"The American Dream is built upon notions of hard work and self-sufficiency, that we deserve every luxury and privilege that we have worked to earn. But what if that dream is not the reality we believed?"...
"Sacred Scripture has no record of any words that he uttered, yet he is the patron saint of Canada, of the universal church, of workers and of the dying."...
"Once again, we see people unite in their shared grief for people they didn’t even know. That is one of the strange gifts of tragedies. We know the deep need to come together and be with others when tragedy strikes."...
"This call to “repent” is a call to metanoia, a transformational change of heart, a radical spiritual conversion. Do I really need that, or more importantly, do I really want that?"...
"When we have been reconciled with God, our smiles are a little wider and our attitudes improve"...
As we read about Pope Francis' latest writing - a call to sainthood for all - it is good to recall on this Earth Day his writings on ecology. ...
"We are living at a time when churches must be locked between services to protect these sacred places from vandalism. It is a sad commentary to modern living, but also a practical and necessary solution"....
"We’ve all been affected by last week’s terrible tragedy on a highway in rural Saskatchewan. Sadness and grief disrupted the peace and sleep of much of the country."...
"Pope John and Pope Francis were to my mind outsider Popes. That is they were ready to break free of the orthodoxy of the administrative church and bend it more toward a pastoral church. "...
“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”...
