By Jackie Saretsky, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon The idea of spiritual adoption of priests, where a woman adopts a certain priest as her spiritual “son” for whom she promises to pray, is not a…
Government reaches target of 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021 News release by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada staff [Ottawa – Dec. 23, 2021] – With the significant exception of Indigenous people, all Canadians originally…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Participants in a recent online training session for those willing to lead Synod discussions in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon were able to give the process itself…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register The COVID-19 Omicron variant has spiralled into a crisis for health-care workers — a crisis of physical, mental and spiritual exhaustion. Lily Cugliary-Kobayashi spent 39 years working in hospitals…
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register [TORONTO – Canadian Catholic News] – Pro-lifer advocates are sounding the alarm about the new “bubble-zone” laws that become active Jan. 16, 30 days since Bill C-3 attained royal…
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 18-25 information: LINK A Prayer for Unity By Roma De Robertis, SCIC Praise to You, Gracious God of new beginnings. As one body, we rejoice to…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [TORONTO – Canadian Catholic News] – Campaign 2000’s annual in-depth look at poverty reveals that being poor in Canada is predictable: the nation’s poor are overwhelmingly Indigenous or they…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [TORONTO – Canadian Catholic News] – It’s funny how 200 years can sneak up on you, but the Basilian Fathers plan to celebrate their bicentennial quietly, modestly, prayerfully, humbly….
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register [Canadian Catholic News] – Edmonton’s Newman Theological College (NTC) heads into the new year armed with a nearly $1 million grant it hopes to use to reverse the decline…
By Kendra Volk, St. Mary Parish, Fox Valley, SK In 1951, 35 women met for the purpose of organizing the first Catholic Women’s League CWL) council for St. Mary Parish, Fox Valley, SK, which at…