Stories Collection

  1. OTTAWA -- As the Supreme Court of Canada held hearings on the legalization of same-se...
  2. The controversial North American missile defense shield will deny other nations the u...
  3. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear--1 John 4:18 With the pun...
  4. I am a Catholic theologian with a special interest and a strong commitment to social ...
  5. LONDON -- The death toll of Iraqis has risen dramatically since the Iraq war--many of...
  6. Reporting in the Globe and Mail, distinguished veteran reporter Geoffrey York stated ...
  7. OTTAWA (CCN) -- Despite a recent Environics Focus Canada poll showing that 57 per cen...
  8. After a year in office, Ontario's Liberal Government received only a C- in a report c...
  9. If Martians were tuned into media coverage of the U.S. election and listened casually...
  10. LONDON -- In an unprecedented move, The Royal Society, Britain's National Academy of ...
  11. CORNWALL, ENGLAND (CCCN) -- Many believe the debate over inclusive language in the ch...
  12. RESTLESS CHURCHES: How Canada's Churches Can Contribute to the Emerging Religious Ren...
  13. As we watched the results of the tightly contested U.S. election come in, we were ass...
  14. These are some of the recent reflections of eminent cosmologian Sr. Rosalie Bertell o...
  15. Some days grace comes calling more abundantly than others. Oct. 19 was one of those d...
  16. The "religious question" has been slowly simmering on the back burner of th...
  17. A Haitian writer has said of his homeland, "Haiti is the only country in the wor...
  18. Naim Ateek had just turned eleven when his town of Beisan (Beth Shean) twenty miles s...
  19. Regarding the article "Racism alive in Canada "(CNT, Oct. 10, 2004), in exp...
  20. 'Blue gold' is becoming hard to come by. The UN estimates the world's population tr...
  21. If one was to enter my high school classroom, one would see the object which I hope b...
  22. Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature, by Anne M...
  23. About Charlie Angus' s piece 'He cast down the might from their thrones' let me first...
  24. Hundreds of Professional Hockey players in our very own nation are locked out, living...
  25. In the late 1960s, Che Guevera was hot among the wild and crazy young Canadians who w...
  26. I'd like to vote for Ed Griffin as pope. Will you pass on my support? It is a wonde...
  27. CATEGORY: Retreats/sabbatical/Spiritual direction PLACE: Queenswood, 2494 Arbutus...
  28. A wandering Irish storyteller and folklorist passed some time in Alberta recently, vi...
  29. Recently, when a mentally deranged man ran after his wife and shot her in front of pe...
  30. VANCOUVER -- The magazine of "mental environment" Adbusters has designated ...
  31. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An independent study by an ethics professor at Fuller Theological...
  32. I have written that imagination and metaphor play an essential role in religious lang...
  33. Fr. James Martin S.J. (CNT Sept. 26, 2004) asks "Would you believe that a priest...
  34. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is misleading when he says Catholics cannot vote for Sen...
  35. JERUSALEM -- According to Ha'Aretz, one of Israel's leading newspapers influential Am...
  36. There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We...
  37. VATICAN -- The bishop who investigated a pornography and gay sex scandal at a seminar...
  38. "Boundary-breakers," not "boundary-makers" is what Jim Callan, pr...
