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
The anvil on the cliff edge
By Peter Stockland
December 13, 2011
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's edict ordering Muslim women to remove their veils while taking Canada's citizenship oath seems eminently reasonable Kenney, of course, argues that he's not banning veils, only requiring them to be removed for a few moments in the specific setting where the State confers the ultimate gift of citizenship on new Canadians
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Occupy Birmingham Jail
Peter Stockland
November 29, 2011
s Letter From Birmingham Jail, which is not just a rumbling, rolling epistolary masterpiece, nor merely one of the foundational documents of the American civil rights movement, but is a demarcation between the sharp, bright clarity of our Judeo-Christian past and the fuzzy, shadowed void of today ...
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What it means to remember
Peter Stockland
November 22, 2011
In fairness, the reporter did insert a paragraph or so of "balance" where he magnanimously allowed parents and organizers to insist—ha-ha-ha—that the National Bible Bee is about developing Scriptural understanding and raising a generation of good Christian ambassadors, not just a venue for pre-pubes...
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Pressing against intellectual corruption
Peter Stockland
November 16, 2011
More, Quebec's National Assembly is just concluding an exhaustive two-year public consultation on whether the province should use its powers of the administration of justice and delivery of health care to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide, in defiance of the federal Criminal Code The story in q...
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The building of Christian skills
Peter Stockland
November 8, 2011
He was flabbergasted both at the realization of the skills he actually possessed—and at the realization of the power of the error of being unaware of what skill actually is ...
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Zoning out religion
Peter Stockland
November 2, 2011
The ground for the legal fight was laid back in October 2009, when Celani and friends belonging to a lay Catholic organization paid $700 for a few hours rental of the Maison du Brasseur in Lachine, on the southwest edge of Montreal But the case was put over until February 22, 2012 when Celani's lawy...
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Plus ca change one more time
Peter Stockland
October 25, 2011
The people are demoralized, public opinion silenced, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists ...
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The small laws of civil life
Peter Stockland
October 18, 2011
It's a habit that has to be distinguished from the great roiling public acts of law-breaking such as the hockey and G20 riots that have plagued Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal in the past few years ...
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Publisher's Letter
Peter Stockland
October 18, 2011
Since sharing daily lives is the essence of the word "convivium," we warmly invite you to join us at the Convivium table, where the nourishment will be neither middling nor medium but large and open and contained in the message itself.
To borrow Lewis' phrase, the Convivium project is "really all about God," but borrowing further from Pope Benedict's World Communications Day message, it is also about linking God in the real world "to the real faces of our brothers and sisters, those with whom we share our daily lives!" In his 2011...