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Walter Joseph Magee – Died Peacefully March 2, 2012

Obituaries

MAGEE, Walter Joseph 62, died peacefully March 2, 2012 at hospice in Victoria, BC after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. Walter is survived by his...

Former Diocesan Administrator Dies

Obituaries

RICARD, Gerald B.A., M.A., PH.D 1914 - 2012. Dad was born in Montreal and educated in Quebec and later in France where his father headed...

Ma Petite Maman

Main Feature

  The call comes from Chateau Westmount. The numbers stare out from the screen on my cell phone,    “There’s been a change in your mother.”    It’s...

Bullying the Nuns

Other news

  The Vatican has issued a harsh statement claiming that American nuns do not follow their bishops’ thinking. That statement is profoundly true. Thank God,...

“Demeter Goes Skydiving” by Susan McCaslin

Literary / Arts

  The great wind of the spirit blows vigorously through this new poetry collection by Susan McCaslin on her old/new theme of the abduction and recovery...

“Dr. Mary’s Monkey”, and Other Pertinent Publications

Editorials

    Starting with Susan McCaslin’s excerpt from her essay ‘The Problem with Perfect’ from her book Arousing the Spirit, this issue threatens to be something...

How & Why Quebec Students are Changing the World

Lead story

  I have tried over many years to act in solidarity with those who suffer poverty and repression. In Peru during the 1980s I found myself...

Communique From Palestine

Main Feature

  As readers learned in the Feb/Mar '12 edition of Island Catholic News, I was a pilgrim to Palestine/Israel with 11 others from April 24th to May...

The Problem with Perfect

Guest editorials

Introduction Introduction I am a poet who was roused, awakened, by what I called God when I was about seven years old. The verb “to...

Anglicanism: When Religion and Spirituality Collide

Other news

  Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the leader of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, recently announced that he would step down by...