Structurally, within our very life, the human person is one who thirsts and expects something beyond ourselves. Consequently, faith is a response to these authentic needs already ineradicably embedded in us.

Pizzelle. Pizzelle? I was intrigued. Is it a miniature pizza? 

It all sounded so safe, so ‘progressive’. The 2018 Cannabis Act promised to “minimize harms” to Canadians as it enabled ‘recreational’ users to legally possess and consume cannabis without fear of a criminal record, which would stigmatize them for life.

Reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and entities of the Catholic Church will be a long road to travel. Dr. Natasha Duquette has taken some steps along this road by recently offering an academic course called Indigenous Writers of North America.

Most Catholics experience the crisis of sexual abuse by clergy in relation to headlines, as stories from around the globe or from the local parish where a trusted priest has been removed.

Wacko. Liar. Cheater. Predator. Recent headlines shine the spotlight on a growing trend polluting our public spaces.

Abortion for any reason at any time has become radically normalized. One need look no further than abortion groups' distribution of abortifacients at pop star Olivia Rodrigo's concerts to see how much it pervades our culture.

An apology has great power to heal a wrong suffered.

Pundits generally, and perhaps columnists in particular, do not often admit to making mistakes. So, it is a special kind of pundit who can step away from previously professed opinions and admit to getting things wrong.

I was said nun who was among those arrested at a “pray in” at a downtown Toronto bank.