Stories Collection

  1. From Dr. Richard M. Alway, re "Crisis at St. Michael's College--An Open letter" I ...
  2. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) wrote two large Summas, the Summa Theologica (Sum of The...
  3. Montreal -- We welcome an impressive new French quarterly, Egards, published and edit...
  4. This is the second article on the history of Cardinal James McGuigan (1894-1974). The...
  5. This is a first contribution from our news reporter in Kenya.--Editor The arrest o...
  6. On December 3, 2003, I mailed the following letter to Dr. Richard Alway, president of...
  7. From Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute, 223 Main St., Ottawa, ON, K1S 1...
  8. "And there is a kind of reverse abuse when the sexual orientation of an individual is...
  9. Moncton, NB -- Former Moncton Archbishop Donat Chiasson died in a car accident on Oct...
  10. Vatican City -- The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue to Hindus on the o...
  11. On October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi (proclaimed by the Pope in 1990 as t...
  12. Origen (c.185-251) in his Commentary on Matthew (10.22) deprecated birthday celebrati...
  13. In 1914, in a satiric piece entitled "Reunion All Round", Ronald Knox, while still an...
  14. At this year's Red Mass in Toronto for Catholic lawyers, judges and legislators on Se...
  15. Rome--Pope John Paul II has just completed a ceremonial round calculated to enervate ...
  16. Living in Canada, where the courts communicate in Charter-speak and politicians in an...
  17. One could speak about a worldwide "Harry Potter phenomena", appearing soon after the ...
  18. Fredericton, NB -- Fredericton saw the largest-ever demonstration at its provincial l...
  19. New York -- After a heated debate in April 2003, the UN Human Rights Commission dropp...
  20. The Harry Potter of forty years ago was Frodo Baggins, J.R.R.Tolkien's hero. Frodo's ...
  21. A couple of questions. What does social justice and environmentalism have to do with ...
  22. Msgr. Foy forgot to mention that the Winnipeg Statement also was the cause of the Vie...
  23. Vatican City--John Paul II has appealed to Catholics in the Philippines to embrace th...
  24. From John Muggeridge re conversion of Jews "Go ye into the whole world and preach ...
  25. The words of St. Paul in his letter to the Philippians about shining on the world lik...
  26. Alphonse de Valk: Introduction In 1991 the University of Toronto (U of T) gave hea...
  27. Capetown, SA--On June 3, 2003, Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern an...
  28. One of the chief causes for making people doubt the truth of revelation is the theory...
  29. Milwaukee, WI--While their superior, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, was on vacation in Aug...
  30. Washington, DC--the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently issue...
  31. Geoff Cauchi's splendid paper on the Marc Hall case (C.I., July-September 2003) and F...
  32. Vancouver--In September of 2003, the Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver cancelled a pa...
  33. A small tribute to a Catholic philosopher Waterloo, ON--The Canadian Fellowship of C...
  34. Ottawa--C.I. has several times drawn attention to Canada's birthdearth (see "Populati...
  35. Metis rights Ottawa--In a landmark ruling on September 29, the Supreme Court of Ca...
  36. Some time ago, I read a humorous article by Catholic mother and columnist Michaelanne...
  37. Vernon Johnson, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2001, pp. 230 Msgr. Vernon Johnson's i...
  38. Toronto--In the Toronto Star for July 20, Kevin Scanlon discussed a coffee-table book...
  39. We recently moved my parents out of the big family home in south London--a sprawling,...
  40. Rome -- July 25 marked the 35th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI's enc...
  41. James C. McGuigan (1894-1974), appointed Archbishop of Regina when only 35, saved the...
  42. Published by Park Press,Wake Park, MN 1997 U.S. $9.50, pp.180 This book was publis...
  43. As the Canadian-born offspring of post-World War II Polish immigrants, I am a compara...
  44. Castel Gandolfo -- John Paul II says the Catholic Church should be a "Church of the p...
  45. Kelowna, BC--One of the few surviving Vatican II participants, retired Bishop W. Emme...
  46. From Ignatius Press, 2515 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA, 94118 U.S.A. Tel: (415)3...
  47. Hamilton, ON--In the worst desecration of a Catholic religious site since that of Mon...
  48. Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, New Hampshire 2001, U.S. $15.95 pp. 280 The phra...
