"When Canada legalized euthanasia for exceptional circumstances, Parliament established safeguards. We now see an increasing call for the extension of cases eligible for euthanasia and the de facto removal of safeguards."...
"The Holy Father asked the faithful of the entire world to pray that the Holy Mother of God place the Church beneath her protective mantle. We are to implore her to preserve the Church from attacks by the devil, “the great accuser.” "...
"Even though my body stayed on the prairies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, I spent much of my summer in Quebec, visiting Montreal and Quebec City, remote parts north along the shore of the St Lawrence, but mostly a small village absolutely off the grid . . ."...
"Our Bridging Borders campaign seeks to raise awareness (open eyes and hearts) and invite a response of action rooted in love that seeks to bring about structural change for the common good."...
Magnificat was written - and is posted here - in both English and French at the end of an eight day Ignation retreat....
" It is not easy to wear a crucifix, especially for a millennial like myself. I am not ashamed to be Catholic; I think Catholicism is very compatible with my secular beliefs and has shaped my life and beliefs equally."...
"The contemplation on Christ the King is a wonderful exercise which makes abundant use of the imagination in inviting us to pray with our dreams to do great things in the name of God."...
"we realized that when we focused on Jesus instead of on concerns about the Church, and when we spoke and listened to each other in welcoming and non-judgmental ways, then we experienced communion, energy and hope."...
Mother Teresa said: "“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”...
"The Jesuit missionary map tends to run east and west and not toward what was once known as the Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole, . . . Post-Viking Lutheran Iceland was not exactly friendly inter-faith territory."...
