COVID has been hard on families, but just how hard is only now coming to light, as society gradually opens up to a post-pandemic reality.

In his own way, Pope Francis is developing a different kind of vaccine to battle the effects of COVID-19. This is not a vaccine developed in a scientific lab, but it may well be a much-needed antidote to some of the unseen but crippling injuries that have accompanied the pandemic.

There’s a global public health risk that could tear families apart and harm women and children — not COVID-19 itself, but a related fallout from shutting families indoors and depriving them of jobs and school.

VANCOUVER – Nothing could have prepared Adelaide for the nightmare that was 18 years of her life.

About one-third of the work at Catholic Family Services of Toronto starts with a woman who has been abused.