Opinion

Parenthood and Faith

There is an old Thomistic adage that grace does not destroy nature but rather perfects it. This means in part that God uses the ordinary ...
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Recommitting ourselves for Lent

Those in our diocese taking part in the lay leadership in worship course have read Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the ...
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Companions on El Camino

For one enchanted evening a very long time ago, I was one of the Magi — a wise man. My black moustache and beard were ...
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Halfway back to the light

A new Irish public holiday begins this year in honour of St Brigid as one of the country’s patron saints https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/ireland/st-brigids-day. It’s the first such ...
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Book review – A Word Shared Between Us

Few of us will look back at 2020 with fondness. The COVID-19 disease which had appeared in late 2019 was by March of the following ...
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The most secular diocese in North America

As we begin 2023, I’d invite us all to consider the recent census that suggests we are the most secular diocese in North America. According ...
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Will the new year bring anything new, or just more novelties?

The new is not the novel. The novel appears routinely — novel gadgets, novel operating systems, and even novel cultural trends. But the genuinely new ...
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Christian themes in the Harry Potter book series  

Having recently finished reading the seven volumes of Harry Potter (British Bloomsbury edition) for the first time at age 70, I was struck by its ...
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A timeless love

I recall reading somewhere that something we take totally for granted about the human mind is in fact one of its most remarkable accomplishments. It ...
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Thank God for all of this 

When Roland Hui, the interim editor, contacted me in November about writing regularly for Faith Tides, I had one comment and three questions. The comment ...
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Christo fascism in Canada

In front of the BC legislature on many Saturdays over the past year, you would see people holding up signs about freedom, many of them ...
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Jesus loves our transgender siblings

I think about my trans friends and of their courage to simply be themselves. It’s not right that they are forced to put their lives ...
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Making sense of Advent expectation

“He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.” ~ The Nicene Creed The ...
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Polarization, neutrality and the Tower of Babel  

Many of us are horrified at the extent of polarization in our world, like that found in our neighbours to the south, or in the ...
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Letters to the editor (December 2022)

Dear Editor,  The October issue’s article in Faith Tides bemoaning all the electronic waste nudged me to inform you of the opportunity and obligation we ...
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