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Rumour on the Wind

Poetry

All of this is far away in a book of history. We’re not really there. We’ve read this, seen the film. Our happiness is not...

James A. Teit’s Anthropology of Belonging

Editorials

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...

Latin Mass: Is the Church Ungovernable? — An Analogy

Other Features

The latest dramatic move by Pope Francis — his recent order abrogating the right of Roman Catholic priests to say their church’s traditional Latin Mass...

Muthering Heights

Poetry

The radical calm of those green lawns haunts me in a way unlike any old neighborhood on the planet. The affluence of the Martian landscape...

Mavis Gillie: Indigenous Advocate and Environmentalist

Obituaries

Mavis Marie Gillie was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1927, one of six children of British immigrant parents. Charles Chisholm, her father, had come...

Residential Schools: Conjectures of a Guilty Former Oblate

Main Feature

On Monday August 2, my wife Anne Marie and I attended the “March for the Children” in Chemainus. This march was convoked by the Penelakut...

Maturity of Love

Other Features

The most explicit teaching of Jesus re. maturity of love is when he says, “I know, I know what you’ve been told, ‘Love those who...

Sipe Documentary Prompts Memories of Early Sex Abuse Activist

Other Features

I watched the documentary, “Sipe: Sex, Lies, and the Priesthood,” with a mix of very powerful emotions: profound admiration and gratitude for all that A.W....

The Sinful Church and The Healing Grace of God

Letters to the editor

The Church is not a perfect society. It is a sinful human but divinely inspired institution, that is called upon to seek the fullness of...