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Euthanasia offers cost savings to governments, insurance companies
By Glen Argan A grim irony exists in U.S. President Donald Trump’s cancellation of federal funding for pro-abortion organizations the same week that a Canadian study was published showing the low cost of euthanasia versus that entailed in the aggressive treatment of terminal diseases. Trump, we have good reason to believe, is a megalomaniac who…
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Isaiah offers instructions for being the light of the world
By Glen Argan Those who compiled the Lectionary showed a stroke of genius – or divine inspiration – when they linked Matthew’s Gospel on the salt of the earth and light of the world with Isaiah’s poem on fasting. In doing so, they made a statement about how humble humans give glory to God. In…
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William Cavanaugh: Help those God throws in your path
By Glen Argan Special to the Prairie Messenger EDMONTON – The parable of the Good Samaritan should be seen as a call not to help everybody, but to help anybody, “anybody that God throws in your path,” says political theologian William Cavanaugh. Key to understanding the parable is the realization that the Samaritan rescues the…
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Tamils in Canada deserve an apology for unjust treatment
By Glen Argan Special to the Prairie Messenger EDMONTON — After six weeks at sea on “a rusty old cargo ship,” Maran Nagarasa and 75 other refugees from Sri Lanka saw Canadian planes circling above them. It was Oct. 16, 2009, “an unforgettable day in our lives.” The men, who had set sail from Thailand…
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Newspapers play a vital role in evangelization
By Glen Argan On Tuesday, Jan. 24, the Church marks the feast of St. Francis de Sales, the patron of journalists and the Catholic press. St. Francis was a bishop of Geneva who died in 1622, facts that would seem to remove him far from the hustle and bustle of modern journalism. In fact, Francis…
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A proposal: Bring the Beatitudes into the centre of the liturgy
Gospel for Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time By Glen Argan One anchor of the Catholic Mass is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, recited on Sundays and solemnities. In it, we profess our core Christian beliefs about the life of Jesus and the nature of God. The development of the Creed at the church…
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Cardinal Dolan’s prayer for Trump applies across the United States
By Glen Argan As I reflected upon Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s paraphrase of Solomon’s prayer for wisdom in Wisdom 9.1-11 at Donald Trump’s inauguration, I realized more and more how important those words are. Within two days of being sworn in, the new president of the United States was declaring war on the media because of…
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Religious women have embraced Jesus’ call to ‘come, follow me’
Sunday, January 2, 2017 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time By Glen Argan Jesus’ call to Simon and Andrew who were fishing in the Sea of Galilee to “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of people,” is one of the Gospels’ most evocative scenes. “Immediately they left their nets and followed him.” So…
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Baptism in the Spirit begins process of our sharing in divine life
Sunday, January 15, 2017 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time By Glen Argan This week, following Monday’s celebration of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, we enter what the Church calls “Ordinary Time.” That makes Sunday’s Gospel somewhat paradoxical for it too is an account of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan. Twice in one…
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Vatican dogma chief rebuffs challenge of four cardinals on ‘Amoris Laetitia’
By Glen Argan Very interesting are Cardinal Gerhard Muller’s comments on the four cardinals who issued the in-your-face “fraternal correction” to Pope Francis on the position of his apostolic exhortation The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia) on the reception of Communion by divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. Muller, the Vatican’s doctrinal chief, had earlier stated…
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