Stories Collection

  1. Fr. Tom Doyle has been the best face of the Catholic Church for over two decades as h...
  2. I read with interest a recent article (CNT April 11), "Reproductive Health Care ...
  3. Editor's note: Fr. Miguel D'Escoto was Nicaragua's foreign minister under the Sandini...
  4. Michele Birch-Conery of Vancouver Island was ordained to the Catholic priesthood on J...
  5. Tears fell from my eyes recently, for all the "lost sisters" of the Native ...
  6. I have in my hand a request for a donation to the Companions of the Cross. I would li...
  7. Western culture is committed to a mass mythology Of the righteousness of war. The lat...
  8. On the day when we remember the Body of Christ in our faith communities, it was with ...
  9. It was fitting that Wilton Gregory, the president of the United States Conference of ...
  10. I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes ...
  11. (UPI) Washington, D.C.--Fox Television Network has announced that the next instalment...
  12. Jesuit Jim Profit recently told the Guelph,Ontario, City Council that "big box s...
  13. The Mennonite farming town I grew up in is "open for business," and growing...
  14. As Catholics, we need to cry out for justice and demand that our leaders provide us w...
  15. STOCKHOLM -- World military spending surged during 2003, reaching $956 billion (U.S.)...
  16. Super Size Me, directed and written by Morgan Spurlock. 96 minutes. And now for the...
  17. Well, Tampa Bay won, -- I was cheering for them. They had 19 Canadian players on thei...
  18. Three things you're not being told about Canadian military spending: 1. Canada is a...
  19. The Journal of the American Medical Association, recently stated (June 2, 2004) that ...
  20. The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light by Tom Harpur. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publ...
  21. For me, the "Beloved Community" includes everyone who is working--or has wo...
  22. Unable to sleep, I decided to write. Three weeks ago my e-mail box was flooded with...
  23. Artists are not necessarily saints, yet as observers of the human condition and as co...
  24. SASKATOON -- A national Catholic organization has called on the bishops of Canada to ...
  25. When the Canadian Catholic bishops issued their advice on the upcoming Canadian elect...
  26. To the people of Haiti, We bring you warm greetings and messages of support and sol...
  27. The Roman Catholic Church designated World Communications Day, May 23, which was Asce...
  28. Ellen Leonard, CSJ, longtime theology professor at St Michael's College, Toronto Scho...
  29. "Why should we hear about body bags. Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why shoul...
  30. "George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brou...
