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June 1, 2017

Canada's north is a challenge and a blessing, says Bishop Crosby

Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton says it's important for young priests, as he did when he was younger, to go serve in Canada's north.

Bishop Douglas Crosby has some travel advice for newly-ordained priests: Go north, young man.

Published in Canada
September 26, 2015

Challenges loom for north with status change

Archbishop Murray Chatlain

OTTAWA - Six northern Canadian dioceses face immense financial, social and personnel challenges that could become more pronounced due to a looming change in status from missionary to normal dioceses, according to their bishops.

Published in Canada
December 5, 2014

A Christmas gift for suffering South Sudan

A man fills a bag with cassava, also known as manioc, at the Ubangi River near the border between Congo and Central African Republic in this February photo. Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, visited the conflict-ridden neighbours South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

The world’s newest nation is in big trouble.

Following more than 20 years of civil war between north and south Sudan, the independent nation of the Republic of South Sudan was born in 2011.

But the birth of the new nation didn't come without pain. The many years of war brought not only much death, but also drained South Sudan of valuable resources, leaving it extremely poor.

Published in Tony Magliano
July 13, 2014

Vincentians hope to bring food security to North

Kedra Kimiksana tastes a cherry for the first time, thanks to the efforts of Sr. Faye Trombley.

You may not remember your first cherry, but Kedra and Destiny Kimiksana will always remember theirs. The young sisters got to try a cherry thanks to Sr. Faye Trombley, the missionary who runs Our Lady of Grace parish in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. At 69 degrees north and 133 degrees west, on a little reach of land that extends into the Beaufort Sea, cherries are hard to come by and expensive.

Published in Canada