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My first year of priesthood

By Father David Bellusci, OP Special to The B.C. Catholic Although the Year for Priests has ended, The B.C. Catholic received a number of contribu...
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Gov’t agrees to fund part-time kindergarten for independent schools

Half-day kindergarten will continue to be an option for parents and students in independent schools in British Columbia. In a letter to the Federatio...
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Nuns meet Jesus on mountain top

`Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord': Isaiah 2:3 Like the Mother Superior in The Sound of Music urging Maria von Trapp to Climb Every M...
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3 reasons we love Mother Teresa

Administrator - Saturday, 04 September 2010

Excerpt from a homily by Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Even if they don't know it, I think that many people, even if they are non-believers, are attracted to Mother Teresa because she is a path to Jesus: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. While it is well nigh impossible...
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Keep dignity of Tamil refugees in mind during immigration debate

Paul Schratz - Thursday, 26 August 2010

From Archbishop J. Michael Miller August 25, 2010 The arrival of 492 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka has generated much discussion about Canada’s immigration policy and the appropriate means of dealing with the men, women and children who recently came by ship. Some of the reaction has focused on the desperate individuals who have arrived on our shores, smuggled here to flee persecution in...
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The Shy Catholic

Administrator - Friday, 20 August 2010

Graham Osborne is The Shy Catholic and will be teaching a one-day seminar at the ORE Summer Institute on Saturday, August 28, at St Patrick's School in Vancouver entitled, Reasons to Believe: Explaining and Defending the Catholic Faith from Scripture and the Writings of the Early Church. It is geared towards answering those tough questions we often get on...
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China Catholics still being persecuted

Administrator - Saturday, 04 September 2010

By Barb Fraze WASHINGTON (CNS) The controversy surrounding a bishop in a Catholic diocese about 160 km from Beijing illustrates the problems facing Chinese Catholic communities trying to follow Pope Benedict XVI's instructions to unite. Coadjutor Bishop Francis An Shuxin of Baoding, who spent 10 years under house arrest for refusing to join the government-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, agreed last year to join...
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