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B.C. hospice plan takes on MAiD 'tyranny'

B.C. hospice plan takes on MAiD 'tyranny'

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The Delta Hospice Society has launched an innovative, three-pronged counter-offensive against Canada’s ever-more-permissive assisted-suicide law.

Catholic educators Suzanne Stubbs and Michael Phaneuf with their Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medals.

Prince Albert educators honoured, surprised by Queen’s Jubilee medal

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Prince Albert Catholic School Division (PACSD) leaders Suzanne Stubbs and Mark Phaneuf were surprised and honoured upon finding out they would both be feted with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.

A Brock University study halted by the pandemic is back on and is surveying Catholic school students and families to see how pandemic restrictions have impacted bullying behaviour.

Catholic schools taking part in bullying study

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A Brock University research team is renewing its five-year school bullying investigation launched in 2017 that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

Ecology comes first, ‘no ifs, ands or buts’

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Twenty religious congregations have joined together to lobby Ottawa politicians on climate change and social justice. 

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, leaves after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this Feb. 28, 2020, file photo. Bibi has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country. She also said her family is struggling in Canada, because the government only supported them for one year.

Asia Bibi advocates for Pakistanis accused of blasphemy

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Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada, has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country.

A number of bronze plaques were stolen from a columbarium at St. Peter’s Cemetery in London, Ont.

Charges laid in London cemetery burglary

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London police have charged a 35-year-old man in the theft of 43 bronze vases and multiple plaques from St. Peter’s Cemetery in the southwestern Ontario city.

Two Quebec bishops named in abuse lawsuit

Two Quebec bishops named in abuse lawsuit

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Two Quebec bishops, one deceased and one living, have been named in a sexual abuse class action against the Archdiocese of Quebec.

A woman covers her nose while walking past a burning road block as anger mounted over fuel shortages that have intensified as a result of gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this past summer.

Jesuits offer Trudeau their Haiti expertise

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As Canada prepares to take the lead among the Core Group trying to solve Haiti’s anarchic and violent crisis, Canada’s top Jesuit is offering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a precious resource — 55 Haitian Jesuits, including 35 currently in the troubled Caribbean nation. 

St. Teresa’s Church in the Mundy Pond area of St. John’s, Nfld.

St. John’s rural properties next up on auction block

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With the sale of church properties in the greater St. John’s area almost complete, the Newfoundland archdiocese is now eyeing the sale of some of its rural properties to compensate abuse survivors from the Mount Cashel Orphanage.

SE Health Care’s Nancy Lefebre cuts the ribbon for the new three-bed Journey Home Hospice in Windsor, Ont.

Saint Elizabeth improvises in launching homeless hospice

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Like a healthcare jazz band, the Saint Elizabeth Foundation, the charitable arm of SE Health Care, has improvised its way around provincial funding priorities to launch a new hospice for the homeless in Windsor, Ont.

The Archdiocese of Toronto’s Catholic Family Services marked its 100th anniversary with a celebration and reception Nov. 17 at the archdiocese’s Pastoral Centre.

For 100 years, Catholic Family Services Toronto has followed in Christ’s path

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The people who work at Catholic Family Services of Toronto aren’t the sort who celebrate themselves. So when the social workers, counsellors and their support staff came together Nov. 17 to celebrate a century of work with the poor and the distressed of Toronto, they were there “because of the people we serve,” Catholic Family Services counsellor Dominique Lemelin told The Catholic Register.

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