Synod is a theologian’s dream
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Zane Chu picked up his PhD in theology just shy of two years ago. At 37, as a sessional instructor at St. Mark’s…
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Saskatchewan schools weather Ukrainian refugee surge
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register [Regina – Canadian Catholic News] – Record student enrolment, largely due to an influx of Ukrainian refugees, sees administrators with the Regina Catholic School Division seeking a careful reassessment…
Charting the way toward reconciliation
Event reflects on Indigenous relations post-papal apology By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Close to nine months after Pope Francis’ penitential pilgrimage to apologize to Canada’s Indigenous peoples, Catholics…
Euthanasia document authors’ bias questioned
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Multiple aspects of the recently-released Health Canada guidance about medically provided-death – known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) – trouble Nicole Scheidl,…
Pope decides women will be voting members at the Synod of Bishops
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service [Vatican City – CNS] – At least three dozen women will be voting members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October, Pope Francis has decided. In…
Vatican sends relic of true cross to Britain’s King Charles for coronation on May 6
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service [Vatican City – CNS] – As Britain’s King Charles III walks into Westminster Abbey for his coronation, he will walk behind a processional cross containing a relic of Christ’s…
Justice and peace outdoor Way of the Cross returns to downtown Saskatoon on Good Friday
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News After a three-year hiatus because of pandemic restrictions, the downtown outdoor Good Friday Way of the Cross returned April 7 to Saskatoon. Pilgrims of all ages and from…
STM’s Mohyla Lecturer shares front-row seat living through war in Ukraine
By Jacquie Berg, St. Thomas More College 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH). The academic unit of St. Thomas More College (STM), federated with the…
Culture of loneliness meets culture of death in euthanasia epidemic: speaker
By Nicholas Elbers, The B.C. Catholic Caring and compassion are the most effective solutions we have to combat the growing requests for medically-provided death, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg told a large gathering…
Pope prays that Easter joy would break through gloom of sin, war, strife
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service [Vatican City – CNS] – On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light…