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.
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, is on its way back to Assisi, Italy. Blessed Carlo is expected to be canonized in this year’s Jubilee Year.
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)
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 workshop about providing grassroots care and connection for those who are isolated or suffering. Organized by Jackie Saretsky, Coordinator of the diocesan Hospital Chaplaincy Office, in response to requests for...
The Bilodeau home at 219 Carnarvon St., with Ellen Bilodeau and children. (Steve Norman Collection)
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. In keeping with this tradition, we have been publishing stories of...
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)
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 Mario John, two recent arrivals from the Philippines....
Premier John Horgan is shown in a Government of British Columbia photo He died on Nov 12 at age 65 BC Government photos
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 to learn of the passing of former...
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Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) is on the verge of securing the financial future of Justice House, a property neighbouring Parliament Hill that functions as its home for faith-inspired justice.
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This fall, Called and Gifted introductory workshops were scheduled in three different locations across the diocese — Saskatoon, Rosetown, and Humboldt — in order to provide greater opportunity for more Catholics to participate in this life-changing process, said Called and Gifted team member Anne Williams. “All lay parishioners, priests and religious are invited to begin...
Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Brian Dunn displays the monstrance ahead of the 4km Eucharist Procession where approximately 1000 people walked with Jesus through the streets of Halifax Oct. 19. (Photo credit Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth.)
Halifax-Yarmouth’s first Eucharistic Congress wrapped up Oct. 20, drawing local faithful to numerous events over four days for prayer, reflection and worship. The climax, according to Aurea Sadi, a project coordinator of adult faith within the Office of Pastoral Life & New Evangelization, was a five-km procession Oct. 19 from St. Agnes Church to downtown...
A banner depicting Canada-born Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, is displayed outside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 17, 2024, ahead of her canonization Oct. 20, 2024.
For the third time, a Canadian has been elevated to sainthood with the Oct. 20 canonization of St. Marie-Léonie Paradis. Canadian Catholics turned up in force to celebrate the canonization of Quebec-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis in St. Peter’s Square, with bishops and priests, members of the congregation Paradis founded and devoted laity made the trip...
Chief Wilton Littlechild is the first Indigenous recipient of the Kevin Carr Christian Leadership Award from Newman Theological College in Edmonton. (Photos courtesy of the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton)
Chief Wilton (Willie) Littlechild, internationally known human rights lawyer and advocate for truth and reconciliation, is the first Indigenous recipient of the Kevin Carr Christian Leadership Award from Newman Theological College in Edmonton. Littlechild was born and raised on the Ermineskin Cree Nation, south of Edmonton. He is a residential school survivor, a former Truth...
