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February 10, 2018

Catholic skater Yuna Kim lights up the start of 2018 Winter Olympics

Yuna Kim performs in the Ladies' Figure Skating Short Program in Vancouver, during the 2010 Winter Olympics on Feb. 23, 2010.
SEOUL, South Korea – Catholic Olympic gold-medalist Yuna Kim lit the torch at the Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Feb. 9.
Published in International
February 8, 2018

Fire on ice: Wojtek Wolski's faith helps keep his Olympic dream alive

Team Canada’s Wojtek Wolski has come a long a way since he found himself in a hospital bed recovering from a broken neck suffered in 2016.
Wojtek Wolski has gone from being a can’t-miss prospect from St. Michael’s College to a disillusioned young man who wanted to quit hockey, to a hospital patient facing a long comeback after shattering injury, and now to a person who has a shot at Olympic glory.
Published in Canada
February 5, 2018

The Woodcroft Family: Passing the puck from the Flying Fathers to the NHL to the Olympics

Fr. Paul Woodcroft (left) Frank and Todd Woodcroft (Courtesy of the Woodcroft family). Craig Woodcroft (right) will be at the Olympics this month as a member of the men’s team coaching staff (Photo from Wikimedia Commons).
The backyard rink at the Woodcroft home on Cheritan Ave. in north Toronto was one busy locale back in the day.
Published in Features
February 2, 2018

Going for God: Vatican invited to attend Olympic opening ceremony

Pope Francis is seen with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, during the opening ceremony of a world conference on faith and sport Oct. 5 in the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall in 2016.
VATICAN – For the first time, the International Olympic Committee has invited a Vatican delegation not only to take part in the opening ceremony of the Winter Games, but also to attend its general meeting as an official observer.
Published in International
January 31, 2018

Editorial: Olympic spirit lives in Korea

South Korean women's hockey team faces Australia in the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championships in April 2017. Women from the North Korean hockey team will be joining the South Korean team during the 2018 Pyeonchang Winter Olympic Games.
In ancient Greece, warring sides would sign a truce for the duration of the Olympic Games so athletes could safely join the sporting festival. That ideal, sport as a bridge to peace, still endures despite the modern Games being darkened so often by scandal.
Published in Editorial
January 30, 2018

South Korean bishop hopes Winter Olympics leads to peace

Senior officials of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, both winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, carry the torch of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics during a relay in Cheongju, South Korea.
Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon, president of the Korean bishops' Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People, released a statement hoping "the Olympics, feast of peace, will be a turning point to reduce the uneasiness and to settle peace on the peninsula."
Published in International