Rev. Bill Ryan Helped Usher in New Era for Jesuits
In late 1974 and early 1975, the world's Jesuits gathered in Rome in an extraordinary General Congregation to define a new direction for…
Susan McCaslin’s Into the Open: Poems New and Selected
For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and things. You must know the animals, you must feel how…
The Baby’s Breath Garden Circle & Philosophy Club
It started small. John just stopped wandering the streets at night with his camera and grew roots in Eugene’s restaurant, addicted to…
The Season 1967 When Mimico Marauders Dominated High School Basketball
Fifty years ago in Canada’s centenary year of 1967, a suburban Toronto basketball team in a school with only 250 males and…
Douglas Roche – Hope Not Fear: Building Peace in a Fractured World
Doug Rouche needs no introduction to Canadian peace activists. Since serving as a parliamentarian from 1972 until 1984 and chairing the UN Disarmament Commission in…
When Dorothy Day Took a Knee
Ammon Hennacy, a courageous activist who joined the Catholic Worker in the 1950s, said he was inspired to become a Catholic by the…
Granddaughter: Dorothy Day Would be Marching Today
Rendered from diaries, memories, conversations and a cache of family letters, writer Kate Hennessy’s new biography of her grandmother Dorothy Day reveals a complex, often…
‘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,…