PARIS - A hero emerging from the Notre Dame Cathedral fire April 15 is Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, who is credited with saving a reliquary containing the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament from the burning cathedral.

Tragedy strikes. ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp inevitable and, unfortunately, constant.

WASHINGTON – In his youth, Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroy pictured himself as a lawyer and a senator, working in the deep recesses of Washington's U.S. Capitol building. In a way, he's doing just that but not in the way he imagined.

TORONTO - TorontoöÏÓãÊÓƵapp downtown Catholic campus chaplaincies came together to be visible witnesses of their faith on the streets.

OTTAWA - When Brigadier General Guy Chapdelaine, CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp new Chaplain General, spent Christmas in Afghanistan in 2006, he took no chances on what might be in store for him.

TORONTO - Growing up in Venezuela, Fr Eduardo Soto fell in love with the Pan Am Games when his home country hosted the quadrennial event in Caracas in 1983.

For high school seniors, the end of the school year is approaching. While this normally brings relief and excitement for the summer, high school graduates face the uncertainty of what is to come. Starting university or college is, after all, a leap into the unknown.

Death, chaos, silence, despair… and faith? The post-traumatic stress disorder crisis in CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp military is being met with a small core of dedicated men and women who have always been there — the chaplains.

The Canadian militaryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp first Roman Catholic Chaplain General in a decade says his top priority is to recruit more chaplains.