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A Catholic Register special section
Photo courtesy Steve Sellers
For over four decades, Steve Sellers has walked alongside some of the top athletes in the world as a sports chaplain. With a quiet but steadfast presence, his ministering spirit has been with those chasing success from junior hockey rinks in Calgary and Canmore to Olympic ski hills half a world away.
A “soil man who became a soul man” is now the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island.
After a decade of discernment, Victor Valdés finds himself on the threshold of priesthood in the Archdiocese of Toronto, the culmination of a vocation that began with a tender nudge from the Holy Spirit in a Scarborough parish pew.
“A heroic man is one who worships the God he is created in the image of,” said the Calgary-based Catholic. “He loves his family, protects them and contributes to his community as God calls him to.”
February 25, 2026
At Toronto’s Loretto College School, the spirit and vision of Mary Ward acontinues to pulse through the all-girls Catholic school, as seemingly endless initiatives and day-to-day acts of mentoring, fundraising, inclusion and education carry on, turning faith into fearless service.
