OTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast was sent by the Vatican to investigate the bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, according to published reports.
Bishops urged to support national dementia strategy
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - An Ottawa Catholic husband and father whose wife suffers a rare, early onset form of dementia is calling on Canada’s bishops to help advance a national dementia strategy.
Poll: Canada should act to alleviate world hunger
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA third of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are chronically hungry. But, strangely, small-scale farmers, 80 per cent of them women, are the Africans most likely to come up short when trying to feed their families.
Canada rejects UN resolution on native rights
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops may have to re-fight a battle with the federal government over the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Church grapples with caste system in Nepal
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterBishop Anthony Francis Sharma loves his title as emeritus bishop of Nepal. He loves it because it allows him to make a little joke at his own expense.
Jesus found on the periphery, bishop tells students
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Look to the peripheries for it is there you’ll find the suffering, the marginalized and Jesus Christ.
Trudeau’s ‘dictatorial stand’ attacked
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsFormer Liberal MPs demand leader rescind abortion policy
Sr. Turgeon one step closer to sainthood
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterSr. Rita Bérubé never thought she’d live to see the beatification of Sr. Marie Elisabeth Turgeon, but the day is getting closer.
Cardinal Turcotte falls gravely ill
By Catholic Register StaffThe people of the Archdiocese of Montreal have been asked to pray for popular Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte as he lies ill in hospital.
Scholar decries ‘plague’ wiping out history
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs Amir Harrak watched the news this summer, the Toronto scholar saw a history, culture and language that he devoted his life to understanding being turned to dust. Churches, monasteries, mosques blown up, libraries full of ancient manuscripts burned and the people who still speak and live according to the language of Jesus and his Apostles dispersed. The news out of Iraq could not have been worse.
Walking the rosary, a dream come true
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterA 40-year dream of a walkable rosary path is finally coming to life at the Marylake Retreat Centre in King City, Ont.