Just over 200 years ago, an Austrian Roman Catholic priest named Josef Mohr penned the words to what would become a Christmas classic. A couple years later, a teacher and organist, Franz Gruber, would add music to the poem. The…
This year’s No Room in the Inn campaign hopes to raise money to support L\’Arche to improve housing for people with special needs in the Edmonton area. No Room in the Inn is an annual Christmas season ecumenical appeal by…
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Tim 4:7) The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College lost a good friend as the life of Ave Spratt came…
I had already been a seminarian for six full years before I came face to face with the joyful opportunity to finally embark on a pastoral internship year in a parish, back in my home Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, Manitoba.
It is important to note that the delegation is postponed, not cancelled...
Peter Dai Nguyen is a second-year student at St. Joseph Seminary. He is from Phuc Vinh, Vietnam. He spent his first year living at Trappers Lake, north of Yellowknife. This past summer he spent a month in Tuktoyaktuk.
After more than 30 years at the city’s museum, the pieta has been returned to Sacred Heart Church in Red Deer. The pieta stood at the church from 1959 until a fire in 1990.
In this video, the Most Rev. Donald Bolen, Archbishop of Regina, reflects on the readings of the second Sunday of Advent, and we hear the call to prepare for the coming of the Lord. We are invited to prepare the way for healing and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples by listening, understanding and seeking forgiveness for the suffering experienced by students and their families because of Indian Residential Schools.
On behalf of His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, we share with you a video featuring Bishops from across the country reading the “Apology by the Bishops of Canada to the Indigenous Peoples of this Land.”
Her passion and legacy continue to inspire others