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Stoned, left for dead, and walking back in
Persecution, in the Acts of the Apostles, is never the end of the story. It is a doorway to the next city, the next hearing of the word. Driven from … Continued
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Local theatres answer the question: what is worth doing?
When the great G. K. Chesterton paradoxically observed that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly, he may also have unintentionally prompted people to ask whether, … Continued
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What are your idols?
The word idol is used loosely in everyday language to mean someone who is admired excessively. That hockey player, that teacher, that influencer; our children “idolize” them, and we call … Continued
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Let us ‘understand, in order to believe’
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year AFirst Reading: Is 55:10-11Second Reading: Rom 8:18-23Gospel Reading: Mt 13:1-23 “A sower went out to sow,” Jesus says in the Gospel Reading. However, as … Continued
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When Barnabas gave way to Paul
In Acts 13, Luke brings us back to Antioch — third city of the Roman Empire, capital of the wealthy province of Syria — where a community of very different … Continued
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Archbishop Smith: After ten years of euthanasia, Canada needs a message of hope
Three years ago, Kathrin Mentler – a woman in her thirties – went to a Vancouver hospital to seek help for depression and suicidal thoughts. There she was told by … Continued
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One Sword, One Angel: The God Who Chooses Differently
St. Luke is consistently fond of presenting events in pairs and contrasts. The Gospel of Luke pairs the Annunciation and the birth of John with that of Christ; it pairs … Continued
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He will command peace to the earth
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year AFirst Reading: Zec 9:9-10Second Reading: Rom 8:9, 11-13Gospel Reading: Mt 11:25-30 “Lo, your King comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and … Continued
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Talk deliberately to God
When I was about thirteen years old, I caught myself in yet another conversation with … myself. As the only girl in a family with three brothers, I had my … Continued
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The higher purpose of Higher Education
Only a few weeks after the publication of his landmark encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, I found myself standing in the … Continued