It is now a little over a year since I first discovered the lump that turned out to be breast cancer. For that reason and also because since Feb 5 was World Cancer Day and February is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I thought it would be a good time to try to answer this question....
On July 24, 2016, in her 84th year, Elizabeth Buckley died peacefully at L'Arche Daybreak. In the 1960s, she joined the original L'Arche community in Trosly, France. Elizabeth went on to found L'Arche Inverness in Scotland and L'Arche Irenicon in Massachusetts She leaves a rich spiritual legacy to people in L'Arche around the world, and to countless others. This is Doug McCarthy's homily at Elizabeth's funeral...
Pope Francis has called this the beginning of a world war fought in pieces" around the world – fuelled by terrorism, unforeseen acts of violence, organized crime, abuses suffered by migrants and devastation of the environment. The world needs to wake up its leadership to this pressing need."...
Language immersion in Colombia raised many questions: from the mundane (is this fabric softener or laundry detergent?) to the philosophical (what does the subjunctive say about cultural differences) to the urgent (is this the right dosage of medicine???). Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
I love walking through the forest after a good windstorm. Trees snapped off, blown over, uprooted. All part of the dynamic, ordered chaos" of a forest. Like every other living being, trees, if they live long enough - or rather grow tall enough, will eventually be killed by something. For tall trees, wind can be the great destroyer."...
An important point made by Pope Francis in Laudato Si is that each of us needs to become involved in the effort to take up the fight against environmental destruction. But does this personal effort make any difference?...
Today's post is the final one in a series written for igNation .Using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic....
On July 16, 1991, I slipped on some wet grass during a water balloon fight. It was the day before my ninth birthday, a quarter-century ago. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
A statement from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the USA condemns Trump's executive order on refugees....
In an ongoing new series for igNation, using excerpts from letters written to his parents between 1961 and 1963, Father Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ shares his experience of being a Jesuit novice and scholastic. Next week will be the final post in this series...
