By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a challenging learning experience for the Catholic Church in Canada, and that learning experience continued when the first-ever online…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – A new national campaign launched by the Canadian Catholic Church’s international development and aid organization Development and Peace/Caritas Canada is striving to face what the organization…
By Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – Three politicians, dozens of volunteers, and thousands of small pink flags recently made a public stand in British Columbia against sex-selective abortion. Cathay…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Regina – Canadian Catholic News] – A Saskatchewan judge has ruled against the provincial government and in favour of the religious freedom of a Métis man fasting and praying on…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register If the Liberal government stands past the Sept. 23 throne speech, Martin Blanchet’s seven-year battle to get somebody with authority to look into how Canadian mining companies and others treat…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News A new four-course certificate program for those involved in ministry begins Sept. 22, 2020, jointly sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools and…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa -CCN] – Catholic climate change activists and other social justice and faith groups are striving to get as many Canadians as possible to sign a petition that calls on…
[Article updated Sept. 15, 2020] By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the Catholic Church in Canada will be a key theme of the first-ever…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News The five Catholic bishops of Saskatchewan are among the province’s faith leaders who have issued an Interfaith Statement on Suicide Prevention. So far, 18 faith leaders have attached…
By Catholic News Agency staff [Australia – CNA) – The legislature of the Australian state of Queensland on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 passed a law requiring priests to violate the seal of confession to report…