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Catholics kneel to pray for churches to open outside Vancouver’s Holy Rosary Cathedral.

B.C. public Mass ban extended to Jan.8

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VANCOUVER -- Public health officials in B.C. have extended the existing bans on events including public Masses until Jan. 8, meaning no public in-person Christmas or New Year’s Masses this year.

Archbishop Marcel Damphousse inside Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral.

Pope makes it official in Ottawa-Cornwall

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OTTAWA -- The official changing of the guard in Ottawa-Cornwall is now complete.

Students in the Learning Commons of King’s University College which will be integrated with the Cardinal Carter Library.

Librarian’s estate gifts King’s with $1 million

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A bit early for Christmas, King’s University College has been hit with a surprise gift of $1 million — one of the largest gifts in the London, Ont., Catholic college’s history.

Outgoing Ottawa-Cornwall Archbishop Terrence Prendergast stands beside a portrait of himself.

Prendergast’s retirement on hold

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OTTAWA -- Retiring is proving to be difficult for Archbishop Terrence Prendergast.

The Sullivan family, Patrick and wife Kyra, with eight of their nine children.

Crisis offers opportunity

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Catholic parents seeking to help their children make sense of world events have had their work cut out for them in 2020.

Justice Minister David Lametti.

Liberals table bill to implement UN’s Indigenous rights declaration

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OTTAWA -- The federal government is making good on a promise to bring in legislation that would set up the framework for how the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) will be implemented within Canadian law.

A file photo shows small bottles labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" stickers and a medical syringe.

Catholics can be vaccinated with clear conscience

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EDMONTON -- When a vaccine is available to treat or prevent COVID-19, the bishops of Alberta and the Northwest Territories have given their blessing to Catholics to be inoculated.

Alessandra Santopadre, pictured, runs the refugee resettlement program in the Archdiocese of Montreal.

Quebec suspends refugee resettlement

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Banned by the Quebec government, churches and faith communities who sponsor refugees want to face their accusers and get some sort of explanation for Quebec’s sudden one-year suspension of refugee sponsorship.

Feed Ontario is reporting a sharp rise in food bank clients since the pandemic hit.

Food bank use skyrockets during pandemic

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The stock market is up, real estate is soaring and yet food bank use is through the roof.

Deacon Thomas Aquino and other volunteers at the Good Shepherd are staying engaged as best they can in a time of COVID where volunteers are being asked to stay at home.

The Good Shepherd’s volunteers stay engaged

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As Toronto and Peel Region officially went into lockdown on Nov. 23, they joined Good Shepherd volunteers who have already been in lockdown for 10 months.

Alex Schadenberg

‘Negligible’ savings from assisted suicide, report says

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OTTAWA -- A fiscal analysis of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) system shows that making access to an assisted suicide easier could save Canada’s health-care system up to $149 million a year.

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