First Nations students at Assumption College School in Brantford, Ont., are being encouraged to embrace their native tongue by enrolling in new native language courses.
Diocese tackling racism
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterThe archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas is taking steps to help curb the anti-aboriginal racism that irunsrampant in northern Saskatchewan.
Group seeks greater lay voice in Church affairs
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Several Toronto Catholics, including Redemptorist Father Paul Hansen, have joined an international organization that seeks to open the Vatican corridors of power beyond the clergy.
Groups unite to stop Quebec's Bill 52
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Two prominent Quebec organizations hoping to block the province’s euthanasia Bill 52 submitted forceful briefs to the Health and Social Services committee seeking public input on the bill.
Opening the doors of hope for Nuit Blanche
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterUpdated: 09/30/13 - changed date of Nuit Blanche
TORONTO - One year after it began as little more than an idea, the Doors of Hope project is set to take part in Toronto’s seventh Nuit Blanche.
Pope offers lessons on qualities of those in ministry, nuncio tells bishops
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsSAINTE-ADELE, QUE. - In his final address to Canada’s Catholic bishops Sept. 23, the papal nuncio told the bishops Pope Francis was giving them “a powerful lesson on the qualities that should characterize the episcopal ministry.”
Men of St. Augustine’s called to make Christ present
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino came home to Toronto and old friends to celebrate the 100th birthday of St. Augustine’s Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood in the early 1960s.
Christ remains the context
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPope Francis’ warning about overemphasizing Church teaching on abortion and other social doctrines is no cause for Canada’s pro-life movement to change its tactics or rethink its priorities, say veteran pro-life campaigners.
Pakistani Canadians rally against church bombing
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterVAUGHAN, ONT. - Four days after a deadly suicide attack on the historic All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, more than 200 Pakistani Canadians descended on Pakistan’s remote consulate located in suburban Vaughan to protest against the brutality and send a clear message to the Pakistani government.
COLF warns of pitfalls in New Age movement
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) has published a booklet warning that yoga, meditation, Reiki and other activities of the New Age movement are dangerous.
Cardinal Rodriguez urges pursuit of charity at local parish level
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsSAINTE-ADELE, Que. - Charity or caritas needs to begin face-to-face, at the local parish level, Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga told Canada’s bishops Sept. 24.