Sr. Nuala Kenny (left) was on the Winter Commission, an enquiry into sex abuse allegations. Archbishop Martin William Currie (right) is the fourth archbishop of St. John’s, Nfld., to inherit the aftermath of the Mt. Cashel sexual abuse scandal involving the Christian Brothers of Ireland.

Abuse scandal lingers a quarter century later

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Twenty-five years on, the case that began the world-wide Catholic sexual abuse scandal is still crawling through the court system and still on the minds of Newfoundland Catholics.

The non-partisan Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has no problem accepting funding from Quebec, as long as the aid will support its development goals.

Quebec wants own foreign aid agency

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A campaign in Quebec to establish its own international development agency is being welcomed by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace as a possible new source of funding.

Ethicist Margaret Somerville (left) and Bank of England governor Mark Carney are two of the notable people associated with Cardus, a new program that wants to help shape young people by connecting them with some of society’s notable decision makers.

Think tank with Christian roots to change the lives of eight students

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You say you want a revolution? The Cardus think tank wants one too, and it plans to help eight young people make it happen.

This Lent, Development and Peace has partnered with Caritas Internationalis to campaign for an end to world hunger.

D&P launches campaign to end world hunger

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If 842 million people are hungry you can’t just invite them over for lunch. But that doesn’t mean we’re helpless. Development and Peace wants Catholics to stop thinking of world hunger as a permanent condition or an unsolvable problem that will never change.

Cardinal Thomas Collins (fourth from the left) poses with the 2014 Ordinandi Class - deacons John Perdue, Dave Walter, Scott Birchall, Michael Simoes, Omar Hernandez, Marijan Šiško and Neiman D'Souza (left to right) - at the 24th annual Ordinandi Dinner.

Ordinandi Dinner attracts another sell-out crowd

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TORONTO - More than 1,500 people crammed the Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, Ont., on March 4 to wine, dine and celebrate seven soon-to-be priests at the Archdiocese of Toronto's 24th annual Ordinandi Dinner.

Six priests in the archdiocese of Toronto have been named monsignors or “Honorary Chaplains of His Holiness” by the Pope. Top, left to right: Msgrs. Thomas Kalarathil, Gregory Ace, Lawrence Bordonaro. Bottom, left to right: Msgrs. John Pilkauskas, John Weber and Paul Zimmer.

Pope Francis names six Toronto monsignors

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TORONTO - When Msgr. Gregory Ace received a call from Cardinal Thomas Collins his first reaction was a slight sense of panic.

“When the Cardinal called me he called me on my cellphone and when the Cardinal calls you kind of think, oh, am I in big trouble or something?”

St. Mary’s Polish Church in Sydney, N.S.

Community fights to save only Polish church in Atlantic Canada

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A Polish Catholic community in Sydney, N.S., seems to be fighting a losing battle to keep its beloved St. Mary’s Polish Church afloat, but it is determined to keep up the fight.

Archbishop J. Michael Miller (left)

Catholic input on prostitution consultation sought

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Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller has asked the British Columbia government to reconsider its decision not to prosecute violations of Canada’s prostitution laws.

The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.

A polarized debate

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The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.

William Kokesch, a deacon in the Montreal archdiocese, plead guilty in court on Feb. 21 to the possession, manufacturing and distribution of child pornography.

Deacon guilty of child porn

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William Kokesch, a deacon in the Montreal archdiocese, plead guilty in court on Feb. 21 to the possession, manufacturing and distribution of child pornography.

The Catholic Church is prepared for a scenario where a Catholic wishes to wed a non-Catholic.

The Church can help overcome challenges of interfaith marriage

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TORONTO - Julie Wright met her husband Doug during her second year in university. She had enrolled in an introduction to philosophy class and he was her teaching assistant. But they only started dating once the course was over. It was an ethics class, after all, she jokes.

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