  39. Serafim Moura is from Bello Horizonte in Brazil. During his formation in France, he...
  40. Amnesty International Canada, in its biggest event of the year, is organizing a count...
  41. I was quite taken with the CNT's question, "How has your thinking changed,"...
  42. In early October the whole country stopped and took a deep, and saddened, breath. Off...
  43. Amnesty International says that 80 countries worldwide have abolished capital punishm...
  44. In the months leading up to the war with Iraq and for the year after the war began, I...
  45. On Oct. 17, Nova Scotians, in a big turnout at the polls despite a windy and rainy da...
  46. The Kerry/Bush debates I think it was miserable stuff. Both Kerry and Bush have com...
  47. In the economics of countries like the Ukraine, the social statistics, indeed, most a...
  48. I have just read Ed Griffin's popelitical speech and all I can say is ... lead me to ...
  49. TORONTO -- About 100 parishioners of St. Martin of Tours parish bussed in from Missis...
  50. It has been said that Vatican I (1869-70) concerned itself with the papacy, establish...
  51. As a child, my thinking was shaped by the devotional spirituality of the 1940s, the C...
  52. Some politicians cannot resist inserting their belief system into the exercise of pol...
  53. NEW YORK -- Teachers at five Catholic schools in Brooklyn, N.Y. have accused their em...
  54. During World War II, famed literary scholar and "mere Christian" C.S. Lewis...
  55. Isn't That a Time: a tribute to Harold Leventhal and Pete Seeger, directed by Jim Bro...
  56. OTTAWA (CCN) -- Canadian church leaders and Immigration Minister Judy Sgro are to beg...
  57. Among the comments which priests added to their responses were these: "I know ...
  58. An elder was once asked, What is a compassionate heart? He replied: It is a heart on ...
  59. October 2004 On September 21 we arrived in Gonaives from Port-au-Prince. I can not ...
  60. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews; Knopf Canada, 2004, 246 pages. In A Complic...
  61. I congratulate you for your courage in printing the article: "Parish shows struc...
  62. Will someone give us our priorities back? Who do you think needs taxpayer dollars mos...
  63. IDENTITY, PLACE, KNOWLEDGE: Social Movements Contesting Globalization, by Janet M Con...
  64. Through the plane window I could see fields of sugar cane, pineapple, mountains and g...
  65. I have heard this refrain from more and more Christian Americans in the last several ...
  66. "It only lives when you give it away"--Bruce Cockburn "Not everyone ...
