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A stained glass window of St. Thomas Becket is seen at St. Alban’s Cathedral in St. Albans, England.

The saints who kept church doors open

Amidst the bustling liturgical season that runs from the feast of the Lord’s Nativity to the Epiphany, it is easy to lose sight of the memorial of Dec. 29 on the Roman calendar. St Thomas Becket, the 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr that the Church commemorates on the fifth day of the Octave of Christmas, is truly worth remembering here and now.

It’s still to be seen if people will flock to in-person Mass again after almost two years of live-streamed services.

Francis Campbell: Return to in-person Mass will be in God’s hands

Leisurely work-day walks provide a welcome respite from renewed restrictions brought on by the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

A tiny home destined for St. Anthony’s Church in Dartmouth, N.S., is hoisted onto a truck.

Francis Campbell: Halifax diocese writes its own Nativity narrative

It’s coming on Christmas and the Halifax-Yarmouth archdiocese is writing its own inspirational story of Bethlehem.

Harry McAvoy: Meet me in Cincinnati…

Harry McAvoy: Meet me in Cincinnati…

It would be a long journey, which I suspected would end badly. The American border had been closed for almost two years due to the pandemic, when the Bride decided she was going home to visit her mother.

Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade leave their landing craft to go ashore at Bernières-sur-mer, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Francis Campbell: Rising to the challenge of giving until it hurts

Give until it hurts. That famous phrase was uttered by Mother Teresa of Calcutta at a national prayer breakfast in Washington 50 years ago.

In a world that produces enough food to feed all, more than 800 million people still go hungry.

Francis Campbell: Forget possessions, all we need is God

Plunking down in a pew for Sunday Mass on Thanksgiving weekend brought a good deal of satisfaction and relief.

Harry McAvoy: Graveside visit a time of joy amid the tears

Harry McAvoy: Graveside visit a time of joy amid the tears

On a recent afternoon, the Bride and I met with my sister, Carol Anne, and our youngest daughter, Hope, at Holy Cross Cemetery, just north of Toronto. We had gathered to remember the second anniversary of the death of my mother, Anne McAvoy.

Francis Campbell: Pandemic recovery of biblical proportions?

Francis Campbell: Pandemic recovery of biblical proportions?

Then, miraculously, everything returned to normal. Or so it would seem.

A class of Mi’kmaq girls at Shubenacadie Residential School in 1929.

Francis Campbell: The sickening legacy of residential schools

We ought to be feeling pretty good about ourselves.

Catholic education needs to nurture the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing in its institutions.

Sarah Twomey: Educators play key role in reconciliation

I am a fifth-generation Irish descendent from Southern Ontario, and a third-generation teacher.

A priest gives a blessing following a funeral Mass.

Francis Campbell: Setting course on road back to normal

A glimmer of light is now visible at the end of our 15-month-long tunnel of unnatural existence.

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