By Catholic News Agency staff Pope Francis told an anti-pedophilia group Saturday that its work is “more necessary than ever.” Speaking to members of the Meter association in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on May 15,…
By Blanca Ruiz, Catholic News Agency {Gaza City – CNA] – The sole Catholic priest in the Gaza Strip has warned of the severity of the recent violence in the area between Israel and Palestinian militants….
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The ongoing COVID pandemic did not deter organizers of the national March for Life from returning to an in-person event May 13, 2021. Hundreds of…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News The spring break-up on the Mackenzie and Liard rivers has caused historic and devastating levels of flooding in the Northwest Territories, including several communities in the Roman Catholic…
By Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) staff Catholic Near East Welfare Association has launched an emergency campaign to encourage Canadians to help the most vulnerable persons in India who are suffering from the alarming…
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register When Carl Hétu was a teenager growing up in Quebec, he recalls a conversation he had with his father that helped shape the man he would become. In those days,…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – After U.S. President Joe Biden’s surprise turnaround in favour of temporarily suspending patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines, Church leaders are redoubling their lobbying,…
By Catholic News Agency Staff [Rome – CNA] – Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter May 11, 2021, formally instituting the new lay ministry of catechist. The Vatican released the papal letter Antiquum ministerium (“Ancient ministry”),…
Critics of the “secularism law” agree that the April court ruling must be appealed By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Two of the organizations trying to have Quebec’s controversial secularism law Bill…
Development and Peace launches emergency fundraising campaign in response to the dire situation across the Indian sub-continent By Minaz Kerawala, Communications, Development and Peace/Caritas Canada The wailing sirens of ambulances rushing to overfull hospitals; the…