OTTAWA - Canada’s pro-life Crossroads Walkers finished a three-month trek across the country in Ottawa Aug. 16 with a small rally near Parliament Hill’s Eternal Flame.
New evangelization program launched at Saint Paul's University
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - A summer course on new evangelization at Saint Paul University has given Shauna Healey lessons and confidence to better know and share her faith.
Canadians pack Quebec cathedral for funeral of Father Raymond Gravel
By Catholic News ServiceJOLIETTE, Quebec - St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral was packed as Bishop Gilles Lussier and several priests concelebrated the funeral of Father Raymond Gravel, an outspoken social activist and advocate for Quebec independence.
Redemptorists to pay $20-million in Quebec abuse suit
By Catholic Register StaffThe Redemptorists of Canada have agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims from a sexual-abuse lawsuit filed in Quebec.
Cloud removed from Caledonia pastor as computer porn suspicions prove false
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTwo months after the OPP seized a computer from St. Patrick’s parish in Caledonia, Ont., looking for child porn, police have returned the computer and closed the investigation — no child porn, just annoying pop-up advertising the computer’s firewalls were not equipped to block.
Catholic agencies make urgent appeal to help Iraqi Christians
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Canadian Catholic charitable agencies have put out urgent appeals for assistance to help Iraqi Christians fleeing for their lives from Islamist extremists from the Islamic State (ISIS}.
Collins seeks a more open door for Iraqi refugees fleeing Islamists
By Catholic Register StaffThe following is statement from Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Different faiths can all share the same world
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Legal scholar Iain Benson rejects New Atheism’s teaching that religion leads to division and violence. Benson, a lawyer and lecturer, spoke to an audience from the legal and Catholic community on how difference, including a difference in religion, can be a social good.
St. Augustine’s prof appointed bishop in India
By Erik CTORONTO - A professor of theology at Toronto’s St. Augustine’s Seminary has been chosen to lead the Syro-Malabarrite Diocese of Chanda, India.
Iraqi Christians rally in Toronto for persecuted brethren at home
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Dressed in shirts that proclaimed “I am Christian, I am Iraqi,” carrying signs pleading for protection of their families still in Iraq, 5,000 Iraqi Christians and their supporters marched on Queen’s Park August 10 to draw attention to the plight of their brethren back home.
Fr. Gravel, who sat in Parliament as a BQ MP, dies at 61
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPriest, politician, Scripture scholar and lightning rod for controversy Fr. Raymond Gravel has died.