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Douglas coach Willis May, left, and St. Matthews Tigers coach Jean Guillaume exchange school jerseys with number 17 to commemorate the 17 victims of the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting.

More than a game: Ottawa team plays against Parkland school marred by mass shooting

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Beyond the competition, football is about brotherhood for the St. Matthew’s Tigers. 

A culture of confidentiality was one of the issues behind failed fundraising efforts to renovate Windsor’s Assumption Church.

Bishop Fabbro vows renewed effort to restore Windsor’s historic Assumption Church

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A wall of secrecy doomed two successive fundraising campaigns to restore one of Canada’s most significant historical churches in Windsor, Ont., an independent inquiry has found.

Arcie Lim is one of 24 men elected to lead the international 1.9-million-member Catholic men's organization.

Knights of Columbus elect B.C. man to board of directors

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The Knights of Columbus on Canada’s west coast have been waiting 30 years for this moment.

Joe Gunn of Citizens of Public Justice, left, and Jack Panozzo of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Toronto look for government action on poverty.

Federal government makes ambitious plans for poverty reduction

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Over the next 12 years the federal government promises to raise 2.1 million Canadians out of poverty and take Canada’s poverty rate from one in every eight Canadians to one in every 17 Canadians by 2030.

Archbishop Anthony Mancini of the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth.

Archbishop Mancini attacking abuse issue head-on

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Even as he faces another sex abuse case in his own diocese, Archbishop Anthony Mancini is not afraid of going bankrupt.

Regina's Archbishop Bolen appeals directly to abuse victims

Regina's Archbishop Bolen appeals directly to abuse victims

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Just three months after launching a video appeal to victims of clergy abuse, Regina Archbishop Don Bolen is again appealing to victims to come forward.

Trinity Western law students stand outside Canada's Supreme Court.

Trinity Western law school plans on hold

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OTTAWA – Trinity Western University’s decision to drop its mandatory community covenant has left religious freedom advocates wondering how it will impact the future of their cause. 

Mary Agnes Herman is helped out of Lac Ste. Anne after walking 429 kilometres to the pilgrimage site.

An epic pilgrimage trek at Lac Ste. Anne

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LAC STE ANNE COUNTY, Alta. – She finally made it. 

Barry Bussey, director, legal affairs for the Canadian Council of Christian Charities said he thinks the government’s announced policy change is a positive step.

Charity faces another court fight with federal government to defend their advocacy activity

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OTTAWA – A poverty-fighting group, fresh from a victory over a law that threatened its status as a charity, is facing another round of legal fighting after the federal government appealed the court ruling.

The new federal plan promises to lift 650,000 Canadians out of poverty by 2019, and to cut Canada’s poverty rate in half by 2030. If the plan is to succeed it will need new money, Citizens for Public Justice executive director Joe Gunn said.

Canadian poverty plan big on promises, short on dollars

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Over the next 12 years the federal government promises to raise 2.1 million Canadians out of poverty and take Canada’s poverty rate from one in every eight Canadians to one in every 17 by 2030.

Left to right: Bishop Jon Hansen CSsR of Mackenzie-Fort Smith; Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver; Archbishop Terrence Prendergast S.J. of Ottawa; Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina

Canada’s bishops express ‘sadness’ over sex abuse findings

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OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops have joined their American counterparts in expressing heartbreak and sorrow over the clerical abuse revelations south of the border. 

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