Opinion

I am 56 years old and I throw things. As a 55+ B.C.

My father is preaching on sin and the devil during Lent. For anti-theists and their bigotted allies, this is no surprise, but it will be to the people sitting in the pews.

In the past week, I have found myself amazed by the student body of Kelly Road Secondary. Just hours after the name change proposal was announced, Kelly Road students had created petitions, planned walkouts, and organized protests.

At the risk of offending readers, many who I deeply respect and care for, I wish to suggest that the conversation around naming a new secondary school in the Hart, at least how it's been presented up to now, is overwhelmingly self-centred and harmful

We are living at a time when we are becoming more and more aware that the actions of humans have an effect on fellow humans, their financial well being, as well as the environment which supports our life on this planet.

A few weeks ago, I was invited to discuss forestry on Shaw TV spotlight with John Brink. I was excited to discuss the current state and future of forestry but we ended up talking a lot about automation.

Plants and animals appear to make up most of the living material on Earth. This is not actually the case. We are biased in our view of the living world by size. Larger objects capture our attention while smaller organisms pass unnoticed.

Swiss physician and author Paul Tournier said, “The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

I recently met with Clasina Van Adrichem and her Monday afternoon Catholic Women’s League knitting group from the Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish. I heard news that they were doing a very special knitting project for our very own Mr. PG.

In the name of no one, entropy and total materialism, so be it: I invoke the absence of divinity and of any profundity that is more than a coincidence of time and space to “help me in my unbelief,” as it was put long ago.