Letter: Signs of Purpose
Peter Stockland
August 1, 2016
Our purpose will always be to provide thinking on faith in common life to which our audience can respond body and soul. For the first time in history, McLuhan contended, human communication became instantaneous regardless of distance ...
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Vanity and V-8s
Peter Stockland
August 1, 2016
In a wrecking yard south of Ottawa, Convivium publisher Peter Stockland finds cars that people might have cried in coming home from a funeral, giving him a key to one of the most perplexing books in the Hebrew Bible.
In the 50 last words, Shields argues, the epilogist stands on its head not merely the "festival of negation" that runs riot in the previous chapters written in the guise of Qoheleth the sage but the very idea that wisdom is, as Frye and many others would have it, the way out of the forest "The sages...
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Gun Control: Right Trumps Rights
Peter Stockland
July 28, 2016
“The NRA may advocate for an individual right, but its influence derives precisely from collective democratic action,” Cole writes in a recent New York Review of Books Black Americans, Cole writes, are much less sympathetic to gun rights than whites: “Only 24 per cent of African-Americans support th...
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France’s Fear is More Troubling than Trump
Peter Stockland
July 21, 2016
As reporter Ben Judah writes in a fine piece of journalism for the UK’s Standpoint Magazine, the mayor of the economically depressed town northeast of Paris near the Belgian border is a touchstone for a seismic shift in French political life, and so for the near to middle-term future of Europe Since...
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‘Inclusion’ to the Exclusion of Religious Freedom
Peter Stockland
July 15, 2016
In fact, as lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos told me in an interview following the recent Ontario Appeal Court decision in the Trinity Western University case, what we should be concerned about is the implacable use of “inclusion” to exclude Canadians from their Charter Rights around religious freedom...
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A Parliamentarian's Pursuit
Peter Stockland
July 8, 2016
Six years ago, after a decade in the House of Commons, David Anderson was in search of a new issue to pursue as an MP. Eventually, freedom of religion became his personal and vocational pursuit.
Despite his parliamentary emphasis on international religious freedom, however, Anderson acknowledges deepening concern about intolerance toward religious belief and practice here in Canada The group’s work was influential in Canada’s own House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights i...
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Portraits of Faith
Peter Stockland
July 7, 2016
Lloyd Mackey set out to highlight Canadian Christian leaders after a long career in faith-based journalism. Read about Mackey's Encyclopedia project here.
As it stands, the site is populated with reprinted content from Michael Clarke’s 1998 book Canada: Portraits of Faith, but Mackey and team intend to go further with features of contemporary leaders He to touches a bit on the faith aspect, how the faith will influence the kind of leadership or the ki...
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A Calling at Oxford
Peter Stockland
June 6, 2016
Thana de Campos, Brazillian academic living in Ottawa, Ontario, discovered God while studying at Oxford. Read her story here.
There are little things I can do to open eyes a bit to faith and God Thana de Campos came home to God by travelling thousands of miles from her home in Brazil to complete a PhD at the University of Oxford in England ...
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Publisher's Letter: Eichmann and Us
Peter Stockland
June 1, 2016
Most people know Eichmann in Jerusalem as the work for which Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" in the book's subtitle and final words In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt makes clear she is not merely trading in the banality of there being a little bit of the infamous S.S ...
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A Jew by Choice
Peter Stockland
June 1, 2016
A former Bloc Québécois politician, Richard Marceau converted to Judaism in 2004. Since 2011, he has worked for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs as a senior adviser. In 2011, he published A Quebec Jew: From Bloc Québécois MP to Jewish Activist, detailing his spiritual journey and involvement in the Jewish community. He recently sat down to talk to Convivium publisher Peter Stockland
C: It’s interesting that the campaign itself was directed, and this is obvious, first to the Jewish community, to mobilize the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affair’s natural constituency, then to Christians to raise alarm It made me think that I like the fact that in Judaism, Hebrew is the original l...
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A banquet of hospitality for Fort McMurray evacuees
Peter Stockland
May 24, 2016
Upon hearing news of the Fort McMurray fire, Suzanne Gross thought evacuees needed a meal fit for a banquet- so she gave them one. Read Peter Stockland's report here.
On what she calls “Inferno Day,” Suzanne Gross was planning to attend a reception and banquet at the very centre in Edmonton where evacuees from Fort McMurray were being given emergency shelter Gross and her colleagues set up shop at the University of Alberta’s Lister Hall, and plunged into the enor...
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Al Rashid: Mosque and Refuge
Peter Stockland
May 24, 2016
Peter Stockland visits Al Rashid in Edmonton, Canada's first Mosque, to talk about their efforts to rebuild community and offer support to evacuees of Fort McMurray.
She points out that those who found shelter at Al Rashid in the first week after the evacuation of more than 80,000 people from Fort McMurray were almost entirely working people with financial means For Jaffar Pathan, a volunteer from the Islamic Circle of North America working with the Edmonton Eme...
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Give Where You Live
Peter Stockland
May 19, 2016
Gertie Groenweg's faith called her to serve her neighbours in distress. Reporting from Edmonton, Peter Stockland watches how faith communities have responded to the Fort McMurray Fire.
“I have such admiration for first responders in any emergency, and especially for what the first responders were able to do in Fort McMurray,” Jacquie says “Certainly as Catholics, we are called to corporal works of mercy, and that’s what this is ...
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Syrian refugee extends hope to Fort McMurray evacuees
Peter Stockland
May 17, 2016
Syrian refugee, Basel Abou Hamrah, volunteers at Edmonton's Evacuee Reception Centre to help residents of Fort McMurray who were forced to flee in the wake of forest fire catastrophe.
Last week, he signed up as a volunteer to help at Edmonton’s Evacuee Reception Centre to help residents of Fort McMurray forced to flee south from a May 3 wildfire that destroyed their northern Alberta community A Druze Christian, with a faith rooted in all three of the great Abrahamic monotheisms, ...