Canada 150 & Me – Canada:A Mosaic
For the "Canada 150 & Me" series, igNation asked writers what being Canadian means to them.David Creamer, SJ writes of Canada as a mosaic....
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David Creamer, SJ, is the Provincial Assistant for Apostolic Organization and Planning for the Jesuits in English Canada..
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Feb
Homeless in Toronto
We pass them every day on the streets of our cities. In Toronto there are over 5,000 homeless people living on the streets. What can be done to change the situation?...
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Fatehpur Sikri: Akbar the Great & the Jesuits
Although Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (ruled 1556-1605) is well known in the history of India, few have heard of Fatehpur Sikri (villagers in the area call it Akbar's "ghost city"). Most of the many thousands of visitors to Agra's Taj Mahal are not even aware that this UNESCO World Heritage site is just 40 km away. I was no exception. Although I had been leading University of Manitoba students on Travel Study programs to India for several years – including the requisite visit to Agra's Taj Mahal – it was not until I chanced upon reproductions of Persian miniature paintings by Nar Singh (early 17th century) that Fatehpur Sikri entered my consciousness. To my delightful surprise, one of the paintings (used as illustrations in the Akbarnama; Book of Akbar; three volume record of his reign) shows two Jesuits from the Portuguese colony of Goa (Rodolfo Acquaviva and Francisco Henriques) as part of a group meeting with the Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri. My curiosity led me to find out about this place and what the Jesuits were doing there....
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Next Step – Quixote House and Massie Apartments
In the early 1990's, I began going out from time to time to Stony Mountain Correctional Institution for Mass on Saturday evenings. Eleven kilometres north of Winnipeg, Stony is a medium-security federal penitentiary (opened in 1877) which houses more than 500 inmates....
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Feb
A Window into the Mystery that is India
For seven years now, I have taken teachers in the University of Manitoba's Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Education (PBDE) program and undergraduates in the Catholic Studies program at St. Paul's College on an intensive three week Field Study program in India (Delhi, Agra, Darjeeling, Kolkata, and Varanasi)....