Catholic Church part of Canada's 'founding myth'
Canada Day celebrations will almost certainly praise this country as a tolerant, peaceable nation with a highly developed, secular and multicultural, democratic culture.
That wasn’t what St. Jean de Brebeuf had in mind when he established the first European settlement in Upper Canada in 163...
Read more...Deacon gives nun the gift of life
TORONTO - You never know what you’ll spot in the parish bulletin. One Sunday last summer Deacon Michael Hayes read a plea from a woman seeking a liver donor to save her critically ill sister. He put down the bulletin, booted up his computer and sent an e-mail to his pastor.
He wrote a simp...
Read more...Moral challenges confront food production
When G8 leaders meet in Italy July 8-10 they will have two crises to talk about — the financial market seize-up of last September and the food crisis that sparked riots around the world last year.
While the G-8 has already spent more than $1 trillion to bail out the financial system, what ...
Read more...Year of the priest
Editor’s note: On June 19, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the day for the sanctification of priests, Pope Benedict XVI opens a special jubilee year in honour of priests. The Pope said he is calling for the special year to foster the priest’s “yearning for spiritual pe...
Read more...African prison chaplains learn about Canadian jails
Sr. Josephine Eke is quite impressed with the prisons in Canada and Anglican priest Rev. John Ngabo is surprised by the access and support various non-governmental agencies have in Canadian prisons. But the two African prison chaplains, in Canada to learn about Canadian restorative justice eff...
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