VANCOUVER - Almost every day for the last threeyears, a determined, wheelchairboundwoman has travelled fromher home in downtown Vancouverto Holy Rosary Cathedral for dailyMass.
Giving up a prosperous life for religous call ‘liberating’
By Anne Hanley, Catholic Register SpecialCOCHRANE, ALTA. - It began simply enough. JoachimOstermann “thought it would bea nice break” when his Vancouverparish said a retreat was being heldat Westminster Abbey.
Chaplain at his best relating to the student
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Linton Soares believes that a school chaplain can be one of two things for their students.
Have Bible, will travel
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - While many in their early 20s are called to travel by a sense of adventure, Fr. Pedro Torres was called to travel to become closer to God by doing His work.
Ordinary life turns extraordinary
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - When Alice Fougère, 62, experienced a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in 1998 she had no inkling that God’s plan included her founding a new religious order.
‘In Good Company’ is the cure for loneliness
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Thanks to Toronto’s Sisters of St. Joseph, many of the city’s isolated homebound residents are living a less lonely life.
Author hopes her experiences touch lives of others
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Sr. Marie Paul Curley is bringing the saints to life in her two newly launched books.
Precious Blood Sisters experience growth spurt
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterThe Sister Adorers of the Precious Blood are defying trends among women’s religious communities with an upswing in candidates interested in joining the order.
Early days in St. Vincent de Paul Society rekindled as adult
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Jean-Noel Cormier got his first glimpse of poverty — and felt an urge to help — in his childhood in Bouctouche, New Brunswick.
Ordinandi found peace in God
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - For Joshua Roldan, true peace is only found in the Lord.
Soon-to-be priest finds it’s never too late
By Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Paul Finn, 53, can’t point to that one moment that compelled him to study for the priesthood.