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February 16, 2018

'It's the Lord, working through the music,' Catholic fiddler Natalie MacMaster says

As the 45-year-old mother of seven home-schooled children living on a working farm, and juggling her touring and recording, MacMaster has learned to plan for prayer and plan for music.
Whether or not St. Thomas Aquinas really said “he who sings prays twice,” it’s true.
Published in Arts News
June 21, 2015

Fr. Art MacKinnon: 50 years a martyr

Despite the dangers of a country in the midst of a civil war, Fr. Art MacKinnon used his pulpit to advocate for the people who were being oppressed and imprisoned by the Dominican Republic government under dictator Rafael Trujillo.

With the phone pressed to her ear memories spring to life of a man from half a life ago.

“Sure I remember him,” said Sr. Mary Jo Mazzerolle. “The day before he was killed he was in our house. He came to us to say Mass and afterwards he came to our house for supper.

Published in Canada
March 22, 2015

Mi’kmaq seek return of 300-year-old altar

This altar at Sacred Heart Church in Johnstown, N.S., belongs to the Potlotek First Nation and they want it back. The parish is trying to make arrangements to do so.

JOHNSTOWN, N.S. - The people of Potlotek First Nation say an ornate wooden altar stored at the nearby Sacred Heart Catholic Church was a gift to the Mi’kmaq nearly 300 years ago, and they want it back.

Published in Canada