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Catholic Vancouver November 04, 2025

Vancouver Loneliness Project: SFU student explores isolation, friendship, faith in a city known for its social chill

It all started with a cup of coffee and a dream. When communications student Emi Namoro and her friend Maggie decided to host a women’s ministry meetup in New Westminster, they weren’t sure anyone...

A ‘deeply flawed’ system: a century of Indigenous and Church relationship and reconciliation

A continuing series looking at progress made in healing and reconciliation initiatives between the Archdiocese of Vancouver...

Paul Schratz

October 23, 2024

Local singer brings an Indigenous Voice to praise and worship music

With the release of her first single, I Surrender , local musician Solange Legal is learning to share her relationship with...

Nicholas Elbers

June 19, 2024

The family that writes together, stays together

Writing seems to run in the Roy household’s bloodstream. This spring, B.C. Catholic columnist Colleen Roy and her 17- and...

Agnieszka Ruck

May 30, 2024

Why Tom Brady and Garth Brooks will be at the Vatican this weekend

Garth Brooks may have friends in low places, but this Saturday he will perform at a high-level Vatican event with Nobel Peace...

Courtney Mares

May 09, 2024

Students suffer COVID’s slings and arrows by drafting a creative opus

A just-published literary collection shows what can happen when four students at Catholic Pacific College and their mentor...

Kissed by a saint: book and statue project grows from JPII and Mother Teresa encounters in Vancouver

It’s been more than 40 years since both Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II visited Vancouver, drawing hundreds of thousands...

As Padre Pio film is released, Shia LaBeouf confirms he’s preparing to be Catholic

Actor Shia LaBeouf says he is taking RCIA classes and will receive confirmation within the next year, according to website...

Joe Bukuras

June 01, 2023

‘A source of great enrichment for the Church’: Cathedral hosts first Mass with Indigenous language

Traditional drums and chants filled Holy Rosary Cathedral during a historic Mass that included segments in Halq’emeylem, the...

Found Together: Catholic musical couple weaves ministry into art

Catholic singers Jesse and Kathleen LeBlanc made a musical name for themselves in B.C. as the duo A Guy and a Girl but were...

Canadian Catholic singer sends a musical Valentine to a pandemic-weary world

Saskatoon-born singer-songwriter Kay Clarity hadn’t expected to launch her new pop music project Pax Paloma in mid-February,...

B.C. Catholic Staff

February 14, 2022

Despite disabilities, singer embraces the ‘Gift of Life’ with CD

Living with cerebral palsy and blindness, and restricted to a wheelchair, 35-year-old Melanie Krishna does not fit anyone’s...