By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News The poignantly beautiful Advent hymn “The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came” – a Basque carol also known as “Gabriel’s Message” – has been recorded and given an equally…
By Rev. Marie-Louise Ternier, All Saints Anglican Parish and Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church, Watrous, SK (This article was originally published in The Watrous Manitou) Interest, understanding and care are slowly growing in the communities of Watrous and Manitou…
Submitted by St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation In a press conference on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, it was announced that after a lifetime of volunteering and donating to charitable causes, the late Bob Steane was…
By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency [Greccio, Italy – CNA] – Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter Dec. 1 on the meaning and importance of nativity scenes, calling for this “wonderful sign” to be more…
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis said Dec. 3, 2019 that disabled people make important contributions to humanity, and called discrimination against them a sin. The pope added…
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic Register The failure to end child poverty in Canada, promised 30 years ago when parliamentarians pledged to stop the scourge by 2000, has seen a generation of children grow up…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Canadian Catholic News] – Canada stands on the brink of legally euthanizing disabled people for no other reason than self-reported suffering because life is difficult, doctors and disability experts are…
By Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic Whenever a group of people with different opinions gather at a table to discuss a controversial topic, sparks are bound to fly. But Archdiocese of Vancouver lawyer Mary Margaret…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News OTTAWA – A first of its kind publicly-released review of historic cases of sexual abuse within a Canadian Catholic diocese may have far reaching repercussions across the country as other…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News OTTAWA – Human rights and climate change are among the issues Catholic and faith-based organizations hope will feature prominently in the throne speech on Dec. 5 that will indicate what…