?Recently some citizens in both Canada and the USA have protested about the values attached to the public statues of certain historical heroes. Do such statues represent a form of idolatry?"...
"The January 2nd letter begins relating the busy Christmas singing schedule bringing joy to many in city community! It also describes his last Christmas at the Mount. ‘Fun’ seems the operative word to describe it. Curiously, the January 26th letter concludes with reflections on ‘eating’ and a request for a recipe for making cheese perogies."...
Paul Baker, SJ, wrote a post about Jimmy Morash - one of the survivors of the Halifax explosion.. igNation reposts Paul’s article today on the 100th anniversary of the Halifax tragedy....
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured....
The author talks about her experience going to confession in Paris. "The thing I love about confession is it’s all about me! Or is it?"...
"The 19th century Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, has a line in Hurrahing in Harvest that resonates with me as we come to the beginning of Advent. Hopkins says: “These things, these things were here and but the beholder wanting.”"...
"Daybreak over our backyard always amazes me. Sunny or cloudy, the sky looks like it goes on forever, into eternity. According to the Google Dictionary, “eternity” means infinite or unending time; the theological definition is endless life after death."...
"The November 10 letter begins on a sombre note responding to the death of the philosopher’s uncle who served in WWII and to the news that his mother is in hospital which he learned after the fact! "...
Throughout November, Canadian Jesuits International (CJI) has been raising awareness and funds for livelihood support through its Giving Tuesday campaign calleTell Ten. Today igNation posts the fifth and last in a series of blogs about what livelihood support means to CJI and to people in the Global South....
Less than a week from now, we begin Advent 2017. The poet writes of this time of waiting....
