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View From Chile of the Penitential Pilgrimage

I was virtually present, through live streaming, in all encounters with Pope Francis’s during his Pilgrimage of Penance to Canada. I felt at home again as the country witnessed testimonies of the living pain and hopes of our indigenous sisters and brothers. In those moments I tried to integrate what I’ve been learning from our...

The Pope’s Visit Highlights His Gift for Meaningful Engagement

No previous papal visit has been like it. When John Paul II first alighted on our shores in 1984, his travel across the country was akin to a Roman triumph: massive and adoring crowds, church and state pomp of the highest order, a festive atmosphere sometimes accompanied by a populist frenzy. And it was media...

Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen Evaluates Pope Francis’ Visit

Archbishop Bolen attended all the major events when the pope was present during his six-day visit in Canada and accompanied survivors to them, including to the final one at Iqaluit, on July 29, where Francis met survivors of residential schools and then addressed the young people and elders of the Inuit nation before boarding his...

Leading Light of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – Bruce Kent RIP

Bruce Kent, who has died aged 92, was the most controversial Catholic priest of his generation in Britain. To his detractors, his high-profile involvement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament during its renaissance in the 1980s was unsuitable behaviour for an ordained member of a church that accepted the arguments for nuclear deterrence. For his...

Meet Emilce Cuda: Pope Francis’ Catholic Social Teaching Expert in the Vatican

ROME — When Emilce Cuda’s phone rang in the middle of the night in late June 2021, Cardinal Marc Ouellet was on the other line from the Vatican, failing to account for the time difference between Rome and Buenos Aires. “Will you come work for Pope Francis?” he asked. “We’re moving to Rome,” Cuda texted...

Grant Croswell Anglican Priest and Former Oblate Passes

Dear colleagues in faith, With a heavy heart, I share with you that The Rev. Grant Croswell died last night, June 5, 2022. With this news, our hearts and minds will of course go to the wellbeing of his wife, The Rev. Colleen Lissamer, and their son, Neil, as they navigate this loss. Grant was...

Bishop Remi De Roo – 1924 – 2022

DE ROO, Bishop Remi Bishop Remi De Roo, a strong advocate of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, who, as Bishop of Victoria for 37 years, was a driving figure for change in the Catholic Church and who did not hesitate to criticize governments for policies disadvantaging the poor, died in Victoria, B.C. February...

125 German Catholic Priests, Religious and Lay Employees Publicly Come Out as L.G.B.T.

BERLIN (AP) — More than 120 employees of the Catholic Church in Germany publicly outed themselves as queer on Monday, saying they want to “live openly without fear” in the church and pushing demands for it to allow the blessing of same-sex couples and change its labour rules. A group of 125 people — including...

Cardinal Czerny SJ: A Journey of Prayer, Prophecy and Denunciation

INTRODUCTION The Prefect ad interim of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development departs on his journey to meet with Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons and those who assist them. In this article, published in the Jesuit publication “Aggiornamenti Sociali” he reflects on the mandate given to him by Pope Francis and on his task...

Residents Grateful for Ottawa Mental Housing Outreach Organization

INTRODUCTION This retrospective article is a followup to the Obituary of Dr. Richard Haughian run in ICN a few issues back. Rick founded Ancoura as a mental health housing project with a difference in Ottawa. A close friend since the early 1980s when we were both employed by the Catholic Health Association of Canada. Ancoura...