  49. Strasbourg, France--The European Parliament's plenary assembly rejected any reference...
  50. Experience (to our limited knowledge) seems to confirm what poetry and fiction tell u...
  51. You are probably aware of the conferences held in St. John's last spring which were i...
  52. In your Sept 2003 issue you draw attention to the fact that the Basilian Fathers of T...
  53. All lovers of the English language must pause this 9th November: it will be 50 years ...
  54. During the past month or so this province was visited by an expriest, Thomas Groome, ...
  55. "Secularists have not succeeded in wrecking divine things," but secularists have succ...
  56. Harry was heading home. Work had been exceptionally busy that day. He had been workin...
  57. The pressure on Members of Parliament to oppose S.S."M." (the government's proposed l...
  58. The title of this article was inspired by Mr. Omar Savard, whose reaction (published ...
  59. The first heart transplant was performed in 1968. In the same year, the Harvard Ad Ho...
  60. Vatican City -- John Paul II named 30 new cardinals, including seven officials in the...
  61. Sister Lucille Durocher died in an Ottawa hospital on September 22, 2003 at the age o...
  62. The arrogant pronouncement of the three judges, McMurtry, MacPherson, and Gillese of ...
  63. Shame on all of us who considered that marriage is a point of debate. This should nev...
  64. Toronto -- On June 25, 2003, Ontario's P.C. government passed a bill reinvigorating t...
  65. In the course of an afternoon, three judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal reversed m...
  66. When Prime Minister Chretien declared his liberal government would not appeal the Ont...
  67. Moscow -- The Soviet Union promoted abortion over seven decades of atheism. It was th...
  68. As part of its ongoing series on the documents of the Second Vatican Council, Zenit t...
  69. This essay is not a reflection on C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, which discusses th...
  70. Washington -- Mel Gibson's recently completed movie portraying the last hours of the ...
  71. Munich -- Two of the seven Catholic women who were illicitly ordained in June, 2002, ...
  72. Rome -- More than 900 Christians died for their faith during 2002, including 127 in C...
  73. Montreal -- In Quebec, Notre Dame Basilica, dating from 1678, is regarded by many as ...
  74. The Vatican's new 728-page Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis has attracted predictable sco...
  75. Dear Friends and Alumni of St. Michael's College: It is with deep regret that we u...
  76. It is a commonplace that what people say is often less important than how they say it...
  77. When I flew recently with an airline known for the levity of its crews, a jocular fli...
  78. At the beginning of May, George Weigel, author of the biography of the Holy Father en...
  79. Vatican City -- In an earlier address (Jan. 14, 2003) the Vatican explained that the ...
  80. I am writing to express my profound dissappointment at your lack of support for Bisho...
  81. Dr. Donald De Marco, Virtue's Alphabet: From Amiability to Zeal Published by Central ...
  82. "But you, O Lord, are close; Your commands are truth; Long have I known that your wil...
