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Choir school navigates shelter issues

June 8, 2022

Efforts to move the Bond Place emergency shelter located roughly 30 metres from the St. Michael’s Choir School — futile so far — have left concerned parent Jennifer Franssen Keenan demoralized and on the verge of despair.

Vancouver priests get new ‘spiritual mothers’

June 5, 2022

A Maple Ridge, B.C., woman has launched an initiative whose goal is to pair each of the Vancouver archdiocese’s 200-plus priests with a woman who is committed to praying for him every day.

London teen pushes diverse hockey culture

June 4, 2022

What began as a class assignment has landed London, Ont., teen Tyrell Campbell a spot on Hockey Canada’s Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group and caught the eye of National Hockey League officials.

Wedding follows on heals of confirmation

June 2, 2022

In the happy moments following the end of the Easter Vigil service at St. Joseph’s in Port Moody, nine of the 10 men and women who were baptized or confirmed that evening began to leave the sanctuary with family and friends, most heading to a celebratory gathering in the adjoining church hall.

Christ’s compassion creates ‘residential school conqueror’

June 2, 2022

A life that very easily could have fallen off the rails after a painful experience in Canada’s residential school system was not to be for Bill Adsit.

Dunn gets long-awaited pallium

June 2, 2022

Long delayed by COVID, Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Brian Dunn received his pallium from the papal nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, on May 31.

Halifax extends shelter initiative through summer

June 2, 2022

With an ever-growing housing crisis in Nova Scotia, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth has extended its emergency shelter initiative.

Canadians still religious, Cardus study finds

June 2, 2022

A five-year study by the non-partisan think tank Cardus is complicating the narrative of Canadian religious decline while highlighting the shifting and sometimes complicated nature of Canadian religious identity.

Bereavement bill passes in Alberta

June 1, 2022

Employees in Alberta will now be entitled to bereavement leave following any pregnancy that doesn’t end in a live birth, regardless of the reason or timing.

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in Sudbury is restored

June 1, 2022

Spring and Summer 2020 was rocked by a wave of vandalism at religious sites all across Canada and the United States.