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June 2021

June 16

Bill ends abortion limits, warns pro-life group

June 16, 2021

WASHINGTON -- The Women’s Health Protection Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House on June 8, “would invalidate nearly all existing state limitations on abortion,” said Jennifer Popik, director of federal legislation for National Right to Life.

Speaking Out: End is near, but stay vigilant

June 16, 2021

We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

New OCY director asks youth to trust God’s plan

June 16, 2021

This summer, Catholic youth in the Archdiocese of Toronto will be welcomed by a new face and voice to encourage them in their faith journey

Charles Lewis: Truth stands against lies of evil, oppression

June 16, 2021

We live in a time in which truth has lost its meaning. We live in a time in which truth is replaced by feelings. When something no longer feels right it cannot be the truth. Every opinion is valid and none is greater than another.

As fighting continues in Myanmar, thousands take refuge in churches

June 16, 2021

YANGON, Myanmar -- Thousands of people have taken refuge in churches and convents as Myanmar's military continues to fight local resistance forces.

MP calls on faithful to make Liberals pay for ignoring conversion therapy concerns

June 16, 2021

OTTAWA -- A Conservative MP wants Catholics and other Canadians of faith to remember during the next election that the federal Liberal government is ignoring concerns about a bill to ban conversion therapy for youth that could make some religious discussions about human sexuality illegal.

Fr. Raymond de Souza: Let's set record straight on papal apologies

June 16, 2021

Somehow a story about hundreds of unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School became a story about what Pope Francis should do, not a story about the lives lost or why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau only rushed to provide money for documenting such graves when Kamloops was in the headlines, five years after he first promised to do so.

June 17

Restoring languages will help right past wrongs

June 17, 2021

When news of the 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School landed in Edmonton, an elder in the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples wanted to put out a statement in Cree. The problem is that survivors of the residential school system lost their language when they were children in the schools.

Editorial: Crush hatred now

June 17, 2021

Racism, Pope Francis said, is “a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting.”

Readers Speak Out: June 20, 2021

June 17, 2021

United mothers Re: Prayers, sorrow for Kamloops children (June 13): I am a Catholic mother of five. In my 20s, my encounter with Christ changed the course of my life. When I became a mom, I was moved to help shape my culture and actively tried to do so. It is inconceivable to me that other mothers would have had their children ripped from their very arms in the name of this culture, in the name of Christ.

Alberta pastor to appeal worship ruling

June 17, 2021

Three congregants of GraceLife Church near Spruce Grove Alta., are joining their pastor’s fight for religious freedom after a provincial court ruled Pastor James Coates’ religious and life, liberty and security freedoms were not infringed by pandemic regulations.

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favour of Catholic agency in foster case

June 17, 2021

WASHINGTON -- In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.

June 18

Church to blame for residential schools: poll

June 18, 2021

While the work toward a formal apology from Pope Francis is ongoing, a clear majority of Canadians hold the Catholic Church primarily responsible for the damage done by residential schools, according to a Leger poll conducted June 4- 6.

Basketball star mines father’s drive to be best he can be

June 18, 2021

Basketball standout Abu Kigab’s tenacious drive to be the best athlete he can may be proof that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

EU bishops criticize report for stance on abortion, conscience clauses

June 18, 2021

BRUSSELS -- The bishops of the European Union, while applauding a proposed EU report on expanding the access of all women to adequate health care, take strong issue with the report's characterization of abortion as a human right and its claim that "a total ban on abortion care or denial of abortion care is a form of gender-based violence."

Leah Perrault: We need to learn to be uncomfortable

June 18, 2021

It has been a profoundly difficult few weeks to live in Treaty territory and the homeland of the Métis. To live in a land that welcomes people to safety but cannot guarantee it.

June 19

Attempts at healing must be Indigenous-led, says Miller

June 19, 2021

VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller reached out to residential school survivors in an interview with an Indigenous news network, apologizing for how representatives of the Church “betrayed your trust.”

Peter Stockland: Standing up for truth and fairness

June 19, 2021

It is heartening to see Catholic clergy calling out the stream of inaccuracies and exaggerations around the Church’s responsibility for the residential schools debacle.

June 20

First female OHL draft pick rooted in faith

June 20, 2021

It’s been quite an extraordinary couple weeks for 16-year-old goaltender Taya Currie.

God's Word on Sunday: Do not fear God, but believe in Him

June 20, 2021

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) June 27 (Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5:21-43) Death was not part of God’s plan, and God takes no delight in it. We need to hear that repeatedly, for fearsome and negative images of God have taken their toll over the centuries. God is the God of the living and the giver of life itself.