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June 2022

June 22

The curveball of sexual identity politics

June 22, 2022

I went to a baseball game a few weeks ago at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The play on the field was great as the Blue Jays destroyed the Minnesota Twins 12-3. Our starting pitcher, Jose Berrios, who has been inconsistent this year, struck out 13 opposing players. For those who are not aficionados of pitching, that was a work of art.

June 23

Quebec class-action suits could spread, lawyer says

June 23, 2022

In the past two months, courts gave the go-ahead for class-action lawsuits involving 100 plaintiffs alleging sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Quebec and the Diocese of St. Hyacinthe near Montreal.

Itinerary released for Pope Francis' visit to Canada

June 23, 2022

Pope Francis’ commitment to Indigenous people to visit Canada “where I will be able better to express to you my closeness” now has the concrete form of an official itinerary.

Novalis creating a papal trip prayer book

June 23, 2022

Novalis is composing a digital edition of Living With Christ in time for Pope Francis’ July 24-29 trip to Canada.

June 24

Toronto Cardinal Collins honoured for fatherly care of refugees

June 24, 2022

Honouring Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins for the thousands of refugees he has brought to Canada came quite naturally to the community at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.

Teacher MikeAll uses hip hop culture to help students find voice

June 24, 2022

In Michael Grandsoult’s eighth grade classroom, students are encouraged to use music and rhymes to tell the story of their lives.

First Nations group offers draft for papal apology

June 24, 2022

A First Nations group of residential school survivors has publicly put forward specific wording for a papal apology widely expected in Canada in July.

Vancouver Archdiocese, pride society resolve human rights case

June 24, 2022

One year ago, the Archdiocese of Vancouver and the White Rock Pride Society were at loggerheads, waiting for a hearing before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal as adversaries in a dispute over a church hall rental that pitted religious rights against the human rights code’s anti-discrimination clause.

Papal apology expected at former residential school July 25

June 24, 2022

If Pope Francis is going to broaden or deepen the apology he offered April 1 in Rome, then it’s going to happen at Maskwacis, 70 kilometres south of Edmonton, site of one of the largest Indian residential schools in Canada.

Editorial: Pick a faith lane, Your Holiness

June 24, 2022

Pope Francis last week issued a welcome call for Catholic theologians to transmit the truths of the faith in a way that will help those of faith live the faith in their daily lives.

Readers Speak Out: June 26, 2022

June 24, 2022

Whole story Thank you to Fr. John Gallagher for being a voice of reason. Everything he wrote in “Reputations ruined over residential school graves” on June 13 is what I have said since these stories broket.

Why the whole world’s at home in Rome

June 24, 2022

I recently had the honour of joining a small delegation of American and Canadian Catholic university presidents on a trip to Rome. The purpose of the meeting was largely to introduce the leaders of post-secondary institutions to the many important bodies that support educational initiatives at the Vatican.

James Joyce ushers us into the holy

June 24, 2022

I once interviewed the Irish Times columnist and author John Waters, a very devout and public Catholic, about changes roiling through Irish society that were creating pressures to amend the Constitution in areas such as abortion and gay marriage. I noted that despite the Church’s long dominance over Irish politics, an equally long-standing antipathy toward it could be found in figures such as James Joyce.

Canada flagged for religious freedom watch list by Ohio lawmakers

June 24, 2022

Joining China, North Korea and other authoritarian regimes on the religious freedom watch list is… Canada, or at least it should be included, according to Ohio Republican lawmakers.

Roe v. Wade officially overturned by U.S. Supreme Court

June 24, 2022

In a 5-4 decision June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in the United States.

June 25

200th anniversary takes Basilians to Rome

June 25, 2022

The Basilian Fathers are praying for the Pope’s knee — not just because Pope Francis’ trip to Canada next month hangs in the balance and not merely because they are papists, loyal to His Holiness and the magisterium. The Pope personally asked the Basilians to pray for his knee.

June 26

Papal apology draws American eyes

June 26, 2022

A papal apology on Indigenous land in Canada is not irrelevant south of the border.

God's Word on Sunday: Love raises us above what tears us apart

June 26, 2022

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) July 3 (Isaiah 66:10-14; Psalm 66; Galatians 6: 14-18; Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 There is nothing as powerful as knowing that one is unconditionally loved. It gives hope, strength, courage and healing. With that knowledge of being loved we can bear the burdens that come our way and many things become possible. The spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola begin with this as the “first principle and foundation” — we are created out of love and for love. That is our reason for existing — to love and be loved.

D&P, and Church, must be on peripheries

June 26, 2022

Development and Peace has new marching orders — new orders that are older than the Church.

June 28

Archbishop asks church to be in solidarity with migrants who died in truck

June 28, 2022

SAN ANTONIO (CNS) -- The archbishop of San Antonio offered prayers for 46 people found dead and another 16 survivors discovered June 27 in sweltering conditions in a semitruck.