by Charles Lewis | Jul 27, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
This week in the National Post, esteemed Ottawa columnist John Ivison wrote about the desire of many Conservative Party members to elect a new leader with strong prolife credentials. Mr. Ivison wrote: “Pro-lifers may feel they were sold a bill of goods by Harper, who...
by CCRL | Jul 27, 2016 | News
TORONTO, ON July 27, 2016 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) welcomes yesterday’s ruling by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Trinity Western University (TWU) v. the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS). The court upheld the lower court’s January 2015 ruling...
by Charles Lewis | Jul 20, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
The bond between Catholics and suffering can seem awfully strange to an outsider — even to an insider. Many saints, even those among the gentlest and holiest, sought suffering as a way to get closer to Christ on the cross. Despite all the sentimental associations as a...
by Charles Lewis | Jul 15, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
Can prayer take the place of morphine? Is prayer powerful enough to subdue chronic pain? Should one even try to go that route? Should I? This is territory I have been thinking about for the past few months. It came up after telling a friend how tired I was of being...
by CCRL | Jul 11, 2016 | Newsletters
by Charles Lewis | Jul 7, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
Everyone should read Elie Wiesel’s obituary in the New York Times. Wiesel was at Auschwitz and Buchenwald when he was a teenager. It obviously was the seminal experience of his life. Such books as Night lay testament to the nightmare he endured. If Wiesel had spent...
by Charles Lewis | Jul 4, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
So once again a Christian group has been discriminated against all in the name of preventing discrimination. Last week the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a decision by The Law Society of Upper Canada to ban graduates from Trinity Western University’s law school...
by Charles Lewis | Jun 30, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
As Catholics we have books galore to help us answer important questions and aide us in our faith journey: The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Bible, prayer books and lives of the saints, are just a few of what is out there. We also have great authors who can...
by Charles Lewis | Jun 24, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
In the wake of the tragic events of Orlando there has been the usual pointing of fingers at religion in general as the root cause of all anti-gay violence and hate. Most of us are not surprised by these general and ignorant attacks. We have been hearing it long enough...
by Charles Lewis | Jun 21, 2016 | Editorials by Charles Lewis
In the latest Catholic Register, I write about a I talk I heard by the esteemed author and professor of Jewish studies, Rabbi David Novak of the University of Toronto. The article, Autonomy’s Open Road, goes through Rabbi Novak’s arguments against the notion of the...
