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Claddagh Ring

Literary / Arts

Today I wear a Claddagh ring, A ring of love, they say. Two hands encircling heart and crown, worn in a special way. It takes...

Victoria’s Pair of Peerless Poets: Mike Doyle and PK Page

Literary / Arts

    I first met Mike Doyle after I moved here in the mid-1980s. He and his wife at the time were leaders in the Catholic...

The Palestinian Perspective on Zionism and the State of Israel

Main Feature

     It is a shame that the Canadian Government hasn’t learned yet from Canada’s colonial past.      For over a century, the Palestine question has...

Christine Jamieson’s New Book

Literary / Arts

   Christian ethicist Christine Jamieson's new book Christian Ethics and the Crisis of Gender Violence is available from Island Catholic News for $25 (250-381-6851).     ...

The Bard of Powell River: Allan Brown’s “Before the Dark”

Literary / Arts

     Powell River resident Allan Brown has published his twenty-fourth volume of poetry, tellingly titled Before The Dark, and issued by Leaf Press of Lantzville...

‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ – A New Phenomenon

Main Feature

     If, at any time, you enter a yoga studio, or a health food store, or an eclectic bookstore or coffee shop and you ask...

At Home in the Universe: The Divine Milieu

Main Feature

     Some years ago, while I was living in Thunder Bay, I used to go out to our cottage on One Island Lake. One winter...

Pope Francis, Incrementalist Takes on the Curia

Letters to the editor

     There aren’t many things Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Pope Francis have in common, but they do both face a demanding 2014 for the...

Save The Deer

Letters to the editor

     The Editor.      Twenty-five deer in the not too distant future are to be culled or killed. These will be healthy animals, some young....

A Radical Pope Would Attack the Abuse Scandal

Editorials

     The Catholic Church probably thought the stormiest waters were behind. With a charismatic, groovy Pope at the helm, the church has been sailing an...