First Nations’ Kateri Tekakwitha Officially a Catholic Saint
VATICAN CITY – Kateri Tekakwitha, a woman credited with life-saving miracles, has become the first aboriginal who lived in what is now Canadian territory to…
Paul Ryan: Ayn Rand Catholic
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate…
Father Jim Webb Passes
Died on August 9, 2012 at René Goupil House (Jesuit Infirmary), Pickering, Ontario. He was 68 years of age and in his 48th year of…
Former Jesuit Priest Became a Montreal Talk Show Legend
Neil McKenty liked to argue just for the hell of it and he made a career doing it. The irreverent Jesuit who left…
Father Jim Webb, S.J.
Died on August 9, 2012 at René Goupil House (Jesuit Infirmary), Pickering, Ontario. He was 68 years of age and in his 48th year of…
Sooke Woman Lived with Passion
Louise Lemire-Elmore had a passion for making things beautiful. That passion took shape in the music she sang and composed, her gardening, her eye…
Richard Rohr’s Lineage
Some people do not like the fact that I quote the Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung. I must admit that he’s had a major…
A Marriage of Heaven and Hellman’s…Satire
Playwright Harold Pinter often talks in his play about the necessary and the possible. I seem chained to the necessary, as my friends will…
Issue 17 of the Pacific Rim Review of Books
Issue 17 of the Pacific Rim Review of Books will be available soon. This upcoming issue features a reminiscence of Irving Layton by Doug Beardsley,…
BOOK REVIEW – Poems Prickle the Political
Something Small to Carry Home A Book Review by Allan Brown