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July 14, 2021

‘Intolerable’ violence no answer for anger

Flames engulf St. Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville, Alberta, June 30, 2021, in this still image taken form video obtained from social media.

With 20 churches across Canada — mostly Catholic — torched by mid-July in the fallout of the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools, the silence from political leaders has been deafening, says Deacon Andrew Bennett.

Published in Canada
July 6, 2021

Church fires, vandalism condemned

Flames engulf St. Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville, Alberta, June 30, 2021, in this still image taken form video obtained from social media.

The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has condemned the rash of church fires and vandalism that has taken place across Canada, particularly in the west, since the discovery of graves at former residential schools.

Published in Canada
June 29, 2021

Arson suspected in First Nations church fires

Historic St. Ann's Catholic Church on the Hedley Native Reserve of the Upper Similkameen Band was destroyed by fire June 26, 2021. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said officers were investigating June 26 fires that destroyed the century-old St. Ann's and Our Lady of Lourdes Church on the Chopaka Native Reserve of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, near Osoyoos.

VANCOUVER -- Five suspicious fires have destroyed or damaged churches on British Columbia First Nations’ land in the weeks following the discovery of an unmarked gravesite at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in late May and mid-June on the Cowessess First Nation in southern Saskatchewan.

Published in Canada
April 22, 2021

Fire claims Attawapiskat church

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the isolated James Bay community of Attawapiskat burned to the ground April 21.

Another church in a First Nations community has been destroyed by fire.

Published in Canada
April 16, 2021

Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday

The Easter Sunday fire quickly consumed the coummunity church. In the charred remains, a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha somehow survived, as well as a Mary statue.

Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.

Published in Features
April 7, 2021

Arson suspected in Manitoba church fire on Easter

Flames shoot through the roof of the Catholic Church on St. Theresa Point First Nation on Easter Sunday.

Just hours after Easter Sunday Mass, residents of St. Theresa Point First Nation in Manitoba could only watch and cry as their Catholic church burned to the ground.

Published in Canada
July 31, 2020

New life for parish after devastating fire

The new St. Isidore’s Church serving the French-speaking community in St. Isidore, Ont. The new building replaces the church destroyed by fire four years ago. It was consecrated and blessed by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast July 23.

ST. ISIDORE, ONT. -- When the historic church in St. Isidore, built in 1879, was destroyed by fire after a lightning storm in 2016, the community vowed off that the spiritual centre of the small French-Canadian community in eastern Ontario would rise again.

Published in Canada
July 27, 2020

Cathedral volunteer charged with arson for Nantes fire

Debris caused by a fire inside the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Nantes, France, is seen July 19, 2020. French police have charged a cathedral volunteer with "destruction and damage by fire" in connection to the blaze.

NANTES, France -- A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral.

Published in International
July 20, 2020

Arson suspected as cause of fire at Nantes Cathedral

French firefighters battle a blaze at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Nantes July 18, 2020. Police are investigating the incident as arson because the fire started in three different places.

NANTES, France -- French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes.

Published in International
July 13, 2020

Fire ravages historic California mission, but community vows to rebuild

Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel, Calif., caught fire before sunrise July 11, 2020.

LOS ANGELES -- The fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel Arcangel church in the predawn hours of July 11 left behind a haunting scene.

Published in International
December 14, 2017

Fr. Raymond J. De Souza: A blessing of Providence after church fire

The scale of the centennial renovation at Sacred Heart of Mary on Wolfe Island is evident by the extent of scaffolding in the church.

We are blessed on Wolfe Island with a magnificent church — more like a cathedral, visitors often say. Dedicated to our Lady under the title of the Sacred Heart of Mary, it was built in 1916-1917, and dedicated in June 1918. I had begun thinking a few years back how to mark the centennial.

Published in Fr. Raymond de Souza
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