William Allan Peterkin– was clearly spoken with due respect and without the slightest hurry, in its proper position in the alphabetical listing of 182 men and women, who for the academic year 2012-2013 had donated their bodies to science, to the Division of Anatomy in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto....
The German statesman Otto von Bismark is reputed to have said, "Politics is like sausage making: if you want to enjoy the product, don't look too closely at the process." In our society, major group decisions are usually made by some compromise between clashing power interests. The recent Occupy Wall Street movement and the 2012-3 National Hockey League lockout illustrate how the exercise of clashing power drives decisions. Perhaps Adam Smith would call all this "enlightened self-interest." Well, I certainly see the self-interest but am not so sure about the "enlightened" part!...
Part of the tertianship experience for Jesuits entails ministering to the very poor. It is an experiment that forms what Ignatius would say the school of the heart. This was the case during my experiment in Tamale, a northern city in Ghana. I spent six weeks volunteering at a clinic, Shekhina (in Hebrew, God's dwelling), run by a convert to the Catholic faith, Dr. David Abdulai who freely offers medical care for the very poor of Ghana. In effect, the curing ministry of Dr. Abdulai is so Gospel-inspiring in his radical generosity in our post-modern Christianity. His clinic, no doubt, embodies the Ignatian understanding of school of the heart – the heart that understands the needs of the poor, generously serves them and in the process discovers God anew....
A visionary sheik believes if he shares his passion salmon fishing with his desert people he can enrich their lives. To turn what seems an impossible dream into reality he enlists a pragmatic British expert who thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. For political reasons he is conscripted against his will into the project and discovers in that journey his life changing....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by Eric Jensen, SJ, who works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry at Loyola House, Guelph....
I have now been on the Camino for three full weeks, and have covered over 400 km, with about 150 to go. That should take me no more than 6 days to complete. The end is near....
It's going to be tougher to bring home the bacon this year, thanks to global warming. According to the National Pig Association, a UK trade group, there will be a world shortage of pork and bacon next year as farmers stop raising pigs as the price of feed will skyrocket because of the drought in the US Midwest last year....
The film tells the story of Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society. He meets Lancaster Dodd, a leader of a religious movement known as "The Cause" and becomes a follower. The film traces their mutual dependency in their search for identity through a spiritual quest....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem- and photo - is by Philip Chircop, SJ, who works out of Toronto doing parish ministry and giving retreats....
Today is Day 14 of my time on the Camino. It started in Burgos and ended in León, a distance of approximately 200 km. No, I didn't suddenly sprout wings or tele-transport or any other such thing. I simply took a bus. By Day 12, when I arrived in Burgos, I had walked 255 km. But that was much less than I had anticipated completing by that time. If I had any hope of completing the Camino in Santiago, I had to make a choice....
