By Catholic Register staff [Canadian Catholic News] – Pro-life forces in Manitoba scored a victory on Oct. 14 when an NDP bill seeking to create a protest buffer zone around facilities providing abortions was voted down…
A Cree elder tells hundreds of parishioners about his childhood in the residential school and foster system By Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic [Richmond, BC – Canadian Catholic News] – Rousing applause sounded as Cree…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Bishop Mark Hagemoen addressed fund-raising for healing and reconciliation Oct. 12, 2021 in two messages to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. In one letter, the bishop of…
By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis expressed sadness and shame on Wednesday in response to a report estimating that hundreds of thousands of children were abused in the Catholic…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register There has never been a synod like the one that will begin Oct. 17 in cathedrals across Canada. It’s not that lay people have never before been asked their opinion,…
By B.C. Catholic staff [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – For the delegates who participated in the Vancouver archdiocesan synod of 1998 to 2006, it was “the best of times.” Barbara Dowding, chancellor of the…
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register [Canadian Catholic News] – The message across the country for parishioners, volunteers and staff at Catholic churches is clear: please get vaccinated. While COVID-19 vaccination policies being formulated in dioceses…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Indigenous leaders and Canadians who have long sought a path forward towards reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians for past abuses such as the residential school system remain…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Men from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon and the Archdiocese of Regina recently gathered at Blue Mountain for a retreat as they begin another year of discernment,…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News In a message to Catholics and Indigenous Peoples of the province Sept. 28, the five Catholic Bishops of Saskatchewan provided additional information about fund-raising for the provincial Catholic TRC…