10 Feb

February 20, 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, SJ's nomination as a Bishop. Today, Bishop Prendergast writes about living in community....

08 Feb

With last week's decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to strike down the laws against physician assisted suicide, once more the issue of physician conscience rights is to the fore. In a meeting on Sunday 8th February of the Toronto Catholic Doctor's Guild, the Civil Rights League and the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute I listened to a number of speakers expressing their concern about the future of medical and particularly family practice in the light of this judgement....

24 Jan

From November 28 to December 1, 2014 Xavier Centre, the Jesuit retreat house, staged an international conference on Ignatian Spirituality at Wah Yan College in Hong Kong. Some 650 participants came from around the world – many from China representing the various traditions there. The centre has graciously put on the web the presentations of the main speakers....

11 Jan

The flight into Kathmandu, in front of the splendour of the Himalaya; the drive through Kathmandu's chaotic traffic; the first trip to a village where one eats rice with one's hands while squatting on a wooden plank – so the life of a volunteer begins! For almost two decades, the Jesuit International Volunteers in Washington, D.C., sent college graduates on two year volunteer assignments to Nepal. These talented and dedicated young men and women served our school students and provided social service to the poor....

08 Jan

It is undoubtedly a long ride to my destination. Nestled between tall buildings, Regis College beckons to those thirsty for new learning experiences. However, it isn't just book knowledge that I gain from my weekly trip downtown. The means of transportation provides me with interesting facets of life, not provided by any Theology course I am likely to take....

06 Jan

Frank Capra's beloved classic It's a Wonderful Life explores a number of themes, but perhaps the most important – or at least the final word – is given to the angel Clarence, who leaves his copy of Tom Sawyer to George Bailey with this line inscribed: "Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends." That even the most mundane and provincial of lives can be considered a success if it includes the gift of friendship, is a profoundly Christian idea. Yet it also immediately begs a number of questions. What is true friendship? What differentiates friendship from other kinds of loving relationships? And is it the number or the quality of friendship that is the more important?...

28 Dec

We are sometimes half asleep, almost in a slumber – whether with our physical or spiritual exercise. I find that Christian helps wake me up, at least when I am at Goodlife. Part of the gift of a spiritual director is that he or she can wake me up spiritually. Just the fact that I'm meeting with her will make me more attentive to what is happening in my interior life. I might speak of a movement in my interior life to my director and he asks a subtle question that causes me to look at my situation in a new way....

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