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Moving Ahead: Phoenix Project Progress Report

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In February I wrote a summary report on The ICN Phoenix Project to accompany the tax receipts mailed out to our donor-supporters who provide the...

COVID Poem

Poetry

World peace has been achieved at a terrible price As the poor are reduced to noodles, beans and rice People in tents in Beacon Hill...

Heart Work

Poetry

Praise to the bi-valved fleshed-wrapped organ the heart heart ark site of heart work channeling nourishment to flesh’s crannies Love’s courteous courier     humble sage...

Corona Corona

Poetry

What kind of crown bears death? What kind of queen hefts quarantine? Parasitic in a liminal zone you are spikey shell unaware of the damage...

Love Virus

Poetry

love flicks around as it will infecting one killing another crippling a third for life. the other two thirds consider themselves lucky but are they...

The Perspicacious Aster (For Esther Jedynak 1932 – 2021)

Poetry

(Your funeral today, in your beloved temple, No Father John. Tony your mentor died twenty seven years ago now. Night noise Last night. Invited to...

Robert Fisk: Neutral and Unbiased on the Side of Those Who Suffer

Obituaries

Robert Fisk, a dauntless journalist who was widely praised by colleagues and competitors alike for relentlessly chronicling the Middle East’s many agonies, but who was...

Susan McCaslin’s Heart Work

Literary / Arts

This is a great little book of poetry by probably the most prolific and successful Christian literary writer in Canada, Susan McCaslin, much reviewed and...

Musings on the Pope’s Motu Proprio on Women’s Role

Other Features

“Holy Mother Church, ever deepening her contemplation and understanding of the mysteries of human salvation over the long course of history, has always taught in...

Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States

Opinion

It is often observed that U.S. president-elect Joe Biden wears his emotions on his sleeve. His capacity for empathy is on ready display. But it...