By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service [Vatican City – CNS) — Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path…
By B.C. Catholic staff, Canadian Catholic News (with files from the Catholic Register) [Vancouver – CCN] – A long-awaited week of spiritual diplomacy between Pope Francis and Canada’s Indigenous people has started, with a delegation…
Vigil prayers for Sr. Juliana Heisler will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Monday, March 28 at St. Patrick Parish, 3339 Centennial Drive, Saskatoon, and the funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 29,…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register It should be no surprise that the Age of Discovery would have produced a Doctrine of Discovery. How uncomfortably that doctrine sits in our history now presents the Church…
By Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops communication staff [Ottawa ] – This weekend, a delegation of 32 Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, residential school survivors, and youth will journey together from across the country to meet…
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service [Vatican – CNS) — In three separate meetings March 28 and March 31, Pope Francis will listen to the experiences of representatives of Canada’s Indigenous communities, experiences that include…
By Paul Sinkewicz, St. Thomas More College War between Russia and Ukraine was already far from an academic exercise for Dr. Oksana Dudko. The historian from Lviv, Ukraine, like her fellow citizens, has been grappling…
By Terry O’Neill, The B.C. Catholic [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – As one of six spiritual-health practitioners at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Ken Johnson provides spiritual, emotional, and religious support for patients and…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News NOTE: Names have been changed out of concern for the safety of those involved. A Saskatoon grandmother has launched a desperate court appeal, asking a judge to intervene…
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican office led by a cardinal or archbishop has no more authority than one led by a layperson because all offices of the Roman…