  67. Is this the way it would be? At midnight your friend calls in from outside "A ...
  68. It is obvious to many people that we are moving through a sea change in the relations...
  69. Fitted in a dress shirt and suspenders--his front pocket brimming with scribbled cues...
  70. I get a lot of hate mail from conservative Catholics who are furious at my criticism ...
  71. AL-TUWANI, ISRAEL -- On Sept. 29, two members of CPT--Chris Brown, from San Francisco...
  72. If you're like me, you have internal dialogues with yourself : "Gee, I really sh...
  73. Innocent blood continues to flow unabated in Israel. The latest shocking incursions o...
  74. It is very tough to be a Republican in 2004, because somehow, you have to believe con...
  75. BEIJING -- According to a posting on the BBC news site, China is not the biggest oil ...
  76. Hans Kung has written eloquently on the nature of the church, and the need to recogni...
  77. In the Sept. 26 issue of the Catholic New Times, two articles drew our attention: 'I'...
  78. Growing up in Calgary in the 1960s, I knew what everyone knew- Edmonton was more cosm...
  79. I vote for Ed Griffin for pope (CNT Sept. 26, 2004). Get the ballots ready. There are...
  80. A one-way Canada-Egypt flight was cancelled the afternoon of Sept. 8 when its sole ci...
  81. A few weeks ago something came along that wiped the smile right off my face; photogra...
  82. Only when I touched these wells of resentment, did I discover how deeply personal my ...
  83. We Canadians pride ourselves on our acceptance of African American slaves into our co...
  84. Former principal secretary for ex-Premier Bill Davis and Chief Executive of Rogers Ca...
  85. People understand today the basic argument of Christians, that by being followers of ...
  86. Five years ago, Fran Fearnley, a freelance writer and editor living on a farm in Bail...
  87. I read the centre spread of CNTs Sept. 12 edition with great interest. I felt that To...
  88. MONTREAL -- An interspiritual, feminist and womanist conference, "Creating Justi...
  89. While some Americans may have images of Michael Moore riding the Democratic donkey ri...
  90. The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White San Francis...
  91. I write about the letter "Saddened by letter", by Fr. Jeff Doucette (Sept. ...
  92. OTTAWA (CCN) -- According to Canada's foreign affairs department, the legacy of the 1...
  93. Born out of compassion for the victim-survivors of clergy sexual abuse., Voice of the...
  94. The phrase is "mind candy." Generally it refers to a work of fiction whic...
  95. It is shameful that Canwest Global in the Ottawa Citizen, National Post, and all its ...
  96. A prominent Middle Eastern scholar said Canada is complicit in war crimes committed d...
  97. A Canadian voluntary movement which has spread to 10 other countries, marked its 35th...
  98. The Power of Generosity: How to Transform Yourself and Your World by Dave Toycen, Tor...
  99. Dr. Rosana Pellizzari (CNT, Sept.12,) does not tell the whole story when she says tha...
  100. CAIRO, Egypt -- At the toot of the Moqattam hills, outside Cairo, garbage trucks and ...
  101. LONDON -- The Guardian newspaper reported recently on the growing concern of several ...
  102. This column marks the end of my twelve-year stint as a CNT columnist. Having been rec...
  103. Powerlessness and silence go together. We should use our privileged positions not as ...
  104. LONDON -- The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC thatthe U....
  105. WASHINGTON -- According to David Batstone of Sojomail, evangelist Jimmy Swaggart on S...
  106. Recent events have reminded me once again of how desperately the planet needs us to r...
  107. By any criterion, whether number and quality of publications or creativity or influen...
  108. NEW YORK -- Yoko Ono has awarded two peace grants to journalist Seymour Hersh and Isr...
  109. MISSISSAUGA, ONT. -- In response to the school massacre in Beslan, Russia a student d...
  110. Fr. Dan Donovan's appreciation of the centenary of Karl Rahner's birth (page 3) will,...
  111. Pick up a Canadian daily paper these days and you'll find slim pickings in the sports...
  112. NEW YORK -- The latest Newsweek poll, released in mid-September, revealed that 42 per...
  113. Part II When I moved to Quebec and found myself surrounded by nationalists in the c...
  114. Rosemary Ganley's critique of Rome and women (CNT, Sept 12) was an incisive and clear...
  115. "The plain fact is that a man and his wife, with four children who are unable to...
  116. SAO PAOLO -- Declaring they have lost confidence in the military police, hundreds of ...
  117. There are many reasons why Jesus wouldn't be a sports fan today, at least of professi...
  118. The American election is becoming the most religiously-charged in recent memory. Wi...
  119. CAIRO -- An Islamic online site took a decidedly different stance to the horrific hos...
  120. "Be still and know that I am God. "Psalm 46: 10 Confusion led me to the p...
  121. Let John Paul retire. My name is Ed Griffin, and I'm running for pope. The Roman Curi...
  122. BUENOS AIRES -- According to London's Guardian Newspaper, Henry Kissinger gave Argent...
  123. My balcony in Halifax overlooks a parking lot surrounded by trees. As Hurricane Juan ...
  124. Whether it's Full City Mexican, Dark Roast Sumatran or Chatty Matty, 'fair trade'-cer...
  125. International peace researchers report that worldwide conflict is on the decline, as ...
  126. Emmanuel Walakira confessed he was nervous about his task. He wondered how he would b...
  127. The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D & P) wants more C...
  128. Excerpt from an interview with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian David Barsamian: Eve...
  129. Would you believe that a priest actually preached about the dangers .of contraception...
  130. John Quinn, our indefatigable marketing manager, has been beating the bushes in schoo...
  131. WATERLOO -- In the wake of political squabbling over a national pharmacare program ad...
  132. When I moved to Quebec and found myself surrounded by nationalists in the church, I f...
  133. This oil painting by an unknown artist dates to about 1500, and hangs in the museum o...
  134. "Summer gleanings." (CNT Sept 12) was great. If only the bishops of the w...
