VANCOUVER -- Angelina Ireland first learned about Delta Hospice five years ago.
The changing world of child welfare
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterMark Kartusch is a 53-year-old suburban dad, overseer of a real estate windfall and the guy entrusted to make sure a Catholic agency serving more than 6,000 vulnerable families has a future despite declining government funding.
Activists claim assisted suicide lacks safeguards
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs most Canadians support fewer restrictions on assisted suicide, disability activists are worried the current system lacks safeguards.
Christians united in ‘midst of the storm’
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register“Simple trust in the provident hand of God,” will be the key to Christian unity, Cardinal Thomas Collins told more than 300 people who gathered for the final liturgy of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Toronto Jan. 26.
Lack of Share Lent letter a ‘non-story,’ says CCCB president
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFor the first time in a half-century, Development and Peace will appeal for funds during Lent without an explicit letter of support from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
After 60 years, zeal for justice remains
By Catholic News ServiceCelebrating 60 years of priesthood, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, who migrated to Toronto after his retirement in Pakistan, has taken up the cause of supporting persecuted Pakistani Christians who seek asylum in Canada.
Ex Corde Foundation helps fill in funding gap
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterThe Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) in Hamilton can’t always account at budget time for all its needs, but when some urgent need arises it’s happy there is an organization like the Ex Corde Foundation that can lend a hand.
Bishops call for resistance to expanded assisted suicide
By Andrew Ehrkamp, Canadian Catholic NewsEDMONTON -- The bishops of Alberta and the Northwest Territories are calling on Catholics to mobilize and oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide even as the federal government looks to make it easier to qualify for a medically-induced death.
B.C. bishop headed for England eparchy
By Canadian Catholic NewsBishop Ken Nowakowski, who has shepherded the Ukrainian Eparchy of New Westminster, B.C., since 2007, has been appointed bishop of the Eparchy of the Holy Family in London, England.
‘Too much emphasis on religion,’ says minister
By Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News ServiceQUEBEC CITY -- Complaining that current courses place “too much emphasis on religion,” Quebec is set to eliminate its Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum, according to the province’s education minister.
Church and school officials keeping close eye on coronavirus
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterAs the deadly Wuhan coronavirus spread around the world, including two known cases reported in Toronto, Church officials continued to monitor the situation before making any decisions about implementing the types of safety protocols that followed similar outbreaks in the past.