Father Paul Goo, centre, is pictured during a missions trip to the Philippines in 2017, will serve in the Vatican's Secretariat of State beginning in January. Father Goo is pastor of Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver. (B.C. Catholic file photo)

Vancouver priest assigned to Vatican’s Secretariat of State

3 December 2024 News

Father Paul Goo, pastor of Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver, has been called to Rome to serve in the English-language section of the…

Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters are guarded by police after violence targeting Israeli soccer fans broke out in Amsterdam Nov. 8.

Could Dutch attacks happen here?

26 November 2024 News

Amsterdam today, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary tomorrow?  Both Richard Marceau, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs’ (CIJA) vice p...

The reliquary containing remains of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and his photo. The Italian teen had a great love of the Eucharist and used his technology skills to build an online database of eucharistic miracles around the world.

Carlo Acutis relics to return home

19 November 2024 News

After a short but successful Canadian pilgrimage in eastern and central Canada, a pericardium relic of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis,…

Kathy Matusiak-Costa, Director of Compassionate Community Care was one of the facilitators at a workshop Nov. 9 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. CCC is a registered charity of health care professionals and volunteers who provide support to vulnerable persons and their families during times of illness and crisis. (Photo by Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News)

Compassionate Community Care: taking action against loneliness and despair

19 November 2024 News

By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Some 100 participants gathered Nov. 9 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon for a Compassionate Community Care…

The Bilodeau home at 219 Carnarvon St., with Ellen Bilodeau and children. (Steve Norman Collection)

A Time to Remember, A Time to Give Thanks: The Life of Ellen Murphy Bilodeau (1857-1939)

19 November 2024 News

November is the Month of the Holy Souls, a time when Catholics are called to remember and pray for those who have gone before us.…

A groom flashes a peace sign at wedding-goers while processing out of St. Mary’s Church in Vancouver after having his marriage sacramentally blessed at the Marriage Mass on October 19. (Nicholas Elbers Photos)

Couples find sacramental marriages ‘in God’s perfect timing’

19 November 2024 News

Sometimes it just takes moving across the world to understand the value of a sacramental marriage. At least that’s what it took for Eddelyn and…

Premier John Horgan is shown in a Government of British Columbia photo. He died on Nov. 12 at age 65. (B.C. Government photos)

Archbishop offers prayers for former B.C. Premier John Horgan

14 November 2024 News

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, issued the following statement on Nov. 12 following the death of former B.C. Premier John Horgan. “I was saddened…