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August 18, 2018

RCMP chapel roots stretch to Regina’s earliest days

RCMP conduct the Sunset Retreat Ceremony in front of the RCMP chapel in Regina, Sask.

REGINA – It may not rank with the likes of the great, centuries-old European cathedrals and churches but, like them, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police chapel in Regina shares a place in the history of its city.

Published in Features
March 20, 2018

Vatican taps top architects to create chapels for Venice festival

The Vatican picked the "woodland chapel" by the late Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, built in 1920, as a model.
VATICAN – For its debut at the "Biennale di Venezia" International Architecture Exhibition, the Vatican commissioned 10 renowned architects from around the world to turn a small wooded plot on an island in the Venetian lagoon into a spiritual-artistic pilgrimage of chapels.
Published in International
August 12, 2017

Mall chapels at the centre of it all

Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith, left, and Fr. Oscar Monroy, chaplain of St. Benedict Chapel, outside the chapel housed at the City Centre Mall. As chaplain, Monroy has developed relationships with his neighbours in the stores that surround St. Benedict Chapel

The Centre Dieu is in a Quebec City mall, but not of it.

Published in Canada
July 21, 2017

Religious order welcomes gas pipeline opponents to pray at new 'chapel'

People sit at an outdoor chapel on the property of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Columbia, Pa,. in early July. The chapel was built by Lancaster Against Pipelines in cooperation with the congregation as a symbol to block the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline, which opponents say would desecrate God's creation.

WASHINGTON – As chapels go, the simple structure on property owned by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ congregation in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is not much.

Published in International
June 26, 2017

Islamic State followers said to desecrate Catholic chapel in Mindanao

The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters desecrated a Catholic chapel in the village of Malagakit June 21.

COTABATO, Philippines – Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato has condemned "in the strongest terms possible" the reported desecration of a Catholic chapel by terrorist gunmen in the southern Philippines.

Published in International