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Parish priests wear many hats in a given week: they are homilists, sacramental celebrants, office administrators, fiscal overseers, volunteer recruiters and events logistics managers.

Dr. Jason West has decided to resign after a 12-year presidency, the longest in the history of Newman Theological College in Edmonton.

As of June 18, the ShareLife parish campaign has accumulated $8.62 million, 62 per cent of its over $14-million goal.

The site of one of Ontario’s first-ever cooperative housing projects received a special blessing alongside its newly installed commemorative plaque that marked 68 years since the initial blessing of the site's constructors by Bishop Francis Marrocco. 

During one of the family road trips westward from Medicine Hat to Calgary, Fr. Cristino Bouvette said he could faintly recall pit-stopping at the IGA marketplace on 4th Avenue in Strathmore.

Joni Eareckson Tada, an evangelical who founded the organization Joni and Friends in 1979 with a mission of “accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community,” once spoke about how God “uses affliction like a hammer and chisel, chipping and cutting to reveal His image in you.”

Following years of development and circulation in other parts of the world, a unique course that teaches the importance of Christ-centred communication has made its way to Canada’s east coast. 

One student's graduation from King’s University College this month marked the culmination of a determined and lifetime pursuit of higher education.