  31. A powerful claim is often made that consumerism, money, wealth, etc. can corrupt or d...
  32. Travelling Light: the Way and Life of Tony Walsh by John Buell, Toronto, Novalis 2003...
  33. KAIROS CANADA unites churches and religious organizations in a faithful ecumenical re...
  34. The human rights group Amnesty International has charged that Israel is guilty of war...
  35. God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune...
  36. Canada has moved into an important federal election. Set for June 28, it is being fra...
  37. Stephen Harper has been advocating something that would be a significant departure fo...
  38. NAIROBI -- Africa's Anglican archbishops have vowed never to receive donations from w...
  39. In what theologian Mary Hunt has called another sad example of "communion wars,&...
  40. The cover story of Time magazine, dated 12 December 1960, features a Jesuit theologia...
  41. What is happening to our Church leadership? Cardinal Law was the only hierarch held r...
  42. TORONTO -- The first budget of the government elected to repair damage created by eig...
  43. Jesus empowered people. To those he healed, he said, "It was your faith that d...
  44. HALIFAX -- Father Des McGrath, who helped found the largest union on the island, the ...
  45. Last fall, an invitation was issued by Edmund O'Sullivan, Director of the Transformat...
  46. Re your editorial "Abu Ghraib" (CNT, June 6, 2004). In his speech to Americ...
  47. VANCOUVER -- Canadians have become increasingly aware of the benefits of early childh...
  48. Cardinal Bernard F. Law, 72, former head of the Boston archdiocese has been appointed...
  49. In an exciting series of talks in Saskatoon recently, Dr Jane Schaberg, professor of ...
  50. In any organization, the highest priority is its very existence tomorrow, next month ...
  51. TORONTO -- Taking a page from comedian David Letterman, the Canadian Union of Public ...
  52. Some people, within various Christian churches and other faith groups, have raised le...
  53. The May 23 issue of CNT was filled with good stuff to chew on, especially the many ar...
  54. OTTAWA (CCN) -- The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has added its voice to gr...
  55. There is nothing more urgent that I can teach my newborn son than the meaning of holy...
  56. A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves COPYRIGHT 2004 Catholi...
  57. Jennifer Corriero is still learning. The vibrant 23-year-old York University studen...
  58. One of the most challenging things in my ministry as presbyter is the tension among d...
  59. VATICAN CITY -- According to ZENIT;, a newsgatheiing source in Rome, John Paul II wil...
  60. Pax Christi member Bill Hickey and Sister of Mercy Karen Donahue lie beneath a federa...
  61. JERUSALEM -- Many words are taboo when used to describe Israel's actions against Pale...
  62. CHICAGO -- Some U.S. bishops are actively lobbying to undermine the work of their own...
  63. The American occupation of Iraq is an absolute failure. Here's a partial list of some...
  64. TORONTO -- The first budget of the government elected to repair damage created by eig...
  65. CHICAGO -- "Priestless parishes" now account for 3,000 Catholic churches in...
  66. The way that the term "fundamentalist" is being used in the CNT review of G...
  67. VICTORIA -- "A victory for patients and a victory for public health care but it'...
  68. WASHINGTON / BRUSSELS -- May 10. The world's biggest seller of genetically modified (...
  69. Women's Ordination Worldwide, the group of European Catholics who conducted the ordin...
  70. The "Contracting Out in the London Catholic School Board" story we did in t...
  71. * Effective in July, Ontario residents will pay a new health-care premium based on in...
  72. CALCUTTA -- In one of the most stunning upsetS in Indian political history, the rulin...
  73. The Vatican Curia is fiddling while the universal church is going up in flames. The...
  74. The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilization lies unveiled...
  75. In the 1960s, the community of Africville was bulldozed to make room for an approach ...
  76. LOS ANGELES -- The media industry has been infested by the rise of pseudo-journalists...
  77. There is currently a discussion among some Catholic bishops about refusing the sacram...
  78. I wrote this article in the Muscogee County Jail in early February while serving my 9...
  79. The minimum wage in Mexico is $5.85 a day. Ontario's minimum wage is $7.15 per hour. ...
  80. Recently the National Coalition of American Nuns issued this statement: "We are ...
  81. I can understand the anger that is being expressed toward the Khadr family. How is it...
  82. You can't be much of a columnist, I said to myself the other day, if you don't have a...
  83. At the very least, it was an interesting sight, but to the average observer, the situ...
  84. In an dramatic example of cross-border spiritual communication, Rev. Dr Greer Anne We...
  85. As a firm believer in the spiritual and practical aspects of nonviolence, I am always...
  86. "As Americans we are inclined to be a bit insular," writes spiritual writer...
  87. Civilized Americans are outraged at the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. occupying ...
  88. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, directed by Errol...
  89. National pride from watching the Calgary Flames--not! National pride means so much ...
  90. When Alberto Dirienzo retired from St. John's School in the Toronto Catholic District...
  91. In a move that illustrates the growing divide between Latin American nations and the ...
  92. Every time we Catholics attend Mass, we acknowledge our belief in a "holy, Catho...
  93. The Inner Room by Mark Plaiss, Cincinnati, St. Anthony Messenger 2003, 127 pp. This i...
  94. In response to Ab Ryan's letter of May 9, there may be a hidden agenda for restrictin...
  95. EDMONTON -- According to Canadian Press, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is finding Chile...
  96. With every new CNT issue, it seems I read about some action of the Catholic Church wh...
  97. LOS ANGELES -- Michael Moore's newest film, Fahrenheit 9/11, will open the Cannes Fil...
  98. SAN FRANCISCO -- Writing in the monthly magazine Tikkun, noted theologian Matthew Fox...
  99. The Danish "enfant terrible" of the cinema, Lars von Trier, has created ano...
  100. The Toronto Star, March 27, 2004 reported that the bishop of Peterborough rescinded a...
  101. WASHINGTON -- Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether, who writes regularly for CNT, has ...
  102. WASHINGTON -- Fr. Tom Doyle, the priest who 20 years ago warned the nation's Roman Ca...
  103. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom, New York, Hyperion Books, 2003. ...
