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Faith flows through artistic passion

July 29, 2021

Nestled amidst the evergreens in the village of Haines Junction in Canada’s Yukon, a tiny church known as Our Lady of the Way has been a source of creative and spiritual inspiration for artist Libby Dulac.

Missing Indigenous women spawn hope

June 25, 2021

When Ojibwe jingle dress dancer Patience Commanda decided to use her art form to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), she never imagined she would receive hope in return.

Basketball star mines father’s drive to be best he can be

June 18, 2021

Basketball standout Abu Kigab’s tenacious drive to be the best athlete he can may be proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Healing Indigenous communities

June 10, 2021

Indigenous elder and lay minister Rosella Kinoshameg reflects on the Gospel of Matthew’s parable of the treasure discovered hidden in a field as she looks to find healing and meaning in the wake of the latest trauma to hit Indigenous communities in Canada.

Anger — and remorse — spreads wide following Kamloops discovery

June 9, 2021

As 10,000 people marched in sorrow and in anger from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square, Vivian Timmins just had to be there — because Timmins is a residential school survivor.

Fr. Falke turns the everyday into art

May 28, 2021

Fr. Herman Falke has had his hands busy working on what he says is an “intentionally complicated” wood carving.

Resilient community farms provide ‘living’ nourishment

May 21, 2021

Winter is not just weather and neither is spring. Our long, grey season of COVID discontent and loneliness is not quite over, but outside our windows and outside our cities spring is relentless.

Putting faith into action

May 12, 2021

When Carl Hétu was a teenager growing up in Quebec, he recalls a conversation he had with his father that helped shape the man he would become.

Mothers can have it all, and family too

May 5, 2021

When Dorothy Pilarski reflects on her life since leaving the corporate world to launch a successful Catholic women’s ministry, she imagines her mother looking down on her giggling from Heaven.

St. Finnan’s joins exclusive club as Canada's newest Minor Basilica

April 29, 2021

OTTAWA -- A Catholic church that dates back to the early 1800s in eastern Ontario is Canada’s newest basilica, becoming one of only 27 Catholic churches in Canada to be designated as a minor basilica.