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Fr. Thomas Rosica preaches the National Catholic Broadcasting Council’s Lenten mission to students at Toronto’s Loretto Abbey.

Pope Francis exemplifies to Catholics mercy in action

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TORONTO - As Catholics worldwide prepare to celebrate Easter, Fr. Thomas Rosica is challenging them to extend mercy to the marginalized.

Syriac Catholic Bishop Paulos Antoine Nassif poses for a photograph Jan. 26 at the Syriac Catholic Archbishopric in Beirut. Nassif, ordained Jan. 23, will lead the first apostolic exarchate for Syriac Catholics living in Canada, with the jurisdiction based in Montreal and Laval, Que.

New Syriac bishop wants to make Canada home for faithful

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MONTREAL - Canada’s first Syriac Catholic bishop says his immediate challenge is to minister to refugees from the Middle East and at the same time move forward with plans for evangelization in his vast new Canadian diocese as he prepares for the demands of the Easter season.

Cardinal John Henry Newman

Educator should mentor as well as teach

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TORONTO - Today’s educators need to reach back to the 19th century and adopt the mentoring mentality of the late Cardinal John Henry Newman, says Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Justice Murray Sinclair

TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair named to the Senate

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OTTAWA - Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), is among seven people Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recommended be appointed to the Senate March 18.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks urged religious people not to allow the debate about religion and violence to be dominated by people who don’t understand religion March 15.

More protection needed for religious freedom, says Rabbi Sacks

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The Jewish argument for freedom of religion is embedded in the Old Testament, the former chief rabbi of Britain told an enthralled audience at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio March 15.

UNICEF estimates that 80 per cent of Syria’s children have been harmed in the nation’s now five-year-old civil war.

Syrian children bear the brunt of war tearing nation apart

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With seven million Syrian children forced into poverty, almost three million out of school and two million living in cities under siege, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF estimates 80 per cent of Syria’s children have suffered harm in the five-year-old war.

Campaign Life Coalition is opening up the National March for Life to other Canadian pro-life groups.

March for Life opens doors to wide pro-life spectrum

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OTTAWA - Campaign Life Coalition has paved the way for every organization fighting for the unborn to take part in this year’s National March for Life May 12.

Archbishop Murray Chatlain says failed relationships are causing aboriginal youth to kill themselves.

Native suicide crisis part of the heartache of ministering in First Nations’ communities

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Living alongside Canada's First Nations people is a ministry of highs and heartaches for Archbishop Murray Chatlain.

And the heartache comes to the forefront at times like now, highlighted by a suicide crisis that has struck the First Nations’ community of Cross Lake, Man.

At Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Muhammad Elhabibi has developed and is directing an Arabic language-for-beginners program for the broader community.

Halifax’s Saint Mary’s University offering language course for those welcoming Syrian refugees

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Retired lawyer Bob Doherty has no illusions about becoming fluent in Arabic but he’s taking a language course at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax in order to ease the transition for the Syrian refugee family his parish will soon welcome.

Citizens for Public Justice’s Karri Munn-Venn, Polaris Institute's Tony Clarke, and Ecology Ottawa's Graham Saul participated in a panel on what's next for faith communities after the climate change talks in Paris last December.

Faith communities must be moral dimension in fighting climate change

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OTTAWA - Faith communities must stay hopeful and engaged to ensure governments live up to climate change commitments, says the leader of the United Church of Canada’s delegation to COP21.

Girls bathe inside a U.N. base in Juba, South Sudan, March 5.

Canadian aid could fund abortions

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OTTAWA - Pro-life groups charge that the federal government intends to resume funding for overseas abortions as part of its international child and maternal health program.

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