exclamation

Important notice: To continue serving our valued readers during the postal disruption, complete unrestricted access to the digital edition is available at no extra cost. This will ensure uninterrupted digital access to your copies. Click here to view the digital edition, or learn more.

News/Canada

Pope Francis meets with a delegation of Indigenous peoples in the archbishop's residence in Quebec City July 29, 2022.

Pope Francis says he’s been enriched’ by Canada’s Indigenous

By

On the final day of Pope Francis’ pilgrimage of penance, one of healing and reconciliation, he says it is he who has been “enriched” by the experience.

Pope Francis arrives to lead vespers with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Quebec July 28, 2022.

Pope Francis poses three challenges to Canada at Quebec vespers service

By

If Canadian Catholics were looking for a roadmap to reconciliation, Pope Francis laid it out for them at a vespers prayer service in Quebec City’s exquisite Notre Dame Basilica Cathedral on a rainy Thursday evening.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec July 28, 2022.

Faith, action, courage will move reconciliation forward, Pope Francis says

By

In the face of sin and failure, the temptation to wallow in despair and do nothing comes from the devil, Pope Francis said.

People gather outside the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec July 28, 2022, as Pope Francis celebrates Mass.

Church must face the truth, says Pope Francis

By

For Vaughan Nicholas there were tears well before Pope Francis began to speak. Waiting for Mass at the National Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre east of Quebec City to begin, he said, “I’m hoping I will actually feel something.”

Peter Bhatti, brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, at the inaugruation of a park named in Shahbaz's honour in Brampton, Ontario.

Brampton park named for slain defender of persecuted Christians

By

Shahbaz Bhatti, declared Servant of God by Pope Francis in 2012, has a special place in the hearts of thousands of Pakistani Canadians who fled their country to find safety and freedom of religion here. 

Pope Francis attends a welcoming ceremony with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, governor general of Quebec, at Citadelle de Quebec, the residence of the governor general in Quebec City, July 27, 2022.

Canada a model of peace, Pope Francis tells Quebec audience

By

Pope Francis has arrived in Quebec with the same message he has tried to share with Indigenous Canadians in the West — that Christ wants to be incarnate in every culture, in Indigenous cultures, Quebecois culture, Canadian culture.

Pope Francis visits the lake as he participates in the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage and Liturgy of the Word in Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta, July 26, 2022.

Pope Francis comes as a pilgrim to Lac Ste. Anne

By

Like generations of pilgrims before him, Pope Francis came to the water’s edge at Lac Ste. Anne seeking healing — not his healing, ours.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, July 26, 2022.

Each of us has a unique history to preserve, Pope Francis says at stadium Mass

By

At a Mass celebrating the feast of Jesus’ grandparents, Pope Francis urged those filling Edmonton’s Commonwealth to ground their understanding of history in the reality of those to whom they owed life itself.

Pope Francis greets family members during a meeting with Indigenous peoples and members of the parish community of Sacred Heart Church in Edmonton, Alberta, July 25, 2022.

Reconciliation at the core of the Christian faith, Pope Francis says

By

At Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in downtown Edmonton, Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for the Catholic Church to realize its destiny as the Church of reconciliation.

A red memorial banner inscribed with 4120 names of many of the children who never came home from all residential schools across Canada is carried at a meeting with Pope Francis at Maskwacis, Alberta, July 25, 2022.

Papal apology comes on a day full of emotions

By

The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Maskawacis powwow grounds. 

Pope Francis greets residential school survivors, Indigenous leaders and elders, civic leaders, and church officials after landing at Edmonton International Airport, July 24, 2022.

Pope Francis' penitential visit to Canada begins in Edmonton

By

Pope Francis has landed in Canada and begun the work of his penitential pilgrimage from the moment he was wheeled off the papal plane and into a hangar at Edmonton International Airport.

Page 77 of 529