Church Teaching Supports Global Treaties
Facing many tragedies and disasters today, how might we pray and act with others for urgently needed transformation? Hope can be found in two vital…
Open Letter to President, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Dear Archbishop Richard Gagnon: We are writing to you from the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation that is recognized as the custodian of…
Catholic Hierarchy Reneged on Indigenous Financial Commitment
The Residential Schools affair is a clear signal that the Roman Catholic hierarchy can no longer go it alone. Church officials need to learn how…
Waterfall Explosion
16″ x 12″ x 1.5″ framed acrylic on canvas by Susannah Paranish
The Deep Strangeness of the Catholic Church’s Latest Scandal
Once, it was said that the eyes were the windows to the soul. Now the cellphone is. Consider Jeffrey Burrill, a man who regularly logged…
Unmarked Graves, Church Structure, and the Pope
Like thousands of Canadians and virtually all the First Nations and Metis people in Canada, I was dumbstruck and heartbroken by the revelation of the…
The Curia Is The Pope and Why It Cannot Listen: By John O’Laughlin Kennedy
Have you ever wondered why the Roman Catholic Church is so slow to change? Wondered why the Pope – the Supreme Pontiff – cannot, with…
Rumour on the Wind
All of this is far away in a book of history. We’re not really there. We’ve read this, seen the film. Our happiness is not…
James A. Teit’s Anthropology of Belonging
As a progressive Catholic newspaper, one might assume ICN is in a bit of an awkward situation regarding the residential schools revelations as liberally exposed…