NEWS
Bishop Jon Hansen spoke to an “essentially full” St. Patrick’s Co-Cathedral on Sept. 10, in front of Yellowknife Catholics eager to congregate after nearly a month of being deprived of their home and parish community due to the rampant wildfires.
After Beijing meeting, Pope Francis' envoy to return to Moscow, Russian official says
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News ServiceAfter meeting with a Chinese official in Beijing to discuss paths toward peace in Ukraine and ensuring grain exports from the country, Pope Francis' special envoy is expected to return to Moscow, Russia's foreign minister said.
ShareLife commits $520,000 to fight hunger
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterDisquieting headlines about the state of household food security have unrelentingly flooded the Canadian news media ecosystem in recent months. Enter ShareLife.
Red Mass resurrected
By Anna FarrowA group of 60 jurists, notaries and law students gathered at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Montreal’s historic Notre-Dame Basilica on Sept. 7 to attend the first Red Mass organized by the newly formed Société Saint-Yves de Montréal.
Students renewed for school year
By Angelica Vecchiato, Register CorrespondentYouth between the ages of 14 and 30 looking to feel energized before the start of the school season met in praise and worship at the Throneway Renewal conference.
Seminarian is burned to death in Nigeria in endless cycle of violence against Christians
By Ngala Killian Chimton, OSV NewsIn an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na’Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan was burned to death on Sept. 7 when a terrorist group called Fulani herdsmen attacked the rectory at St. Raphael Church in Fadan Kamantan.
Student suspended over gender stance wins appeal
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterAn Ontario court delivered a key legal victory to Josh Alexander, the St. Joseph’s High School student from Pembroke, Ont., suspended for alleged bullying by stating in a class discussion that God created only two genders, male and female.
UK teenager wants to fight for her life, but court denies her wish
By Simon Caldwell, OSV NewsA Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an "alert and conscious" teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.