Churches & Religion

Vancouver to join in ‘Holy Yoga’ experience

January 3, 2018, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Thirty-five cities around the country will participate in a Holy Yoga experience on Saturday, and Vancouver is one of them. Read story

Pope Francis joins his hands during the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for ‘to the city and to the world’) Christmas’ day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Monday.

Pope laments ‘winds of war’ blowing around the world

December 25, 2017, 9:33am Churches & Religion

Lamenting “the winds of war” blowing around the world, Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Monday called for a two-state solution to find peace in the Middle East and prayed that confrontation can be overcome on the Korean Peninsula. Read story

Cardinal Bernard Law, of the Boston archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, testifies in 2002 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Law was answering questions about his knowledge and handling of the Father John Geoghan child sex abuse case. Law died Wednesday at 86.

Cardinal Law’s legacy: a stain of scandal on church

December 23, 2017, 6:08am Churches & Religion

When the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted in Boston in 2002, Cardinal Bernard Law had every reason to think he would survive. Law had a place among the powerbrokers of the heavily Catholic city. He was a friend of U.S. presidents, an emissary of Pope John Paul II. Read story

Silent ‘angel’ suddenly sings, a family rejoices

December 23, 2017, 5:13am Churches & Religion

The old-fashioned Christmas carol began to fill the living room as the pianist caressed the familiar keys. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” was one she loved, and that holiday season it seemed angels hovered nearby. Read story

FILE - In this Wednesday June 7, 2006 file photo, Cardinal Bernard Law, right, kisses Pope Benedict XVI's hand at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. An official with the Catholic Church said Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, that Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston, has died at 86. Law recently had been hospitalized in Rome and died early Wednesday.

Cardinal Law, disgraced figure in church abuse scandal, dies

December 20, 2017, 11:55am Churches & Religion

Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died Wednesday in Rome at age 86. Read story

Cardinal Bernard Law, central figure in abuse scandal, dies

VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86. Read story

Jewish community celebrates first night of Hanukkah

Ephraim Barstad holds up his daughter, Selah Barstad, 3, for a photo Tuesday at the annual menorah lighting at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver.

Children dashed for falling candy coins, adults mingled and munched on rugelach and all delighted in the lighting of the first candle on the menorah at Esther Short Park Tuesday evening, the first night of Hanukkah. Read story