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February 27, 2019

Team effort is needed for change in abuse crisis, says Bishop Gendron

CCCB president Bishop Lionel Gendron joined presidents of 114 bishops’ conferences from around the world at the Vatican summit Feb. 21-24.

OTTAWA – The Canadian bishop who participated in the Vatican abuse summit believes the unprecedented gathering of Church leaders is a “sign of hope” that the Church is finally coming to grips with the worldwide problem of sexual crimes against minors.

Published in Canada
November 29, 2018

Canadian Catholics to start using new French translation of Our Father

A man walks across the "Rosary Bridge" in 2017 at the shrine of Cap-de-la-Madeleine in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. In Canada, the new French translation of the Our Father takes effect Dec. 2.
QUEBEC CITY – French-speaking Canadians will begin using a new translation of the Our Father Dec. 2.
Published in Canada
May 14, 2018

Canadian Church, refugee advocates fight to scrap Safe Third Country Agreement

A Haitian man talks with an RCMP officer as he waits to cross the U.S.-Canada border into Quebec last summer.

For the first time, Canada is seeing more people claim refugee status after hopping the U.S. border on back roads than make a claim at regular, official ports of entry. At the same time the total number of refugee claims has more than doubled in just one year.

Published in Canada
March 30, 2017

Comment: Whatever happened to celebrating feast days?

Noting the lack of Mass scheduled for St. Joseph's feast day this year, Fr. Raymond de Souza writes that much of the Canadian Church has lost its liturgical culture.

Lent gives us two solemn feasts, St. Joseph and the Annunciation of the Lord. Both fell in the last weeks of March, and it is likely that a majority of Canadian parishes did not celebrate both of them; a great many likely celebrated neither.

Published in Fr. Raymond de Souza
June 6, 2015

Antigonish from the sinner’s eye

The Canny Scot: Archbishop James Morrison of Antigonish, by Peter Ludlow

The Canny Scot: Archbishop James Morrison of Antigonish, by Peter Ludlow (McGill-Queens University Press, 352 pages, hardcover, $34.95).

For those of us interested in how Church social action really happens, Peter Ludlow has written a fascinating, accessible, full-length biography of Archbishop James Morrison, one of the most important Canadian bishops of the 20th century.

Published in Book News