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Features

After 35 years as an Anglican priest, Fr. Robert Assaly converted to Catholicism in 2015. Married with six children, he was ordained as a Catholic priest on Sept. 20 and concelebrated Mass in Montreal.

Long road to priesthood for family man

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MONTREAL -- When newly ordained Fr. Robert Assaly refers to seeking help from “Mother,” the term is just as likely to refer to his wife Nancy as it is to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Kathy Irvin sees her role as cantor as inviting the assembly to be the singers of the Mass.

Cantor sets right tone for music ministry

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Kathy Irvin admits she takes her role in music ministry seriously.

Sr. Mary Margaret Hope, born and raised in Toronto, took her final vows as a Sister of Life in August.

Written in the stars: From astrophysics to religious life

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Sr. Mary Margaret Hope of the Morning Star spent years studying the heavens, but what she learned has taken her down a very different path in life than the one she was on.

Nicholas Graydon, who is being honoured by the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, gives a lesson on how to pick fiddleheads to Claire and Peter Chabot.

The power of humility

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At age 73, Graydon Nicholas has lived a life of firsts.

Sr. Rosa Elena Pico, a member of the Missionaries of Mary Co-Redemptrix, poses with children from the Indigenous community of Sarayaku, Ecuador. Pico has worked in the community since 2017 and occasionally leads the liturgy of the word in the absence of a priest.

Synod tackles issue of married priests

QUITO, Ecuador -- One of the challenges for bishops at the Amazon synod will be finding ways to meet the spiritual needs of the region’s people.
Laurindo Lazzaretti, left, Vanessa Xavier da Silva and Antonio Nascimento de Alveida of the Pastoral Land Commission.

Small farmers caught in battle to save land

BOA VISTA, Brazil -- Driving up the BR401, it’s hard not to be startled by the sight of a giant soy farm stretching out on both sides of the highway — the empty land is parched and denuded in mid-summer, after the crop is in. 
Fr. Ron MacDonell goes over teaching strategies at the Wainhamary Indigenous language school with Silvanira Matos and Jeanne Menendes.

Indigenous survival starts with language

MANAUS, Brazil -- As a caçique or chief of the Apurinã people, Xytara Apurinã has a pretty clear-eyed view of her people’s position in the Amazonian metropolis of Manaus. 
Shanenawa people dance during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Brazil.

Saving the Amazon: A fight for life

MANAUS, Brazil -- For Enock Barroso Tenente, what’s at stake at the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon is life as he knows it.
Photos from the Amazon

Photos from the Amazon

Brazil’s Indian affairs agency, FUNAI, carries out a vaccination campaign in Atalaia do Norte in Brazil’s Amazon region, as part of its mandate to protect isolated groups.

Violence, disease, death are constant companions

BOA VISTA, Brazil -- Consolata Br. Carlo Zacquini was ministering among the Yanomami people in a remote area of Brazil, near the border with Venezuela, when gold miners invaded their lands.
A depiction of a woman at work making a panela illustrates the tradition of Makushi pottery.

Makushi tribe seeing their culture being pushed aside for mining interests

RAPOSA, Brazil -- Summer evenings in the community of Raposa are golden and gentle. Half-wild horses wander in from the fields to feed on mangos that have fallen from huge trees in front of St. Isidore’s Catholic Church. A few young Makushi grab rakes to push the mangos into piles out of harm’s way. The setting sun seems so close, a giant ball of fire slipping…
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