Vatican and Pax Christi International Think Big on Peace
The movement within the Catholic Church to reclaim Gospel nonviolence received a jolt of energy and momentum recently in the form of a Retreat on…
Esther Jedynak: ICN Founder, Madonna House Pioneer, Spiritual Leader Passes
Esther Jedynak, one of the four founding members of Island Catholic News in 1987, died here on February 15 at Mount St, Mary Nursing home,…
Moving Ahead: Phoenix Project Progress Report
In February I wrote a summary report on The ICN Phoenix Project to accompany the tax receipts mailed out to our donor-supporters who provide the…
COVID Poem
World peace has been achieved at a terrible price As the poor are reduced to noodles, beans and rice People in tents in Beacon Hill…
Heart Work
Praise to the bi-valved fleshed-wrapped organ the heart heart ark site of heart work channeling nourishment to flesh’s crannies Love’s courteous courier humble sage…
Corona Corona
What kind of crown bears death? What kind of queen hefts quarantine? Parasitic in a liminal zone you are spikey shell unaware of the damage…
Love Virus
love flicks around as it will infecting one killing another crippling a third for life. the other two thirds consider themselves lucky but are they…
The Perspicacious Aster (For Esther Jedynak 1932 – 2021)
(Your funeral today, in your beloved temple, No Father John. Tony your mentor died twenty seven years ago now. Night noise Last night. Invited to…
Robert Fisk: Neutral and Unbiased on the Side of Those Who Suffer
Robert Fisk, a dauntless journalist who was widely praised by colleagues and competitors alike for relentlessly chronicling the Middle East’s many agonies, but who was…
Susan McCaslin’s Heart Work
This is a great little book of poetry by probably the most prolific and successful Christian literary writer in Canada, Susan McCaslin, much reviewed and…