3+ hour, 28+ min ago  (735+ words) The school year draws to a close, and with it comes the celebration of our little domestic school's first year of operation. We had one grade, kindergarten, and one student, my son. He completed the year surrounded by the hum…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (832+ words) Hospital chaplains now face a new need for their counselling ministry as health-care professionals are called on to perform "medical assistance in dying" (MAi D), becoming traumatized by the duty to kill their own patients. It is not the vocation they…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (256+ words) Britta Curl-Salemme, who played on the U. S. women's hockey team that broke Canada's hearts, winning gold in overtime, says she draws strength from her Catholic faith. Hockey is her "path to becoming a saint," she said, because in a team sport…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (549+ words) At a First Communion preparatory Mass I recently attended, the Deacon prayed that the children would continue to come with joy to the celebration of the Eucharist. While the sentiment of the prayer was beautiful, the background sounds of two…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (734+ words) As Pope Leo responded to the recent U. S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro by invoking the intercession of newly canonized Saint Jose Gregorio Hernandez, the moment carried special meaning for a B. C. man who is related to the Venezuelan saint." Vancouver…...