By Giving Force to the Doctrine of Discovery in Canada, We Misrepresent Our Own History
During Pope Francis’s visit to Canada, there were calls for him to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery. Indeed, at his mass near Quebec City, activists…
A Path to Peace in a Time of Polycrisis
EDMONTON—Every year at Christmas, we try to recapture the idea of peace. In 2022, with the Ukraine war blazing and even the idea of a…
Victoria Emulates Vancouver with Mega-Parish
INTRODUCTION This story needs certain background (and foreground) introduction. Historically, even during Bishop Remi De Roo’s progressive era, 1962-1999, Our Lady of the Rosary parish…
Cardinal Czerny: ‘School of the Peripheries’ Enriches Theology
In his opening address to the participants at the meeting on “Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries,” held at Rome’s Pontifical Urban University, Cardinal Michael…
Synod on Synodality: Where Has It Been and Where is it Going?
With the calling of a worldwide synod on synodality, Pope Francis set in motion the most extensive consultative process the world has ever seen. In…
Post Vatican II Perspective: Penitential Pilgrimage of Pope Francis
The extraordinary “penitential pilgrimage” of Pope Francis to Canada opens up an array of questions about who we are as Vatican II Catholics. There is…
A Game of Chess in Black and White
While Knights upon the chessboard of salvation Do endless battle with the threatening black The dualistic paradigm of light and dark A moralistic, fatalistic bent…
Queen Elizabeth II
In alchemy, the sacred marriage of the white queen (Mercury) and the red king (Sulphur) symbolized the union of male and female principles to produce…
View From Chile of the Penitential Pilgrimage
I was virtually present, through live streaming, in all encounters with Pope Francis’s during his Pilgrimage of Penance to Canada. I felt at home again…