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
Belonging is Where it Begins
By Peter Stockland
December 30, 2015
For Christian Horizons CEO, Janet Nolan, it is all about fostering a sense of belonging when it comes to caring for people with exceptional needs.
Since becoming CEO four years ago, and marking her own 25th anniversary with Christian Horizons, Nolan has her hands full with an organization that, while primarily Ontario centred, has grown to a global reach
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Being Awake for the Moment
Peter Stockland
December 24, 2015
And it has taken me a week in the week before Christmas to see, myopic, self-absorbed Christian that I am, how what I was given the gift of being present to was the image of Christ in His suffering and in His charity Christ is what I lack when I do not, as my friend did so graciously, accept the gif...
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Silent Night for Religious Intolerance
Peter Stockland
December 22, 2015
Historically, it justified the torments against Jews that Bishop Crosby and Rabbi Frydman-Kohl now protest against being inflicted on Christians in the Islamic world “From Egypt to Iran and from Iraq to Nigeria, Christian communities throughout the region experience persecution in various forms, ran...
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Immune to Embarrassment
Peter Stockland
December 16, 2015
Even as the federal government is bringing in its new euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation, we’ll be making Cardus Health a big part of our program for 2016 and beyond. The federal government has yet to introduce medical suicide legislation and already we are witnessing the next convulsion in...
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Why We Must Ask Why
Peter Stockland
December 7, 2015
Even as the world was reacting in horror to the slaughter of innocents in Paris on November 13, Father John Walsh was moving past how and what to asking why.
Three days after the Paris murders, Father Walsh brought that emphasis on the “clarity of why” to an annual interfaith conference on extremism hosted by the Montreal chapter of the International Dialogue Institute Rabbi Avi Finegold, in fact, “deputized” all those present to combat fundamentalist ex...
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Word, Worship, World
Peter Stockland
December 1, 2015
Earlier this year, Convivium publisher Peter Stockland sat down with former Blackberry Chief Operating Officer Don Morrison in his Toronto home. While many might know of the highly successful Canadian telecom business, few likely know that one of its highest level executives was immersed in pursuing both international business success and reading religious classics.
C: There’s a story from many years ago that leads me to question how we act on those things in the world when we’re still given to our basic human impulses, basically giving in to our nervous system, to our fight or flight or that part of our brain He said it’s all very well and good, Don, that you’...
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Publisher's Letter: Abundant Gifts
Peter Stockland
December 1, 2015
Only a religious yearning pushes the Magi across the gulf between need and desire, past the voices singing folly, to the place where the very act of leaving their gifts opens them to a gift of infinitely greater richness: the newborn face of the Salvation of the world But the desire to live as fully...
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Global Warming and Group Think
Peter Stockland
November 30, 2015
On the eve of the Paris climate conference, a group of the world’s economic one per cent, taking the two per cent temperature increase as a given, announced they will apply some of their collective $350 billion in net worth to concrete research projects for clean energy development In place of polit...
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Faith Creates a Neighborhood
Peter Stockland
November 23, 2015
What most Ottawa residents don’t know about the city's first suburb The Glebe, is that it was first church land set aside for sustaining the minister and the congregation of St. Andrew’s, an old cathedral on the corner of Bank Street.
Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Ottawa underscores the indelible narrative link between faith and the founding of Canada ...
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Festival of Lights
Peter Stockland
November 5, 2015
More than a story of arrival and survival. It lights the way for the flourishing of enduring faith in Canada.
However, a precursor event this week is emblematic of the deep roots the Sikh faith has developed in Canada, and the changes Sikh people have brought to Canadian society ...
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Faith Across Faiths
Peter Stockland
November 5, 2015
Most appealing to me (is) the concept of mercy and love, not only for those inside the religions but for those outside.
"I'm not the typical face of Holocaust education or the Jewish community," Kim is quoted in the CJN ...
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Time to End the Five-Minute Fundamentalism
Peter Stockland
October 7, 2015
For starters, if this is truly the first digital federal election, I truly hope it is also the last truly digital election in which candidates are forced out of local election races for words posted on Facebook or other social media five, six, two or seven years ago “For the first time, one in every...
