Women in The Church
I am writing to ask for the opportunity to pay you a visit. I am a baptised and committed Catholic living in your…
Brazilian Bishops Show Sensible Lay Initiative
The following letter was sent to Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Dicastery of the Laity Family and Life. The letter is an…
Our Home on Native Land
Lament for Confederation “When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I neither understood nor welcomed his…
Prairie Messenger Announces Closure After Nearly a Hundred Years
"The Prairie Messenger begins Vol. 95 with this issue. It will mark the last year the Prairie Messenger will be printed.” …
Contemplative Society Features Inter-spirituality Speaker
How about this? Melt. Soften in the fire of divine love and become nothing but light. And then offer that cup of emptiness to an…
Our Times Call for a New Spiritual (not Religious) Order?
Thinking of a need for a Reformation makes me question whether the time hasn’t arrived for a new religious order that is in…
Penelope Lynn Jamieson
Penny passed away on May 8, 2017. Her last soft breaths, made in the presence of her daughters, (pictured, L to R: Martha, Hannah, Rachael,…
Sr. Marianne Flory (Mary Margaret)
Peacefully on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at Eagle Ridge Hospital, Maple Ridge, BC. Sister Marianne Flory, aged 86, went to her true home…
Michael Charles Desmond (Mike) Doyle
Poet. Teacher. Activist. Father. Born Oct. 18, 1928, in Birmingham, England; died Dec. 28, 2016, in Victoria, of natural causes; aged 88. …
Local Blues Saint Worked with the Mentally Challenged
Mention the name of John Fisher — a.k.a. Victoria’s Godfather of the Blues — and one subject always comes up. The…