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November 15, 2013
MANILA, Philippines - In the week after Super Typhoon Haiyan cut a path of devastation across the central Philippines, faith remained strong among the hardest hit.
As of Friday morning, Nov. 15, Canada’s Catholic aid agency had raised over a quarter million dollars in emergency relief for the typhoon stricken Philippines.
November 16, 2013
With the legalization of buying and selling sex soon to be decided at Canada’s Supreme Court, a new documentary is taking Canadians to places where prostitution and sexual exploitation are either flourishing or dying off and asks why this is the case.
TORONTO - A whole new world of musical opportunity has opened up for parishes and schools with the release of an online church music catalogue through a partnership between Novalis Publishing and LicenSing Online.
TORONTO - While pleased the federal government has committed to clearing up the backlog of permanent residency applications through its Live-in Caregiver Program, Faye Arellano is waiting to see the results before she begins to jump with joy.
APATZINGAN, Mexico - Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez of Apatzingan has ministered for more than three decades in this mountainous region of western Mexico known as "Tierra Caliente," or hot earth.
November 17, 2013
WASHINGTON - The Catholic president who admonished Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country,” didn’t live to see how it played out, but there are plenty of people keeping his vision alive.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. - The late Vincentian Father Oscar Huber, a native of Perryville in the St. Louis archdiocese, was a hard- working, dedicated pastor who made many friends throughout his years of faithful ministry. The priest, who died in 1975, is still remembered for all that. And for one other thing.
WASHINGTON - Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington was a close friend and confidant of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, but he had kept that friendship secret.
November 18, 2013
Toronto - The love we have for one another is hope and peace in this dark hour, says Cardinal Thomas Collins at a packed mass for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, a hub for many Filipino Catholics.
VATICAN CITY - For the first time, bones traditionally believed to be relics of St. Peter the Apostle will be displayed for public veneration in St. Peter's Square Nov. 24, at a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis to conclude the Year of Faith.
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will publish Pope Francis' first apostolic exhortation Nov. 26, two days after he formally delivers it to the church at a Mass concluding the 2012-13 Year of Faith.
TORONTO - In a crowded church basement, surrounded by boxes of emergency supplies donated and packed by parishioners, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a quadrupling of Canada’s aid to the typhoon stricken Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines - The grandstand of Villamor Air Base was buzzing with teams of workers trying to help people displaced by the super typhoon that struck the central Philippines 10 days earlier.
November 19, 2013
VATICAN CITY - For someone who has frequently been shunned and humiliated because of a disease that has severely disfigured his entire body, receiving the pope's loving embrace was like being in paradise.
MEXICO CITY - Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Ont., recalled once having a parish that needed a new furnace and was considering hiring a youth pastor. The parishioners raised $90,000 in three weeks for the furnace, but failed to find funds for the youth pastor, figuring there were few young people to serve.
November 20, 2013
MANILA, Philippines - Nearly two weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines, Catholic aid workers were seeing great needs.
November 21, 2013
The Year of Faith is ending and what a remarkable year it was.
I flew to Dallas last week to give a speech to Fort Worth Legatus and at the city’s cathedral. Wonderful town, wonderful people, wonderful Catholics. It was an early flight, I was up before 5 a.m., and when my long-suffering wife dropped me off at Toronto airport it was still dark. As I walked towards the terminal I saw a man in his late 20s or 30s lifting a suitcase onto the sidewalk for an older man who had been the passenger in his car. They then embraced, and the heavily bearded young fellow said, “Goodbye pops. I love you.”
It’s been a long time since the Church has had to learn about a new pope. The shocking election of 1978 meant that Catholics the world over scrambled to discover who this Karol Wojytla from behind the Iron Curtain was. But the election of 2005 gave us a man already well-known to the world for more than a quarter century, Joseph Ratzinger. So with the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, people are fascinated with a hitherto unknown man for the first time in more than three decades.