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September 26, 2013
Maggie Wang apologized to God as she stood at the side of the freeway. She awaited the transport trucks known to frequent the route near her home. That night, there was only one. And as she was about to jump, she heard a voice say, “There’s more than this.”
September 27, 2013
Pope Francis was drawn to the Jesuits by the order's missionary spirit, discipline and community. in his interview with America Magazine he explained, “I was always looking for a community. I did not see myself as a priest on my own. I need a community.”
SAINTE-ADÈLE, QUE. - More than 350 Egyptian Christian churches, homes and business have been attacked and burned since the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi was deposed in July, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop Mina told Canada’s Catholic bishops.
Two Wednesday mornings during the summer — one in July and one in August — I usually begin with a trip to the grocery store. I peruse the aisles with my younger siblings shopping for bread, cheese, ham, lettuce and drinks.
The value of music education is at the heart of the Gandhi Ashram School in Darjeeling, India, founded 20 years ago by Canadian Jesuit Father Edward McGuire.
VAUGHAN, ONT. - Four days after a deadly suicide attack on the historic All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, more than 200 Pakistani Canadians descended on Pakistan’s remote consulate located in suburban Vaughan to protest against the brutality and send a clear message to the Pakistani government.
Pope Francis’ warning about overemphasizing Church teaching on abortion and other social doctrines is no cause for Canada’s pro-life movement to change its tactics or rethink its priorities, say veteran pro-life campaigners.
TORONTO - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino came home to Toronto and old friends to celebrate the 100th birthday of St. Augustine’s Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood in the early 1960s.
SAINTE-ADELE, QUE. - In his final address to Canada’s Catholic bishops Sept. 23, the papal nuncio told the bishops Pope Francis was giving them “a powerful lesson on the qualities that should characterize the episcopal ministry.”
September 28, 2013
TORONTO - Salt + Light, Canada’s Catholic broadcaster, is launching The Church Alive, “a series for the New Evangelization on the New Evangelization,” says co-host Sebastian Gomes.
Updated: 09/30/13 - changed date of Nuit Blanche TORONTO - One year after it began as little more than an idea, the Doors of Hope project is set to take part in Toronto’s seventh Nuit Blanche.
KILIS, TURKEY - I stood in a ditch about 200 metres away from two women slipping through farmers fields with their clothes, some blankets and God knows what else in old sacks they’d balanced over their shoulders. I mounted a 400-millimetre lens on my camera. I had to get this shot.
KILIS, TURKEY - Fifteen-year-old Abdullah Haji Mustafa wants to fight. He’s been living in a refugee camp for a year, since his family fled Tall Rifat, an embattled town just north of Aleppo.
September 29, 2013
KILIS, TURKEY - Ali Ahmad was walking with his young son one evening after dark. It was after they had fled Aleppo, Syria, and begun their lives as refugees in southern Turkey. It was a clear, starry night.
KILIS, TURKEY - In a different Syria one might imagine Yahya Abdur Rahman and Raschid Mohammad as good friends — serious, ambitious young men who have invested their hope in their country and their faith in God.
September 30, 2013
Listology is becoming an online craze. The lists range from the 20 Things You Need to Do in Your 20s to 7 Things You Need to Stop Doing Every Day. Lists push me to try new things, pull me into breaking bad habits and encourage me to expand my travel horizons.
VATICAN CITY - Recognizing that Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II have widespread reputations for holiness and that years of studying their lives and actions have proven their exceptional virtue, Pope Francis announced he would declare his two predecessors saints at a single ceremony April 27.
OTTAWA - Two prominent Quebec organizations hoping to block the province’s euthanasia Bill 52 submitted forceful briefs to the Health and Social Services committee seeking public input on the bill.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis made his international advisory panel on Church governance a permanent council of cardinals, thereby emphasizing the importance and open-endedness of its work among his pontificate's various efforts at reform.