Catholic parishioners asked tough questions about faith community's future

It has been nearly 200 years since the first Catholic settlers in the Cornwall area began congregating to form the parish of St. Columban. One of its sister churches, St. Francis de Sales, opened in the late 1930s as an offshoot of the original historic parish.Today, the archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall is looking at new ways to move forward as local pews grow emptier. Currently, less than two per cent of Cornwall residents attend English Catholic mass on a weekly basis at St. Columban’s an