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Major L’Arche Report Leaves Vanier Reputation in Tatters

Main Feature

At least 25 women were abused over nearly seven decades by Jean Vanier, the Canadian co-founder of L’Arche, a global organization for the intellectually disabled,...

L’Arche Worries After Vanier Revelations

Main Feature

INTRODUCTION By Patrick Jamieson One of our board members at ICN is from Ottawa where I have lived for a number of distinct periods: first...

My Sisters and Brothers

Poetry

Sister, brothers all creation has its eye on us, is watching. Each blade, ev’ry tree, the peachbloom on its stem, ev’ry star that twins itself...

Paths to Forgiveness — Easter Confessions: An Evolving Process

Columnists

As a child, growing up in a small parish in rural Ontario, I recall the confessional line-up to make one’s “Easter Duty”. Most Catholics, in...

New Lenses

Letters to the editor

The Editor: Please greet Gerry Archibald and especially Jack Madigan. We need new Cosmic and integrated outlooks, love and new lenses. Frank Vandersteen, Toronto

Murder of Anti-Vietnam War Monk Thomas Merton

Literary / Arts

INTRODUCTION By Patrick Jamieson Thomas Merton’s Betrayers 277 pages McCabe Publishing January 11, 2023 This is a book to read carefully and more than once....

Keeping a Catholic Presence in Support for Palestinian Human Rights

Other news

This month illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the west bank, under the watchful eye of the Israeli military. This was just one case of...

A Quick Note of Appreciation

Letters to the editor

The Editor: Here is a quick note, mid-afternoon, at my dining room table, after lunch, after just browsing through the Autumn 2022 issue of the...

Education on Nuclear Energy

Letters to the editor

The Editor: We represent International physicians for the prevention of Nuclear War Canada. Our attention has been drawn to a high school essay contest supported...

Different Colour of Borsch

Letters to the editor

The Editor: What a difference a century makes! Being a WWII baby boomer, I can remember when peoples, particularly those from Eastern Europe, were called...