EDMONTON - With a wide smile on his face, Cardinal Thomas Collins cut the red ribbon declaring the new Cardinal Collins High School Academic Centre officially open.
Donations a ‘tremendous witness’
By Catholic Register StaffThe Archdiocese of Toronto’s $105-million fundraising campaign has surpassed $40 million in donations and pledges, due in large part to almost $700,000 contributed personally by clergy.
East coast pro-lifers to continue despite new government
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterNew Brunswick’s pro-life community plans to use the recent election of a pro-abortion Liberal government to reenergize efforts “to stand up for what is right.”
Hundreds join Ottawa’s inaugural Freedom Walk
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Several hundred marchers participated in Ottawa’s first fundraising Freedom Walk Sept. 27 to raise awareness of the fight against human trafficking.
Ottawa archbishop investigates U.S. bishop
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast was sent by the Vatican to investigate the bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, according to published reports.
Bishops urged to support national dementia strategy
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - An Ottawa Catholic husband and father whose wife suffers a rare, early onset form of dementia is calling on Canada’s bishops to help advance a national dementia strategy.
Poll: Canada should act to alleviate world hunger
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterA third of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are chronically hungry. But, strangely, small-scale farmers, 80 per cent of them women, are the Africans most likely to come up short when trying to feed their families.
Canada rejects UN resolution on native rights
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops may have to re-fight a battle with the federal government over the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Church grapples with caste system in Nepal
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterBishop Anthony Francis Sharma loves his title as emeritus bishop of Nepal. He loves it because it allows him to make a little joke at his own expense.
Jesus found on the periphery, bishop tells students
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Look to the peripheries for it is there you’ll find the suffering, the marginalized and Jesus Christ.
Trudeau’s ‘dictatorial stand’ attacked
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsFormer Liberal MPs demand leader rescind abortion policy