  104. If any preacher tells you that personal salvation can be achieved without first payin...
  105. LONDON -- Scientists are claiming to have found compelling new evidence for global wa...
  106. LONDON -- The Archbishop of Canterbury has raised the possibility of a campaign of pu...
  107. On the prairies, the sun-kissed earth is warming, waking seeds and bulbs from their l...
  108. * CTA works for the kind of church personified by Pope John XXIII, glimpsed at the Se...
  109. WASHINGTON -- U.S. and global consumers, already hit hard by sustained high oil price...
  110. LA PLATA, Argentina -- The fallout from Argentina's Dirty War of the mid 1970s contin...
  111. The good news has never been better. The church has continued, through thick and thin...
  112. As winter seems to be giving way reluctantly spring across Canada, provincial governm...
  113. May, 2004 I just spoke to Molly Malekar on her way to the hospital from a demonstra...
  114. Wind and fire; consciousness and energy; the breath of consciousness igniting the fir...
  115. It is Friday, April 30 and I'm in a pretty foul mood. No, I'm not mad at my kids. I d...
  116. Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the ne...
  117. A diverse group of young performers march onto the stage in unison, joining in haunti...
  118. OTTAWA -- Canadians overwhelmingly support the use of regulation to meet Canada's Kyo...
  119. When I first heard about the huge march planned for Washington, D.C. in April in supp...
  120. 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2 W...
  121. Miles Sosa, our office manager, has asked me to thank our subscribers and friends for...
  122. OTTAWA (CCN) -- Canadian religion sociologist Reginald Bibby continues to assert that...
  123. Parables were central to the message of the historical Jesus as a wisdom teacher and ...
  124. Joseph Polito in his article "Saving Father Ryan" (CNT, Apr.25, 2004) is tr...
  125. Writing on compensation to CEO's, Mike Martin, an on-line columnist for Straight Good...
  126. SOCIAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION, CCCB Within a generation, the percentage of Canadians wh...
  127. By now many people know about the craven conduct of HarperCollins when Michael Moore ...
  128. "Marriage should be for those who intend to have children to ensure that our mar...
  129. A new book called Lives in the Balance makes the reality of poverty hit home. Based o...
  130. TORONTO (CCN) -- The national president of Campaign Life Coalition charges that the C...
  131. Dorothy Day, Portraits by Those Who Knew Her, by Rosalie G. Riegle. Maryknoll, New Yo...
  132. "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension...
  133. JERUSALEM -- In a bizarre twist to Biblical tradition, the Israeli military has launc...
  134. April 9th, Good Friday, was the 26th time that Christians of a number of denomination...
  135. Our great Canadian researcher Murray Dobbin in a recent op-ed in the Globe and Mail (...
  136. "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq....
  137. Somewhere in Rwanda, a UN general and two staff soldiers journey down a precarious st...
  138. In his novel Fifth Business, Robertson Davies puts into the mouth of one of his chara...
  139. Marika Ince says in her poem, (CNT, March 21, 2004)) Mel Gibson "could have boug...
  140. TORONTO -- A couple of dozen nuns scored a decisive victory at Toronto City Hall on A...
  141. For many veteran Canadian Catholic educators, June 12th 1984, stands out in their mem...
  142. When Marilyn, a visiting journalist from Chicago, asked if she could witness, some of...
  143. Thank you so much for the William Sloan Coffin article (CNT, Feb. 8, 29, 2004). What ...
  144. WATERLOO, Ont. -- "The recent Sharon-Bush plan to rob Palestinians of yet more o...
  145. My perception is that too many of our youth today are in a state of turmoil. This is ...
  146. Redemptorist priest Thomas Santa was frequently discouraged about many of the book pr...
  147. While I am convinced that the latest "Star Wars" ideas of the U.S. administ...
  148. Writer for the web site rabble.ca and respected Canadian economist Duncan Cameron say...
  149. Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show? Three businessmen ...
  150. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Cormick's painting appears on the cover of a new bo...
