by Michael Hammond | Jul 14, 2016 | Healing Violence stories
From left: Keynote speaker Sister Nuala Kenny MD, Sister Frances O’Brien SP, Barbara Baker, Sister Marie Dundon SP, Christine DiZazzo, Carol Groten, Friar Ed Debono OFM Conv., Sister Catherine Casey SP, Sister Margo Shafer SP. As a follow-up to our conference...
by Michael Hammond | Jul 14, 2016 | Friday Silent Vigil, Justice
BY ANN BONIFERRO Throughout the month of April, students in each of the 39 schools of the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board were asked to show mercy by standing in solidarity with those who experience injustice. They did that by holding vigils and...
by Michael Hammond | Jul 13, 2016 | Healing Violence stories
These suggestions came out of two day-long conferences held in September 2015 on the them of Healing the Church: Addressing the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.” They were presented to Archbishop Brendan O’Brien in the spring of 2016,. as promised. And they are...
by Michael Hammond | Jul 6, 2016 | The North
BY SISTER UNA BYRNE Sitting here on a rainy Sunday evening in Norway House, I can look back on the last two months and say I am settled now. I live in a trailer between the old and the new church. It took a while to get things set up but now I have t.v. and internet...
by Michael Hammond | Jul 5, 2016 | Providence Flashbacks
BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST The congregation purchased the cottage “Marillac Villa” in the fall of 1955 and enlarged it so it could accommodate 30 sisters at one time. Here is a reprint of an article from the September 1956 issue of the Guardian. The Guardian was...
