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January 11, 2019

Catholic groups tears apart Trump speech about border wall

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address Jan. 8 televised to the nation from his desk in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. He spoke about immigration and the southern U.S. border on the 18th day of a partial government shutdown.
WASHINGTON – No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he termed a crisis at the border, than Catholic groups and others began tearing apart his arguments.
Published in International
December 14, 2018

Catholics ask for more 'heart and soul' at UN environmental conference

Protesters march outside the venue of the UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland.

Standing on the outside looking in as the world’s environment ministers and their armies of technocrats hammered out the rulebook for Paris Agreement on climate change, Canadian Josianne Gauthier wished there was an injection  of urgency onto the agenda.

Published in International
December 10, 2018

Catholics push for strong climate deal at U.N. summit in Poland

A woman watches an exhibition inside the venue of the U.N. climate change conference, or COP24, Dec. 8 in Katowice, Poland.
Catholic representatives worked to keep negotiations on track for a comprehensive deal to address global warming as the U.N. climate change conference entered its second and final week in Katowice, Poland.
Published in International
May 30, 2018

Government seeks help from Catholic coalition to push papal apology

Archbishop Murray Chatlain, above, co-chair of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, a coalition of Catholic groups. The Circle has been invited by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to aid the federal government in obtaining a papal apology for the Church role in residential schools.

OTTAWA – The Minister of Indigenous Affairs has asked the Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, a coalition of Catholic groups, to help government efforts to obtain a papal apology for the Church’s role in residential schools.

Published in Canada
May 11, 2018

Editorial: Return the money

Editorial: Return the money

Maybe they didn’t get the memo. Maybe it was simple human error. Maybe they simply don’t care.

Published in Editorial