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March 2022

March 30

Indigenous bring synodality to Rome

March 30, 2022

Metis elder and educator Gary Gagnon knows that what’s going on in Rome this week is not some esoteric side issue for the Catholic Church. It’s at the heart of the most important issue in the Church under Pope Francis.

March 31

Little Italy Good Friday procession a no-go again

March 31, 2022

For the third straight year, the annual Good Friday procession through the streets of Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood is cancelled.

Indigenous want truth about past, partnership for future

March 31, 2022

VATICAN CITY -- Ted Quewezance came to the Vatican looking for closure.

Indigenous demand Pope Francis revoke Doctrine of Discovery

March 31, 2022

First Nations delegates who met with Pope Francis today are still awaiting word on whether the Pope will renounce the Doctrine of Discovery.

Streets of saints among the demons

March 31, 2022

The grip of a long, cold winter had finally been broken when I walked downtown on a warm St. Patrick’s night in Toronto. It was not long until I came across my first party. Some men were standing outside a shelter drinking and joking. I stopped and wished them a happy St. Patrick’s Day and asked if they lived in the shelter. Ray, standing next to me, said he used to live there but had moved up a step and now had his own apartment.

Religion makes complex war harder to understand

March 31, 2022

The geopolitical landscape of the war in Ukraine can be difficult to understand, and for many this problem was made even more perplexing by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s endorsement of the Russian invasion.

Where do you stand on Good Friday?

March 31, 2022

On Good Fridays, I can find myself shivering in the night with Simon Peter, warming my hands at the charcoal fire.

German cardinal calls for change in church teaching on homosexuality

March 31, 2022

HAMBURG, Germany -- Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.