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November 8, 2018

Airport chaplaincy, Catholic school boards work with police to stop human trafficking

Fr. John Mullins, airport chaplain at Toronto's Pearson International Airport likes to walk around the terminals, keeping a watchful eye. Duffering-Peel Catholic School Board superintendent Tilia Cruz superintendent Tilia Cruz wants the board’s educators to be on the frontlines of identifying potential victims in schools.

After celebrating daily Mass at Terminals 1 and 3, airport chaplain Fr. John Mullins likes to walk around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, praying the rosary and keeping a watchful eye. 

Published in Canada
July 30, 2018

Bringing the Mass to the masses: Eucharistic celebration in unexpected places

A young woman receives Holy Communion from Fr. Frank Portelli at the Rogers Centre Sunday Mass.

Canon law prescribes that Mass be celebrated in a “sacred place” such as a church or a chapel consecrated by a bishop. That is why, for example, there are strict rules forbidding the celebration of wedding Masses at locations such as a beach or garden patio. 

Published in Features
January 10, 2017

Georgia woman killed by gunman at Florida airport was parish stalwart

Firemen and ambulances wait outside Fort Lauderdale's airport in Florida Jan. 7, after a gunman opened fire killing at least five people and injuring eight more. Olga Woltering of Transfiguration Catholic Church in Marietta, Ga., was one of the victims killed in the shooting.

ATLANTA – Olga Woltering, a bedrock member of her parish and the Atlanta Cursillo movement and beloved to her family and many friends, was among five people killed in the Jan. 6 shooting at a Florida airport.

Published in International
July 24, 2014

Holy Land tour operators scramble to help pilgrims after flight ban

Most international airlines have cancelled their flights into Israel's Ben Gurion airport after several Hamas missiles were launched toward the area July 22.

JERUSALEM - With most international airlines cancelling their flights into Israel's Ben Gurion airport after several Hamas missiles were launched toward the area July 22, Anton Mousallam has only three words on his mind: cancellation, cancellation, cancellation.

Published in International