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
Help in the Wake of the Fort McMurray Fires
By Peter Stockland
May 16, 2016
Peter Stockland reports from Edmonton in the wake of the Fort McMurray fires to see how faith communities respond to the catastrophe: "As she seems to do with everyone, Dalia Abdellatif listens calmly to the agitated young man in front of her at Edmonton’s Evacuee Reception Centre."
Arriving in Canada with her physician husband and children five years ago, Dalia began volunteering with the Islamic Family and Social Services Association, then helped with Edmonton’s Mennonite Centre for Newcomers and then Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society (EERSS), where she is both a volunteer worker and board member as the volunteer manager of the massive reception centre operated by the Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society in a former Target store at the city’s Kingsway Garden Mall
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Fire in Fort McMurray: A Proper Response
Peter Stockland
May 6, 2016
But a first response that reaches down to the grocery checkout, and stays there for the time being, must be good for Canada, good for Canadians, and even good for the people of Fort McMurray, difficult as that may be to believe right now. Canadians, en masse, are turning their eyes, hearts, mind and...
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50 Years of Yes
Peter Stockland
May 2, 2016
Fifteen years into ministry, he questioned himself rigorously about carrying on as a priest. Thirty-five years later, now retired, he still sometimes asks himself “why” he said yes time after time.
Walsh came out of the seminary eager to minister in a Church he believed was renewing and re-orienting itself in accordance with God’s calling ...
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Publisher's Letter: Choosing Our Fire
Peter Stockland
April 25, 2016
We had just brought together for April-May essays on the roots of religious violence, centred on the thinking of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and his remarkable recent book Not in God’s Name “This Convivium is an invitation to resist those urges to isolate and marginalize and, in the face of violence, ...
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Letting God Take the Wheel
Peter Stockland with Bruce Myers
April 25, 2016
In the 1990s, Bruce Myers was chasing political news stories as a member of the national press gallery in Ottawa. As of May, at age 43, he will be an Anglican bishop in Quebec, pastor of a small flock spread across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres. Myers tells Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland that, like a good reporter, he is confident he’ll be in the right place at the right time as Quebecers overcome their violent reaction to organized religion and let God into their lives again..
I think he’s helpfully named how we’ve gotten to this place we’re in, especially in the Quebec context, where the Church in many ways has lost its traditional place in society and where there’s much that the Church has traditionally taught and offered that people aren’t willing to accept or aren’t n...
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A History of Faithful Care
Peter Stockland
April 14, 2016
Greg Humbert is on a hunt to document the living link between faith and health care. Read about his work at Catholic Health Alliance of Canada.
Since he began the Catholic Hospitals Digital History Books Collection for what is now the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada, Humbert has acquired and scanned, page by page, 300 books “documenting the legacy and contribution of the Congregations of Religious Women in Canada, their mission in health...
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Rueing the Komagata Maru
Peter Stockland
April 13, 2016
On Tuesday, B.C. Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal rose in the House of Commons to invite all Canadians to join in celebrating Vaisakhi and Khalsa Day. Prime Minister Trudeau had just reminded Canadians the day before of the deplorable Komagata Maru incident, and vowed to make a formal apology in the House of Commons for the bigotry and mistreatment it embodied.
Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal rose in the House of Commons to invite all Canadians to join in celebrating Vaisakhi and Khalsa Day ...
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Just Bring in the Skin
Peter Stockland
April 6, 2016
At the recent Broadbent Institute conference in Ottawa, progressive icon Gloria Steinem dropped a clanger that rates high among the fatuous pensées of this addled decade It’s a conceit so powerful that it can attract even self-styled fiscal conservatives who insist vociferously that there is no poli...
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Fast Forward Faith
Peter Stockland
March 31, 2016
Daniel Bezalel Richardsen works for the federal government in Ottawa where he lives a life infused with his own Christian faith and deep interest in other religious traditions.
Daniel Bezalel Richardsen works for the federal government in Ottawa, where he lives a life infused with his own Christian faith and deep interest in other religious traditions Friendships with faithful Catholics, serious reading of Church history, being part of an ecumenical public theology group a...
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Return to Beginnings
Peter Stockland
March 11, 2016
For both son and his father, travelling to holy sites in Israel deepened understanding of Christianity as a faith rooted in place. For Marceau, 45, it also illuminated the relationship between the Jewish faith to which he converted in his 30s.
For Marceau, 45, it also illuminated the relationship between the Jewish faith to which he converted in his 30s and the Catholic world in which he was baptized and grew up, including the years when he was paid a quarter to serve as an altar boy at Mass When it’s pointed out that he’s part of an even...
