Purpose, Objects & Motto
The purpose of the Canadian Servants of the Holy Family is to advance, disseminate, teach, demonstrate, and implement the traditional mission of the Roman Catholic Church through evangelization and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Pilgrimage to the Shrines of St. Maria Goretti
The Basilica at Nettuno where St. Maria's Body lies The Body of St. Maria in the Basilica at Nettuno At the Church of Santa Maria Sopra MinervaThe house of St. Maria and the site of her MartyrdomA...
View ArticleEWTN Interview about Our Lady's Shrine at Knock
Interview on EWTN Live between Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., and Donna O'Connor about Our Blessed Mother's Shrine and the Eucharistic Apparition at Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland. First broadcast on 8/11/2010.
View ArticleSowing the Seeds of Catholicism in Canada
The seeds of the Catholic Faith in Canada were sown by France, eldest daughter of the Church. So in a sense Canada is the senior Granddaughter of Our Holy Mother the Church. Even before the arrival of...
View ArticleThe Structure of Catholicism in Canada
From those early days of the Archdiocese of Québec (1659) and the two Suffragans (1819), the structures of Holy Mother Church in Canada have developed into the normal structures of a National...
View ArticleThe Cathedrals of Canada - 1. Alexandria-Cornwall
I wanted to start my survey of Canada's 91 Catholic Cathedrals on a high. St. Finnan's Cathedral in Alexandria ON is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall. Thanks for flickr you can...
View ArticleThe Cathedrals of Canada - 2. Alexandria-Cornwall
It is almost unheard of to change the name of a Diocese in Europe. Some may be suppressed, perhaps to be used by titular Bishops, and some are united but in Canada the movement of population or the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Cathedrals of Canada - 3. Amos
Recent controversy in the Church in Ireland has focused on the amalgamation of small dioceses but few Irish dioceses are as small as the diocese of Amos, established in 1938 from a portion of the...
View ArticleThe Cathedrals of Canada - 4. Antigonish
The Diocese of Antigonish recently celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in that place. It is another example of the Canadian phenomenon of...
View ArticleCathedrals of Canada - 5. Baie-Comeau
The Diocese of Baie-Comeau in Québec is another of the remarkably small Dioceses of Canada with an overwhelmingly Catholic (98%) population it still musters only 90,000 Catholics. The Diocese is also...
View Article
