MONTREAL -- The former president of Development and Peace said the Catholic bishops’ attitude toward their charitable agency is hurting its membership and credibility.
Fr. Tou, Montreal’s first Chinese-born priest
ByWhen he was 10, Fr. Thomas Tou was unhappy when his family earmarked him for the priesthood by enrolling him in a minor seminary in northeast China.
Cathedral ponders development option
By Agnieszka Ruck, Canadian Catholic NewsVANCOUVER -- Like other churches and schools preparing for a major earthquake some day, 119-year-old Holy Rosary Cathedral is considering its options for a significant upgrade.
Parties woo families with tempting offers
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterWhoever wins the Oct. 21 federal election will be focused on families and helping them get ahead — or so it would seem with the early slate of promises pouring out from the platforms of the ruling Liberals, the Conservatives and the NDP.
75 years pursuing peace
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Canadian Council of Churches started in the middle of a war and it’s still trying to make peace.
Czerny sees ministry intensifying with new role as cardinal
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceROME -- Cardinal-designate Michael Czerny, a Canadian Jesuit priest who is one of Pope Francis’ point men responsible for the pastoral care and political advocacy for migrants and refugees, calls becoming a cardinal “an intensification” of his ministry.
Student stabbed outside Toronto Catholic high school
By Catholic Register StaffA student from Neil McNeil Catholic High School in Toronto was rushed to hospital after being stabbed in an altercation outside the east-end school Sept. 26.
Catholics put climate on electoral hot seat
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs at least 60,000 people marched on United Nations headquarters Sept. 20 and hundreds of thousands of students around the world demanded climate solutions, Canadian Catholics launched a chapter of the Global Catholic Climate Movement with calls for politicians to confront climate change.
Canadians respond to refugees’ plight
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterCatholics from coast to coast are rallying to answer a call to help resettle Christian Pakistani refugees stuck in Bangkok.
Bishops grapple with ‘moral setbacks’ at plenary
By Brian Dryden, Canadian Catholic NewsCORNWALL, ONT. -- Religious persecution, the continuing fallout from past sexual abuse, reconciliation with First Nations and an ongoing commitment to “our missionary zeal” were among the grand themes that emerged at the annual plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB).
Ordaining married men not a ‘focused’ issue
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsCORNWALL, Ont. -- Canada’s bishops will monitor next month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, but the issue of ordaining married men is not a priority for bishops here, said Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg.