Stories Collection

  1. SAO PAULO -- Cabinet ministers and police officers arrived in the eastern Amazon regi...
  2. A picture is worth a thousand words, but holds even greater value for dispossessed ki...
  3. Congratulations for printing the various views of learned scholars on the question of...
  4. CHICAGO -- A Wisconsin university last month prevented Republican students from raisi...
  5. The Ethical Teacher, by Elizabeth Campbell. Maidenhead-Philadelphia: Open University ...
  6. During Mass on Jan. 30 Father Jim read a message from an unknown group exhorting ever...
  7. There's never a good time to die, to bid final good-byes, to lose health, to have a h...
  8. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels una...
  9. Perhaps I've missed something, but it seems to me that in the numerous letters and co...
  10. Leaving behind, the young person's high-pressured world of career ambitions, dating a...
  11. We are all people of conscience. Life throws us many difficult decisions. Some aren't...
  12. Conversations on same-sex legislation are taking place all across the country. My hun...
  13. On Jan. 25, Maryknoll nun, Sr. Lil Mattingly, was sentenced to six months in prison f...
  14. Once the home of Canada's first prime minister and now the nerve centre of the only r...
  15. Lent came early this year and for good reason. In the last few months we have seen, h...
  16. In 1977, the Catholic Theological Society of America, convinced that a new sexual eth...
  17. Keep your eye on the sun in this season. It will give you the primary cue as to what ...
  18. ROME -- Sister Kateri Mitchell, SSA, a Mohawk from Akwesasne, Ont., in traditional Ha...
  19. PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Invoking the memory of the hundreds of women who have been mu...
  20. My ministry with youth has recently taken me to the Drouillard Road community in Wind...
  21. OTTAWA (CCN) -- While visiting the Holy Land, the President and the General Secretary...
  22. Four years ago, a leaflet advertising an excursion to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) be...
  23. * Seize the moral initiative * Find a creative alternative to violence * Assert y...
  24. JONQUIERE, Que -- Wal-Mart Canada Corp. says it is set to close its first unionized s...
  25. OTTAWA, CCN -- The movie Therese, produced by devout Catholics, slipped into Vancouve...
  26. A National Post article on Jan. 5 entitled, "Bishops appeal to parishioners in c...
  27. LONDON -- The world's richest "countries formally agreed to write off 100 per ce...
  28. Kinsey starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Chris O'Donnell, 118 minute. The Film...
  29. The rural solidarity program was over. All participants except for myself had gone ba...
  30. By Design or by Chance? The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Univers...
  31. In recent weeks, some members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy have switched their pub...
  32. In a recent article in the Montreal Gazette, I read about the Ontario bishops' reques...
  33. The cold, flat white of a Canadian winter starkly contrasts to the heated greens of C...
  34. OTTAWA -- Seven North American women are planning to be ordained to the Roman Catholi...
  35. In our Jan. 30 issue, a mangled sentence appeared in the article summarizing the idea...
  36. TORONTO -- Writing on the website straightgoods.com, well-known author Linda McQuaig ...
  37. PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- Jesuit News Service, reporting live from Brazil on Jan. 26, s...
  38. Thank you for the excellent commentary by Barry Blackburn in the Jan. 30 edition of C...
  39. Armed with only their conscience and their conviction, Fr. Bob Holmes and other peace...
  40. CHARLOTTETOWN -- On Jan. 19, the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly said it wo...
  41. I am baffled, just plain baffled. War is ravaging Iraq. The justifications for the wa...
  42. I was greatly disappointed by Gregory Baum's conclusion in his article, "Should ...
  43. We write this editorial as the governing Liberal party tables same sex legislation wh...
  44. JAKARTA -- The U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine...
  45. The theistic God, because of great advances in human knowledge, has been rendered unb...
  46. What are we heterosexuals so afraid of? Gays and lesbians are our brothers and sist...
  47. I have heard this expression more times than I care to count. It seems welcoming, but...
  48. In the wake of the tsunami disaster, people around the world have responded with conc...
  49. The other day I attended a marriage ceremony in which two women promised to "lov...
  50. We are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. --T.S. Eliot I was never abl...
  51. Prime Minister Paul Martin has offered the role of Canadian ambassador to the United ...
  52. A proper translation of Jesus' teaching would then be, "Do not retaliate against...
  53. To the children, to all the children, to the children who swim beneath the waves of t...
  54. One reads in the papers that the Pentagon expects the war in Iraq to continue till 20...
  55. TORONTO -- More than 60 people, ranging in age between three weeks and 70, came toget...
  56. Not everyone who speaks from the Christian perspective is opposed to same-sex marriag...
  57. The Pontiff in Winter by John Cornwell, New York, Doubleday John Cornwell is a fell...
  58. Dear Prime Minister Martin, We are law students completing our final year at the Un...
  59. TORONTO -- The annual general meeting of Catholic New Times (Dec. 2), heard reports o...
  60. I really enjoy CNT and learn so much from your articles, editorials and news. Becau...
  61. Respected religious affairs commentator, Bill Moyers, just retired from public broadc...
  62. Patricia Anzovino will never forget the wrinkled, weather-beaten face of Hamde Abrehe...
  63. When I was growing up, the word "backslider" was often used to describe the...
  64. The Catholic Church will mark an historic event this year when lay people, theologian...
  65. This new painting by Vermont artist Janet McKenzie, whose portrait Jesus 2000" w...
  66. 1 Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the docto...
  67. One year on, do we have a prime-minister yet? When I decided to write a book on Pau...
  68. In a recent article in The Nation, Katrina Van den Heuvel has questioned the sanity o...
  69. In an essay published in the progressive American magazine, The Nation, Frances Kissl...
  70. Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany by Robert Krieg. New York: Continuum, 2003 Thi...
  71. It is still not clear to us what the exact driving force is behind the attempt to re-...
  72. Pledges continue to roll in for Asian relief. With the omni present tsunami of TV cov...
  73. I understand the difficulty in which recent decisions of various Courts of Appeal and...
  74. Life Choices: Toward a Catholic Theology of Reproductive Options. Anthony T. Padovano...
  75. There was a small item entitled, "Bishops appeal to parishioners in campaign aga...
  76. "The Arbitration Act should continue to allow disputes to be arbitrated using re...
  77. For the inauguration of George W Bush on in Washington January 20: some bargains: &...
  78. Change in Canada is happening. Slavery as a universal institution is gone. The chur...
  79. Many people are wondering how God could have allowed the Indian Ocean tsunami to occu...
  80. Some years ago I was visiting a progressive newspaper in Tel-Aviv and said something ...
  81. I would like to tell you about the church beneath the church. The ones who told me ...
  82. One could put all one's expectations and wishes in Mahmoud Abbas after his recent ele...
  83. At the time of World War II, President Roosevelt chose to have a inaugural and lunche...
  84. VATICAN CITY -- The Italian cardinal sent by Pope John Paul II last year to try to di...
  85. TOKYO -- In a report on Inter-Pares news service, "unfocussed kindness can kill....
  86. Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George (The Boxer, In the Name of the Father), with D...
  87. CHICAGO -- Judge Anne M. Burke was the interim chair of the 13-member board of lay Ca...
  88. The following is excerpted from recent e-mail correspondence between CNT member Steph...
  89. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of th...
  90. In the rarified world of economics and industrial engineering, there was never anyone...
  91. TORONTO -- A nation-wide collection organized by the Canadian Conference of Catholic ...
  92. Forty years ago this January, the late Pierre Berton published a highly controversial...
  93. I propose this image for our new and urgent discussions about religion. In America, a...
  94. It is fitting that the excerpt from Jim Conlon's engaging book, At the Edge of our Lo...
  95. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- On Nov. 29, 2004, Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Sain...
  96. Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul H by Jason Berry and G...
  97. Marriage legislation should reflect legal equality for all the religious freedoms of ...
  98. I want to step in and say well done to the naming of Tommy Douglas as the CBC's "...
  99. We are part of one web of life. Formerly, I assumed that we humans were centre stag...
  100. Editor's note: An exciting new strand in theology is called "post-colonial."...
  101. SYDNEY -- Hundreds of Australian children may have to be re-baptized after senior chu...
  102. Catholic homosexual people committed to the Gospel ask themselves whether they should...
  103. Iconic lyricist John Lennon once mused: "... Imagine no hell below us. Above us ...
  104. After reading the article about John Dear in CNT (Dec. 5, 2004), I emailed him to let...
  105. Naomi Klein, the young, smart Canadian journalist-activist has demonstrated with this...
  106. The rhetoric of globalization tangled in acronyms and "isms" flows freely i...
  107. In his, "Solidarity across Borders" article (CNT, Nov. 21, 2004), Gregory B...
  108. Ray starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington. Directed by Taylor Hackford, 152 minutes. ...
  109. In a shocking move, the British House of Lords recently revoked American independence...
  110. Once again we are into the season, somewhere behind the noise and lights, when we are...
  111. I was given the gift of this story to share and I offer it in turn to CNT readers as ...
  112. MONTREAL -- part of Montreal's diaspora Haitian community demonstrated against the Ma...
  113. From the confines of her minimum security prison in Danbury, CT, Sister Ardeth Platte...
  114. In these last few columns, I have been wrestling with imagination and metaphor in ord...
  115. Four "Good Shepherd" Awards have been issued to some Catholic bishops by th...
  116. As Canadians, we have watched in horror at the dreadful loss of life wrought by the t...
  117. Editor's note: In the midst of apocalyptic and sad stories of our times--a new Gene...
  118. WorldNet magazine has reported that the U.S. Army has evacuated an estimated 50,000 K...
  119. 1. The members of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) welcome the stro...
  120. Sr. Christine Schenk and Fr. Andrew Connolly delivered over 11,000 postcards and lett...
  121. CIDA (The Canadian International Development Agency) is wasting most of Canada's fore...
  122. WASHINGTON -- A protest in front of the Washington D.C. hotel where the American bish...
  123. So ... U.S. President George W. Bush came to Halifax. They told us he was coming to...
  124. I have been doing a lot of e-mailing to government and bishops in the U.S. and Canada...
  125. LONDON -- A new report prepared for the British Church of England, to be debated at t...
  126. Diane Baltaz of Hamilton recommends Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economics ...
  127. I propose the following as an Advent meditation on repentance and hope. On Nov. 29,...
  128. George W. Bush rightly spoke of the axis of evil. But it is not Iran, Iraq or North K...
  129. Do not cross: police line. This fiercely chilly Friday, Cathy Crowe looks back at t...
  130. The televangelist Pat Robertson tells a story about a conversation with U.S. Presiden...
  131. Sacred Presence: In Search of the New Story by Robert C. Wild, Victoria, B.C., 2004, ...
  132. ROME -- Pope John Paul II was cited as stressing the need for biodiversity, suggestin...
  133. Our surfeited culture is groaning these days under the weight of its consumerist, sen...
  134. It was good exercise to reflect on this question, of how my thinking has changed. It ...
  135. On July 15, 2004, Fr. Stephen Somerville was suspended from the priesthood by Cardina...
  136. Something is happening in this country that is unprecedented, not only in our nation'...
  137. In late 1999 or maybe 2000, I was in my third year as General Secretary of the Canadi...
  138. OTTAWA (CCN) -- When asked what he would like to say to U.S. President George W. Bush...
  139. The comedian Dana Carvey first gained fame on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s ...
  140. Princess Kasune Zulu is the new face of HIV/AIDS--one of the skyrocketing number of y...
  141. Writing in several papers, the former head of the Royal Commission on the Future of H...
  142. More than one million children now live in poverty in Canada, according to Campaign 2...
  143. WASHINGTON--According to OneWorld.net, a major U.S. human rights group has called on ...
  144. CNT took an active part in the peace demo in Ottawa on Nov. 30. Proofreaders Michael ...
  145. Social Justice issues Can be a hard sell in parishes. Committees come and go. In wint...
  146. American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing (Regan Books, Harpe...
  147. Right now, unhappily, the Gospel brings joy to few people. For the immense majority o...
  148. Good news for post-Christendom Amid today's ever-darkening temptations to give up in ...
  149. BILL MOYERS: Do you see the religious right as extremists? JOAN CHITTISTER: I do, i...
  150. Life Abundant, Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril, by Sallie McFag...
  151. Why does religion continue to be such a powerful political force at the beginning of ...
  152. WASHINGTON -- Despite an enormous amount of Republican money courting the Jewish vote...
  153. I was part of Pax Christi/NAACP election monitoring in four problematic counties in F...
  154. Being Julia, directed by Istvan Szabo, starring Annette Benning and Jeremy Irons. All...
  155. Re: "I am running for pope," (CNT Sept. 26). I would change only one item...
  156. The quiet conversation ceased abruptly as the old man broke into the circle around th...
  157. Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty, by Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keo...
  158. Re: "Men still abusive" (CNT, Nov.7). Peggy Flanagan's religious order cert...
  159. Once again Israel has committed "punitive overkill" by the recent re-arrest...
  160. During a recent visit to southern Ontario, Sallie McFague, theologian in residence at...
  161. Many thanks for Ted Schmidt's clear presentation of Rev. Naim Ateek's views (CNT, Nov...
  162. FALLUJAH, Iraq -- According to Agence France, God and Jesus have joined the U.S. forc...
  163. With the full weight of my body behind ir, my left elbow smashes onto the road as I a...
  164. The Christian Peacemakers' Hebron team met me in Jerusalem on Saturday, Oct. 16, and ...
  165. MONTREAL -- The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (SNJM), an international ...
  166. John Dear does not quit easily. After being arrested more than 75 times, his Jesuit...
  167. BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Prominent Saudi religious scholars urged Iraqis to support militan...
  168. Because of a deep and growing concern about an emerging "theology of war" i...
  169. An estimated 53 per cent of Canadians oppose joining the American missile defence shi...
  170. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert analyzing the U.S. election said that "a ca...
  171. The setting: A young girl--her parents divorced--leaves a small town in Ontario to ma...
  172. We are happy to print Jim Wallis's warning about war theology creeping into American ...
  173. I think religion was used in the last election by the Republicans, especially, becaus...
  174. Non-violence is a life force, Gandhi said, that when harnessed becomes contagious and...
  175. BY JEAN SMITH CAVALLUZZO Vera Drake, written and directed by Mike Leigh. Odeon Film...
  176. A quiet revolution is taking place in the way Canadians consume their food. Not only ...
  177. The world is now facing multiple problems--any one of which can destroy the earth and...
  178. In addition to the death and destruction caused by the recent hurricane and floods, t...
  179. On Oct. 19, four Canadians willingly entered a television studio and found themselves...
  180. The Life You Save May Be Your Own; Ah American Pilgrimage, by Paul Elie, New York, Fa...
  181. Greetings and Gratitude! Courage and Persistence! I can't stop thinking of Dr. Mart...
  182. The Presbyterian Church, USA stepped up security at its headquarters and its churches...
  183. GENEVA -- Twenty per cent or more of the workforce in the United States, Australia, N...
  184. Parroting familiar refrains about a legacy of terrorism, corruption and missed opport...
  185. OTTAWA (CCN) -- One of Canada's top social scientists and the Ottawa-based Centre for...
  186. It was 6:30 a.m. on a bitterly cold winter morning when volunteers for the Saturday b...
  187. In ministry, a knock on the door is always an adventure. You never know who is comi...
  188. In the October 10th issue of CNT, Barbara Ehrenreich describes how the photographs of...
  189. "My name is Ken, and I will be your waiter for a long, long time." These wo...
  190. When I was growing up in northern Alberta. a priest came to preach it mission at our ...
  191. Rushing to Armageddon: The Shocking Truth about Canada, Missile Defence, and Star War...
  192. Rapper Eminem ditched misogyny, and punk rockers Green Day abandoned apathy to join t...
  193. CHICAGO -- In a recent column, Catholic commentator Rev. Andrew Greeley questioned wh...
  194. The Church that Forgot Christ by Jimmy Breslin, New York, Free Press, 2004,239 pp Y...
  195. Prayer and sacrifice must be used as the most effective spiritual weapons in the war ...
  196. WASHINGTON -- Of the major religious groups in the United States, evangelical Christi...
  197. OTTAWA -- Canadian Civil Society Organizations recently sent an open letter to Prime ...
  198. Everyone has a story, a tale of an event that, for some reason, was a defining moment...
  199. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto ha...