Stories Collection

  1. My husband and I are also prayerfully studying every candidate in the federal electio...
  2. He was an Israeli Napoleon. From early youth, he was totally convinced that he was ...
  3. When King David, in the presence of all his people, praised the Lord for the blessing...
  4. Whether the Christmas event is an historical event or not is being questioned by some...
  5. American and Israeli diplomats have recently revived discussions over our potential f...
  6. TORONTO -- A group of U.S. clergy representing mainline denominations recently joined...
  7. DAKAR, Senegal -- With 38, 000 people dying monthly from easily treatable diseases, w...
  8. ROME -- The church notion of limbo, that netherworld of unbaptized babies and worthy ...
  9. When I first met Anna Perkins in the 1970s in Kingston, Jamaica, she was a bright-eye...
  10. INDIA -- An estimated half million female fetuses are aborted annually by parents in ...
  11. ROME -- About 80 gay members of the Roman Catholic clergy in Italy recently posted an...
  12. As we go to press, Canadians are going to the polls to elect a new federal government...
  13. OAKLAND, Calif. -- A California jury awarded US$172 million to thousands of employees...
  14. TORONTO -- Staring Feb. 1, VISION TV will telecast a four-part documentary exploring ...
  15. An obvious requirement for communication--if you wish to be heard--is to speak the la...
  16. Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo. Random House of Canada, Toronto, 2005. Fifty yea...
  17. The Christmas edition of CNT is officially dated January 15, 2006, Martin Luther King...
  18. Recently I went to a church dedication ceremony for twirl girls with three sets of gr...
  19. Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, too sick to attend the official Nobel ceremony, demonst...
  20. In the Nov. 6 issue of CNT, I was struck by the juxtaposition of two articles: "...
  21. Almost 58,000 people in Canada are now diagnosed with HIV, with women and gay men acc...
  22. Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Congregation of Notre Dame, 1665-1700 Patricia Simpson P...
  23. Promoting an agenda of church reform and sexual and reproductive health, Condoms4Life...
  24. Quite recently my beloved brother died. As a family fully involved in the church we w...
  25. A Political earth quake is itself a rare event. When two major political earthquakes ...
  26. BUENOS AIRES -- More than one million residents in rural Argentina are awaiting the e...
  27. Clerical Celibacy: The Heritage by William E. Phipps, New York, Continuum, 2004, 272 ...
  28. GENOA, Italy -- Loans by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well ...
  29. Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession by John Peter...
  30. Fourteen evangelical archbishops recently condemned the Church of England as "ev...
  31. 'A country which has dangled the sword of nuclear holocaust over the world for half a...
  32. The Globalizing Dynamics of Neo-Liberal Capitalism By James Petras and Henry Veltmeye...
  33. BEIJING -- A series of industrial accidents in China has highlighted the country's 'p...
  34. Catching up with Jesus by Diarmuid O'Murchu, New York, Crossroads, 2005, 2004 pp. D...
  35. What are you waiting for this Advent? A job or a better one, more money, relief from ...
  36. Jesus in the World's Faiths edited by Gregory Barker, Maryknoll, N.Y. Orbis, 2005,198...
  37. On Nov. 10, 2005, the trustees of the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) ...
  38. Dorothy Irvin, the American archaelogist and theologian, has donated copies of her 20...
  39. Patty Crowley died on Nov. 23 at her home in Chicago, at the age of 92. With her husb...
  40. Power Down: Options and actions for a post-carbon world by Richard Heinberg, Gabriola...
  41. Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics: Beverly Wildung Harrison, Louisville, ...
  42. TORONTO -- One of Canada's leading labour councils is calling on governments to bolst...
  43. Chaos in the Catholic Church: A Call for Reform by R. John Kinkel, Xlibris, 2005, 186...
  44. Maude Barlow has delivered again -- to a packed audience of 350 people inside Market ...
  45. Jesus and the Quest for Secular Justice. By Pierre L'Abbe 0-9735487-2-X $16.95, 94p. ...
  46. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Chief Phil Fontaine, head of the Assembly First Nat...
