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As the Catholic Church Reckons with Residential-school Legacy, Lay Leaders Speak Their Conscience to Reform Church

Last spring, when Anne McKee read about unmarked graves being discovered at a former Catholic-run residential school in British Columbia and watched her church fumble the response, she knew she had a choice. “My husband and I were really on the fence: Do we leave the church or do we work from within until we...

Glasgow, COP26: Fear, Faith and Survival

At the start of COP26, the Pope called for world leaders “to act urgently, courageously and responsibly”. With blunt honesty, Francis shared what is at stake as our sisters and brothers, and every member of God’s Creation around the world, suffer from the ecological crisis and the climate emergency. “The lives of countless people, particularly...

The Climate Apocalypse is Real and It’s Coming

Scientists are warning us that because of global warming, civilization is headed toward the worst catastrophe in human history. Unlike a war, a pandemic or a depression, this is not a disaster we can recover from in a few decades. This is a calamity that will take centuries, if not millennia, to recover from, if...

Church Teaching Supports Global Treaties

Facing many tragedies and disasters today, how might we pray and act with others for urgently needed transformation? Hope can be found in two vital international treaties which are highly consistent with Catholic teaching. The first is the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which entered into force in January this year....

James A. Teit’s Anthropology of Belonging

As a progressive Catholic newspaper, one might assume ICN is in a bit of an awkward situation regarding the residential schools revelations as liberally exposed by the mainstream media in particular the CBC, the country’s national public broadcaster. I suppose that on some level we are expected to defend the institution of the church out...