WCR This Week

When two Medical Mission Sisters arrived here from Philadelphia in October 1978 and saw what they called Third World conditions in the inner city Edmonton, they were determined to be a healing presence.

Sisters Estelle Demers and Teresa Arac were largely responsible for the formation of the Boyle McCauley Health Centre that opened in 1980. more . . .

EDMONTON – Year after year, Peppy Wallace keeps coming back for the Life Chain.

"We've got to get our support out there to show that everybody cares. When they see our signs, that might ring a bell with them," Wallace said as he stood along 124th Street holding his sign and waving to passing cars on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 3.

EDMONTON – Delays in construction will keep students and staff of Newman Theological College at their temporary location in Sherwood Park until the New Year.

"We are actually taking possession of the new building (some time) in October but we are not going to move classes in the middle of the semester; that's basically the point. more . . .

EDMONTON –– The main gift of Catholic schools is their “uncompromising Catholicity,” said the archbishop of Vancouver.

EDMONTON –Catholic education is navigating in a challenging culture, but it's a culture that offers "wonderful new possibilities" says Holy Cross Father James Mulligan.