For the child taken, for the parent left behind

Aug 26, 2014 | Peace

Sister Mary Clare Stack OSU, Sister Jeannette Filthaut SP and Dr. Bob McKeon walking in the closing march of Truth and Reconciliation on a very cold March 30th day in Edmonton BY SISTER JEANNETTE FILTHAUT Listen to your heart * Listen to the Creator * As leaders, as...

Biodegradable caskets as spiritual practice

Aug 26, 2014 | Ecology stories

BY SISTER SHIRLEY MORRIS Going Green has become a passion for many people. However, the hardest time to adopt environmentally friendly practices has been at the end of life itself. Death is as sacred as life, and we need to transform how we die. A funeral becomes a...

Sister Mary Angelica was a Home Child

Jun 7, 2014 | Archives News

BY VERONICA STIENBURG   Lillian Blanchfield, her two sisters and her two brothers, were “rescued” from the Shaw Street Workhouse in Liverpool, England by the Catholic Children’s Protection Society of Liverpool.  They crossed the Atlantic in 11 days aboard the...

Sister Marlene Schuster

Apr 25, 2014 | Obituaries

Sister Marlene, baptized Valentine Rose Schuster, was the youngest of five children of Theresa Ritt and John Schuster. She was born on May 5, 1931 in Heisler, Alberta where she grew up surrounded by loving parents of deep faith. When her father became ill and was...

Sister Rose Healy

Apr 18, 2014 | Obituaries

Rose Healy was born on April 29, 1924 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, the second of six children of Edmund Healy and Isabel Smith. She grew up on the family farm which her father had inherited from his parents. She received her elementary education in the rural school close...