By Canadian Catholic News staff [Ottawa – CCN] – The Vatican is sending a new diplomat to Canada, with Pope Francis appointing Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič as the new apostolic nuncio to Canada on June 5,…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chastised the Catholic Church in a press conference June 4, saying that as a Catholic he is “deeply” disappointed that years after…
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…
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…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register The international scientific body governing stem cell research is abandoning the absolute 14-day limit on culturing human embryos in the laboratory, putting pressure on Canada’s law prohibiting the practice….
By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency [Rome – CNA] – On June 1, 2021, the Vatican published major revisions to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which covers penal law in the Church,…