Opinion

After wondering for some time about how the indigenous understanding of Trickster could be linked to the biblical Christian story, I was intrigued to stumble ...

March is the month when the diocese asks that all parishes complete their annual Parish Information Return (PIR). The data collected in this form helps ...

It is fascinating to see how many of the therapies of our time have much in common, though their language seems to differ. For instance, ...

Any day, any age is a good time to be inspired. A young doctor, after completing two of five years of surgeon residency training, felt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new is not the novel. The novel appears routinely — novel gadgets, novel operating systems, and even novel cultural trends. But the genuinely new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...