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Sheedy: St. Joseph is a guide to being an everyday saint

May 24, 2021

If you’re anything like me, you might find it a bit tough to relate to St. Joseph. Not only did he live 2,000 years ago on the other side of the planet, but we know next to nothing about him. Not a single word he said has been recorded and the Gospels give us only

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Berube: Some fruits have come out of the first-year seminary desert

May 12, 2021

This year has been a year of abundant blessing for me – from many directions where I expected growth should come, but also through many surprises. Perhaps one of my biggest realizations this year is how much I have yet to grow. I can see how it takes nine years for a man to be

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Phillips: Catholic Studies program is like being in intellectual purgatory, and that’s a good thing

May 11, 2021

Being in the new Bachelor of Arts in Catholic Studies program at Newman Theological College is a bit like the second part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: Purgatory. This might seem like a negative statement, but it is actually not. Let me explain myself by first sharing both some of the joys and frustrations I

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Bodnarek: One of the best parts of my job is teaching my students about my faith

May 7, 2021

I absolutely grew up wanting to be a teacher, and I knew I was called to the vocation of teaching. When I was little, I would sit my stuffed animals in a row and pretend I was teaching them, and when I got a little older and I had to study for exams, I would

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Langlois: Honouring a Mother’s Eucharistic “Yesses”

May 6, 2021

One of my earliest memories of my mother takes place in our kitchen in Churchbridge, Sask. when I would have been three or four years old. Having baked a cake of one flavour or another, an inconsequential matter to me at my young age, she had completed the much more important job of whipping up

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New southwest Edmonton parish named Divine Mercy

April 10, 2021

A new church in southwest Edmonton is at least a decade away, but preparations are underway to build it. And now there’s a name: The Catholic Parish of Divine Mercy.

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His parents let him choose any faith. He chose to be Catholic.

April 1, 2021

Leonel Tobias is a parishioner at St. Mary’s church in Provost. He will receive the sacraments at this year’s Easter vigil after completing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) program under the guidance of his pastor, Rev. Christopher Selvaraj Rayappan. Tobias talks about his family life, his journey towards choosing the Catholic faith,

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Easter offers all of us a message of extraordinary hope

March 31, 2021

“The Lord is Risen!” is the acclamation of all Christians at Easter. Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith said there’s a risk of taking for granted the message of extraordinary, sure hope that is contained in those words. Over the past year as we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re looking for signs of hope However, nothing

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Archbishop Smith responds to new assisted suicide law

March 18, 2021

Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith responds to the passage of Bill C-7 which expands euthanasia and assisted suicide to those without foreseeable death. The Senate accepted a revised version of Bill C7. The bill received royal assent March 17 just over a week before the March 26 court-imposed deadline Under the new law, Canadians who are

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