YouTube Link available: Panel Reflection on Pope Francis’ Visit

THANK YOU everyone for your attendance, participation and support this academic year!

On March 28, 2023 the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre hosted an online panel to reflect on Pope Francis's recent visit to Canada and what our next steps towards reconciliation may look like or entail. The panel was comprised of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Catholics:

Dr. Michel Andraos, PhD (Dean of the Faculty of Theology at St. Paul University)
Sr. Priscilla Solomon, CSJ (CSJ, Faith and Justice, Ojibway First Nation)
Sr. Sheila Smith, RSCJ, PhD (St. Paul University)
Fr. John Meehan, SJ, PhD (Director, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College, Toronto)
Fr. Peter Bisson, SJ, ThD (Jesuits of Canada)
Mr. Noah MacDonald, JCL (Canon Lawyer, Archdiocese of Toronto, Michipicoten First Nation).

The links that are mentioned in the video are:

Event - "Reflections on the Papal Visit: Understanding and Moving Forward Together"— https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reflectio...
Video - "Reserve 107: Reconciliation on the Prairies," https://www.reserve107thefilm.com

If you missed the lecture, do not fret! Please view the recorded lecture through this YouTube Link and share with interested friends!

Video: Panel Reflecting on Pope Francis's Recent Visit to Canada: What Next?

Easter Blessings!

Fiona Li, Appointed as New Associate Director of the Fraser Centre

The Fraser Centre welcomes its new Associate Director – Fiona Li. Fiona Li is a PhD candidate at Regis College, specializing in feminist theology and Mariology. Her dissertation looks at the image of Mary the Pontifex and how her act of bridge-building, (specifically in Muslim-Christian dialogue, but more generally between the Divine and human) is similar to the act of bridge-building Canadian-born Chinese women participate in through their linguistic and cultural brokering. Bridge-building, regardless of whether it is between religious communities or between conversation partners, is centered on nurturing relationships and communication. And this is what Fiona believes to be one of the many roles of the Fraser Centre.

Fiona succeeds Sr. Patricia “Petite” Lourdes Lao, RNDM, who served as the Associate Director from 2019-2021. The Fraser Centre is grateful to Petite for her invaluable work and collegiality, which contributed to the many successes of the Fraser Centre, and we extend our well-wishes for her future ministries.