PEACE IS WTHIN OUR GRASP
By Father John Walsh

People deride peace as if it were unattainable. Courage is required. Courageous are the peacemakers we shall be called daughters and sons of God. It is within the perspective of sisterhood and brotherhood that peace is within our grasp. The very desire for peace is the way to show the world we will never abandon humanity. Everyone is included, no one excluded. Every effort made for peace allows us to walk onto the world stage and seek a united voice for peace from …

On New Year’s Day Offer your resolutions and hope for peace on earth By participating in the online vigil:

On the occasion of World Day of Peace, January 1st, 2014, receive appeals for peace by e-mail, every couple of hours, for 24 hours, from various recognized organizations as well as information on the world’s great humanitarian causes. Meet peacemakers from here and elsewhere, send your own resolutions and messages of peace and interact with other participants.
Let us begin the New Year in peace and hope!
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PORTRAIT OF A LEADER
By Imam Dr. Ziyad Delic

Please allow me to share with you a story that will bring every ethical and honest leader face-to-face with himself or herself.
Several years ago when I was in a graduate program, I had the opportunity to discuss the notion of leadership with some very unique individuals who in their respective professions were exceptional leaders. One of them made a presentation in our class a piece on Leadership, entitled: “Portrait of a Leader.”
I loved it! It was exactly what I had been looking for …

WHERE IS VIRTUE ETHICS IN THE QUEBEC CHARTER OF VALUES?
By Father John Walsh

We are hard-wired to be happy. What we want most is a good life. What does make people happy? In the World Happiness Report of 2013 Jeffrey Sachs offers a very thoughtful chapter entitled, Restoring Virtue Ethics In The Quest For Happiness. He presents differing views on how happiness is achieved. He writes that virtue ethics, the ethical dimension leading to happiness is the most often overlooked in any discussion about well-being. Where is virtue ethics in the …

THANK YOU PAULINE MAROIS FOR EXCLUDING ME FROM THE PARTI QUEBECOIS
By Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz

 
The Parti Quebecois took an important step at its convention Saturday when it decided that candidates for the PQ can no longer wear visible religious symbols. This new policy helped clarify an issue that has arisen in the PQ’s past roughly……zero times. But the PQ felt it was important to institute this rule as a gesture, to explain how serious they are about their “Charter Affirming The Values Of Secularism And The Religious Neutrality Of The State, …