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Nine talks exploring faith and questions facing society.
Listen to the talks ↓In this time of ecological crisis, I believe it is important for Christians to be able to explain what they believe about creation. If Christians cannot express their beliefs on this subject, Christianity becomes irrelevant to resolving the ecological crisis. This account must therefore also be taught systematically to the faithful, at least in homilies, which does not seem to me to be happening at present.
A slow and inevitable disappearance, or an opportunity to discern new ways of being and serving the human community?
Few young people are drawn to these commitments or to rules of life inherited from the past. Are traditional religious congregations destined to disappear?
Young people no longer attend churches. Does this mark the end of a certain form of Christianity? What place will they give traditional Christian values?
Since the future belongs to young people, it is important to ask how millennials view God, spirituality, religion, faith, divine revelation, the Bible, prayer, liturgy, sexual morality, cannabis, and other issues.
With François Canuel, Jean-Sébastien Marsolais and Arthur Paquet.
Contact with different religious traditions and philosophical approaches, together with extensive scientific research, challenges us to renew our understanding of life, especially human life at its beginning and near its end, when suffering becomes unbearable.
How should we approach euthanasia, medical assistance in dying, deep sedation, and suicide?
Our CREED: a story that has become routine, or the believer’s living understanding of God, the universe, and human destiny? An invitation to rediscover the rich content of our Creed so that we may live it more fully and speak about it more readily.
From the beginnings of Christianity, believers brought together the fundamental affirmations made by Jesus, the witness to truth. The result was the CREED: a clear and simple proclamation of God’s action in our world, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Is forgiveness possible?
In the face of reported violence and physical, psychological, and sexual assault and abuse, what future is there for intolerance, indifference, revenge, or forgiveness?
What do the Scriptures say?
Human beings have migrated since the dawn of time. Our ancestors were all migrants. How can we explain the present waves of migration? From the Middle East, Africa, Myanmar, Venezuela, and Haiti, thousands of political refugees fleeing wars and ethnic cleansing join economic refugees and others seeking better living conditions.
Can we address the underlying causes of these migrations, or must we be content to ease their consequences?
How should we view refugees if we wish to be faithful to Jesus’ teaching?
Should this view distinguish between political and economic refugees?
Claude Lizotte, a speaker and professor of the history of religions at Université Laval, discusses Old Testament narratives in the light of Revelation, traditional and contemporary understandings, and Pope Francis’ presentation of them. Talk given on April 19, 2018.
Dr. Michel R. Morissette, a physician specializing in palliative care, shares his perspective on the new law on assisted dying and its effects on Quebec society.
Talk by Dr. Michel R. Morissette, February 16, 2018, in Charlesbourg.
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