NEWS
This will be a better summer for migrant workers on Canadian farms, but only because local health authorities have become better at identifying and controlling COVID-19 outbreaks and not because Canada has addressed fundamental issues that made COVID into a rolling disaster across farm country the last two summers, says Connie Sorio.
Ethiopia in crisis: the forgotten war
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterWith much of the world’s focus on the war in Ukraine, Ethiopian Catholic leaders world-wide have been calling on the international community not to forget the thousands of people impacted by conflict in the East African nation’s Tigray region.
Roe v. Wade leak gives March for Life added momentum
By Susan Korah, Catholic Register SpecialThousands, emboldened by the news that an almost 50-year-old ruling opening up abortion in the U.S. is expected to be overturned, converged on Parliament Hill for the annual National March for Life May 12.
Pope Francis fighting personal pain to heal Indigenous wounds
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPope Francis will visit a residential school and will very likely be seen on the shores of Lac Ste. Anne during the annual pilgrimage to Manitou Sakahigan – Cree for “Lake of the Spirit.”
Bishops demand anti-MAiD voices be heard
By Catholic Register StaffCanada’s Catholic bishops, in a submission to the federal committee exploring the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), reiterated their opposition to assisted suicide and called for more safeguards for the vulnerable.
New paths sought in reconciliation walk
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Canadian Catholic NewsChief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation and Regina Archbishop Donald Bolen have been walking together for some time now — including through the work of ground-penetrating radar and finding 751 hits near a former Catholic-run residential school on Cowesses First Nation east of Regina in the summer of 2021.
Lobby seeks MAiD for B.C. Catholic hospitals
By TERRY O’NEILL, Canadian Catholic NewsThe B.C. chapters of Dying With Dignity Canada have launched a public-relations campaign aimed at forcing Catholic and other faith-based health-care facilities to allow patients to undergo “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) without being transferred to a secular facility.
Pope Francis coming to Canada July 24-29
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterFrancis will visit Quebec City, Iqaluit and Edmonton between July 24 and 29, adding the weight of his office to Canadian Catholic efforts to reconcile with Indigenous Canadians and to repair the damage done by Catholic-run residential schools.
UK punishing asylum-seekers, bishops say
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News ServiceThe U.K. government is unfairly punishing English Channel migrants for the crimes of human traffickers by sending the migrants to Rwanda to have asylum applications processed, said the English and Welsh bishops.
U.S. Bishops to Congress: Protect women and children, 'stop pushing abortion'
By Julie Asher, Catholic News ServiceAfter the U.S. Senate failed May 11 to advance a "radical" abortion bill, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees urged Congress "to stop pushing abortion as the solution to needs of women and young girls" and "embrace" public policy initiatives that protect "both mother and child."
U.S. report identifies abuses of Indigenous children in boarding schools
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News ServiceHundreds of boarding schools supported by the U.S. government for 150 years sought to forcefully assimilate Native American and Indigenous children into white society, a first-of-its-kind report from the Interior Department said.