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January 2023

January 13

Editorial: Hope for 2023

January 13, 2023

Our paramount hope and prayer for 2023 is that the federal government’s pause in its rush to push medically assisted homicide brings sincere recognition of its folly on life issues generally.

Readers Speak Out: January 15, 2023

January 13, 2023

Hope springs I wonder if there will be an editorial entitled “Hope for 2023?”

The three funerals of Pope Benedict XVI

January 13, 2023

“Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality — our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.”

God's Word on Sunday: We are sanctified by living in the Lord

January 13, 2023

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) Jan. 15 (Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Psalm 40; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; John 1:29-34) To whom is Isaiah’s prophecy addressed? Many of the prophetic texts of the Old Testament are difficult to follow, for the speaker and the addressee are often unclear. The ambiguity is at times deliberate, for a symbol can apply simultaneously to more than one person, situation or event. It appears that in this case the one given the divine mission of leading Jacob back to God was the mysterious and unnamed Suffering Servant.

U.S. religious liberty expert 'disappointed' in Vatican-China deal

January 13, 2023

The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.

January 15

Next mission step on life journey — Haiti

January 15, 2023

The life journey of Toronto couple Mike Lattanzi and Susan Silveus has been largely defined by 22 years of cross-cultural service experiences in locales such as Cambodia and Jerusalem.

January 16

Catholic priest burned to death in Nigeria; other Christians in Congo killed

January 16, 2023

Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

January 18

Publisher discontinues Fully Alive texts, bishops investigating online options

January 18, 2023

Though publisher Pearson Canada Ltd. has stopped printing the textbook and will cease hosting its material online in March, the Fully Alive family life program for Grades 1 through 8 will continue to be taught in Ontario Catholic schools.

Groups unite to breathe life into Montreal campus pro-life

January 18, 2023

Post-secondary students from five organizations came together Jan. 14 to give new life to pro-life activity on Montreal university campuses.

Sister André, oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118

January 18, 2023

Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.

To be pastoral, look to the Good Shepherd, Pope Francis says

January 18, 2023

Christians must develop a pastoral heart to care for those who have not heard the Gospel or who have left the fold, Pope Francis said.

Boldly going to frontier of ‘science and religion’

January 18, 2023

Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to each other? That common notion has “worked a lot of mischief,” said Bishop Robert Barron, who launched a new conference Jan. 13-14 to show how the Catholic Church champions “the unity of faith and reason.”

January 19

McCarrick’s lawyers seek to prove disgraced former cardinal not competent to stand tria

January 19, 2023

As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal's legal defense team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial.

Peace activists decry Canada’s F-35 purchase

January 19, 2023

Spending $19 billion now and $70 billion over the next 40 years to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets is not wise, moral or even democratic in the eyes of peace activist and Sister of Service Mary-Ellen Francoeur.

Saskatoon program lives reconciliation

January 19, 2023

Calls to Action 59 and 60 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada implore Church leaders to collaborate with Indigenous spiritual leaders on curriculum to open the eyes of congregations, theology students and seminarians about the Church role in the legacy of residential schools and the necessity of a Church apology.

A saint who cuts the vinegar out of journalism

January 19, 2023

Although St. Francis de Sales is counted among the great saints, the first I heard of him was in his role as patron saint of writers, journalists and the Catholic press. I remained with that meagre knowledge for years until I encountered then-Bishop Thomas Collins who was and is a great fan of St. Francis.

Heavenly resolutions grant great relations

January 19, 2023

There’s a fascinating trend that occurs in the first month of the year. Gyms typically see a 12-per-cent increase in new memberships at the beginning of January. By the close of the month, four per cent of these new members will have quit the gym, 14 per cent leave by the end of February, and 50 per cent are gone by June, according to the Global Health & Fitness Association.

Disputing theory, crashing into reality

January 19, 2023

The institutionalization of radically anti-scientific notions of sex and gender has been creeping into our world — and my life — at an astonishing pace for years. I’ve simply never gotten used to it.

Verbatim: Dr. John Maher addressing Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on MAiD

January 19, 2023

Dr. John Maher, president of the Ontario Association for Assertive Community Treatment and Flexible Assertive Community Treatment, addressing Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.

True progress ends in union with God

January 19, 2023

The supreme virtue of our secular culture is progressivism. To be a progressive is to be enlightened, tolerant and woke. It is to be on the right side of what are determined by secular elites to be the most important issues of our times.