A year ago, Ottawa businessman John Pacheco woke up with a perplexing divine message running through his head: “Get the schools going.”
Martyrs’ Shrine prepares for next 100 years
By Luke Mandato, The Catholic RegisterLeading up to its 100th anniversary in 2026, Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ont., is launching a major fundraising campaign to ensure it another 100 years of service to pilgrims.
Toronto denied hard drug decriminalization
By Luke Mandato, The Catholic RegisterAs British Columbia throws in the towel on its experiment of decriminalizing hard drugs, admitting defeat in liberalizing its drug laws, the country’s largest city has had its desire to ignore B.C.s evidence and move down the same path quashed by the federal government.
Preliminary investigation finds no evidence of abuse by Québec cardinal Lacroix
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News ServiceA preliminary canonical investigation found no evidence of abuse or misconduct committed by Cardinal Gérald Lacroix of Québec, who had been anonymously accused of abuse, the Vatican said.
Faith, finance and the bottom line
By Anna FarrowCanadian Catholic journalist Laura Ieraci is a bit of a “Jill of all trades” and when she is not editing, writing or shooting a film, she is coaching people to bring their faith and their finances into alignment.
Synod experience ‘transformative’ for Canadian priests
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterFr. Pierre Ducharme, O.F.M., is “riding a high” one week after returning from the Parish Priests for the Synod international meeting in Rome.
Discarded chalice’s new life helps spread the call for vocations in Thunder Bay
By Luke Mandato, The Catholic RegisterUpon visiting a local scrap yard last summer to dispose of some waste, one local man from the Thunder Bay District noticed someone attempting to sell an item - one he knew was too precious to be lost to time.
Partnership ‘crucial’ in trafficking fight
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterTo combat modern slavery, the fastest growing and second most profitable criminal enterprise in the world behind the illegal drug trade, anti-trafficking organizations are urgently calling for collaboration.
We ignore religious freedom ‘at our own peril’
By Susan KorahDifferent kinds of persecution are top of mind in political and media circles, but what receives little attention is Christian persecution, said John McKay.
No accounting for burial sites’ funding
By Anna FarrowThe $7.9 million allocated to the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation for “field work” at the alleged site of 215 unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C. is only a small portion of the $110 million allocated to Indigenous communities to help them search and document burial sites at former residential schools.
York Catholic board welcomes all in Christ
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterNearly one year ago, on May 29, 2023, York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) trustees voted 6-4 against a proposal to fly the Pride flag outside board headquarters in Aurora, Ont.