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St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church of the Mackenzie-Fort Smith Diocese in Dettah, NT, a town of 236 people.

Priest's mission to the Great White North demonstrates need for more clergy

Mission work is not just about humanitarian aid in developing countries. There are missions that exist in our own backyard.

Erik Sorensen, left, and Matt Hendzel are navigating their way through the long process of Jesuit formation.

Jesuit students set to ‘roll up their sleeves’ in next formation step

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Erik Sorensen got his first job at 12, shovelling snow for an apartment building in his hometown of Red Deer, Alta. In high school he worked in a grocery store stacking cans and filling up the bins of potatoes.

Mario Biscardi with his Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal.

Recipient of papal medal banks on Serra's future as oncoming president

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Of course Mario Biscardi was given prior notice that he was to receive the highest honour the Vatican bestows on any layperson.

Pope Francis speaks April 10 to some 550 "missionaries of mercy" in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. The pope, who originally commissioned the priests during the Year of Mercy, has extended indefinitely their special mission of preaching God's mercy and showing it, especially through the sacrament of reconciliation.

Pope reaffirms missionaries' mandate to knock on hearts

By Catholic News Service

VATICAN – As a sign that God's mercy cannot be limited, Pope Francis has recommissioned his special army of priests charged with bringing that divine mercy to everyone.

Women religious, who were freed after being held by rebels for more than three months, attend a 2014 prayer service at Holy Cross Church in Damascus, Syria, after their release.

Conference honours women religious who put their lives at risk to serve

By Catholic News Service

ROME – Today's women religious belong to "a long line of courageous women" whose faith in God and love for humanity led them to put their lives at risk, said Sister Patricia Murray, an Irish member of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Dr. Louis Girard (left) and Dr. Nuala Kenney have both let the Gospel help guide their career choices.

The good doctors: Fighting to keep morality in the age of the quick fix in medicine

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, described a physician’s career this way: “Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous and judgment difficult.” So, who in their right mind would want to be a doctor?

Charles Mully is pictured with young people in a scene from the film "Mully," a documentary about the Kenyan-born Mully, 68, who was abandoned by his family when he was 6 years old and went on to become a successful businessman and founder of Mully Children's Family to help children who themselves have been abandoned.

Once abandoned himself, Kenyan man now cares for thousands of children

By Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Charles Mully has had an incredible life story. And he's not finished yet.

The Kenyan-born Mully, 68, was abandoned by his family when he was 6 years old. For a decade, he scratched out a living for himself. At age 16, he encountered Christ in a personal way and later became a successful businessman, but he ditched it all to establish the Mully Children's Family, a home to shelter kids who had been abandoned like he once had been.