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Delegates representing Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit are pictured in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall during a meeting with Pope Francis April 1. The Pope will meet members of Canada’s Indigenous communities in late July, visiting Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit in Nunavut, the country’s most northern region.

First Nations group offers draft for papal apology

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A First Nations group of residential school survivors has publicly put forward specific wording for a papal apology widely expected in Canada in July.  

Cardinal Thomas Collins, centre, was honoured by ORAT and the Chaldean community June 19 for bringing thousands of refugees to Canada.

Toronto Cardinal Collins honoured for fatherly care of refugees

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Honouring Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins for the thousands of refugees he has brought to Canada came quite naturally to the community at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.

Novalis creating a papal trip prayer book

Novalis creating a papal trip prayer book

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Novalis is composing a digital edition of Living With Christ in time for Pope Francis’ July 24-29 trip to Canada. 

Pope Francis greets the crowd during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 22, 2022.

Itinerary released for Pope Francis' visit to Canada

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Pope Francis’ commitment to Indigenous people to visit Canada “where I will be able better to express to you my closeness” now has the concrete form of an official itinerary.

A gavel and a block are pictured on a judge's bench in this illustration picture taken June 9, 2021.

Quebec class-action suits could spread, lawyer says

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In the past two months, courts gave the go-ahead for class-action lawsuits involving 100 plaintiffs alleging sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Quebec and the Diocese of St. Hyacinthe near Montreal.

The Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist will remain in the hands of the Catholic Church.

Historic St. John’s basilica saved in auction

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The iconic Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John’s, Nfld., is poised to remain a sacred place of worship for Catholics for years to come.

While 77 per cent of those raised Catholic retain the faith, 28 per cent said they don’t believe in God, a Cardus-Angus Reid study found.

Faith numbers troubling, yet encouraging

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Compelling new research out of Cardus and the Angus Reid Institute should encourage Canadian religious leaders to take a deeper look at why some people remain religiously faithful and why others do not, says Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett.

Robert G. Kearns, left, chair and founder of the Canada Ireland Foundation, is presented with a declaration of June 6, 2022, as the 175th anniversary of the arrival of Irish migrants fleeing the famine by Toronto Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão.

Irish famine changed Toronto forever

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When the migrant ships loaded with thousands fleeing Ireland’s Great Famine set sail in 1847, little was it known how this great migration would change — and continue to change — the face of a small town in the interior of a land an ocean away.

Sinda Vanderpool

New St. Mary’s president focused on growing liberal arts college

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Dr. Sinda Vanderpool begins her tenure as president and vice-chancellor of St. Mary’s University in Calgary next month with a mindset for growth.

A gavel and a block are pictured on a judge's bench in this illustration picture taken June 9, 2021. A Superior Court judge has authorized the filing of a class action suit related to sex abuse cases against the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Class action authorized against Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec

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A Superior Court judge authorized the filing of a class action suit related to sex abuse cases against the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Jaroslav Skira

Dean pitches theology for our times

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The first ever dean of a combined Regis College-University of St. Michael’s graduate faculty of theology is the first Eastern-rite Catholic in charge of theology at either school and the first lay person who does not belong to a religious order to hold the top academic job at the Jesuits’ Regis College.

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