Remi The Person — Reflections by a Double Cousin
Remi and my father, who grew up together on neighbouring farms, are double first cousins. Remi’s mother was a De Pape. My father was named…
Good News and Bad News about Gaza
There’s good news and bad news following the passage of a motion on Palestine last night in Parliament. The good news is that Parliament has…
Thomas Merton Crime Scene Photos
INTRODUCTION The photographs of Thomas Merton’s body taken by the first witnesses were deliberately hidden for almost 50 years. Our discovery of these photographs has…
You Probably Won’t Publish This Poem
this poem won’t make the New Yorker it won’t talk about sensitive issues that make women weep you won’t publish it because it dares to…
Prophetic Vision of Bishop Remi De Roo: Social Justice
My focus is on the immediate experience of justice within the Vancouver Island and British Columbia community and how it was and remains impacted by…
De Roo Symposium: Remi The Shepherd
Today I wish to share with you our experience of Vatican II. Together with Andre and Mary-Catherine Ruel who are present here this evening. Ralph…
Remi De Roo on Colonialism — Pilgrim and Prophet Excerpts
Indigenous Peoples Note: The texts quoted below were written at a time when “Native” and “Aboriginal” were the terms used for Indigenous peoples. We have…
Welcoming Strangers
We have lived for the past 30 years in an intentional covenanted Christian Life Community called Emmaus. Some time ago it became clear to me…
Key Note Speaker Buys into Inexact Mythology of De Roo
While the event was an overall success with 120 people attending, the keynote address was originally supposed to be made by Vatican official Canadian Cardinal…
Excerpts from Michael Higgins: Keynote Address at Remi De Roo’s 100th Birthday Symposium
I was not one of Remi De Roo’s intimates. I was not privy to his innermost thoughts; I was not a trusted confidant; I was…