  83. In ruling out a national referendum on the imposition of gay-marriage by the courts, ...
  84. Gabriel Bunge, OSB, Earthen Vessels; The Practice of Personal Prayer According to the...
  85. Rome -- A congress dealing with the interaction between faith and the arts was held i...
  86. Hong Kong -- On July 7, Twig Chee-hwa, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, backed down on a...
  87. Quesnel, B.C. -- Early in the year, school teacher Chris Kempling, an Evangelical Pro...
  88. The big year-end celebration of the Crowning of Mary by the school rosary apostolate ...
  89. Two years ago, my 90-year-old grandmother surrendered her soul to God. Her death was ...
  90. Sofia -- While the official government attitude to Catholicism in Bulgaria remains di...
  91. The issue of same-sex marriage is one of human rights, we are told. It may be a sin i...
  92. The advent of Jesus Christ has been a contentious issue for two thousand years. Fully...
  93. New York--Father Richard Neuhaus, the editor of First Things, has announced good news...
  94. Halifax--In a July 16 Zenit interview, Archbishop Terence Prendergast of Halifax, NS,...
  95. A few years ago, an article in New Oxford Review pointed out the similarities between...
  96. Sandwiched between an upscale cigar cafe and an imposing financial institution on Tor...
  97. Ottawa--On June 30, the 35th anniversary of Paul VI's Encyclical Humanae vitae, the C...
  98. On July 7, 2003, the General Council of the Basilian Fathers in Toronto announced tha...
  99. Here we go again!! Another weak plea to the government to not follow through with ...
  100. This letter pertains to the article on Cardinal Emmett Carter (May 2003). I did know ...
  101. Natural reason, to oppose atheism (or agnosticism), can bring forward arguments for t...
  102. Legendary Canadian singer Burton Cummings sang, "I will sing a rhapsody, cleverly dis...
  103. In the article "Vatican on New Age" (Janice Glover, June 2003), paragraph seven, she ...
  104. Brussels--A news report from Brussels on May 30 said that God has no place in the Eur...
  105. There is a double miracle involved in the fact that Warrick and Theo Davies celebrate...
  106. Metz, France--A French couple who made clear that they had no plans to have children ...
  107. There are three aspects of marriage which I have not yet seen addressed: 1. Legal: A...
  108. Harper San Francisco, New York, 2002, 314 pages, $36.50 (Cdn.) This is a book on Cat...
  109. Muenster, SK--With his editorial in Saskatchewan's Catholic weekly, The Prairie Messe...
  110. Ian Hunter in his May column ("Our lost Morality," p.10) says that men have failed to...
  111. Mr. Prime Minister: As witnessed by history, societies are born and societies die....
  112. In your most recent edition, the column by Paula Adamick makes reference to Our Lady ...
  113. This is a slightly abbreviated version of a paper delivered at a meeting of the Catho...
  114. Another day, another suicide bomber. Ten, twenty, thirty killed in this market place,...
  115. Part I The events On June 10, 2003, the Court of Appeal of Ontario ruled: ...
  116. Hollywood--Actor Mel Gibson, a "traditionalist" Catholic (he likes the Mass in Latin ...
  117. "Of all the changes that the 20th century has brought, none goes deeper than the disa...
  118. From the increasingly creepy frontiers of reproductive science came two distressing r...
  119. So this guy comes out of the liquor store with a case of beer, only to be accosted by...
  120. "Is a constitutional amendment required to change the common law definition of marria...
  121. Life Ethics Information Centre, 104 Bond St., Suite 301, Toronto, ON, 2003, 168 pages...
  122. The Vatican's 12-page letter with its lengthy title, Considerations regarding proposa...
  123. What strategy can be adopted to halt the secular assault on Christianity's position i...
  124. Document Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions be...
  125. Zagreb--There is always a new experience while going round the world, even for a well...
  126. June 8, 1999--Parliament votes 216 to 55 in favour of a Canadian Alliance resolution ...
  127. The general attitude of the pro-"gay" print media (daily papers like the Globe and Ma...
  128. London--The Catholic Herald carried a headline on May 16, 2003, saying "College purge...
  129. Rome--As former head of the French government, minister and first president of the Eu...
  130. There are many truths revealed to us by God which could never be proved by reasoning ...
  131. As a Catholic, I have given much thought to the above topic and find your review of t...
  132. How can there be too many children? It's like saying there are too many flowers. M...
  133. The encyclical The Church of the Eucharist makes clear that the Eucharistic sacrifice...
  134. Ottawa--Some 3,500 people, mostly from Ontario and Quebec with a sprinkling from othe...
  135. Toronto--Spring 2003 in Ontario has been a time of confrontations between teachers an...
  136. Apparitions of the Mother of God which occurred in 1947 in Montichiari, Italy, have a...
  137. The only other time I attended a Civitas conference was in April 1997; then, too, I w...
  138. The Vatican's publication on January 17, 2003 of the doctrinal Note on the participat...
  139. Havana--Catholic commemorations in Cuba have been almost nonexistent since Castro's 1...
  140. In our last edition (June 2002, p. 15), Catholic Insight presented the first excerpt ...
  141. Every year, in the run-up to Canada Day, my office calls the various Canadian expatri...
  142. Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. Daniel O'Connell The above qu...
