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March 2023

March 3

Pope Francis says cardinals, top Vatican officials, must pay rent on Vatican housing

March 3, 2023

Cardinals and other senior Vatican officials who have been living rent-free in Vatican-owned apartments in Rome will now have to pay "ordinary" unsubsidized rates, Pope Francis said.

March 4

Trafficking support lacking in churches

March 4, 2023

When it comes to caring, for people experiencing cancer, death in the family or other trauma, their church is often where they can turn for support. But when it comes to sexual abuse and trafficking, many feel that’s the last place they can seek comfort.

Brescia president knows students matter

March 4, 2023

Like father, like daughter. Dr. Lauretta Frederking credits listening to her father David Conklin’s lectures as a professor at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) — he specialized in business, economics and public policy — for sparking her interest in becoming an educator. And she credits her mother, Marilyn, for instilling within her an unquenchable thirst to always be learning.

March 5

Campus is place to tackle secular challenges

March 5, 2023

Building a culture on campus and critiquing the culture at large are what makes a Catholic college Catholic in the eyes of the new University of St. Michael’s College principal and vice president Irene Morra.

March 6

U.S. prelates spar in the media over the Eucharist, 'radical inclusion' and 'heresy'

March 6, 2023

Two U.S. prelates have recently traded what one called some "strong words" in the media, debating the reception of holy Communion, sexual sin, pastoral outreach to marginalized Catholics and allegations of heresy among church leadership.

Catholic aid groups network to serve needs of Turkey, Syria quake survivors

March 6, 2023

Catholic aid agencies are working alongside other international humanitarian organizations to house, feed and administer additional life-saving assistance to tens of thousands of people in Syria and Turkey.

March 7

Cardinal Lacroix of Quebec named to Pope Francis' council of advisers

March 7, 2023

Pope Francis named five new members to his international Council of Cardinals and renewed the mandate of four current members, the Vatican announced March 7.

McCarrick admits knowing victim as a child, denies sexual assaults

March 7, 2023

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whose attorneys have argued he should not stand trial due to "progressive and irreparable cognitive deficits," recalled the name of the man he allegedly sexually abused as a child, although he denied the sexual assaults.

March 8

Polish experts reject claim JPII 'covered up abuse,' urge all church records be opened

March 8, 2023

The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla -- the future Pope John Paul II -- knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say.

Bishops add spiritual ‘meat’ to St. Patrick’s Day plate

March 8, 2023

With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Lenten Friday this year, many U.S. bishops have issued dispensations from abstinence on March 17, allowing the faithful to enjoy the American Irish tradition of eating corned beef (or ham) and cabbage in good conscience.

Daily TV Mass stands the test of time

March 8, 2023

For 25 years, NCBC has brought the liturgy home

To be Christian is to share God's love, Pope Francis says at audience

March 8, 2023

The mission to spread the Gospel message of God's love and of salvation in Christ is entrusted to all the baptized who are called to work together and never set out alone, Pope Francis said.

March 9

UN reconciliation review skips bishops

March 9, 2023

Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people is getting a check-up and Canada’s Catholic bishops want to be part of it. Whether or not they get the chance is still up in the air.

Lift Jesus Higher Rally goes live

March 9, 2023

The crowds returned for the first in-person Lift Jesus Higher Rally since March 2020, filling the Metro Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.

Verbatim: The principle duty of government

March 9, 2023

Proceedings from the House of Commons as reported in Hansard

Ignore at own risk

March 9, 2023

Canada appears to be busting out with “special rapporteurs” this week, although one remains unnamed and the other remains unreachable at least to representatives of the Canadian Catholic Church.

No one ‘chooses’ to be homeless

March 9, 2023

In the frigid early morning hours of Dec. 21, 2021, young Calgary resident Asher Atter set out, in his own words, to “fight a downtown addict.” According to a front page story in the March 1 Globe and Mail, Atter then attacked a homeless man in a light-rail transit station. He sprayed the man’s face with a fire extinguisher and stabbed him in the back, cutting into his liver.

The heroic act of just speaking up

March 9, 2023

There are heroes everywhere these days. Today, many of them are heroic just for the simple act of speaking a basic objective truth and refusing to retract, back down or apologize for it. Others go further and back up their conviction with action.

Make the parish a place of support

March 9, 2023

Niagara Region’s recent state of emergency for homelessness, mental health and opioid addiction is a wake-up call that must not be ignored, in the Southern Ontario area and across Canada.

Treating liturgy as therapy obscures its deep truths

March 9, 2023

As the Church, we have embarked again on our Lenten journey, that season of bright sadness during which we consider our sinfulness and the call to repentance.