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Youth summer camp counsellors at St. Benedict's SummerDaze Day camp worry about their jobs for the upcoming summer, with their camp at risk without government funding.

All options on table in fight over summer jobs funding policy

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OTTAWA – Legal action is not off the table for charities and groups that have asked the government for accommodation of their Charter rights in the Canada Summer Jobs controversy.

Elementary students dress up and perform a traditional Inuit dance during the liturgy at the Northern Spirit Games at Toronto’s Bishop Marrocco Catholic High School.

Northern Spirit Games bring play and learning together

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“Your two jobs today are to play and to have fun.”

Pope Francis waves as he arrives for a welcoming ceremony during the 2016 World Youth Day at Blonia Park in Krakow, Poland. Because WYD Panama will take place in late January, Correa said she is expecting a smaller Canadian delegation than WYD 2016. This time around, the focus will be to attract young adults who are not tied to a school year schedule.

Canadians get jump on World Youth Day preparation

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World Youth Day is still 11 months away, but Canadians have already had a taste of what to expect on the pilgrimage to Panama.

Report: Aboriginal communities most affected by high imprisonment linked to poverty

Report: Aboriginal communities most affected by high imprisonment linked to poverty

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EDMONTON – Poverty is a main cause of imprisonment and largely affects Canada’s Aboriginal community, according to a new research paper by the coordinator of pastoral care for the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in St. Jean sur Richelieu, Que., has been taken over by the Doicese of Longueuil, which has also assumed the cathedral’s debt from renovations it could no longer afford.

Longueuil diocese takes on cathedral’s $300,000 debt

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The future of an historic cathedral in Quebec has been secured by a transaction that saw the local bishop trade away a former convent and his diocese assume the cathedral’s $300,000 debt.

Sister Elizabeth Kass at a celebration after becoming a Canadian citizen in her 80s, May 2016.

Sr. Elizabeth Kass, advocate for deaf community, dies at age 84

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EDMONTON – Sr. Elizabeth Kass is being remembered as a fearless woman who spent decades ministering to her fellow members of the deaf community, culminating in what she called the answer to her prayers — the ordination of Canada’s first deaf priest.
Fight over forced referral policy on assisted suicide not over yet

Fight over forced referral policy on assisted suicide not over yet

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The Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada is asking the Ontario Court of Appeal to take a second look at their case against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
"We have to make sure that the protest of parents across this province isn’t falling upon deaf ears. We have to make sure the social conservative voice is being respected," Tanya Granic Allen wrote when she announced her run for the Ontario PC Party leadership.

Catholic mom Tanya Allen Granic puts sex ed into Ontario PC campaign

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OTTAWA – A Catholic mother of four has thrust Ontario’s controversial sex-ed curriculum into the campaign to select a new leader of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party.

Spirit Island at Lake Maligne in Alberta, June 9, 2017

A leap into drastic change in environmental policy

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Development and Peace has signed onto a political manifesto that reflects in part the teaching of Pope Francis in a call for drastic change in environmental policy.
Retired Archbishop Joseph MacNeil of Edmonton, Alberta, is pictured with students in an undated photo. Archbishop MacNeil died Feb. 11 after a stroke.

Death of a 'gentle giant', archbishop led Edmonton for 26 years

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EDMONTON – Alberta’s Catholic community is mourning a giant character in its storied history following the death of retired Archbishop Joseph MacNeil, a humble disciple with a unique ability to remember names, faces and details of the lives of thousands of people.
Emelie Callan and Jacob Jason Genaille-Dustyhorn will be representing Canadian youth in Rome in March at the pre-synodal meeting on the youth.

Canadian bishops pick Cree student for Vatican youth synod

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Jacob Jason Genaille-Dustyhorn isn’t Catholic, but his spiritual roots with the Indigenous community has qualified him as one of only two young people selected by Canadian bishops to represent the country in Rome next month.
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