VANCOUVER -- In a society more comfortable with cancel culture than counterculture, Pope John Paul IIƵapp 1990 call for Catholic universities to speak “uncomfortable truths” that may challenge public opinion can be a daunting task. But for the incoming president of St. MarkƵapp and Corpus Christi colleges in Vancouver, itƵapp job one.
As the legend goes, Haitian-Canadian Dr. Saint-Firmin Monestime was persuaded to join the team at Mattawa Hospital after an impromptu stop for lunch on his way to Timmins in the summer of 1951. The northern Ontario townƵapp previous doctor had passed away earlier that year and the community successfully convinced Monestime to remain and take his place.
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In an alternative life, Cardinal Thomas Collins might never have been a bishop, an archbishop or a cardinal. He might very happily have remained a professor of New Testament with an intense interest in the Apocalypse of John. He would have dedicated himself to the formation of the next generation of priests at St. PeterƵapp Seminary in London, Ont., and happily translated the wisdom he encountered in academic study into homilies that resonate with the worries and hopes of ordinary Christians.