09 Oct

I confess that I have not really suffered in my life, not yet. I have not lived 24 hours in Dr. Donald Low's cancerous body and do not personally know the physical pain that accompanies a brain tumour. Must that lack of physical experience silence me and declare me ignorant about suffering? Doctor Low was a generous and valiant physician who gave himself fully to protecting the world from SARS, from much suffering and death. His record speaks to an unselfish dedication to life, and so he is a credible voice. But could he be missing a whole dimension of what life is and can be?...

22 Sep

Pope Francis surprised the church with his far-ranging interview with Jesuit publications. He makes many comments that were almost shocking in their candor, honesty and openness about the church and his own life. It's not a format we are used to with popes or most leaders. What stayed with me in my reading of the interview is summed up in the very Ignatian word discernment....

20 Sep

On Thursday, September 19, 17 Jesuit magazines around the world simultaneously published an in depth interview with Pope Francis. Main stream media has been abuzz with analysis of this interview. Today igNation reprints an excellent article from The Jesuit Post about the interview and the media's reaction....

13 Sep

I've been reading various responses to Pope Francis' call for a day of prayer and fasting on September 7th and two things have caught my attention: many people fear that prayer, while good, is an insufficient response; and many people are thinking about this call to prayer as if it were a personal and individual call, rather than a call to communal action...

08 Sep

As I waited in the early morning chapel for the beginning of Mass, the stained glass caught the first rays of the morning sun. The darkness now gleamed with the warmed filtered light. The rectangular and angular slices of glass transformed the incoming sun into a kaleidoscope of colour. My gaze rested on the soft warm glow streaming in from outside....

21 Aug

When it comes to the Christian notion of the "end times" we can often think in this way. Why worry about the Earth, when we're all trying to get into heaven? Why worry about nature when it is the salvation of the person that we seek? Or more explicitly, why worry about the salvation of the body, when it is the soul that is all important?...

20 Aug

just finished an 8-day retreat with other Jesuits and some colleagues at the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre in Pickering, Ontario. It was a silent retreat, as are all such retreats. Silence is a strange thing. It's something that we both resist and crave....

11 Aug

At the beginning of August, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is participating in the programme "Ten Days for Peace" sponsored each year by the Catholic Church in Japan. Here is some of the reflection he is sharing on that pilgrimage:...

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