By Catholic News Agency staff [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis has expressed sorrow at the discovery of Indigenous children’s graves at a Church-run residential school in Canada. Speaking after praying of the Angelus June…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Saskatoon’s Indigenous Catholic parish held a four-day memorial wake Thursday, June 3 to Sunday, June 6, 2021, for children who died at residential schools, following news of ground-penetrating…
By Terry O’Neill, The B.C. Catholic [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – When the Chief of the Kamloops Indian Band announced on May 27 that researchers had located the remains of 215 children in unmarked…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa] – Only one-third of federal MPs are willing to ban female babies from being targeted for an abortion, but supporters of a private members bill that was snuffed out…
By Fr. Ray Douziech, CSsR Courtesy of Community Connections / Redemptorist Conference of North America [Zacatecas, Mexico] – Fr. Alfredo Medinas Ramos, CSsR – who served several months as a transitional deacon at St. Mary’s Parish in…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News For an hour on a Saturday in May, a unique Eucharistic procession in the air saw Fr. Matthew Ramsay once again flying with the Blessed Sacrament over the…
By Crystal Hampson My journey of vocation discernment was a long one. I am a candidate for “consecration to a life of virginity lived in the world.” A special Rite will be celebrated June 9,…
By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis has asked people to pray throughout June for young people preparing for the life-long journey of marriage. “Getting married and sharing one’s life…
Reviving lost dialects may be too late, some fear By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – When it came time to officially endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…
By B.C. Catholic staff [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller June 2 announced a plan to offer increased supports and transparency to First Nations people in the wake of the…