Commentary

For a number of years, just before and after the turn of the millennium, I wrote for the Ottawa Citizen in a weekly feature called ...

Saint Anthony as patron for this church stands out among Anglican patron saints.  If there is a simple explanation, there may be a more complicated ...

As the child of Irish immigrants, I grew up with the expression “back home.” We moved frequently as a military family and, without a permanent ...

The progression of the Pandemic over the past many months has had many effects on our daily lives, including our opportunities for worship and prayer. ...

Here we see Saint Patrick’s Church, Stafford, as photographed by the writer on a fine spring day in 1987.  Both inside and out, Saint Patrick’s ...

Later, you will say to yourself, “I will always remember where I was when…” There are some moments in your life that are absolutely pivotal, ...

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called upon the federal government, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, “to establish, as a statutory holiday, ...

On a summer evening just before dusk in 1955, in a part of the City of Ottawa that had not yet quite fully adjusted to ...

I am not a racist. At least, that’s what I thought, until I read the book, Waking Up White by Debby Irving. The author writes as ...