From his home in Winnipeg, the epicentre of the great Ukrainian immigration to Canada, the Church was always Bishop Cornelius Pasichny’s vital link to Ukraine’s struggle for freedom.

MaterCare International has issued a code blue alert for pregnant women in conflict zones around the world.

TORONTO - Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald discovered the secret to Church unity when he was the episcopal bishop of Alaska.

If there’s any such thing as Christian ethics (and there is), most of us would imagine it might be based on the Golden Rule. But few moral theologians spare more than a passing thought on the crowning lines of the Sermon on the Mount: “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets” (Matthew 7:12).

Canadians gave $10.3 million to the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace to rebuild storm-shattered communities in the Philippines in the month leading up to Christmas. While all $10.3 million will be matched by the federal government, that doesn’t mean Canada’s Catholic development agency now has $20.6 million to spend on building houses, planting trees, repairing boats and organizing communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.

The struggle against corruption and for democracy in Ukraine has become the Church’s struggle for dignity, honesty and peace, says a Canadian Jesuit in Ukraine.

“You just want to sell newspapers!” is one of the most interesting insults that every reporter and editor hears at some point. There aren’t many professions liable to quite that sort of calumny.

Preaching to Evangelicals at the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity didn’t phase Saskatoon Bishop Don Bolen — much.

TORONTO - Luigi Pautasso lived to teach, lived his faith and knew his vocation.

The past year didn’t really begin March 13. There were signifi-cant events in the life of Canada, the world and the Church in January and February — before Cardinal Jorge Bergolio walked out onto that balcony above St. Peter’s Square and asked us for our prayers. It only seems that our world before Pope Francis is a land far, far away and long, long ago.