By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register A national framework for a five-year, $30 million fundraising campaign in aid of healing and reconciliation with residential school survivors and their communities is coming in the new year,…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News At a special Mass Dec. 5, Saskatoon Bishop Mark Hagemoen joined St. Mary Parish to express thanks and bid farewell to the Redemptorist “Congregation of the Holy Redeemer”…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register The Canadian Council of Churches, Amnesty International and the Canadian Council for Refugees are headed to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of refugee families who want a…
By Bishop Mark Hagemoen, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” – Isaiah 43:19. Brothers and Sisters in Christ – This Old Testament…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Rescheduling the Indigenous delegations’ visits with Pope Francis in Rome in the midst of the Omicron-fuelled global COVID resurgence is not going to…
News release by Development and Peace/Caritas Canada Development and Peace / Caritas Canada recently announced the membership of its new national council. The national council is Development and Peace’s primary decision-making body. Its members, all volunteers,…
A Christmas Poem by Peter Oliver Don’t forget to be extraordinary, It is the season of the Infant King! Christ before us, Christ surrounds us, Saints sound out the ancient hymns. Firm our…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register Bringing together a trove of newly available documents, the most complete record of how Catholic residential school operators ultimately ended their obligations under the historic 2006 Indian Residential School…
By Jacquie Berg, St. Thomas More College St. Thomas More College (STM) recently announced a $1-million gift from Irene Ositis-Schmeiser in support of STM’s Centre for Faith, Reason, Peace, and Justice. “This landmark gift will…
But COVID-19 Omicron variant could be late-breaking wild card in some regions By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register (with additional information from Catholic Saskatoon News) [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Many parishes across Canada –…