Through the eyes of children

Jul 14, 2016 | Peace

Self portrait, child soldier, northern Uganda. Courtesy: Children/Youth as Peacebuilders BY JAMIE SWIFT A fascinating new web-based PeaceQuest project will soon be providing teachers with an innovative tool to help students learn about war and peace – through...

Clergy sexual abuse and bursary follow-up

Jul 14, 2016 | Healing Violence stories

From left: Keynote speaker Sister Nuala Kenny MD, Sister Frances O’Brien SP, Barbara Baker, Sister Marie Dundon SP, Christine DiZazzo, Carol Groten, Friar Ed Debono OFM Conv., Sister Catherine Casey SP, Sister Margo Shafer SP. As a follow-up to our conference...

Students give witness to social teaching in an homage to 20 years of social justice vigils

Jul 14, 2016 | Friday Silent Vigil, Justice

BY ANN BONIFERRO Throughout the month of April, students in each of the 39 schools of the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board were asked to show mercy by standing in solidarity with those who experience injustice. They did that by holding vigils and...

Suggestions on further steps for healing the church

Jul 13, 2016 | Healing Violence stories

These suggestions came out of two day-long conferences held in September 2015 on the them of Healing the Church: Addressing the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.” They were presented to Archbishop Brendan O’Brien in the spring of 2016,. as promised. And they are...

Sister Una Byrne’s first two months

Jul 6, 2016 | The North

BY SISTER UNA BYRNE Sitting here on a rainy Sunday evening in Norway House, I can look back on the last two months and say I am settled now. I live in a trailer between the old and the new church. It took a while to get things set up but now I have t.v. and internet...