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Executive Summary The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s “Missing Children and Unmarked Burials project” is a systematic effort to record and analyze the deaths…

Genine Hanns, poet, author and artist died in Kelowna of kidney failure in January. A close friend of mine, and lifelong resident of Victoria, she…

Hans Küng, a Roman Catholic theologian and priest whose brilliantly disputatious, lucidly expressed thoughts in more than 50 books and countless speeches advanced ecumenism and…

The Bishop Of Sooke, Sooke Electric. Larry Rumsby spoke with such a quiet authority and conviction that he earned these lighthearted soubriquets in church and…

The impact of trauma and abuse can take years to heal even with supports in place. When enough healing hasn’t occurred, the wounds readily become…

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Two Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception recently influenced the Saint John mayor and council to endorse the Cities Appeal…

Pope Francis delivered a disappointment to Catholic LGBT communities Monday, with a decree reaffirming that priests should not bless same-sex unions. The move stood in…

All of the dioceses that had residential schools and the religious orders involved apologized decades ago, and those expressions have been renewed in recent days…

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) said the deaths were spoken about but never documented Indigenous leaders across B.C. are voicing their grief, sadness and support…