June 25, 2020
Shawn Brady sees the heroes every day he walks into Providence Healthcare in Toronto’s east end, and has for years.
Unjust killing
Re: Bishops join forces condemning racism (June 21):
I take offence at Archbishop Donald Bolen comparing the alleged murder of George Floyd to the passion and crucifixion of Jesus.
The funeral will be held at a future date.
It wasn’t so long ago that many of us were using the COVID-19 virus to argue that our world was more interconnected than we care to admit. Divisions are commonplace and people move through their lives erecting barriers between the haves and have-nots, between the East and the West, between the good and the bad.
The churches and other faith groups which run food banks, shelters and other social programs want the government to start fixing Ontario’s long-term care homes now, even before convening a commission to look at the system.
Everybody agrees modern slavery must end, but Canadian Catholics can’t quite agree on how best to accomplish that objective.
June 24, 2020
Being a hospital chaplain during a pandemic means finding ways to deal with constant suffering.
Five members of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur in Quebec have been arrested for alleged sexual abuse of boys over three decades.
Following the third death in Canada of a migrant farm worker from COVID-19, Fr. Peter Ciallella had the grim task of informing other workers that their friend had died.
One snowy day last February, looking out the window, I saw our next-door neighbour, broom in hand, trotting briskly through our backyard.