Jordan Berry, Danny Castello, Jason Penner, and Jason Kirupakaran in the Luke 15 House Chapel. All four became Catholic as a result of their time at the recovery house.(Nicholas Elbers photos)

‘I thank God he brought me here’: Recovery house was a centre of healing that drew 4 men to Christ

Christ is present everywhere, but he might spend more time in some places than others. That’s what it feels like talking to some of the clients at Luke 15 Recovery House in Surrey. Despite its legal definition as a “recovery house,” program manager Clark Umengan prefers to think of the centre, which opened in 1992,...

Flaws will be found, objections raised, and nits picked with the Sacred Covenant made between Catholic and Indigenous leaders regarding the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. But an open spirited reader of the concord made public June 21 will find a work of genuine beauty that is cause for authentic hope. Its achievement is...

The Archdiocese of Vancouver annual Healing and Reconciliation collection will “continue sowing seeds of understanding and hope, thereby creating a future where reconciliation flourishes and the wounds of the past are gently healed,” writes Archbishop J. Michael Miller in a Sept. 3 letter promoting the annual collection. (Nicholas Elbers photo)

Healing collection will sow ‘seeds of understanding’: Archbishop

One year after a papal visit described as “a significant step on the road to healing and reconciliation, the Archdiocese of Vancouver is preparing to take the next step toward reconciliation with the Sept. 10 Healing and Reconciliation collection. In a Sept. 3 letter promoting the annual collection, Archbishop J. Michael Miller wrote that donors’...

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