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St. Paul's Basilica is one of the Catholic churches participating in Bells of Peace at the Archdiocese of Toronto. St. Roch’s, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Helen, and St. Cecilia will also be ringing their bells to mark the anniversary.

Bells of Peace will ring to mark 100th anniversary of the end of WWI

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Churches of all denominations across Canada are being asked to participate in the Royal Canadian Legion’s Bells of Peace at sunset on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11.

Sonja Csik with her mom Timea and her award-winning poster.

Student’s Remembrance Day poster given a royal reception

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This Remembrance Day will almost certainly be unforgettable for an 11-year-old Thornhill, Ont., student — in more ways than one. 

Fr. John Mullins, airport chaplain at Toronto's Pearson International Airport likes to walk around the terminals, keeping a watchful eye. Duffering-Peel Catholic School Board superintendent Tilia Cruz superintendent Tilia Cruz wants the board’s educators to be on the frontlines of identifying potential victims in schools.

Airport chaplaincy, Catholic school boards work with police to stop human trafficking

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After celebrating daily Mass at Terminals 1 and 3, airport chaplain Fr. John Mullins likes to walk around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, praying the rosary and keeping a watchful eye. 

A displaced ethnic Kachin family is seen in early May at a temporary camp on the grounds of a Catholic church in Myitkyina, Myanmar. Myanmar's military still is persecuting ethnic Kachin, the predominant Christian group in a conflict-torn part of the country, as well as Rohingya Muslims, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon said.

Canadian refugee plan falls short, advocates say

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OTTAWA – The Canadian government needs to speed the processing for refugee claimants and raise the number of government-sponsored refugees, say advocates.

Cardinal Thomas Collins, in a session called “Welcome the Stranger,” speaks at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto Nov. 6.

Christians must take ‘risk of faith’ to help those in need, says Cardinal Collins

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Welcoming the stranger can sometimes be a risk of faith, but it is a risk that Christians are called to take, said Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins. 

Indigenous spirituality and traditional wisdom are woven throughout the week of interfaith study and dialogue that has brought close to 10,000 people to Toronto’s downtown convention centre to discuss religion’s place in the world.

Parliament of the World’s Religions tackles peace, tough issues at week-long summit

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As delegates from nearly 80 countries gathered in Toronto for the Parliament of the World’s Religions they were confronted with the common failure of all the world’s faiths — the failure to find peace.

Fr Tony Van Hee SJ, 83, was arrested Oct. 24 for wearing signs in favor of free speech inside the abortion bubble zone.

Fr. Tony Van Hee arrested for violating abortion bubble zone

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OTTAWA – Constitutional lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos will represent an 83-year old Catholic priest who was arrested Oct. 24 for violating Ontario’s abortion bubble zone law.

The Bloch report, a 2017 report authored by St. Michael’s Hospital family physician and researcher Dr. Gary Bloch, included a series of measures to simplify getting welfare and remove barriers to welfare recipients working while receiving benefits.

ISARC makes their case for welfare reform

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As Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod gets set to reveal her welfare reform package on Nov. 8, the people who run Ontario’s food banks, shelters and volunteer supports for poor families are urging the provincial government to restore the basic income pilot project.

Alberta public board launches campaign for single public-funded system

Alberta public board launches campaign for single public-funded system

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EDMONTON – Catholic educators say they are unfazed by a new awareness campaign asking Albertans to weigh in on the idea of dissolving the province’s publicly funded education systems into one.

Ontario scraps women’s abuse panel

Ontario scraps women’s abuse panel

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News that Ontario’s provincial government had disbanded its roundtable of experts on violence against women has Catholic Family Services woman abuse specialist Shereen McFarlane worried.

St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Ajax.

Ajax parish putting words into action against sex abuse

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When the shocking news broke of the coverup of sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania in August, word spread far and fast, with a wave of anger following in its wake.

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