A Life Celebration for Allan Brown (1939 – 2016)
A Life celebration for Allan Brown (1939-2016) was held at the Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC on May 12, 2018, organized by Pat Jamieson, Richard…
‘Be a Patriot and Kill a Priest’: Life in Honduras
Padre Melo is a Honduran Jesuit priest, not quite 60 years old, who lives with death threats and is surrounded by death.…
Tim Lilburn: Contemplation of Place in The Large Conversation
How would you answer the seemingly simple question: Where are you? Not the political construct of municipal boundaries or overlaid names from…
Grief and Gratitude: Farewell to the Prairie Messenger
My relationship with the Prairie Messenger began when I was six or seven years old, and I am sorry that, after more…
‘Waking’ — How the Irish Teach Us to Die
In America Death is a whisper. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, lower our voices and draw the screens. We…
Francis Clears Way for Romero to be Canonized
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has cleared the way for slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint later this year or early…
Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker and the Liturgy
In the opening lines of The Other America, Michael Harrington’s classic study of mid-twentieth-century poverty in the United States, the author acknowledges…
Oak Bay Village Goes to the Dogs (with Small Sculpture of a Beagle)
The whole thing was very Monty Pytheonesque, taking place in my childhood haunt, The # 6 Prisoner village where I am #…
Remembering Karen Woods – Signs
On the evening of April 10, 2017, I went out for dinner with my friend, Patrick Jamieson. He told me his friend Karen Woods had…