  47. Many family gatherings have been made memorable--maybe even endurable--by the introdu...
  48. Mark Year B, Eating with the Bridegroom: The Spiritual Wisdom of the Gospel for Chris...
  49. It's time people and clergy alike stood up to the outrageous abuse of power displayed...
  50. Torture in the Age of Fear. In Co-operation with The Canadian Centre for Victims of T...
  51. In a long-awaited and widely leaked document, the Vatican, on Nov. 29 issued its inst...
  52. Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the...
  53. Eugene Robinson, a black reporter for the Washington Post, inter viewed U.S. Secretar...
  54. Back in November 1959, when Advent sprang on me unawares more or less for the first t...
  55. The pollution behind climate change has increased substantially in Canada and in the ...
  56. In a recent opinion piece for the National Catholic Reporter, Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini...
  57. What has been happening in France these days is what sociologists term collective beh...
  58. When the papal document, Humanae Vitae, came out in 1968 it was a response to the bir...
  59. OTTAWA -- Sick veterans and civilians from Gagetown, N.B., are demanding that the Can...
  60. A Safe House: Holland 1940-1945. By Maria Jacobs 0-9734588-5-2 $18.95, 150p. A Safe...
  61. Jarhead is a hard movie to categorize. It is not an anti-war movie, nor does it celeb...
  62. As a convicted murderer was put to death in Raleigh, N.C., Amnesty International (AI)...
  63. During my recent visit to the Art Gallery of Hamilton, a flash of brilliant red caugh...
  64. Forty years ago, the Vatican Council--spending belatedly to the Holocaust--radically ...
  65. "Wisdom has built Her house, She has set up Her seven pillars ... She also has s...
  66. My teenagers cannot imagine how slowly time would pass were they to spend four entire...
  67. FREEPORT, Maine -- A revolutionary new book entitled, The Bingo Report, links sexual ...
  68. While gentle silence enveloped all things, and night its swift course was now half go...
  69. OTTAWA -- Canadian prisons are "warehousing" the mentally ill instead of pr...
  70. The moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly accused the Jewish state o...
  71. I was saddened to read Pat MacLeod's painful account of her marriage annulment ("...
  72. One warm summer evening in 1970, I sat alone on the front steps of my I house and flu...
  73. Nearly half of Canadians over 16 fail to meet the basic standards for reading compreh...
  74. John Wijngaards, Dutch-born British citizen active in the women priests movement, rec...
  75. In Tom Hassett's article "Rethinking the diocesan 'corporation'" (CNT, Nov....
  76. On Oct. 28, 1965, the Pope Paul VI, "the servant of the servants of God," a...
  77. TORONTO -- An American war resister turned down for refugee status in Canada, will be...
  78. I would like to express my deepest admiration and respect for Marie Louise Temier-Gom...
  79. The growing issue of Holy Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics is underscor...
  80. Canadian Catholics are set to join Amnesty International's annual "Write for Rig...
  81. I cannot remember ever being so angry toward the Catholic Church. I think the shamefu...
  82. NOV. 1 was the church's feast of All Saints. After prayers in the morning and the Cat...
  83. Christians of strong religious faith and sound moral conscience often end up in disag...
  84. I was disappointed when I read CNT's Oct 23. edition. Having read some of Dr. Bertell...
  85. Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir by Joan Chittister, Sheed and Ward, 2004. Jo...
  86. Malaria kills more people each year than any other disease, but only 0.3 per cent of ...
  87. Throughout the history of the Roman Catholic Church, justice and social involvement h...
  88. Contemporary Anti-Semitism: Canada and the World, edited by Derek Penslar, Michael Ma...
  89. The title of the article on the Sabeel conference was very misleading (CNT Oct. 23). ...
  90. The lust for gold has reached record levels worldwide as India and China join develop...
  91. "A Temple church is an anachronism after the journeys of St. Paul."--Anthon...
