Exploring for a Contemporary Spirituality
I have been struggling to develop a contemporary spirituality for myself for a number of years. What is being offered in our churches is a…
Canada’s First Female Catholic Priest Says Church Must be More Inclusive
As the first woman in Canada to be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, Nanaimo resident Michele Birch-Conery’s perspective on the church is nothing…
Catholic Tipping Point Tour: Schuller in Los Angeles: Decrying ‘Dictatorship’ of Opus Dei and The Like
LOS ANGELES – It was 7:15 PM Friday. Seats in the dimly lit auditorium adjacent to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Ca., were beginning…
Pope of The People Has Eyes on Reform
VATICAN CITY – He wades into crowds without hesitation, shaking hands and kissing babies. He cracks jokes and delivers unscripted remarks, to the occasional dismay…
Fifteen Days in Rome: How the Pope Was Picked
Though the public paid little notice to Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, his name had made the rounds among a small group of cardinals who had…
Seasons Songs
Spring comes in a’dancing A tender maid and sky. She sings of earth’s awakening from winter’s lullabye. Summer is a wanton lass, Her mouth a…
Passings
JONES, Phyllis Philomene. It is with great sadness and heavy hearts, we announce that our beautiful Mother, Grannie, Sister and Aunt, Phyllis Philomene Jones died…
Don’t Let Spring Turn to Winter – Power and Poverty
When Jorge Bergoglio took the name Francis as Pope, he did something no pontiff has done before: placed himself in the tradition of the…
Francis of Rome and the Ecology of Saint Francis of Assisi
It cannot be for nothing that a Pope takes the name of Francis. Besides being a reference to another model of being Church, closer…
Ted Schmidt’s Book “Never Neutral: A Teaching Life”
Never Neutral: A Teaching Life by Ted Schmidt, publisher Tony Curcio, Toronto, 2013, 343 pp. is available from The Book Band $21.95.