Understanding Jean Vanier
"I see l’Arche as Vanier’s act of contrition that lasted more than half a century. Does that wash away the evil he did to his victims? "...
17
May
Robert Czerny lives in Ottawa and southwest Nova Scotia. Two main interests are ethics in Canada and Catholic social teaching and action.
25 posts
29
Jan
Synodal Listening is Like…
"Listening is a corollary of respect and equal human dignity. Everyone can relate to this, no matter what they experienced in childhood and as adults"...
08
Nov
Three Roberts Agree
"Rather, what irritated the Church was Galileo’s excursion into metaphysics: his insistence on the superiority of what he called primary substances, which can be described mathematically, over un-mathematical secondary substances."...
18
Aug
Two Books about Residential Schools
"What I find valuable in these two books is how they listen and observe. Instead of beginning with judgment, they present portraits of the situations and people directly involved . . "...
17
Sep
Thoughts on Laudato si’, the Environmental and Social Encyclical of Pope Francis
A reflection on six major points in Laudato Si....
20
Jul
Canada’s Bishops, Clerical Sexual Abuse and the Future
"Some parts are obvious, such as obey the law, while many are more visionary and aspirational because of their focus on transparency, accountability and conversion."...
03
Jul
Longing for relationship – a hymn for the pandemic period
"The prophetic book of Hosea is about God’s yearning for his wayward people Israel to become faithful to him once again."...
07
May
Remembering Peter Larisey, SJ
Six decades ago, Peter Larisey taught for two years at Loyola High School, a Jesuit high school in Montreal. Two of his students, Ben Fagan and Andy Malolepszy, reminisce:...
04
May
Why Samaritans?
"Yet within all that richness, the normal, free, individual member of a tribe will be individualized, maybe by picking up traits from here and there, maybe through personal creativity. "...
27
Apr
Stones and The Law
"Things change. Ideas change. Attitudes change. Certainties become nuanced. With the passage of time, an earlier burning issue reduces to smouldering, and finally there’s scarcely a trace of the old inflammatory situation."...