Two years ago, when I retired from teaching at St Paul's High School in Winnipeg, I thought I had done my farewell tour of El Salvador I but was drawn back again this summer . . . It was a short visit, travelling with eleven teachers and an alumnus from St. Paul's High School . . . to provide insights for the faculty into our student's experiences when they journey to El Salvador each summer....
Christina Crook's 2015 book, "The Joy of Missing Out - Finding Balance in a Wired World" is rooted in her own Internet fast and she advocates such a thing for others....
Seven years ago, Fr. Bill Robins, SJ took a summer break from his work in Kathmandu to visit his native Canada. During the summer of 2016, Bill again made a visit to Canada. This summer was different for this time Bill was also able to join with a group of friends and relatives to enjoy a delightful tour of Newfoundland....
The measure of success of any school can only be the quality of the students that it turns out. Mission and Vision statements, mottos, etc., have to be validated by the outcomes of the school's educational project. So if there is a claim of academic excellence, then the students' academic performance at the end of their time in the school and in subsequent levels of education has to prove the claim. Similarly with any other stated goal or claim. Where's the proof?...
So many images flood my memory from those few days on the Labrador coast. A mother wolf and her 4 pups, black bears and their cubs, porpoises, seals, catching Arctic char, baked caribou and cloudberry pie for supper, rich productive forests sheltered in the valleys, massive old peaks covered with extensive snowfields in the warm August sun, the solid Canadian shield that determines the landscape ...
Look for the Torngat Mountains National Park in the extreme northern regions of Labrador. All above treeline, the park hosts the highest mountains east of the Rockies and some of the oldest rocks on the planet - up to 3.9 billion years, they say. That's remarkable, considering the age of the Earth at around 4.54 billion years....
On the cardboard sign strung over his neck were the words Argentia ferry." Pack on his back, his thumb was out for the ride. Without hesitation, I pulled over and waited for him. Up he ran, stuffed his gear into the back seat and jumped in."...
Anthony Sharma, SJ was the first superior of the Missio Sui Juris of Nepal. For 38 years, from 1985 until his retirement in 2004, he worked tirelessly to open schools and parishes across Nepal....
Reposted from The Jesuit Post, today's article looks at the question "What is the effect of all our time spent staring at glowing screens?"...
Last September, a zoo in the Czech Republic set fire to 60 kilograms of rhinoceros horn, a fitting overture to the seventh annual World Rhino Day, which followed in various rhino-aware locales around the world on September 22....
