"Her classmates learned by teaching and each benefited. I got a lot of credit and still wonder how it happened. Her tenacity and life experience brought her to the very edge: a little mentoring pushed her over." ...
"The world didn’t get to see Canada make aviation history but the world did wake up to the fact we had the brain power to produce such an advanced feat of science and technology.”...
"Perhaps because our era shares some of the same types of anxiety that Kierkegaard’s era suffered, we might also benefit from listening to the deep divine hope Kierkegaard offered to the fears of people in his era, 200 years ago:"...
" So as 2019 presents to me one certain and another possible election, my New Year’s resolution is to do the work to know the candidate."...
"With the continued alienation, and therefore a lack of belonging, I believe that we shall see an increase in people calling themselves ‘lapsed Catholics’, ‘cultural Catholics’, and ‘former Catholics’."...
"I am even advised to limit my daily consumption of black coffee and unsweetened tea. Highly acceptable are refined flours, meats, pastries, white bread and sugars."...
"For a number years but especially in the last few weeks now we at St. Ignatius Parish have been trying to figure out how to respond to street people who come to church. They are, like us, children of God, brothers and sisters of Jesus. "...
"When arriving in our Western countries, refugee claimants ask for our help. We don’t want to give our help because we will have to invest time and money. It is time to really look in the mirror and admit it: We are selfish."...
"They must take a page out of the conservative playbook and constantly without end be out there convincing people that a globalised world is better for them, that immigration is the best thing for the country, and that just because the country’s demographics are changing on religious and ethnic lines does not mean that one’s voice counts any less."...
"When I look over my brief little life, there are a few moments that stand out for me. In my life, these moments were religious moments of encounter. When I fell into a space, where the divine seemed to open up just a bit more." ...
