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Jama Bin-Edward, left, wraps herself and coach Carly Clarke in the U Sports flag following Ryerson Rams’ national basketball championship earlier this month.

National title, MVP honours cap varsity career

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U Sports women’s basketball tournament MVP Jama Bin-Edward of the Ryerson Rams is still coming down from the high of an undefeated season which culminated in the program’s first national title in early April.

Easter Drawing Contest 2022 winners

Easter Drawing Contest 2022 winners

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The great 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared that beauty will save the world. Some years earlier, Our Lord anticipated — and no doubt inspired — Dostoyevsky by teaching us the necessity for salvation of experiencing the world and expressing our faith through the beauty in children’s eyes.

Stained glass that survived a church fire in St. Thomas, Ont., has found a home in the foyer of St. Marguerite D’Youville School in Ottawa.

Rescued artifacts help engage students in faith

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An Easter display in the foyer of St Marguerite D’Youville School in Ottawa contains a stained glass artistic piece that survived a fire at a church in St. Thomas, Ont. And its altar is made from reclaimed knee walls from the Church of the Ascension in Ottawa.

Fr. Jacob enjoying pizza with kids at Parish of All Saints Church, a temporary shelter for Ukrainians fleeing the war.

Easter baskets raise funds for Ukraine

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Fundraising to secure aid for Ukraine has been an ongoing passion and mission for Bilyana Coburn of Grande Prairie, Alta., for more than six years now. Most of the monetary contributions made by this Grade 5 teacher from St. Catherine Catholic School has gone to orphanages. 

The Canadian bishops have just completed a vital step on the path to reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples, part of an Easter call to build a better world, for all. There is so much more to do around the world, from the suffering in Ukraine due to war with Russia to other injustices that abound.

God calls us to live together

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CCCB Easter messasge 2022

Students at St. Michael’s Academy in Thornhill, Ont., put together art work for the school’s annual Stations of the Cross on Holy Thursday.

Art school showcases Way of the Cross

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On Holy Thursday, in the gymnasium at St. Michael Catholic Academy in Thornhill, Ont., the lights are dimmed and reflective music is played as classes walk through an artistic Stations of the Cross display.

London, Ont., teacher Michael Drul has been creating traditional pysanky, above, adorned with sunflowers (the national flower of Ukraine), oak leaves and the eight-pointed star symbolic of the sun, Jesus and His resurrection.

Easter tradition aids Ukrainian homeland

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Michael Drul has been making  and selling pysanky — the decorative Easter eggs in the Ukrainian tradition believed to ward off evil — to raise funs for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mel Gibson, right, plays Bill Long, father to Mark Wahlberg’s Fr. Stu in the film Fr. Stu.

Actor deeply inspired by boxer turned priest

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There is a pivotal scene in the middle of the new biographical drama Fr. Stu where the eventual boxer-turned-priest, portrayed by Mark Wahlberg, tries to convince the rector of Mount Angel Seminary he is worthy of admittance.

Trees are the focus in the first installment of a retreat series at Ignatius Jesuit Centre.

Retreat explores powers within our natural world

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A three-retreat series debuting on the Earth Day weekend will invite attendees to enter a more spiritual and mindful relationship with the nature God created. 

Elders Irvine Sarazin, left, and Tom Deerhouse.

Galilee Centre keeps the healing fires burning

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As the Indigenous delegations began meetings at the Vatican in Rome, a fire-lighting sunrise ceremony was taking place at the Galilee Centre in the small town of Arnprior, Ont., just 65 km west of downtown Ottawa.

Canadian Indigenous leaders greet the media after a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican April 1. From left are Chief Gerald Antoine of the Assembly of First Nations; Cassidy Caron, president of the Métis National Council; and Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

Apology begins path to reconciliation

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Never was a single sentence more longed for. In 40 years since survivors began to speak out, 16 years since the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and seven years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada delivered its final report, nations and peoples have waited for a Pope to speak.

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