News Stories – Page 58 – Island Catholic News

Religion Finding a Sense of Direction in This Transformative Moment in History

Religious Soft Diplomacy and the United Nations: Religious Engagement as Loyal Opposition, Eds: Sherrie M. Steiner and James T. Christie, Lexington Books, London, 2021. Given…

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…

Island Catholic News Society 2020 Financial Statement

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…