To the faithful of the Archdiocese of Vancouver: Over the past few weeks, a number of very serious accounts of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have become public. Like you, I am devastated by these accounts of profound evil. What the victims of sexual abuse have endured has shaken me and broken my heart….
St. Joseph the Worker, May 1st.
The memorial of St. Joseph the Worker has been celebrated liturgically since 1955 on May 1st. Partly, it is a prayer filled response to the May Day communist extravaganzas about the totalitarian State and its attitude towards workers. But there is wonderful theology present too in this memorial about the meaning of human work in…
Archdiocese withholding D&P funds
VANCOUVER—The Archdiocese of Vancouver has stopped sending funds to the charity Canadian Catholic Organization of Development and Peace – for now. A letter just released from Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, announced that in the spirit of transparency and accountability, the archdiocese is temporarily withholding donations made to the CCODP during its 2018 campaign. “Development and Peace fulfills its…
Laudato Si’, Blessed are You
‘On the care of the common home’, the subtitle of Pope Francis’ new encyclical released on Thursday, continues a tradition of recent Popes who have made it very clear that humanity is largely responsible for the environmental degradation gravely harming our Earth’s ecosystems. According to Pope Francis “Respect for creation, then, is a requirement of…