Posted on 6/11/2013 12:50 PM By Jay
June 10, 2013
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME – The Eucharist should be a moment of communion with the Lord and also with "my many brothers and sisters who share at this same altar," Pope Francis said May 30.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:46 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
CHRIS MILLER
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
St. Clare of Assisi fought passionately with the Church hierarchy, gave generously to people in need and helped to launch the world's first peace movement that ended a 300-year war.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:44 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
CINDY WOODEN
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Vatican officials are making strategic phone calls to some of the world's most far-flung dioceses, trying to verify that in each of the world's inhabited time zones there will be an organized hour of Eucharistic Adoration coinciding with 5 to 6 p.m. Rome time June 2.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:42 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
SPECIAL TO THE WCR
BARRY'S BAY, ONT. – Six students from the Edmonton Archdiocese were among those receiving first, second and third-year certificates from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy at its recent graduation ceremony.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:39 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
CHRIS MILLER
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
Hanging on the wall of principal Greg Hall's office are T-shirts depicting past Grade 12 service projects – team uniforms of sorts.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:38 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
RUANE REMY
THE CATHOLIC REGISTER
Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire asks Anzoyo Tsukia, "Is Joseph Kony the devil incarnate?" A rosary hanging from her neck, she replies that Kony looks normal but everything he does is diabolical.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:36 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
ELIZABETH KRUMP
THE B.C. CATHOLIC
VANCOUVER – Modern Western society distrusts beauty and is trying to replace it with art that negates our sense of what is beautiful, says a leading British philosopher.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:34 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
RAMON GONZALEZ
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
'Marriage is a way to show us how God loves us and how we can love God in return through our spouse."
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:32 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
RAMON GONZALEZ
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
Baptism, the first of the three sacraments of initiation, is our basis of faith, our relationship with God through Jesus Christ and our life in the Church, Father Paul Kavanagh said May 22.
Posted on 5/29/2013 2:31 PM By Jay
June 3, 2013
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
GENEVA – More than 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith, and millions more face bigotry, intolerance and marginalization because of their beliefs, a Vatican official said.