Historic Apologies for Residential Schools Deemed Insufficient
All of the dioceses that had residential schools and the religious orders involved apologized decades ago, and those expressions have been renewed in recent days…
Bodies of 215 Indigenous Children Found Buried at Former Kamloops Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) said the deaths were spoken about but never documented Indigenous leaders across B.C. are voicing their grief, sadness and support…
The Beekeeper’s Daughter
Her father’s words droned into her ear on the tail of those bees, whirling like tornadoes, saturating the sky with their dark premonitions, of floating…
215 Children
215 children Born into a world of beauty, relationship, struggle, hardship The ancestors blessed them The parents welcomed them The grandparents adored them The aunties…
The Missing Dreams of Dennis
fame is a by-product, fame is a tool says Dennis Macon from his spot on Douglas; tanned and pitted he spends most of his time…
Haiku Poems
Not here yesterday Where will you be tomorrow? Maybe somewhere else Time did not start here She strolls, looks around waiting Time weighs down on…
Biography re-issued with new cover images
Patrick Jamieson’s 2002 biography In The Avant Garde, The Prophetic Catholicism of Remi De Roo and Politics Within the Catholic Church has been re-issued due…
The Pope of Rome, the Grand Imam of Cairo and the Official World Day of Fraternity
February 4th has entered the world’s calendar of significant commemorations. On that day in 2019, during his apostolic journey to the United Arab Emirates, Pope…
Francis: Vatican II is The Magisterium of the Church
ROME — Pope Francis on Jan. 30 urged those charged with passing on the principles of the Catholic faith to consider the teachings of the…
Peace Work: Spirituality for the Long Haul
I was in grade six. School was over for the day. I was heading home on my bike. As I crossed the large dusty schoolyard…