By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News In an update to the faithful on March 31, 2020, Bishop Mark Hagemoen announced that because of directives prohibiting public gatherings as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
By Fr. Ralph Kleiter, Ministry to Tourism As we begin Holy Week, I write as one in isolation or better in solitude, like all of us. Easter this year will be like the novel Coronavirus,…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News With public gatherings banned because of the COVID-19 pandemic, an annual Good Friday tradition of praying the Way of the Cross through the streets of Saskatoon had to…
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register [Humboldt, SK – Canadian Catholic News] – The church bells of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Humboldt chimed 29 times at 4:50 p.m. on Monday, April 6 in remembrance…
By Hudson Byblow for the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy Family and Life Office When this COVID-19 thing really hit Canada, a friend of mine lamented the fact that she was no longer able to go to…
By Andrew Ehrkamp, Grandin Media The Lac Ste Anne pilgrimage, an annual tradition that attracts thousands of people and dates back more than a century, has been cancelled this year as a precaution against the spread…
By Hudson Byblow, reprinted from hudsonbyblow.com Well, here we are in the “new normal” of COVID-19. And we don’t know how long it’s going to be before things change. We have to strive to be…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News A new covenant among the leaders of the Lutheran, Anglican, Ukrainian and Roman Catholic churches in the province was announced April 2, 2020 by the bishops of Saskatchewan….
By Alison Bradish, Archdiocese of Regina News Drive by confessions, Eucharistic Processions over the sky, websites to livestream homilies, when it comes to bringing Christ to the faithful, some priests and laity are getting creative….
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Celebration of Mass and other prayers continue to be live-streamed online in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon given the restriction on gatherings – including public worship –…