By Catholic News Agency staff [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis has announced a special year dedicated to the family, marking the fifth anniversary of the publication of his apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia. In his…
By Bryan Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The Archdiocese of St. John’s is responsible for paying victims of child abuse at Newfoundland’s infamous Mount Cashel Orphanage. In a decision announced Jan. 14,…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – An organization dedicated to stopping the ever-increasing expansion of legally-sanctioned euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada is hoping that like-minded Canadians will take part in an…
Still “a long way to go” to implement TRC Calls to Action By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register [Canadian Catholic News] – Five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report, there…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News In a small and quiet celebration, the new stand-alone residential Hospice at Glengarda in Saskatoon was blessed by Bishop Mark Hagemoen. The new hospice – located at Hilliard…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Canada’s Catholic bishops say it is “not too late to reconsider” and stop the expansion of legally-assisted suicide/ euthanasia in Canada. The bishops are calling on…
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register Already vulnerable and alone, many homeless and at risk youth are finding themselves dealing with more than the coronavirus and its restrictions this Christmas. To them, loneliness is another pandemic….
By Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic [Vancouver – Canadian Catholic News] – Wanting to die often has to do with a deeper level of suffering than appears on the surface. That’s the experience of Dr….
By Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) communications staff [Ottawa – Dec. 18, 2020] – Following the adoption of Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) at Third Reading…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Blind, traumatized and unable to work, Amy Hasbrouck is still fighting a law she believes values disabled lives as less than the lives of…