exclamation

Important notice: To continue serving our valued readers during the postal disruption, complete unrestricted access to the digital edition is available at no extra cost. This will ensure uninterrupted digital access to your copies. Click here to view the digital edition, or learn more.

Subscribe to this RSS feed
May 9, 2018

Companions of the Cross prepare for “something big” with magazine launch

Priests from around Canada and the United States were present for this year’s Foundation Day May 4, including Bishop Scott McCaig, CC, of the Military Ordinariate of Canada, and Bishop Christian Riesbeck, CC, auxiliary bishop of Ottawa.

As the Companions of the Cross marked its Foundation Day May 4, General Superior Fr. Allan MacDonald said he believed God has something in new in mind for the 33-year-old priestly community.

Published in Canada
May 2, 2018

Debate on Pope's views on marriage and family will unify Church, says Weigel

George Weigel at the New Evangelization Summit in Ottawa.

OTTAWA – The long-running debate over Pope Francis’ views on marriage and the family will eventually result in a more unified Church, says a prominent Catholic author.

Published in Canada
April 5, 2018

Pope's exhortation on holiness to be released April 9

Pope Francis laughs after losing his zucchetto to a gust of window during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 21.
VATICAN – "Rejoice and Be Glad," Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation on "the call to holiness in the modern world" will be released April 9, the Vatican announced.
Published in International
May 5, 2017

Speaking Out: How to respond to opposition to Church teaching

Real listening when facing opposition to Church teaching doesn't require acceptance in the sense of agreement, writes Youth Speak News' Mae Fernandes.

Recently, a friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a classmate at college. To make a long story short, the topic of abortion came up and once this classmate realized my friend was pro-life, she started to get angry.

Published in YSN: Speaking Out
April 6, 2017

Spiritual crisis is at the heart of addiction

Society’s attempts to tackle addiction have failed because it is not approached as a social issue.

In the United States, nearly four million people use heroin — a five-fold increase from a decade ago, according to new research from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Published in Canada
July 13, 2015

Pope says he'll read critiques of his economic thought before U.S. trip

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Rome July 12.

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PARAGUAY - Before arriving in the United States in September, Pope Francis said, he will study American criticisms of his critiques of the global economy and finance.

Published in International
May 24, 2015

Great joy praying with Francis

CCN Ottawa correspondent Deborah Gyapong meets Pope Francis at the Vatican May 8.

VATICAN CITY - On May 8, I had the joyful privilege of meeting Pope Francis following one of his private Masses at his residence at Casa Santa Marta inside Vatican City.

Published in Faith
April 13, 2015

Do more to help the poor, Pope tells leaders at Summit of the Americas

In a message delivered at the Summit of the Americas, Pope Francis said he hoped the leaders would guarantee the rights of the poor to the “basic needs” of land, shelter, jobs, health care, education and security.

VATICAN CITY - With an obligation to lead and protect everyone in their nations, government officials cannot be content "to hope that the poor collect the crumbs that fall from the table of the rich," Pope Francis said in a message to the Summit of the Americas.

Published in Vatican
March 19, 2015

Francis’ blessing

Pope Francis passes a banner referring to eucharistic adoration as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 18.

Two years ago the demands of office caused a tired Pope Benedict XVI to resign the papacy. He was 85. Now we have Pope Francis, 78, musing about a short pontificate as he begins his third year on the job.

Published in Editorial
March 18, 2015

Francis strengthens his commitment to mercy

Pope Francis hears confessions during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 13. During the service the Pope announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, to be celebrated from Dec. 8, 2015, until Nov. 20, 2016.

If there was any doubt that Pope Francis’ central message to the Church is mercy, the Pope named after St. Francis of Assisi crushed those doubts by announcing a Holy Year of Mercy, the first extraordinary jubilee of the 21st century.

Published in Canada
January 22, 2015

Politics must have a broader horizon

Politics must have a broader horizon

“I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!”   
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel)

Published in Register Columnists