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Danforth shooting victims, Reese Fallon, 18, and Julianna Kozis, 10, are honoured with flowers and candlelight at a Danforth Av. vigil July 25.

Danforth community bring prayers and support for shooting victims

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Memorials continue to grow as Cardinal Thomas Collins asks for prayers for the victims of a shooting spree on Toronto's Danforth Ave. on July 22 that claimed three lives, including a 10-year-old girl.

Young people from Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Parish in Maskwacis, Alberta, perform a play based on the life of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. It was part of a July 14 Mass and celebration honoring North America's first indigenous saint.

Young indigenous Canadians celebrate beloved St. Kateri as 'one among us'

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MASKWACIS, Alberta – Young. Indigenous. Committed to the Catholic faith.
Nearly half (49 per cent) of immigrants surveyed by Angus Reid on behalf of the Christian think-tank Cardus said their faith community gave them material assistance when they first arrived in Canada, including help finding a job, finding a place to live and learning English. Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) said their faith community provided them with a vital social network.

New Canadians are keeping the Catholic faith alive

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Anyone who has stepped inside a church in the last 40 years doesn’t need a nationwide poll to tell them that the most religious Canadians are the newest Canadians. Immigrants are driving the bus for almost every faith community in Canada, but none more-so than Catholics.

Granic Allen ran as a candidate in the Progressive Conservative Party leadership race on the sex education issue and her supporters helped get Ford elected as party leader in March. Granic Allen agrees the curriculum needs to be updated. 

Ontario sex-ed curriculum back to drawing board

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OTTAWA – The repeal of Ontario’s controversial sex education curriculum by the new government has elicited reactions ranging from jubilation to gloom among Catholic education stakeholders.

Lawyer Alberto Polizogopoulos is representing five businesses challenging the federal government’s Canada Summer Jobs pro-abortion attestation requirement.

Five more businesses join Canada Summer Jobs attestation fight

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OTTAWA – The federal government now faces five federal court legal challenges by private businesses against the Canada Summer Jobs pro-abortion attestation requirement.

Bishop Ronald Fabbro celebrates Mass.

Catholic schools stand by values of family life curriculum

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In the wake of Ontario’s new government repealing its sex education curriculum, students in Catholic school classrooms will continue to be taught in “a manner that that conveys, respects and models Catholic principles to our students, said the head of head of Ontario’s Assembly of Catholic Bishops.

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo, concelebrates Mass July 6 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario. The cardinal visited Ottawa July 5-13 at the invitation of Canada's Congolese community.

Congolese cardinal a strong critic of President Kabila, puts faith ahead of fear

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OTTAWA – There is no room for fear in the life of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo.

Karen Koester of Edmonton is one of seven members of a bishops’ advisory board that has been working on a new hymnal for Canadian churches that would replace the Catholic Book of Worship.

Canadian bishops approve new hymnal

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A new English-language hymnal is on the way. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has confirmed publishing plans for Music for Catholic Worship, which should be in stock by Lent 2020.

Alessandra Sanropadre from the Archdiocese of Montreal talks about the refugee experience in her city at The Church and Migration conference.

Migration crisis calls for action, outreach by Canadian Church

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The Church, with its long history of serving the poor and the persecuted, must play a key role in dealing with the global migration crisis.

Refugees seeking asylum are seen near the border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 10, 2017.

Safe Third Country pact under increasing attack

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OTTAWA – Storm clouds continue to gather over the controversial Safe Third Country Agreement.

Fr. Tony Van Hee is a fixture on Parliament Hill every day the House of Commons is in session.

Priest keeps anti-abortion vigil on Parliament Hill for nearly 30 years

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OTTAWA -- Fr. Tony Van Hee says nearly three decades spent fasting and praying on Parliament Hill to end abortion have been the best years of his life.

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