  135. OTTAWA (CCN) -- The Church Council on Justice and Corrections (CCJC) is calling on Im...
  136. What do parishioners do when their pastor tells them repeatedly that he doesn't have ...
  137. Greed by Phyllis A Tickle. Oxford University Press, 2004, 97 pp. Deceiving in its m...
  138. I just read Paul Wood's letter (Sept 12th) and I was saddened and bewildered at its u...
  139. OTTAWA (CCN) -- Pope John Paul II made the Catholic Church's opposition to same-sex m...
  140. The Jesuit philosopher, Michel de Certeau, once wrote that "In the past, argumen...
  141. The Priestly Sins by Andrew M. Greeley, (Forge: New York), 2004. For Catholics stru...
  142. This morning prompted a feeling of nostalgia when I was presented with the bill for a...
  143. BY CNT STAFF In a Fresno, California civil court on Sept. 3, Judge Oliver Wanger is...
  144. HARARE -- The new Roman Catholic archbishop of Harare, Robert Ndlovu, and Zimbabwean ...
  145. The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan, New York, Doubleday, 2002, 80...
  146. For the past five years John Amidon and the Albany chapter of Veterans for Peace have...
  147. MONTREAL (CCN) -- The funeral for reputed Mafia boss Frank Cotroni was held at Notre-...
  148. I was never a big fan of the Sacred Heart. In fact, the Sacred Heart used to make me ...
  149. He is a member of what Tom Brokaw has described as "The Greatest Generation.&quo...
  150. The statement that Israel is "the only democratic state in the Middle East "...
  151. ST. BONIFACE -- Father John English, SO., a much loved animator of the Spiritual Exer...
  152. As CNT moves into its 29th year fresh from our summer hiatus, we are happy to see tha...
  153. COBALT, ONT. -- Longtime CNT columnist Charlie Angus has traded his lumberjack shirt ...
  154. The man at the e-mail service looked at my photos with interest. "So Michael is ...
  155. Here we are, late August, the U.S. Presidential election heating up (of crucial impor...
  156. The powerful film Fahrenheit 9-11 (CNT--July 4, 2004) is highly controversial, and em...
  157. Charlie Angus is well-known across Canada as a passionate spokesman for Northern Onta...
  158. A third, sometimes almost ludicrous, Vatican letter on women, drafted without women's...
  159. Theology for Ministry, by Margaret Lavin, Ottawa: Novalis, 2004. Despite the appare...
  160. Here we go again. The Catholic hierarchy's hit man in Rome, Cardinal Josef Ratzinge...
  161. A replica of the Trojan horse made an Ontario province-wide tour, this summer and fal...
  162. Dear Josef, I am writing this as a man-to-man letter regarding your latest document...
  163. The Face of Friendship, by Bill Clarke SJ, foreword by Jean Vanier and letters from L...
  164. I would like to correct the byline of the article on civil unions in your issue of Ju...
  165. The debate over the ethics involved in emergency contraception continues in the Catho...
  166. MILWAUKEE, WIS. -- The annual conference of Call to Action will this year examine var...
  167. This summer, I decided to start buying Loto 649 tickets, much to the embarrassment an...
  168. We must be saved together. Together we must all return to God s house. What would God...
  169. Let's begin with this fact: 77 per cent of Venezuela's farmland is owned by three per...
  170. A brochure prepared by "Call to Action" which summarizes the Report of the ...
  171. In my last column I focused on the vital role of human imagination as an essential el...
  172. My first question is, why don't Catholic Yuppie Newtimers get out of the church? It...
  173. On a TV show in Caracas in mid-August, supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
  174. Two French non-governmental organizations, "Droits et Libertes dans les Eglises&...
  175. Canada has lost a great spiritual leader. Ted Scott's role in the struggle against ap...
  176. The bright red letters stand out starkly against the ugly grey cement. The wall that ...
  177. WASHINGTON -- Nearly three-quarters of Catholics oppose the idea of church leaders de...
  178. One of the blessings of CNT has been our continuing marginality as we struggle to sur...
  179. Tom Harpur's recent book, The Pagan Christ (Recovering The Lost Light), reminds me of...
  180. SAN FRANCISCO -- A U.S. court will begin hearings next week in a lawsuit against a ma...
  181. Many of us feel that our faith has been stolen, and it's time to take it back. An e...
  182. Scott M. Lewis, S.J. got one thing right in his review of my book The Pagan Christ. I...
  183. Sixty-five hundred participants from 75 countries participated in the Fourth Parliame...
  184. They know they're being underpaid, but there is nothing they can do. If they don't do...
  185. Written from time to time into the margin of a lecturer's notes were the words, "...
  186. Three people with a long-standing ministry to parents in the Catholic church with gay...
  187. As a Christian pacifist, I don't believe in killing people. From the womb to the tomb...
  188. "I come from the opposite end of Catholicism than Mel Gibson."--Michael Moo...
  189. Professor Manning Marable, Director of African American Studies at Columbia Universit...
  190. When Karol Wojtyla assumed the papacy 25 years ago, my hopes were high. A pope who co...
  191. AURORA, Ont. -- Students and teachers in an Ontario Catholic school board scored a si...
  192. A vigorous, 80-year-old Remi de Roo, now Bishop Emeritus of Victoria B.C. five years ...
  193. He took her by the hand and said to her, Talitha Cum, which means, 'Little girl, get ...
  194. OTTAWA--In an intimate dinner on June 17, one that included 40 of his "peacenik ...
  195. BOSTON -- Over 45,000 pages of archdiocesan documents have been released in Boston, s...
  196. Musing on CNT's June 6, 2003, issue gave this Anglican friend much cause for reflecti...
  197. Only the ideologically twisted would deny Ronald Reagan his due. He was a wildly succ...
  198. OTTAWA (CCN and CNT)--If leaders claim any right to be called "Catholic," t...
  199. By the time this edition of the paper arrives, the results of the Canadian election w...