  92. Racism is something that a lot of us pink-skinned-people have a hard time getting. Fo...
  93. The prophet courageously challenges oppressive social structures of which the church ...
  94. The White House wants the CIA to be exempted from a proposed ban on the abusive treat...
  95. All over North America, economics students are revolting from a discipline that has l...
  96. This Catholic family has withered and lost creativity and energy. There have been sec...
  97. DUBLIN -- The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland covered up the sexual abuse of young p...
  98. There is an old joke: "What do you call the person with the lowest marks in thei...
  99. As I reflected on the late Rosa Parks and her great courage I was reminded of Fr. Ed ...
  100. Most of us think of a diocese as the bishop, priests and people who worship in the pa...
  101. Beth Porter: What environmental issue should most concern us today? Elizabeth May: ...
  102. Since 1994, an innovative program aimed at teenage girls who are at risk of dropping ...
  103. Both Rosa Parks and Fr. Ed Cachia spoke of dignity, of equality, the challenges to a ...
  104. In early October, Stephen Kobasa, who was an English teacher at Kolbe Cathedral High ...
  105. I wish to share with you the concern that Toronto's labour movement has around the gr...
  106. Friends and family of five Muslim men detained for months behind Canadian bars withou...
  107. I've got good news and bad news for Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali. The good new...
  108. Rich nations were accused of doing virtually nothing to help the survivors of Pakista...
  109. A two-tier medical system could drive up Canada's health care costs and eventually er...
  110. OTTAWA (CCN) -- KAIROS, the Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives is among several ...
  111. "I am suffering through a state of absolute bewilderment. I feel that this is a ...
  112. Given the harsh punishment imposed by Bishop Nicola de Angelis on Fr. Ed Cachia for h...
  113. The water crisis seen on northern Ontario's Kashechewan reserve is bound to be repeat...
  114. A devout atheist friend of mine often said to me: "Wouldn't it be something ff C...
  115. As cradle-born, Catholic women, we are appalled by the recent "firing" of F...
  116. According to surveys done by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the overwhelming ma...
  117. I am 88-years-old, I have read your Oct. 23 editorial and want you to know that I am ...
  118. MARCH 1905 O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to ...
  119. "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them." (M...
  120. As winter nears, and the warmth of summer recedes, I find myself distracted by foolis...
  121. Congratulations on your two latest editions, covering the Philadelphia grand jury, th...
  122. Bishop de Angelis has ordered Fr. Cachia to take relief of his canonical duties and t...
  123. I had two recent experiences that bookended my summer and also presented me with a gr...
  124. Unicef says it is a "disgrace" that more than 95 per cent of children with ...
  125. I am 88-years-old and a member of Amnesty International and Medecins Sans Frontieres....
  126. Britain's most senior independent scientist warned that global warming threatens to r...
  127. Abducted by criminals, swayed by false promises of good jobs or marriages, more peopl...
  128. As the days shorten, we feel in our bones the coming of the dark. Christianity has al...
  129. I write with sadness in response to CNT's Oct. 9 editorial concerning the suspension ...
  130. The Catholic Church is out of step with women's rights in today's world and as a resu...
  131. It must be a great responsibility to be the bishop of Peterborough, Ont. There are ma...
  132. I am writing the bishop of Peterbrough, Ont. to request that he remove the burden of ...
  133. The champion of this year's Make Poverty History campaign, recently expressed disappo...
  134. WASHINGTON -- The White House is fighting a congressional effort allowing low-income ...
  135. Things certainly are heating up in the Church in Canada. Most of the heat, can be bes...
  136. Credentials on the table first. Raised Catholic. Eight years of Catholic grade school...
  137. The Hidden Pierre Elliott Trudeau: the Faith Behind the Politics; edited by John Engl...
  138. The experience of Michele Birch-Conery, one of the women ordained on the St. Lawrence...
  139. "Today we are experiencing a serious breakdown of a chuhh culture built around c...
  140. Multinational companies operating in the world's poorest countries are "dodging&...
  141. LONDON -- The world will never eliminate poverty until it confronts social, economic ...
  142. I've been following the story of Fr. Ed Cachia in the CNT. On behalf of Women's Ordin...
  143. The following comes from a Catholic elementary school test, Kids were asked questions...
  144. This column wraps up several of my previous columns focusing on the essential role me...
  145. Canadian philosopher Ursula Franklin uses a series of questions to test the worthines...
  146. BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGIANS Madrid, Sept. 11, 2005 1. Peace is one of the mos...
  147. The revelations of priestly abuse and episcopal cover-up, dragged out of the labyrint...
  148. In a landmark position in 1976, the Pontifical Biblical Commission determined that th...
  149. "It is heartening that our Bishops are finally discussing solutions to the world...
