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Douglas Roche – Hope Not Fear: Building Peace in a Fractured World

Literary / Arts

Doug Rouche needs no introduction to Canadian peace activists. Since serving as a parliamentarian from 1972 until 1984 and chairing the UN Disarmament Commission in...

When Dorothy Day Took a Knee

Main Feature

     Ammon Hennacy, a courageous activist who joined the Catholic Worker in the 1950s, said he was inspired to become a Catholic by the...

Granddaughter: Dorothy Day Would be Marching Today

Literary / Arts

Rendered from diaries, memories, conversations and a cache of family letters, writer Kate Hennessy’s new biography of her grandmother Dorothy Day reveals a complex, often...

‘Refugees’: Show Me the Way to Go Home

Main Feature

     There isn’t much sense talking about “roots” unless you can also point to flowers, fruits, leaves, fronds, seeds.      Thus we point...

Gregory Baum, Amazing Human Being

Other news

     There is a poem by an anonymous inmate at Auschwitz, found on a wall there – only part of it was recoverable –...

Will Pope Francis Remove the Vatican’s ‘Warning’ from Teilhard?

Main Feature

     Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the widely influential Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher whose writings were cited with a “warning” by the Vatican in 1962,...

The Pope’s Shrink and Catholicism’s Uneasy Relationship with Freud

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     Pope Francis Sought Psychoanalysis at 42,” the Times headline read. Other outlets treated the news more salaciously—“Pope Reveals,” “Pope Admits.” Some noted that...

Far-right Extremists Laud Israel While Licensing Anti-Semitism

Other news

     White nationalist Richard Spencer’s controversial appearance at the University of Florida on October 19 went as expected: Hundreds gathered outside to protest Spencer’s...

What Happens After Death?

Letters to the editor

     What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings to not suffice to form even an approximate conception...

Well Worth It

Letters to the editor

     Dear Editor:      The Autumn issue of ICN is again, one worth the year’s subscription.      You ventured into ‘something’ of...