The business of rest

The business of rest

BY CATE HENDERSON The idea of rest is somewhat deceiving. We know as human beings that when we sleep we appear to others to be resting, to be immobile and still. But we also know that, in fact, our minds can be quite busy as we sleep – sometimes living a whole other...
Women Do Peace

Women Do Peace

Keynote speaker Erna Paris. Her address is available at ernaparis.com BY LOUISE SLOBODIAN You know about best-laid plans? After 10 years of holding great conferences, the Congregation’s Healing Violence Committee had sworn off them. But then, a great synergy...
Sister Mary Alberta Gallagher

Sister Mary Alberta Gallagher

Mary Marguerite Gallagher, the eldest for nine children of Fergal Aloysius Gallagher and Mary Alberta O’Toole, was born on September 24, 1921 in Yorkton, Sask. She attended Mapleside School for Grades 1 – 9 and Sacred Heart Academy, Yorkton for Grade 10. Her Grade 11...
Sister Sara MacDonald

Sister Sara MacDonald

Sister Sarah MacDonald, of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, died peacefully following a brief illness on January 6, 2014 at Kingston General Hospital in the 71st year of her religious life. She was born in Trenton, Ontario on May 28, 1923, the fifth...
Sister Nancy Wilson

Sister Nancy Wilson

Sister Nancy Wilson (Sr. M. Theresa Anne), former General Superior of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, died at Kingston General Hospital on November 14, 2013 in the 62nd year of her religious life. She was born in Perth on July 22, 1932 the fourth of...