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SISTER GERARDA DE ROO, OSU

Obituaries

SISTER GERARDA DE ROO OSU -- Very peacefully, on July 30, 2018 at Taché Centre, St. Boniface, Manitoba at the age of 95, Sister Gerarda met...

CONSTANCE MAY KURTENBACH

Obituaries

KURTENBACH, Constance May -- Died at the home she shared with her beloved husband, Francois Brassard, in the very early hours of June 17th, 2018. Connie...

Raymond ‘Dutch’ Hunthausen, Archbishop and Peace Prophet of Seattle, RIP

Main Feature

      Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, a disarming spirit who rejected war and embraced the pastoral reforms of the Second Vatican Council, died...

Abuse Revelations Expose Radical Flaws in Thought Systems

Main Feature

      The recent disclosure of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the extent of depravity reported in the news is symptomatic of...

Contemplative Society: An Evening with Matthew Wright

Other news

      An image has stayed with me from the first retreat I did with Matthew Wright, in 2015. At 6:45 on a frosty...

Thomas Merton: He Wasn’t Electrocuted and He Didn’t Take a Shower

Literary / Arts

Book Review By  Patrick Jamieson, Victoria THE MARTYRDOM OF  THOMAS MERTON An Investigation By Hugh Turley and David Martin McCabe Publishing, Hyattsville, Maryland 310 pages...

Deirdre Kelly’s Transformative Spirit Will not be Lost

Letters to the editor

      I wanted to write to the ICN to thank you for the beautiful tribute to Deirdre in the Spring issue of the...

The Radical Change Needed for the Catholic Church to Survive

Editorials

      One could be forgiven for thinking that the Roman Catholic Church, Peter’s barque, is not only in rough seas, but taking on...

Phoenix Project Report Part I – The Cross Canada Trip, June 7- July 27

Lead story

      Because I had visited the Prairies the previous fall to meet with people about the closure of the Prairie Messenger, my new...

Francis Under Fire: A Different Ireland

Main Feature

Dublin — It started with a procession. I was walking through the Royal Dublin Society venue on the first day of the World Meeting of...