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Nothing about this year will be normal

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Normal will not be on tap when students return to class this September. Distancing, masks and other safety measures will remain in place as we continue to deal with the pandemic.

Anyone who believes this coming school year will be normal is kidding themselves or is a politician preparing for an election.

Haiti: A nation caught in grip of chaos

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Members of a rescue team clean debris from a house in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 15 following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake the previous day.

When the 2010 earthquake hit Haiti, Jesuit Fr. Jean Francky went with his brother novices out onto the streets of Dumay, on the outskirts of Port au Prince. That night, the young religious men began digging through rubble with their bare hands.

Vatican appointments in August feature two Canadian women

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Anne Jamieson, left, and Donna Strickland

Vatican appointments in August feature two Canadian women – Anne Jamieson and Donna Strickland.

Faith flows through artistic passion

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Our Lady of the Way Church, converted from a quanset hut used to house American troops building the Alaska Highway, stands out against the northern lights in this Libby Dulac painting.

Nestled amidst the evergreens in the village of Haines Junction in Canada’s Yukon, a tiny church known as Our Lady of the Way has been a source of creative and spiritual inspiration for artist Libby Dulac.

Missing Indigenous women spawn hope

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Patience Commanda in her red jingle dress. The red dress, and the hand painted over her face, commemorates missing and murdered Indigenous women.

When Ojibwe jingle dress dancer Patience Commanda decided to use her art form to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), she never imagined she would receive hope in return.

Expansion plans to Providence Healthcare include quality of life

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Providence Healthcare will construct a new building at its Scarborough campus to add 180 new beds. Below right, an aerial view shows where the construction is soon to begin.

Adding 180 new long-term care beds and a whole new building to Unity Health’s Providence Healthcare site is just the beginning of the Catholic hospital’s plans for seniors in Toronto’s east end.

Basketball star mines father’s drive to be best he can be

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Abu Kigab drives for a layup in NCAA action for Boise State, where the Sudanese-Canadian stars.

Basketball standout Abu Kigab’s tenacious drive to be the best athlete he can may be proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Healing Indigenous communities

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Healing and reconciliation will come when there is true respect for Indigenous people, an acknowledgment of their humanity and the power of their culture to help all people.

Indigenous elder and lay minister Rosella Kinoshameg reflects on the Gospel of Matthew’s parable of the treasure discovered hidden in a field as she looks to find healing and meaning in the wake of the latest trauma to hit Indigenous communities in Canada.

Anger — and remorse — spreads wide following Kamloops discovery

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A memorial to the 215 children whose bodies were found in Kamloops stands outside the rectory at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.

As 10,000 people marched in sorrow and in anger from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square, Vivian Timmins just had to be there — because Timmins is a residential school survivor.

Fr. Falke turns the everyday into art

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Fr. Herman Falke at work in his studio and, at right, some of the Stations of the Cross he has created.

Fr. Herman Falke has had his hands busy working on what he says is an “intentionally complicated” wood carving.

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