NEWS
In the middle of the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping Canada, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada is making its second attempt to raise the money and awareness its partners in poor countries desperately need.
A Montreal boy ventures north
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterLife in a northern town can be tough. Life in three northern towns might be tougher. But Bishop Tom Dowd is relishing the challenge of leading the Church in Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury and North Bay in Northern Ontario.
Dutch cardinal: Euthanasia for children continues 'slippery slope'
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News ServiceMANCHESTER, England -- Proposals to amend Dutch law to allow the euthanasia of children represent the latest descent down the "slippery slope" of the killing of patients by doctors, a cardinal said.
Three killed in terror attack in Nice basilica
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News ServiceMANCHESTER, England -- French bishops ordered a "death knell" to ring from every church of their country Oct. 29 after three people were hacked to death in a basilica in the southern Mediterranean city of Nice.
Jesuits delay naming suspected abusers
By Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA -- The promise to release a detailed public list of all Canadian Jesuits who have been “credibly accused” of sex abuse has been delayed until at least the spring.
Safe Third Country rules remain in place
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWith an Oct. 26 ruling that keeps the status quo at the U.S.-Canada border, asylum seekers will continue to be sent back into indefinite detention in American jails before eventually being deported back to the countries they are fleeing.
Unofficial Wisconsin Catholic paper takes aim at voters
By Sam Lucero, Catholic News ServiceGREEN BAY, Wis. -- Ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election, a publication mailed to Catholic homes around Wisconsin is seeking to influence the vote of readers.
Inequity on rise, systemic change needed
ByOTTAWA -- Anti-poverty groups say Canadians most vulnerable to living in poverty will fall further behind because of COVID-19 unless post-pandemic recovery efforts focus on eliminating systemic issues keeping them in a perpetual state of poverty.
Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON -- A divided Senate, in a 52-48 vote, confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a justice for the Supreme Court the evening of Oct. 26 and soon afterward she was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at a White House ceremony.
Protesters target churchgoers in Poland over abortion ruling
By Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News ServiceWARSAW, Poland -- Poland's bishops' conference decried attacks on churches by demonstrators protesting a near-total ban on abortions by the country's Constitutional Court and urged restraint from violence and dialogue.
Pandemic claims Gideon Travel
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAfter 61 years Gideon Travel has reached the end of the road.