By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – An elderly Nova Scotia woman’s effort to block her estranged husband from using Canada’s euthanasia system to end his life has been blocked by a panel…
By Catholic News Agency staff [Vatican City- CNA] – Pope Francis presented his vision for overcoming the world’s growing divisions, laid bare by the coronavirus crisis, in his new encyclical Fratelli tutti, published on the…
News release from Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan (CHAS) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the struggle of Special Care Homes right across Canada. The Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan (CHAS) supports its member special care…
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News With candidates now officially hitting the campaign trail for the Oct. 26 provincial election, a Catholic Action campaign examining Saskatchewan election issues and party platforms from the perspective…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – The annual national Life Chain will be held at locations across Canada on Sunday, Oct. 4, despite a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Social justice and religious groups who have been demanding what they call a “just recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic heard echoes of that position in…
[NOTE: Canadian Catholic News update added Sept. 29, 2020] By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Saskatchewan’s five Catholic bishops gathered in Saskatoon during the online 2020 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic…
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic News [Ottawa – CCN] – Catholics have every right as Canadian citizens to speak out on matters of public policy from the perspective of faith, said the president of the Canadian…
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…