The Next Cover-up: Sex Abuse & the Bishops’ Synod
"The Bishops’ Synod on the Youth presents an opportunity for the Church to confess her guilt, ask forgiveness, and begin to make genuine reparation for her sins."...
06
Sep
04
Sep
September: Hay Fever, Hogwash and Goldenrod
The poet writes about September and summer and autumn and flowers. ...
03
Sep
Transitions – Labour Day 2018
"Labour Day has been an official holiday in Canada since 1894, though its origins date from before that. Its roots are in the labour union movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. That neat threefold division is laughable in our contemporary culture with the blurring of those divisions."...
02
Sep
What Comes from Within: The Sins of the Fathers (and Bishops) – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
"No Catholic who pays even the slightest attention to our culture can be naïve about the scandal of clerical abuse in our world."...
01
Sep
But does it make any difference?
"But the question of the sceptic remains: does it make any difference? If all of us were making this change and ending our love affair with the car, it would no doubt help with climate change. But this will not happen any time soon."...
31
Aug
Thoughts and Prayers or Action?
"I was at one of the March for Our Lives protests a few weeks back, and a particular sign has resounded in my memory: NO MORE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS – CHANGE. Simply put, saying ‘our thoughts and prayers are with you’ is now a platitude."...
30
Aug
The art of murmuration
"Though I have claimed the Maritimes as home, I feel a bit like a stranger heading for a foreign land. In need of repose along the way, I’ve stopped in New York city." ...
29
Aug
The German Bishops and Intercommunion
"A majority of bishops in Germany have recently proposed intercommunion as a pastoral response to religiously mixed families."...
28
Aug
Perfect Pitch
The poem first appeared in It first appeared in The Recorder, Journal of the Ontario Music Educators’ Association. It is reposted with permission of the author....
27
Aug
A rights based approach to human development
"We believe that human beings are made in the image of God and therefore have dignity. We are called to protect human dignity and defend human rights."...