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…
New Biography, “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty”
This is a beautifully written, deeply revealing, and spiritually insightful book; and I can’t begrudge the author for an instant that it is…
Key Movements of Our Times, Shaped and Started by Women
There is a perception that until our times the female half of the human race was silent, unqualified and shut out of public…
Birth Control Contretemps Drove Many Away from the Church’s Dishonesty
The literal interpretation of Scripture was broadly accepted throughout Christendom. Infallibility was like an insurance policy against dissent. If he acknowledged that the…
John Shields: Spiritual Innovator and Good Friend
When John Shields died last month, I felt as though I had lost not only a good friend but also a trusted and…
John Shields Memorial Gave Ample Witness to ‘A Big Life’
Rarely are accurate, personal portraits of a deceased person heard at Memorials. There is simply too much emotional baggage carried by family and…