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L'Arche community members present their work at an art show.

L’Arche ready to build a new beginning in Burnaby

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VANCOUVER – A community built around love for people with developmental disabilities is undergoing ground-breaking changes.

Len Rhodes, president of the Edmonton Eskimos, speaks at the Edmonton Catholic Social Services general meeting Sept. 17.

Edmonton football team president shares painful past

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EDMONTON – The mission of Catholic Social Services is to care for and lift up the most vulnerable among us.

The document was adopted unanimously Sept. 27 at the annual plenary meeting of the bishops and establishes national standards which every bishop has pledged to implement in their diocese.

Sex abuse document from Canada’s bishops focuses on victims, urges accountability and transparency

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OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops’ have released a new document on sexual abuse that calls for accountability, transparency, prevention and healing as first steps to repair the considerable damage inflicted on the Church and society by decades of priestly abuse and coverups by bishops.

Cardinal Collins has not been e-mailing you.

E-mail scam uses Cardinal Collins’ name to lure victims

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Toronto Catholics are being warned about a new e-mail scam involving someone impersonating Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Doctors from Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital have outlined policies and procedures for medically assisted death for children.

Assisted suicide plans for children unveiled at Toronto's Sick Kids hospital

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TORONTO – In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have laid out policies and procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies.
Canadian bishops working on palliative care resources for every parish

Canadian bishops working on palliative care resources for every parish

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CORNWALL – Canada’s Catholic bishops aim to have palliative care resources available in every parish to help Catholics grapple with suffering and dying under a regime of legal euthanasia.

Fr Raymond de Souza, editor of Convivium.ca and Ray Pennings, vice president of Cardus participated in the 7th annual Parliamentary Forum on Religious Freedom Oct. 1.

Canada’s religious freedom at risk in the courts and in Parliament

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OTTAWA – Experts warned religious freedom is at risk in Canada as it is no longer seen as a fundamental right but something that can be trumped by vague “charter values” and partisan politics.

“What we want is for the Catholic Church to be the safest place for young people,” said Bishop Lionel Gendron, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Sept. 28 after the close of the bishops’ annual plenary in Cornwall, Ont.

Canadian bishops’ new sex abuse guidelines focus on prevention

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OTTAWA – New sexual abuse policies which Canada’s bishops have vowed to implement will focus on prevention, but will not include a mechanism to censure a bishop who commits or covers up an offence.

St. Andrew’s Church youth are welcomed to a small rural community in Bolivia with a fiesta at a local community centre.

Society calls on Canadian Catholics to live out the Church's missionary nature

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Everyone is called to mission and this year, the Pontifical Mission Society is calling for Canadian Catholics to answer that call. 

Halloween at the Holy Rosary Residence in 1965. The residence closed in the mid-’80s.

‘Don’t call it an old ladies’ home!’: Catholic home for senior women is re-discovered

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VANCOUVER – Hostelling International boasts some interesting locations for their nightly accommodations. World travellers booking with HI can spend a night in a cell at the Carleton County jail in Ottawa, in old army barracks on Jericho Beach, or inside the former Olympic Village in Whistler.

Ursuline Sister Cecile Dionne speaks to Sister Pauline Duchesne and Sister Celine Bergeron inside Quebec City's Ursuline monastery chapel June 1. In October, the majority of the 50 sisters who live in the monastery, founded by St. Mary of the Incarnation, will head to the borough of Beauport, where a new home for the elderly awaits them.

Quebec Ursulines leave 17th-century monastery, ending a 400-year era

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QUEBEC – Daylight illuminates the monastery's long corridors, seeping through the old windows dotting its thick walls. The floor responds to the slightest step with an enveloping rustle, as today's Ursulines follow the footsteps of their predecessors. But this uninterrupted cycle that dates back to 17th-century New France is coming to an end.
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