Solange DeSantis

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Novel depicts agony of residential school life

Porcupines and China Dollsby Robert Arthur AlexieStoddart PublishingISBN 0-7737-3305-1286 pages, $32.95 This is the first novel that, to my knowledge, deals with the experiences of

Signs, signs, everywhere signs

The diocese of Ottawa is answering the question “How can you go to church if you can’t find it?” with a program called Let This

Whither the downtown Montreal churches?

Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral was put on solid financial footing with the development of an office building, right, on one end of the property. Montreal

School workers find their voice

Bernice Logan (then, Bernice Mason) poses with some of her students at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School in the early 1950s. They were not abusers.

Sister’s life spans nearly a century

Sr. Constance, 99, has written her memoirs and large-type hymnals. When Constance Murphy in 1930 attended the Passion Play, the world-famous dramatization in Oberammagau, Germany,

Churches look at going green

Environmental concerns are often assigned low priority at many parishes as congregations cope with the immediate needs — light, heat, maintenance — of church buildings

Schools agreement signed

Archbishop Michael Peers, seated, examines a copy of the residential schools accord signed by the Anglican Church of Canada and the federal government. Looking on

Schools agreement a done deal

Delegates to Niagara’s special synod greeted news of approval of the residential schools agreement with a standing ovation and applause. The diocese agreed to pay

PWRDF in severe cash crunch

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is facing a drop in donations from Canadian Anglicans that is so severe that the organization has no

New West votes to dip into reserves

The diocese of New Westminster has decided to draw from a reserve fund to make up for the budget shortfall caused by an ongoing protest

One-time negotiator calls accord ‘unwise’

A former member of the Anglican Church of Canada’s native residential schools negotiating team, Canon Bud Smith, has sharply criticized the settlement agreement with the

College president steps down

Canon Fletcher Stewart, speaking to a 1997 meeting in Ottawa of the Canadian Council of Churches. Canon Fletcher Stewart is leaving Henry Budd College for

Givings remain steady

Donations to the Anglican Journal Appeal were flat in 2002, but gifts to the Anglican Appeal rose from the previous year. Givings to the Journal

Music goes on as tragedy touches choir trip

Members of the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ont., saved for two years to sing at St. Paul’s, London, England. Bass Michael MacLachlan (second

Accord marches through synods

Bishop Don Young (top) said vote makes him proud to be bishop of Central Newfoundland; Rev. Murray Still and lawyer Peter Whitmore spoke to Saskatoon

Accord marches through synods

The residential schools accord has been ratified by more than half of the dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada amid a comprehensive information campaign

Dioceses give nod to accord

Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Donald Harvey (left), pictured at synod with the primate, Michael Peers, said his diocese supports the agreement in principle

Canadian lends skills to Melanesian order

Rev. John Blyth will help develop the Melanesian Brotherhood in the Philippines. Rev. John Blyth is on his way to the Philippines to eat little

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