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Faith On A Handshake
Peter Stockland
March 4, 2016
David Peck, founder of SoChange, sees his faith through a globalized lens. That means avoiding the exclusivist reflexes so many Christian churches have these days. His desire? "to get six billion faith-based people of the world on the same page when it comes to things like eradicating extreme poverty."
“One of the ways is to get six billion faith-based people of the world on the same page when it comes to things like eradicating extreme poverty At a minimum, it will plant seeds for further conversations, further recognition that commonality of human purpose – six billion people on the same page – ...
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Another Punch for Donald Trump
Peter Stockland
March 2, 2016
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland examines the link between current U.S. President Donald Trump and WWE.
Trump, whose name could be that of a professional wrestler from any era, began flirting with WWE in the ‘90s but became directly involved when McMahon staged a parody fight mimicking the New York real estate mogul’s feud with Rosie O’Donnell in 2007 Listen to the content, and you can hear the recycl...
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The Faith to Become a Bishop
Peter Stockland
February 8, 2016
For Bruce Meyers, what might seem a radical career to many is part of a natural progression in a life lived through faith since childhood.
“There was no road to Damascus conversion at all,” Myers said in a recent interview over coffee near the Toronto headquarters of the Anglican Church of Canada “I have been encountering people from my other walks of life before ordination, or just people who have never had anything to do with the chu...
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A Deadly Form of Normal
Peter Stockland
February 3, 2016
For Conservative MP Harold Albrecht, the language of assumed normalcy that he heard during the committee hearing was “deeply disturbing” because it disregards the profound transformation in the Canadian understanding of the sanctity of human life By no means, executive director Josh Patterson conten...
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Politics with a Human Face
Peter Stockland
February 1, 2016
There is, for instance, a heart-rending quote in Taber’s story from former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt about juggling childcare, yes, but more broadly about the impossibility of a personal life Washington Post columnist David Brooks has written about the phenomenon whereby those who are...
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Will anyone even notice when newspapers are gone?
Peter Stockland
January 28, 2016
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland reports on the demise of the newspaper industry.
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Horizons of Belonging
Peter Stockland with Janet Nolan
January 28, 2016
The CEO of Christian Horizons talks about the gifts that people with intellectual disabilities give to the larger society, and what it means to move beyond welcome to genuine belonging.
JN: As an organization, as we’ve grown and matured, we’ve had to have those conversations: how is it that we’re an organization of faith, yet we welcome other people who don’t necessarily share that faith to participate with us? Some of the things that we spend a lot of time on are: What’s our theol...
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Publisher's Letter: Seeking to Belong
Peter Stockland
January 28, 2016
The memory of that exchange, and reflection on the nature of a life lived largely at the outside edge of the campfire just by virtue of vocation, struck me several weeks ago when I heard Janet Nolan, CEO of Christian Horizons, begin a speech by differentiating between welcome and belonging In the fo...
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Justin Time
Peter Stockland
January 22, 2016
Waggish Ottawa columnist John Robson observes in the National Post that Prime Minister Trudeau’s maiden speech to the Davos Economic Forum left out much while not leaving out nearly enough ...
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Quebec thumbs its nose at Supreme Court
Peter Stockland
January 19, 2016
Meanwhile, the Quebec government had already passed legislation legalizing so-called medical assisted suicide, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that our constitutional separation of powers permits only the federal Parliament jurisdiction over the crafting of criminal law ...
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Faith in Conversation
Peter Stockland
January 18, 2016
The Canadian Race Relations Foundation will hold a symposium in Richmond, B. C. this Thursday on whether cities in this country are doing enough to combat intolerance, including toward religious faiths. We sat down with CRRF Executive Director, Anita Bromberg, to discuss the upcoming event.
Their answer was to take some of the redress money (for mistreatment during the Second World War), convince the Canadian government to match it, and put a permanent endowment in place to fund and create a Crown agency that’s mission at its very core is to fight racism as a tool for building diversit...
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Isolating Intolerance
Peter Stockland
January 13, 2016
Pardeep Nagra is not all that surprised when instances of religious intolerance make news. For him, it is a normal experience as a Sikh Canadian. Read about how he strives towards truthful living and social justice amid an imperfect Canada.
As Nagra recounts the ordeal, seared into his memory detail by humiliating detail, he underscores the ludicrous nature of it by pointing out that all he truly wanted to do was qualify to fight for Canada in the Olympics ...