Adela Torchia

ARTICLES

Barbie, memento mori and liberation

Just as one envisions a skull in a classical monk’s cell, as a memento mori – a reminder of one’s mortality — so too the

Halfway back to the light

A new Irish public holiday begins this year in honour of St Brigid as one of the country’s patron saints https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/ireland/st-brigids-day. It’s the first such

Interconnection and healing from colonization

Book Review: Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths by Rupert Ross. Toronto, Penguin Canada, 2014.   After hearing Martin Brokenleg, a priest and prominent psychologist specializing in

St. Brigid spans pagan and Christian traditions

Book review: Brigid’s Mantle: A Celtic Dialogue Between Pagan and Christian by Lilly Weichberger & Kenneth McIntosh. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2015  Saint Brigid of

Finding the middle way

My Journey is a regular feature profiling clergy in the diocese As the child of Italian immigrants in Winnipeg, I was raised Roman Catholic and

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