  151. After reading the article "Mel Gibson in Lethal Rabbi" (CNT April 11), I am...
  152. OTTAWA -- Douglas Roche, has retired from the Senate of Canada after a distinguished ...
  153. A ten-year-old child I visited in the most deplorable human conditions in the slums o...
  154. In a model of Catholic ministry that may well illustrate the future of the church, Sr...
  155. Whenever one opens a Catholic publication, there is an article about the shortage of ...
  156. In delivering small government to Canadians, Paul Martin created a revolution in how ...
  157. The nineteen Catholic bishops of the Antilles, including those of Bahamas, Jamaica, S...
  158. We're in the season of Mother's Day and that made me think of motherhood issues. Some...
  159. On March 13, I was surprised to learn of the silly stand taken by the bishop of Peter...
  160. VATICAN CITY -- One of the giants of the post-Vatican II church, Cardinal Franz Konig...
  161. From April 14-18, I was in Jerusalem for the fifth international Sabeel Conference on...
  162. The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who pre...
  163. Recent homilies by American bishops have linked feminism to evil. In Boston during ...
  164. Recently Henri Tincq, religious editor at the French daily Le Monde, interviewed Rev....
  165. Farrellton, Que. in the thirties and forties was the community of origin of this now-...
  166. The United States and France have intimidated Caribbean countries into delaying an of...
  167. Fr. James "Guadalupe" Carney disappeared in Honduras in 1983, one of many c...
  168. Thank you for your ample and expected reviews or comments in the current issue (March...
  169. VANCOUVER -- The Canadian equivalent to Michael Moore's Roger and Me is working its w...
  170. I work in a closed Adolescent Psychiatric Crisis Unit at a Toronto Hospital and am re...
  171. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong, New York, Alfred A...
  172. I was thoroughly impressed and impassioned by the open letter to the Roman Catholic C...
  173. The Supreme Court of Canada in a decision on March 25th, ruled that a Roman Catholic ...
  174. SYDNEY -- The invasion of Iraq, now in its second year, was "organized with lies...
  175. They trundled along in a moving column that started from the steps of the school, mad...
  176. Larry Carney's story on the transformation from rigidity to humility of Cardinal &quo...
  177. Members of a Winnipeg church recently brought their faith to an Esso station on the c...
  178. DUBLIN -- Over 30 Catholics risked excommunication on March 25 by attending Dublin's ...
  179. The church's ministry of leadership does not have to be celibate; the single life nee...
  180. I am ashamed that my faith community would take this action against Father Ryan. (CNT...
  181. The Catholic Women's League serves tea at parish functions. Right? Of course it doe...
  182. WASHINGTON -- The Jesuit priest who runs the Center of Concern, a faith-and-justice a...
  183. The eighth sacrament? There was only one saving grace and that was that I was irrevoc...
  184. COPENHAGEN -- The war in Iraq has left the country worse off than it was under Saddam...
  185. OTTAWA (CCN) -- A Cape Breton social activist who was the first Roman Catholic nun to...
  186. The world's most famous whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu. is about to be released from...
  187. GENEVA -- China, Iran, the United States and Vietnam were the world's top users of th...
  188. I must admit that I went to The Passion of the Christ with strong prejudice, largely ...
  189. The National Review Board of the American Catholic bishops issued its long-awaited re...
  190. WASHINGTON -- According to newly declassified documents released by the independent N...
  191. It is important to note that the John Jay Report on clerical sex abuse in the United ...
  192. While Canadians worry that Paul Martin may "sign on" to Star Wars, even kno...
  193. BARCELONA -- The city of Barcelona, Spain will play host to the Universal Forum of Cu...
  194. Editor's note: KAIROS, Canada's Ecumenical Justice Coalition led a national delegatio...
  195. OTTAWA -- Many of Canada's internationally-recognized cultural, political and intelle...
  196. A cascade of embarrassing revelations and accusations are demolishing George W. Bush'...
  197. Father Tim Ryan demonstrates in his April 11 article that sterling individuals can, w...
  198. As I write in Holy Week, the folly of the Bush-inspired war on Iraq becomes increasin...
  199. TORONTO -- If the Supreme Court of Canada advises Parliament that the man-woman defin...