  143. Ottawa -- The latest data from the 2001 census on religion are of interest. Catholics...
  144. Ottawa--In early May, Canadians finally got some honesty and emotion into the current...
  145. I am not happy to read your editorials in respect to the war in Iraq. I get the sense...
  146. Block Rosary Crusaders The Block Rosary Crusade was begun in Toronto in 1982 by some...
  147. July 25, 1968, was a day that etched itself into my memory. That day, Pope Paul VI is...
  148. Some proponents of same sex "marriage" argue that its legalization will have no signi...
  149. Books received from Catholic publishers From Ignatius Press, 2515 McAllister St., ...
  150. Vatican -- What's the relationship between the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Church? ...
  151. Vatican City--Pope John Paul II received a delegation of Jewish leaders and appealed ...
  152. This is a slightly abbreviated version of a paper delivered at a meeting of the Catho...
  153. Over the last year there has been much talk about the historical legacy which the Pri...
  154. Joseph Pearce, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2...
  155. Ottawa--A motion by Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz received one hour of debate in the H...
  156. Baghdad -- Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq has ended. This should theoretically porte...
  157. Rome -- The 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was held mid-November ...
  158. The following statements in the article "A warm and fuzzy faith" (C.I., April 2003) m...
  159. Saskatoon -- As the Prairie Messenger Saskatchewan's Catholic Weekly noted on April 2...
  160. The following was submitted to the Standing Commitee on Justice and Human Rights on A...
  161. As noted in May, His Eminence Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter died peacefully at his Ro...
  162. Rome--in a statement or September 9,2002, Pope John Paul II addressed the bishops of ...
  163. The New Testament teaches us clearly that the human soul is immortal, and this teachi...
  164. Christianity in Canada finds itself the object of ridicule and hate. This is nothing ...
  165. Moscow--Relations between Catholics and Orthodox Russia (see C.I, April 2003, p. 22) ...
  166. On p. 28, of the May 2003 issue, there appears an article entitled: "Has the CWL lost...
  167. John Perry, S.J., Food for Thought, Novalis, Ottawa, ON, 2002, pp. 152, $17.95 Cdn. o...
  168. Toronto--In mid-April, 2003, American-born Fr. Boris Gudziak, currently Rector of Lvi...
  169. Father's Day is fast approaching and my kids are asking me what I would like for a gi...
  170. Brother J.B. Darcy, C.F.C., The Life and Times of Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming, O.S...
  171. I was a Protestant for twenty years before I became a Catholic. Working as a youth le...
  172. Thomas Howard, If your mind wanders at Mass, Franciscan University Press, Steubenvill...
  173. The cultural war which rages in this country has just gone up a notch. Another three ...
  174. In the highly ritualized and minutely codified world of the Roman Catholic Mass, the ...
  175. The Founders Marthe Robin spent more that fifty years as a complete invalid in her...
  176. In his "Poverty: A bias toward exaggeration" (C.I., May 2003), Joe Campbell underesti...
  177. Costa Rica--In February, Rosa the 9-year-old daughter of an impoverished Nicaraguan m...
  178. A sincere thank you to Grace Petrasek for her timely article (May 2003), in her candi...
  179. A document on the "complex phenomenon of 'New Age"' was released recently by several ...
  180. Los Angeles--The new Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, built on orders...
  181. Maybe it's just me. Maybe, dare I say, this column is a cry for help. But when faced ...
  182. Edward McBride posits the idea of a "presumption against all war" (C.I., April 2003, ...
  183. Ephphatha House, located north of Stony Plain, Alberta, is a house of prayer, a retre...
  184. Toronto--Pope John Paul signed his 14th encyclical, The Church of the Eucharist, duri...
  185. Edward J. McBride (April, 2003, pp. 12-15) claims that the Catechism of the Catholic ...
  186. It now appears that there are two issues at hand. First, in a statement submitted to ...
  187. Forty years after the Second Vatican Council, Zenit spoke with Monsignor Peter Elliot...
  188. On June 2, 2002, Cardinal Ratzinger spoke at a Eucharistic Congress in Italy on the t...
  189. Our fourth baby was just a week old when she accompanied me to pick up our oldest dau...
  190. Angola--Angola's peace agreement was signed on April 4, 2002. following the assassina...
  191. Ever since Jesus Christ said that only the Father knows the day and the hour of the S...
  192. A kind reader sent me the relevant pages of the April 2003 issue of Catholic Insight,...
  193. Vatican City -- The European Parliament has been trying to avoid any reference to Chr...
  194. There was a certain dichotomy to news in the mid-1990s that Guy Giorno, a relatively ...
  195. The statistics commonly cited to track poverty in Canada are not merely deceptive: th...
  196. At least within conservative and Christian circles, Alastair Maclntyre's influential ...
  197. Is it right to kill a human being for medical research? Albert Mengele, the death-dea...
  198. New York -- A United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting was suspended ...
  199. One of the most important teachings of the Catholic faith is that the human soul is i...