NEWS
A modest Catholic agency that serves the deaf and their families has landed at the centre of efforts to keep deaf people across Canada informed and connected during the COVID-19 crisis.
CNEWA tackling new enemy
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIf the Church isn’t there for displaced and refugee Christians in the Middle East, nobody else is going to protect these impoverished and persecuted minorities from COVID-19.
Clinic dealing with grief, isolation issues
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterPerhaps the frustrations of being a priest in a time of pandemic can be no better summed up than in the anguish that followed the slaughter of 22 people in Nova Scotia.
Priest projecting hope in outbreak town
By Quinton Amundson, Catholic Register SpecialDaily Mass is looking a lot different for Fr. Mario Infante during the coronavirus pandemic.
Churches in Europe reopening with restrictions
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News ServiceROME -- With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed.
Australian commission publishes redacted report sections on Cardinal Pell
By Michael Sainsbury, Catholic News ServiceVALLA BEACH, Australia -- The Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse published redacted sections of its 2017 report, and new findings said it did not believe some of the testimony given to it by Cardinal George Pell.
Expect a ’new reality’ when churches allowed to open, says Cardinal Collins
By Catholic Register StaffWhile restrictions are expected to remain in place for the immediate future, preparations are under way for a time when churches will re-open, Cardinal Thomas Collins wrote in a pastoral letter.
Dioceses learning to deal with cash crunch
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterCash-strapped dioceses across Canada have been applying for assistance through federal programs but they don’t expect to see any money until at least June.
Don’t judge Pius XII yet, expert warns
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterOne document uncovered during one week of research isn’t enough to draw new or final conclusions about Pope Pius XII’s guilt or innocence regarding the Holocaust, warns Canada’s leading expert on the wartime pope.
Dolan blasted for Trump comments
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News ServiceCLEVELAND -- Laudatory comments about President Donald Trump by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan have been blasted in a letter to the prelate from more than 1,500 faith leaders.
Our Lady of America apparitions declared "not supernatural"
By Greg Erlandson, Catholic News ServiceWASHINGTON -- Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, and five other bishops have concluded that alleged apparitions of Our Lady of America -- said to have taken place more than six decades ago -- were not of supernatural origin.