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Former priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.
France mourns Catholic university student murdered by repeat migrant offender
By Caroline de Sury, OSV NewsIt felt as if the whole country mourned and wept as family, friends and 3,000 other people packed the St. Louis Cathedral in Versailles Sept. 27 to say goodbye to 19-year-old student Philippine de Carlan, who was found murdered in Bois de Boulogne, or the Boulogne Forest, in Paris Sept. 21.
Relief efforts underway in western North Carolina; flooding caused by Helene devastates region
By Catholic News Herald, OSV NewsRelief efforts are under way to help communities across western North Carolina reeling from the impacts of Tropical Storm Helene.
'Catastrophic' situation faces Lebanon, says U.N. rep
By Dale Gavlak, OSV NewsHezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs were struck multiple times Sept. 27 by Israeli missiles, shaking the Lebanese capital. The next day Iran-backed Hezbollah confirmed the military organization's leader Hassan Nasrallah died in the strike.
Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing
By Susan KorahA unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.
Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterSacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.
Call it what it is: lethal injection
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.
Synod guides a practical step forward, bishop says
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterMere days from the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, a sentiment expressed by an African prelate at the first gathering in 2023 lingers with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan.
Disability rights coalition challenging Track 2 MAiD
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterA coalition of disability rights organizations has united to challenge Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying or whose death is not reasonably foreseeable.
At 200, St. Michael's Corkery a testament to Irish forefathers
By Angelica Vecchiato, Register CorrespondentThe small country parish of St. Michael’s Parish Corkery is a testament to the grit, hard work and pious devotion of early Irish settlers in Canada.
Daily Mass cancelled at Ottawa Hospital
By Luke Mandato and Anna Farrow, The Catholic RegisterCatholics in the nation's capital region are worried that what began as a temporary suspension of daily Mass at The Ottawa Hospital, one of the city’s prominent hospital centres, has become permanent.