Columns

FR. RAYMOND DE SOUZA

Pope Benedict's renunciation of the See of Peter has occasioned much commentary about how rare a papal resignation is. Many have said that it has been 600 years or 700 years, depending on how one counts.

SR. LOUISE ZDUNICH, NDC

Is it right for Christians to consider Jesus simply a Jewish prophet and teacher?

DR. GERRY TURCOTTE

When I was asked to find a title for this column I eventually settled on Figure of Speech. I did so because my own writing practice, especially for reflective pieces, often draws on rhetorical structures that I then meditate upon and develop.

Do I Believe Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary?

LASHA MORNINGSTAR

A frantic time of life. Work in Toronto's hyper-competitive media world. Then grab a bus to Barrie (93 km north) at night.

A society that does not admit the existence of God will not, of course, recognize offences against God. It will not admit the existence of sin.

FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi

While saying farewell the night before he died, Jesus told those with him that he "had other sheep that are not of this fold" and that those with him at that moment were not his only followers. Importantly, he also said he longed for unity with those others just as deeply as he longed for unity with those in the room with him.

JOHN CONNELLY

Third Sunday in Lent
March 3, 2013

Imagine you are stranded alone in a desert with nothing but sand stretching for hundreds of miles. Would you choose to trust God or would fear get the upper hand?

MARK PICKUP

The Catholic Organization for Life and Family has asked me to speak to a seminar it is sponsoring in Ottawa next month. The topic I am to address is "I am more than my handicap." That is true.

FR. ROBERT BARRON

In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a program of evangelization that has particular relevance to our time.