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…
Latin Mass: Is the Church Ungovernable? — An Analogy
The latest dramatic move by Pope Francis — his recent order abrogating the right of Roman Catholic priests to say their church’s traditional Latin Mass…
Muthering Heights
The radical calm of those green lawns haunts me in a way unlike any old neighborhood on the planet. The affluence of the Martian landscape…
Mavis Gillie: Indigenous Advocate and Environmentalist
Mavis Marie Gillie was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1927, one of six children of British immigrant parents. Charles Chisholm, her father, had come…
Residential Schools: Conjectures of a Guilty Former Oblate
On Monday August 2, my wife Anne Marie and I attended the “March for the Children” in Chemainus. This march was convoked by the Penelakut…
Maturity of Love
The most explicit teaching of Jesus re. maturity of love is when he says, “I know, I know what you’ve been told, ‘Love those who…
Sipe Documentary Prompts Memories of Early Sex Abuse Activist
I watched the documentary, “Sipe: Sex, Lies, and the Priesthood,” with a mix of very powerful emotions: profound admiration and gratitude for all that A.W.…
The Sinful Church and The Healing Grace of God
The Church is not a perfect society. It is a sinful human but divinely inspired institution, that is called upon to seek the fullness of…
Integral Humanism and Global Ethic of Jacques Maritain and Hans Küng
The recent death of Hans Küng has caused me to reflect on how Küng and Jacques Maritain — two polar opposites in the Catholic Church…
The mentally ill need help, not assisted dying
Several years ago, I was on the promenade at Niagara Falls with my three young children. As we stood at the railing about five metres…