Posted on 6/13/2013 9:17 AM By Jay
June 17, 2013
BOB MCKEON
Several months ago, I was invited to join the steering committee for the Edmonton Poverty Reduction Initiative. This city committee is composed of leaders from different sectors of society including city council, business, front-line social agencies, health, education, labour and different orders of government. I am there as a "faith sector" representative.
Posted on 6/13/2013 9:15 AM By Jay
June 17, 2013
DR. GERRY TURCOTTE
In an article entitled "Art and the Beauty of Faith," Father Raymond de Souza references the writings of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who before he became pope wrote that there were "two compelling 'arguments'" for the Church's faith being true – the first was the lives of the saints and their living "Christian witness"; and the second was the art that [the Church] has nurtured in her midst."
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:25 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
In but a few days, it will have been three months since Pope Francis was elected to serve as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church or, as he prefers to be known, the bishop of Rome. Every day, it seems, brings new evidence of the wisdom of the College of Cardinals who, without in any way deprecating the holiness and wisdom of Pope Benedict XVI, chose a very different man to be the public face of Catholicism.
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:17 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi
Haste is our enemy. It puts us under stress, raises our blood pressure, makes us impatient, renders us more vulnerable to accidents and, most seriously, blinds us to the needs of others. Haste is normally not a virtue, irrespective of the goodness of the thing towards which we are hurrying.
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:14 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
MARIA KOZAKIEWICZ
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 15, 2013
We know the scene, and it is easy to imagine: a wealthy house somewhere in Judea, Jesus, reclining by the dinner table on a low couch, his host, the Pharisee resting similarly beside him or across the table.
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:12 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
FR. ROBERT BARRON
The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby provides the occasion for reflecting on what many consider the great American novel.
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:09 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
BISHOP FRED HENRY
When I was seminarian, one of our compulsory courses was our half-hour Saturday night etiquette class. After a full week of facing the rigours of philosophical or theological study and reflection, this was a necessary, rather light subject but a hard discipline.
Posted on 6/11/2013 9:07 AM By Jay
June 10, 2013
JOE GUNN
Canada's bishops believe that core truths have been spoken on environmental issues by recent popes – but much more has to be done. "What's needed is the reception of what's been said," says Saskatoon's Bishop Don Bolen. "Canadians need to adopt dramatic change in our relationship with the environment."
Posted on 5/29/2013 7:56 AM By Jay
June 3, 2013
Movies about philosophers rarely rise above the spoof level of Monty Python's depiction of a soccer game between German and Greek philosophers (won by the Greeks when Archimedes decides to stop pondering and actually kick the ball).
Posted on 5/29/2013 7:54 AM By Jay
June 3, 2013
FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi
In a marvelous little book entitled, The Music of Silence, David Steindl-Rast highlights how each hour of the day has its own special light and its own particular mood and how we are more attentive to the present moment when we recognize and honour these "special angels" lurking inside each hour.