U.S. Politics

A joint Lenten series offered by a Presbyterian church and a Catholic parish during the COVID-19 pandemic is the inspiration behind a new book by McGill University professor Karen Petersen Finch that seeks to equip lay people for engagement in ecumenical dialogue at the grassroots level.

The bishops of Poland March 14 announced they will create a commission of experts to investigate cases of abuse of minors by clergy from the past in the country -- an investigation that would cover the era that St. John Paul II governed the Archdiocese of Krakow as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla.

The text of the address by Pope Francis to the editorial board of the television program A Sua Immagine, which airs on the Italian national broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana.

Quebec’s Catholic elder statesman of the common good

On April 2, Rafael Srebrnič is set to turn 96 years old. His impressive longevity — like all men and women blessed to live this long — is to be admired. 

Deacon Sean Raphael Jacob first felt the priesthood could be in his future during a family vacation to Rome as a young child.

For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror.

1 Corinthians 13: 12

I had the pleasure recently of attending an international conference for Catholic post-secondary presidents, and I was inspired by the range and reach of the work we do to bring the joy of faith to the community through the critical lens of education. 

Social work students at King’s University College are putting in-class knowledge to good use at the Salvation Army’s Centre of Hope in London, Ont.

If it’s possible to mourn something you’ve never known, then I’ve been longing for a world in which attachment matters. Why worry about attachment now? It’s not a subject that makes headlines. 

Several weeks ago, Eliot brought home a note for his school ski trip and asked if I would like to come as a chaperone. I know these requests could stop coming and I love being out on the hill, so I planned to go. I have been a snowboarder since my teens, which was surprising even two and a half decades before I could be called middle-aged. I went to be with him and his friends, and I went (without smaller children in tow) to test out if it is time for me to trade my snowboard in for skis. It is getting dangerous to risk a fall.