NEWS

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

As women, children starve, Sudan in desperate need of help, say Catholic aid workers

By

Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to save hundreds of thousands of suffering Sudanese people from extreme hunger as the civil war entered its second year.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni applauds Pope Francis during a meeting about families and Italy's declining birthrate May 12, 2023, in Rome.

Italian PM says Pope Francis will join G7 discussion on AI

By

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that Pope Francis would participate in a G7 "outreach" discussion on artificial intelligence when the leaders of the world's leading industrialized nations countries meet in southern Italy in mid-June.

A tiny home destined for St. Anthony’s Church in Dartmouth, N.S., is hoisted onto a truck.

Halifax shelter program not so temporary

By

What began as a short-term project by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth to bring the city’s most vulnerable out of the cold and into temporary shelter remains a project in progress more than two years later. 

The Birth Care Alliance says women have an inherent right to choose who attends their birth and when they access medical services.

Activists seek right to home birth

By

COVID-19 and life issues have brought bodily autonomy and the right to accept or refuse medical treatment to the forefront in recent years.

Pope Francis sits down exclusively with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell at the Vatican April 24, 2024, for an interview ahead of the Vatican's inaugural World Children's Day. The CBS interview marked the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network, according to the network.

Pope Francis calls for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, laments plight of children in war in CBS interview

By

Pope Francis sat down exclusively with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell on April 24 for an interview ahead of the Vatican's inaugural World Children's Day. The CBS interview marks the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network, according to the network.

A view of tents are seen at a homeless encampment called "The Zone" in Phoenix Dec. 18, 2020.

Homeless policy before U.S. Supreme Court

By

The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact on people who are homeless.

Then-President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence are seen after Trump's address on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 24, 2020.

Trump in pro-life ‘retreat,’ Pence says

By

Former Vice President Mike Pence argued his ex-running mate, former President Donald Trump, betrayed the pro-life movement by stating his opposition to implementing federal abortion restrictions should he be elected to another term in 2024.

The international Pro-Life flag is pictured.

Pro-life flag won’t fly at Toronto schools

By

The International Pro-Life Flag will not fly over Toronto Catholic schools this May.

St. Patrick’s Church was one of the Archdiocese of St. John’s churches sold to pay a settlement to Mount Cashel Orphanage abuse victims.

St. John’s closures ‘canonically unsound’

By

Having ruled that the Archdiocese of St. John’s closing of a number of parishes was canonically unsound, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has further said that civil law does not trump canonical rights. 

Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a chemical abortion, are pictured in a Jan. 13, 2023, photo.

Abortion push abroad ‘ideological colonization’

By

The Canadian government continues to allocate billions of dollars for the promotion of sexual and reproductive health rights in the developing world, while slashing funds to other priorities like national defence.

A Canadian soldier stands guard by the Canadian Embassy March 29, 2024, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as violence spreads and armed gangs expand their control over the capital.

Haiti violence, lawlessness forces longtime U.S. missionary priest to evacuate

By

As Haiti's capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate -- while Haitian Catholics in the U.S. are doubling down on prayer for their troubled homeland.

Page 2 of 1273