Brian McDonough was born in Montreal in 1951 and graduated in 1972 from Loyola College, (now Concordia University) with a B.A. in Communication Arts, with still photography and film as areas of specialization. Upon returning from India, he obtained several law degrees from McGill University and became a member of the Québec Bar. He has collaborated in writing two books on international maritime law.
For almost 25 years, he was director of social justice ministry at the Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal, where he was involved in promoting human rights, working with community organizations, promoting eco-justice, assisting refugee claimants and asylum seekers, and accompanying victims of crime and offenders in restorative justice practices. He was a member of the Regional Advisory Committee for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission on Indigenous Residential Schools. He has written and lectured extensively about this. His Sunday worship community is in Kahnawake (Mohawk Territory). Brian is very interested in the encounter of spiritualities emanating not only from Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island, but also from Hinduism, Sufism and Christianity. He travels regularly to India.
Education
B.A. in Communication Arts (Loyola College)
B.C.L., LL.B. (McGill)
M.A. Theology (Concordia University).
Teaching interests
The encounter of spiritual traditions and practices (meditation); Relations with Indigenous people of Turtle Island; Faith, culture and media; Democracy and the rule of law in pluri-ethical and pluri-religious societies; cosmology and eco-justice.
