January 2025

Putting a stop to cancelling Paradise

Charles Lewis · January 24, 2025

More than a decade ago, the late Pope Benedict XVI, sounded an alarm about the menace of accelerating secularism. His concerns were more than justified.

Culture à la Carte

Discerning the ‘I do’ of a vocation

Sr. Helena Burns · January 24, 2025

Having difficulty discerning your vocation — or know someone who is? These tips might help.

The Mustard Seed

Taking steps away from bad religion

Glen Argan · January 24, 2025

Many things about Pete Hegseth, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, raise serious concerns — his alcoholism and adulterous womanizing among them. What concerns me perhaps even more is his exercise of bad religion.

Figure of Speech

No exit when Christ enters our hearts

Gerry Turcotte · January 24, 2025

I am surely not the only child who was stressed to see Catholic calendars displaying images of Jesus adorned with an anatomically explicit, occasionally bleeding, heart.

Gen Z seeking Bible’s truth, wisdom

Youth hearing call of Gospel time-tested over 2,000 years

Quinton Amundson · January 25, 2025

The Holy Bible, the best-selling book of all time, is experiencing a renaissance in the United States — and Generation Z is being hailed as the primary catalyst.

EPC seeks probe into MAiD doctor

Canadian Catholic News · January 25, 2025

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) has submitted a petition to B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., urging an investigation into the euthanasia practices of Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a prominent and controversial Vancouver provider of medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

Vance spars with US bishops over their pushback on Trump's immigration policy

Maria Wiering · January 26, 2025

Vice President JD Vance questioned the motives of the U.S. bishops' criticism of President Donald Trump's new immigration policies in a Jan. 26 interview -- including raids on churches and schools -- asking if they are actually concerned about receiving federal resettlement funding and "their bottom line."

Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in East, West, Pope Francis says

Cindy Wooden · January 26, 2025

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.

Holocaust cannot be forgotten or denied, Pope Francis says

Cindy Wooden · January 27, 2025

"The horror of the extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths" before and during World War II "can neither be forgotten nor denied," Pope Francis said.

Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism

Jonathan Luxmoore · January 27, 2025

Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new rise in antisemitism and extremism.

St. John's appeals insurance denial ruling

Quinton Amundson · January 27, 2025

The Archdiocese of St. John’s is seeking to overturn a Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador decision that released Guardian Insurance from helping cover its settlement with clergy abuse survivors.

Catholic Children’s Aid appeals for foster caregivers

Joshua Ben Joseph · January 28, 2025

For the first time, the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CCAS) is joining hands with six other Children’s Aid Societies and Indigenous Well-Being Agencies across the Greater Toronto Area in a unified appeal for new foster caregivers.

Editorial

To CRA, with gratitude

January 28, 2025

Rarely, if ever, do Canadians put the acronym CRA and the word “Hallelujah” together.

Trump, U.S. March for Life energizes Canadians in attendance

Quinton Amundson · January 28, 2025

Over 40 teenage and young adult Canadian pro-life activists basked in a 2025 US. National March for Life atmosphere on Jan. 24 energized by week one actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Refugee groups prepare for influx fleeing Trump orders

Joshua Ben Joseph · January 28, 2025

Refugee organizations across Canada have been fielding inquiries from potential migrants from the United States as U.S. President Donald Trump vows to carry out what he described as the “largest deportation operation” in American history.

AI must serve, not replace, teacher-student relationship, Vatican says

Justin McLellan · January 28, 2025

The use of artificial intelligence in schools must not threaten "the indispensable relationship between teacher and student" that lies at the heart of education, the Vatican said.

Morality of AI depends on human choices, Vatican says in new document

Cindy Wooden · January 28, 2025

"Technological progress is part of God's plan for creation," the Vatican said, but people must take responsibility for using technologies like artificial intelligence to help humanity and not harm individuals or groups.

Christ connects us in world torn apart, Jesuit says

Quinton Amundson · January 28, 2025

How can the world mend from scarring inflicted by polarization and increased social isolation? Fr. John Meehan, SJ, suggests we turn to Jesus, the True Vine.

Canon, civil law collide over seal of confession

‘Unresolvable conflict,’ expert says

Gina Christian · January 29, 2025

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the Church’s primary legal code, one expert told OSV News.

Trump’s return shifts abortion policy landscape

Kate Scanlon · January 29, 2025

Within the first week of U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, he used executive authority to block taxpayer funds from paying for elective abortion procedures both in the U.S. and abroad and delivered a virtual message to the March for Life rally on Jan. 24, while Vice President JD Vance addressed marchers in person.