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July 2018

July 18

Spanish church leaders criticize government plans to curb religious education in schools

July 18, 2018

OXFORD, England – Spain's Catholic Church has voiced "deep concern" over plans by the new government to curb religious teaching and re-examine past accords with the Vatican.

Territorial borders pose challenge for Catholic Church in Amazon basin

July 18, 2018

PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru – On a Sunday night in early July, four men – two of them indigenous – were brutally murdered in Assis, a tiny Brazilian town on the border with Peru.

July 19

Pope will declare teen a saint during youth synod

July 19, 2018

VATICAN – Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the monthlong meeting of the world Synod of Bishops on young people.

Africa is suffering from the cancer of tribalism, says retired bishop of Sudan

July 19, 2018

NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan – After watching for years as newly independent South Sudan has succumbed to civil war fought largely along ethnic lines, displacing one-third of the population, church leaders in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan are working hard to ensure that their small enclave of liberated territory will not go the way of its neighbors to the south.

Charles Lewis: Don’t expect Roe v. Wade debate to end

July 19, 2018

You could almost hear the champagne corks popping below the border when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation.

Bob Brehl: Gun violence and the dog days of summer

July 19, 2018

This column started about all the gun violence in Toronto this summer, but then it changed. For some reason, thoughts moved from hatred and death that guns bring to unconditional love and affection that family pets offer.

Editorial: Listen to parents on sex ed

July 19, 2018

It’s probably a safe bet that Ontario’s new premier has never read Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on marriage, parenthood, procreation and contraception.

Young indigenous Canadians celebrate beloved St. Kateri as 'one among us'

July 19, 2018

MASKWACIS, Alberta – Young. Indigenous. Committed to the Catholic faith.

Speaking Out: A movie for every single person

July 19, 2018

When I left high school I told myself university is where I would find a husband. Well, I have one year left of my bachelor’s degree with no husband in sight.

Steubenville Toronto attracts youth near and far

July 19, 2018

Holy Trinity Parish is definitely not in Kansas anymore.

India orders checks of all child care homes run by Missionaries of Charity

July 19, 2018

BHOPAL, India – A federal ministry in India has ordered inspections of all child care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by Mother Teresa, after a lay employee reportedly confessed to selling babies for adoption, reported ucanews.com.

Shroud of Turin expert criticizes new study casting doubt on authenticity

July 19, 2018

VATICAN – A leading expert on the cloth believed to be the burial shroud of Jesus dismissed a new study claiming that blood patterns on the shroud are not consistent with those left by a crucified person.

July 23

Canadian Church coming to terms with Humanae Vitae

July 23, 2018

Canadian controversy over Humanae Vitae began long before Pope Paul VI issued his controversial encyclical.

Pope accepts resignation of Honduran bishop after investigation on "irregularities"

July 23, 2018

VATICAN – After an investigation into alleged irregularities in the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of 57-year-old Auxiliary Bishop Juan Jose Pineda Fasquelle.

Nigerian Christians a top priority for Aid to the Church in Need

July 23, 2018

OTTAWA – Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Canada intends to make the plight of Nigerian Christians a priority in the coming year, says the pontifical charity’s Canadian director.

Pope urges world leaders to act amid rising number of deaths at sea

July 23, 2018

VATICAN – With the rising death toll of migrants and refugees attempting the treacherous voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis urged world leaders to act to prevent further tragedy.

New revelation surfaces about 'Uncle Ted', Cardinal McCarrick

July 23, 2018

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Editorials in national Catholic publications have taken the U.S. Catholic Church to task for its failure to root out all forms of clergy sexual abuse in the light of allegations made by former seminarians against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington.

July 24

World Youth Day contest invites young Catholic filmmakers

July 24, 2018

PANAMA CITY, Panama – A Catholic film ministry has opened a contest for the 2019 World Youth Day to encourage young cinematographers to create short movies promoting truth, beauty, and goodness.

Cardinal Farrell 'shocked' over Cardinal McCarrick sex abuse case

July 24, 2018

VATICAN – Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, head of the Vatican office for laity and family, said he was "shocked" when he heard allegations of years of sexual abuse and harassment by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the man who ordained him a bishop and whom he served as an auxiliary bishop for six years.

Long line of bishops help tell Toronto's story

July 24, 2018

There are many ways to tell the story of a city. In Extraordinary Ordinaries, Fr. Seamus Hogan explores aspects of Toronto’s history by examining the challenges, successes and even the blind spots of the 12 men who have served as the bishop or archbishop of Toronto.