Photo shows Fr Bernard (on sabbatical in Canada) with two parish pastoral administrators in the Diocese of Victoria BC, Liz Summers (Mill Bay) and Katherine Loiselle (Ucluelet and Tofino). Last month, I travelled around Vancouver Island, my island home, which is the size of Ireland. Its population was 864,864 in the latest census; just 96,000 of these are Catholic, fewer than 10%. Twenty priests staff this large mission territory, with two of its 30 parishes served by (lay) pastoral administrators. I was particularly interested…
