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Artist Arnold Shives says B.C.’s beauty inspires him to create, but Opus Dei reminds him to do it for God.

Opus Dei at 90: Making life extra-ordinary

By Agnieszka Rusk, Canadian Catholic News

VANCOUVER – The summits of B.C.’s Coastal Mountains and Rockies inspire longtime artist Arnold Shives.

Fr. Craig Strang on his bicycle is given plenty of attention from his pupils in the 1930s.

Missions accomplished: After 100 years, Scarboro Missions in Toronto is closing its doors

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

At 60, Fr. Ron MacDonell is the youngest of the Scarboro Missions priests. Even as his fellow priests back home in Toronto move into a seniors’ residence, MacDonell is working today in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin among Brazil’s Makushi people, bringing together village elders and young people to recover their vanishing language and culture.

An African Mass is held the last Sunday of every month at St. Dominic Savio Parish. Up to 200 people come from parishes across Edmonton and from as far as Fort Saskatchewan for the Mass.

African Mass offers a taste of home in north Edmonton

By Thandi Konguavi, Canadian Catholic News

EDMONTON – Thirteen-year-old Emmanuel Eremionkhale knows one or two words in Esan, and a couple more in Igbo, the Nigerian languages of his father and mother.

Peace garden at St. Andrew Elementary School in Orangeville, Ont., after Tove Schmidt and a team of volunteers brought it back to life.

Rosary-inspired idea revitalizes garden

By Mickey Conlon

One woman’s labour of love has seen an overgrown peace garden at a Catholic school in Orangeville, Ont., brought back to life as a Rosary Garden.

Muslims, Jews and Christians of East York got together Oct. 21 along the Danforth in Toronto to demand action on poverty as part of the Dignity For All Chew On This campaign.

One in six Canadians are poor, Citizens of Public Justice report says

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Helping 5.8 million Canadians out of poverty isn’t a charity project. It’s about building a better economy and living up to the human rights we proclaim as a nation, said the author of a new report on poverty.

A Catholic abuse survivor said domestic abuse is more prevalent than most realize and that many victims have struggled to find help from medical professionals, the court system and the Catholic Church. October is observed as Domestic Abuse Awareness Month in North America.

Domestic abuse victims of Catholic marriages say escape is no easy matter

By Catholic News Service

VANCOUVER – Nothing could have prepared Adelaide for the nightmare that was 18 years of her life.

Oblate Fathers Mission School, Fort George, Quebec, January 1946 / École missionnaire des Pères Oblats, Fort George (Québec), janvier 1946

Quebec bishops denounce alleged Oblate sex abuses investigated, aired by Radio-Canada

By Catholic News Service

MONTREAL – In a statement issued a few minutes after the broadcast of a story from Radio-Canada investigating sexual abuse allegedly committed by 10 Oblate missionaries in First Nation communities, the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops told of their "indignation and shame" for the "terrible tragedy of sexual and physical abuse of minors by members of the clergy or religious communities."

Maggie McAuley described the discrimination she faced as a pro-life student on campus at the University of Windsor, Ont. in a National Life Campus Network campaign last month.

Free speech policy in universities called ‘small Band-Aid’ on gaping wound

By Agnieszka Krawczynski, Canadian Catholic News

VANCOUVER – Dehumanized. Spat on by a professor. Attacked. Assaulted.

To date, more than 250 vases have been stolen from three Catholic cemeteries in Mississauga.

Thieves target gravesite vases in Mississauga

By Mickey Conlon

Peel police are investigating a rash of thefts at three Catholic cemeteries in Mississauga, Ont., where thieves have made off with bronze vases from gravesites.

Fr. Mark Miller says the challenge is to preserve spiritual care in a health care industry largely driven by technology.

St. Elizabeth Health Care sending message of HOPE

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

When Archbishop Fergus P. McEvay started the St. Elizabeth Nurses in Toronto 110 years ago, it was all about the beginning of life. Four qualified midwives were stationed in the city’s poorer neighbourhoods to deliver babies, ensure the mother’s health and then get those babies baptized.

Archbishop Richard Smith speaks to reporters about the updated CCCB abuse prevention guidelines.

Archbishop Richard Smith outlines Canadian bishops' action plan on sex abuse

By Thandiwe Konguavi, Canadian Catholic News

EDMONTON – Trust in the Catholic Church has been broken in the wake of horrific reports of clergy sex abuse, but that trust can be restored, said Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith.