Randy Boyagoda

Pope Leo XIV Pay Tribute To The Tomb Of Pope Francis

Technology

The Catholic Case against Artificial Intelligence

July 3, 2025July 4, 2025 - by Randy Boyagoda

Pope Leo XIV takes aim at thinking machines

Illustrations of glasses, matches, a car, fountain pen, amulet, leaves, coins, flowers, fountains and a large house surround a black-and-white photo of a Sri Lankan family snipped by bird-shaped scissors.

Fiction / May 2024

Wo

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 - by Randy Boyagoda

We ate and drank and drove on and I went off the road, and so we discussed the situation and decided it would be a good idea to pull off the road

A photo of Pope Francis sitting in a wheelchair at the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage site in Alberta.

July/August 2023 / Society

When the Pope Came to Canada

July 12, 2023April 24, 2025 - by Randy Boyagoda

One year ago, Pope Francis visited Canada to apologize for residential schools. What difference did the trip actually make?

A family with two parents and five children hold hands around a table. A bowl is in front of each person and the parents’ clasped hands are large in the foreground.

Fiction / July/August 2021

Little Sanctuary

June 25, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

The bus sped past abandoned houses, burned-out cars, skinny cows, masked and bandaged people running to the road at the sight of a vehicle, any vehicle, and others running away

A group of pilgrims pose in front of the Canadian Martyrs Shrine, a large stone building with two turrets topped with crosses.

May 2020

Summer Service

April 22, 2020August 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

Every year, Sri Lankan Catholics from all over make a pilgrimage to Ontario’s cottage country

Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

Super Dads

June 19, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

A short story about what happens when three men visit a theme park where nearly everyone is stoned

July/August 2009 / Politics

Spiritual Citizenship

July 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus

Books / October/November 2008

The World According to Škvorecký

October 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past

December 2007 / World

How to Get a Head

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Randy Boyagoda

The birth of a dough boy

Books / December 2007

One Hundred Years at Forty

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world

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