Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
INTRODUCTION By Patrick Jamieson, Victoria The recent revelation that writer Alice Munro’s youngest daughter was sexually abused by the author’s second husband has left at…
St. Francis and The Wolf of Gubbio
Here is the background of the origin of the painting. There is a story of the Wolf of Gubbio in the annals of Franciscan literature.…
Timothy Radcliffe: A Wonderful Voice of Reason and Tenderness
The Dominican friar Timothy Radcliffe is a treasure of the Catholic Church. His gifts as a writer, spiritual master, and retreat-giver are considerable. One of…
La Plus Ça Change
It doesn’t matter what the year was Because in fact it’s all the same: Storm the ramparts – smash the cities Carry on the killing…
To Hope and Act With Creation
Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration that calls us together each year to pray and respond jointly to the cry of Creation: the…
Déjà Vue Again — (for Sandy Hook and all the others)
We freeze with shock, then hear the sirens And suddenly police appear They see the bloodshed, view the carnage While people scream and run in…
Hermitage Residencies Sought
The Editor: Dear Friends of hermit Charles Brandt. As you might expect, there is a lot going on in the Hermitage Society. I have just…
With Valour – for Ukraine –
Bless the fathers, bless the brothers Bless the sons and uncles too; Then stand beside their graves lamenting Theres’s nothing more that you can do.…
A Challenge As We Enter a Period of No Faith?
My final year studying theology at St. Andrew’s College, United Church of Canada, (UCC) Saskatoon (in the spring of 1965) I learned from Stats Canada…
Grieving Columnist Gerry Archibald
The Editor: Thanks for the bundle of five newspapers – my daughter Adelle and Robert Scott (husband since August 19, 2023) just love ICN (electronic)…