First Nations seek funding from Canadian bishops for promotion of culture, spirituality
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsCORNWALL, Ont. – Members of the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council called on Canada’s bishops to help find permanent funding for an institution to promote indigenous culture and spirituality.
St. Michael’s Cathedral rededicated, declared a basilica
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register“This is holy ground,” Cardinal Thomas Collins declared as he rededicated St. Michael’s Cathedral, capping off a five-year, $128 million restoration of the 168-year-old home of Toronto’s Catholics.
St. Michael’s Cathedral is back in action
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – After six years under construction, St. Michael's Cathedral is once again ready to welcome its flock on a daily basis.
Brampton's St. Elias rises out of the ashes
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterBRAMPTON, ONT. – The material world is temporary, and the congregation at St. Elias Ukrainian Catholic Church knows this better than most.
Humility essential to those in law, says Supreme Court Justice at Christian lawyers’ banquet
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA – Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown stressed the importance of humility to find the right balance of mercy and justice in a speech to Christian lawyers Sept. 22 in Ottawa.
Refurbished St. Michael's Cathedral resumes its place in the heart of Toronto
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – Following a six-year, $128-million renovation St. Michael’s Cathedral is finally ready to open its doors, rededicate its altar and give thanks to God for its new life in the heart of Toronto.
Dutch cardinal warns Canadian bishops about 'slippery slope' of euthanasia
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsCORNWALL, Ont. – The Archbishop of Utrecht advised Canadian bishops to continue to decry euthanasia and assisted suicide so that Canada never emulates the Netherlands, where assisted killing can now be administered to psychiatric patients and the handicapped.
Cancer patients attribute cures to rocks from St. Michael's founding bishop's crypt
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – The statistical probabilities behind praying your way out of stage-four cancer aren’t good. When you’re too skinny, too weak and hallucinating half the time, when friends and family come round to your house and just cry, when unsmiling doctors want to talk to you in the quiet, pastel-coloured room at the end of the hall — you don’t make any long-term plans.
Quebec Emmy winner, son of theologians, thought he would always be poor
By Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News ServiceQUEBEC CITY – Thomas Montminy-Brodeur, 28, just won the Best Visual Effects Emmy Award as part of the team at Rodeo FX, the Montreal studio that makes the special effects for "Game of Thrones." Now at the top, Montminy-Brodeur smiles when he thinks about the work he used to do for the Archdiocese of Quebec a few years ago.
Religious institutes to divest their oil, gas, coal holdings
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA large Canadian Catholic institution, at least one major international religious order, plus a large diocese and a host of other Catholic entities will stand up on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi to declare they’re selling off all their stocks and other investments in oil, gas and coal, according to the Washington-based Global Catholic Climate Movement.
Covenant House’s safe place for sex trafficked opens
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO – When Casandra Diamond left “the game” 11 years ago she cried every day for about three months.