Canadians and Israel
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East has released the results of a Canada-wide survey that it has co-sponsored. Conducted by EKOS and…
How The Catholic Church Wrestled with Scriptural Modernity FIRST OF TWO PARTS
Years ago when I was in high school, my Jesuit teacher my class that the Catholic Church was a human and fallible institution…
Trump Triumph of the ‘Society of the Spectacle’
Nearly 50 years ago, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle reached bookshelves in France. It was a thin book in a plain…
Videos Available
Videos by Ray Painchaud Available by donation to ICN Gretta Vosper Talk from January 25, 2017 held at the Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria Sponsored…
At Age 93, Gregory Baum’s Oil Has Not Run Dry
Gregory Baum’s book, The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), is an intellectual memoir…
A Family Man, Jamieson Admired his Children’s Accomplishments
JAMIESON, James Easton Born in Kamloops July 14, 1922, Jim passed gently on Sunday, January 22, 2017. Jim was a kind and generous human being…
Reflections on Epiphany Explorations 2017
I was favoured with a full-ticket to this year’s Epiphany Explorations gathering, again held at First Metropolitan United Church from January 26 –…
What I Learned from Dorothy Day, America’s Catholic Justice Radical
First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who…
Killer Whales and the Tanker Trade
Around the “Salish Sea” (southern Georgia Strait, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound and the Canadian and American Gulf Islands), there live…
His Best Years Were Treating World-Wide Refugees as Family Members
My father James Easton Jamieson died in his 95th year on January 22. He had what the writer JM Cameron described as a…