{mosimage}The Redemptorist Fathers used to be famous for three-day parish retreats. Many of the older men in the order can tell stories of years they spent driving town to town, spending a week in each parish they visited concluding with a marathon of preaching.
{mosimage}An ice-fisher from Sachs Harbour, NWT, and a sugar-cane farmer from the Fiji Islands have more in common than some may think.
{mosimage}If capitalism can save the planet, itƵapp running out of time in Canada where market-based approaches to greenhouse gas reduction have yet to be tried.
{mosimage}As — CanadaƵapp national, ecumenical social justice coalition — rolls out its newest campaign, suburbanite and activist Dorothy Wilson is excited.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Wearing plastic gloves, Carolyn Tran remembers rooting through her schoolƵapp garbage with her classmates taking an inventory of all the discarded recyclables.
{mosimage}ROCHESTER, N.Y. - When Hippolyt Pul was a young boy, farmers in his home country of Ghana often referred to the feast of the Ascension as “the feast of the bean leaf.”
Science is and should be seen as “completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, said Fr. George V. Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that “science and religion are totally separate pursuits."
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