  150. Having been born in Peterborough, Ont., I am distressed to learn of the treatment met...
  151. Prime Minister Paul Martin will not be refused communion in his parish in La Salle, Q...
  152. By CNT STAFF Mark and Kathie King of Grafton, Ont, longtime parishioners at St Mich...
  153. That's what my mother and all teachers actually are. My mother, Margaret Dillabough...
  154. OTTAWA -- More children are being abused and neglected in Canada than researchers and...
  155. The longest-running grand jury robe into clerical sex abuse as ended, but the trouble...
  156. BY CNT STAFF VATICAN CITY -- According to several news outlets, bishops from around...
  157. As an enthusiastic reader of CNT for many years, I am writing to comment on two artic...
  158. In a surprise announcement, the Vatican press office has announced that Pope Benedict...
  159. Conformity means death in any community. A loyal opposition is a necessity in any com...
  160. The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, deci...
  161. A bulker with Canada Steamship Lines moves tonnes of cargo at sea. A CBC documentary ...
  162. STOCKHOLM -- Canadian activists Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke recently received this y...
  163. Since April 2005, Pope Benedict has had 117 individual appointments, released 90 pray...
  164. Claire Heron, of Eston, Sask., respected long time president of the ecumenical, Women...
  165. Thank you for your clear, excellent coverage of the regression of the institutional c...
  166. "How can we not think with profound regret of the drama unfolding in Iraq, which...
  167. (An excerpt from the John and Lois Dove Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, Oct....
  168. 1. PLACE: Glenairley--Centre for Earth and Spirit (Vancouver Island) 6040 East Sooke ...
  169. OTTAWA -- The federal government makes environmental promises it cannot keep, the Com...
  170. Five Canadian bishops are attending the International Eucharist Synod in Rome, betwee...
  171. This issue deals with the sorry episcopal cover-up in Philadelphia. I do not believe ...
  172. BY CNT STAFF Harold Pinter, the British playwright and fierce critic of the Iraq Wa...
  173. Kudos to CNT on your recent Oct. 9 issue, which I have just read from cover to cover....
  174. Is it possible to obtain e-mail addresses for the following: Fr. Ed Cachia, Fr. Thoma...
  175. Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics, by Diarmuid O'Murchu. Ne...
  176. On an early autumn morning, our milkman greets me: "Did you see the sun shining ...
  177. Church & Stage by Dean J. Seal. Cowley Publications, Cambridge, Mass. Dean J. S...
  178. TORONTO -- Hundreds of anti-poverty protesters again gathered outside Queen's Park in...
  179. 'The National Guard, who would normally be deployed to aid in disaster relief, was un...
  180. A History of Violence, directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria ...
  181. OTTAWA -- Digital photos and fingerprints will soon be collected from thousands of ne...
  182. There are two indisputable facts about Africa today. The first is the enormity of hum...
  183. The Worker's Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada, by Craig Heron and Steve Pe...
  184. 'Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of...
  185. I was disappointed in the unresearched and uncritical review of "Rosalie Bertell...
  186. Broken Flowers, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey W...
  187. The Palestinian Christian group Sabeel is set to join the World Council of Churches a...
  188. For me, canning pickles is a spiritual discipline. As is making jam, freezing corn ...
  189. The value of the world's freshwater to the common good should take priority over any ...
  190. A rapt audience at St Alphonsus Church, Peterborough, recently learned of the impact ...
  191. Modernity is the guiding principle of a system of social control which justifies its ...
  192. I was married for 35 years before my marriage failed. Although now I enjoy the fun an...
  193. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) are concerned over the targeting of...
  194. Canada is billed as a world leader in human rights, but its own record has serious &q...
  195. In the article on, "Human face on current debate," E.J. Adams states that b...
  196. I find it deeply painful that Bishop de Angelis (CNT Oct. 9, 2005) has taken such har...
  197. Several people friends and colleagues in ministry--expressed surprise that I did not ...
  198. It was surprising, somewhat startling really, that you could bring together twenty-fi...
  199. I have recently seen two tidbits of information that indicate that the U.S. is not on...