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Andrew Bennett, Canada’s religious freedom ambassador, faces an uncertain future along with the Office of Religious Freedom

Advocates fear fate of religious freedom office under Liberals

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OTTAWA - The fate of Andrew Bennett and the Office of Religious Freedom is up in the air as the office was not included in the Prime Minister’s mandate letter to the Foreign Affairs Minister. Government silence has advocates for religious freedom worried about where religious freedom stands with the new Prime Minister.

Margaret Somerville, founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law

Mandate changed for suicide panel

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OTTAWA - Euthanasia opponents fear that the new Liberal government is “kowtowing” to the euthanasia lobby following new directions given to a federal panel that has been consulting Canadians on assisted suicide.

Beginning the first Sunday of Advent, former Anglicans welcomed into the Catholic Church will have their own missal.

Missal a ‘new moment in history’ for former Anglicans

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OTTAWA - Former Anglicans in the Ordinariates will celebrate according to their new missal, Divine Worship: The Missal, beginning the First Sunday of Advent.

The Quebec Parliament is pictured in Quebec City in 2014. As Quebec's new end-of-life care law will come into effect in December, a first palliative care facility announced that it will be offering medically induced death.

Palliative care home in Quebec to offer assisted suicide under new law

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MONTREAL - Quebec's new end-of-life care law will go into effect Dec. 10, and at least one of its 31 palliative care facilities announced that it will be offering medically induced death, or assisted suicide.

Fr. Edward Smith looks forward to welcoming Holy Door pilgrimages to St. Paul’s Basilica in Toronto during the Year of Mercy.

Holy Doors to open for Toronto pilgrims

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TORONTO - Toronto area Catholics are getting new destinations of pilgrimage with the designation of seven Holy Doors in parishes across the archdiocese for the upcoming Year of Mercy.

Vatican on right track with banking reforms

Vatican on right track with banking reforms

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MONTREAL - New accounting practices at the Vatican under the supervision of an independent Auditor General will make fraud and financial mismanagement a thing of the past and help curb extravagant spending, according to Maltese banker and economist Joseph F.X. Zahra.

Barb and Mike McManus speak from behind the ambo that was presented to them upon their retirement from the National Catholic Broadcasting Council Nov. 11. The ambo will remain in the chapel of Loretto Abbey where the Daily Mass is broadcast from.

Daily Mass originator McManus passes the torch

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TORONTO - It’s been 17 years and the broadcast of well over 5,000 television Masses — marking the right moment for Barb and Mike McManus to pass the torch.

The sainthood cause for Montreal laywoman Jeanne Le Ber was opened in late October.

Sainthood cause opened for Montreal laywoman

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MONTREAL - Calling her a star in a “constellation of holiness,” Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine has opened the cause for sainthood of a 17th-century Montreal laywoman.

Nina Moshy, left, and Rosemary Yachouh stand in front of the Ryerson Student Centre to spread awareness about the plight of Syrian refugees.

Assyrian students in solidarity with homelands

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TORONTO - Many members of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union (ACSSU) have grown up in Canada watching from a distance as civil wars tear apart their homelands and force their relatives and friends to flee. As tensions rise and more people are displaced, ACSSU members believe they can make a difference.

The HungerCourt 2015 report reveals food bank use in Canada has risen for the second consecutive year and remains at near record levels.

Canadian food bank use up, especially in Alberta

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OTTAWA - This year’s HungerCourt 2015 report  reveals food bank use in Canada has risen for the second consecutive year and remains at near record levels.

People light candles in the shape of a cross and heart in Republique square in Paris Nov. 14 in memory of victims of terrorist attacks.

Respond to attacks with mercy, not fear

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Catholics should be guided by mercy, not fear, in the wake of the Paris terror attack, said Hamilton Bishop Douglas Crosby three days after co-ordinated terrorist attacks killed at least 129 and sent 415 people to hospital.

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