Two years in the making, Pietà statue arrives at St. Michael's crypt
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterImages of his prized Pietà cracking and crumbling robbed Lawrence Voaides-Cajabn of sleep the night before the statue's final journey to St. Michael's Cathedral.
Canada's funding boost to U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees applauded
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA federal government decision to restore funding to a United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees is being applauded by a Catholic aid group.
Churches should ‘tremble’ at transgender agenda, professor says
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA – A University of Toronto professor at the centre of a transgender storm issued a stark warning for religious groups that are out of step with society’s politically correct agenda.
Blanket Exercise pulls covers off painful aboriginal history
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – While playing the role of an aboriginal being stripped of her land as part of an educational exercise, Danielle Duggan found herself fighting back real tears.
Bishops back palliative care bill
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic Bishops have joined with an interfaith coalition to endorse a private member’s bill that lays the foundation for a national palliative care strategy.
Motion to study violent porn impact wins all-party support
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA – A private member motion for a government study into the public impact of pornographic material that is readily available on the Internet has won all-party support.
Université de Montréal is closing its faculty of theology amid restructuring
By Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News ServiceMONTREAL – Université de Montréal – Canada's second-largest university – announced it will close its faculty of theology and transform it into an institute of religious studies embedded in the faculty of arts and sciences.
Cash crunch puts 40 per cent of Montreal’s English parishes in jeopardy
By Alan Hustak, Catholic Register SpecialMONTREAL – Montreal’s community of English-speaking practising Catholics has shrunk to the point that 14 of the archdiocese’s 34 parishes could face eventual closure barring an unexpected turnaround in fortunes.
Mr. Cohen, it was a privilege knowing you
By Alan Hustak, Catholic Register SpecialMONTREAL – There was a universally catholic intensity to Leonard Cohen’s work. It was found in his “Song of Bernadette,” which Jennifer Warnes recorded, in his song “Suzanne” when he referenced Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel (“the sun shines down like honey on our Lady of the Harbour”), in his novel Beautiful Losers about St. Kateri Tekakwitha, and in his astonishing spiritual, Book of Mercy.
Léger left lasting impression on Quebec with humanitarian work
By Alan Hustak, Catholic Register SpecialMONTREAL – As the Year of Mercy neared its completion, Montreal Catholics remembered Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger on the 25th anniversary of his death as a man of many contradictions who relinquished his prestigious position in the Church to make the poor his priority.
Scarboro Missions’ interfaith office closing after three-plus decades of work
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – Scarboro Missions’ interfaith office, a centre for reflection and dialogue between Canadian Catholics and people of other faiths for more than 30 years, is closing.