‘Refugees’: Show Me the Way to Go Home
There isn’t much sense talking about “roots” unless you can also point to flowers, fruits, leaves, fronds, seeds. Thus we point…
Gregory Baum, Amazing Human Being
There is a poem by an anonymous inmate at Auschwitz, found on a wall there – only part of it was recoverable –…
Will Pope Francis Remove the Vatican’s ‘Warning’ from Teilhard?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the widely influential Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher whose writings were cited with a “warning” by the Vatican in 1962,…
The Pope’s Shrink and Catholicism’s Uneasy Relationship with Freud
Pope Francis Sought Psychoanalysis at 42,” the Times headline read. Other outlets treated the news more salaciously—“Pope Reveals,” “Pope Admits.” Some noted that…
Far-right Extremists Laud Israel While Licensing Anti-Semitism
White nationalist Richard Spencer’s controversial appearance at the University of Florida on October 19 went as expected: Hundreds gathered outside to protest Spencer’s…
What Happens After Death?
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings to not suffice to form even an approximate conception…
Well Worth It
Dear Editor: The Autumn issue of ICN is again, one worth the year’s subscription. You ventured into ‘something’ of…
Interim Report: The Prairie Messenger Phoenix Project
I was hoping to get away in July or August, but did not hit the road for the Prairie provinces until September 12,…
Baum, Ryan and De Roo: Canadian Catholic Game Changers
Shortly after the passing of theologian Gregory Baum in late October, Bishop Remi De Roo phoned to say he would like to sit…
New Canadian Archbishop: Church in Dialogue Doesn’t Mean ‘Yelling Louder’
The Catholic church will only be able to create changes in wider society if it engages in dialogue with those outside the faith…