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Publisher's Letter: No Sale
Peter Stockland
October 1, 2015
"The Greeks—not unlike other cultures—considered eros principally as a kind of intoxication, the overpowering of reason by a 'divine madness' which tears man away from his finite existence and enables him, in the very process of being overwhelmed by divine power, to experience supreme happiness," Be...
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A Double Standard Where There Are No Standards?
Peter Stockland
September 24, 2015
Leaving aside the question of whether it’s possible to have a fair double standard, it seems to me there is a more compelling question for Catholics—and all Christians The headline on a recent column by National Post editor Jen Gerson asked whether Catholics face an unfair double standard ...
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One of Those Elections We Consider a ‘Sea Change’
Peter Stockland
September 21, 2015
RP:It’s about half a dozen candidates and it’s affected all parties equally, so I don’t really think it matters as much as the media attention would suggest RP:The people who show up at campaign events are partisans, and partisans of every party are always frustrated with the press PS:One of the big...
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An 11-Week Campaign
Peter Stockland
August 4, 2015
PS: The one I was struck by yesterday was the point you made after the Alberta election of Rachel Notley, that the electorate itself functions for most of them and most of the time in a state of disinterest and un-interest ...
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Publisher's Letter: Old School Truth
Peter Stockland
August 1, 2015
There is no lower we can go than crushing interior freedom by denying the truth of the spiritual life.
The necessary condition of human existence, in other words, is meaning that gives truth, spiritual truth, not mere material fact "As John Paul II said in his famous encyclical, Fides et Ratio, 'Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth ...
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Stand-ins for Humanity
Peter Stockland
July 13, 2015
The theory of carpooling fails to take into account the very structural reality of the places where we live, and even more importantly the way those structures dictate how we live through the creation of possibilities that become expectations that become obligations the become ingrained conduct It’s...
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Dampened Spirits
Peter Stockland
July 2, 2015
If Canada Day on Parliament Hill was a dry run for the nation’s 2017 birthday party, we might be in for some soggy cake icing and spluttering candles It would be a stretch too far, I think, to blame this desultory Canada Day on awareness that this year the politicians will be in our faces all summer...
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Below the Silence
Peter Stockland
June 22, 2015
Not conservative in the appropriated sense that its practitioners must be caricature Republicans (Bellow certainly was not) or tow any particular partisan political line In an essay written about a decade before he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bellow wrote with his characteristic cocked-eyebro...
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Publisher's Letter: Courting Disagreement
Peter Stockland
June 1, 2015
With the Charter we became a constitutional rather than a parliamentary democracy—whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Under the rule of law that has evolved from the Magna Carta, the State cannot dictate how, when and to whom free and democratic people must bow As the evolution of the Magna Carta from the mud of Runnymede 800 years ago makes evident, the rule of law bears with it the steadying weight of history ...
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The Conversation: Law, Loyola and the Common Good
Paul Donovan with Peter Stockland
June 1, 2015
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the government of Quebec had breached the religious freedom of Loyola High School, a private Jesuit institution in Montreal. Paul Donovan, who led the seven-year legal battle as Loyola's principal and who became its president in April, spoke with Convivium publisher Peter Stockland about the implications of the decision for Canada's faith in common life..
PD: Whether the perception is false, it challenges Trinity to ask itself this question: "Are we trying to separate ourselves from society or are we trying to find a way of engaging society? If it's the latter, then how do we get across that we're not trying to pull away from society, that we're tryi...
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NDP Landslide a Family Story
Peter Stockland
May 6, 2015
What happened Tuesday night in Alberta would have been dismissed as crazy talk had it been prophesized even six months ago, so it’s natural that the narrative around the NDP landslide has been political shock and awe Bold predictions that the breaching of Fortress Alberta bodes well for federal NDP ...
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NDP Landslide a Family Story
Peter Stockland
May 6, 2015
It’s about, in many ways, the long view and the way history’s vagaries are so integral to its outcomes
What happened Tuesday night in Alberta would have been dismissed as crazy talk had it been prophesized even six months ago, so it’s natural that the narrative around the NDP landslide has been political shock and awe Bold predictions that the breaching of Fortress Alberta bodes well for federal NDP ...