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April 8, 2020

Priest refuses to leave prison ministry

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller celebrates Mass with inmates at a B.C. institution.

With the federal prison system shutting down all visits, a Catholic priest has volunteered to be incarcerated rather than leave inmates without spiritual care.

Published in Canada
January 9, 2018

Pastors who lead double lives wound the Church, Pope says

Pope Francis blesses a group of newly ordained priests of the Legionaries of Christ at the end of his weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 20, 2017.
VATICAN – Pastors who preach one thing and do another are wounded and harm the church, Pope Francis said.
Published in Reflections
December 10, 2017

Ian Hunter: Scraps have a place in God’s economy

"Miracle of the Bread and Fish", oil on canvas by Giovanni Lanfranco, 1623
The only miracle that Jesus performed recounted in all four Gospels is the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, more commonly called the feeding of the 5,000 (or 4,000 in Mark’s Gospel, but who was counting precisely?).  
Published in Guest Columns