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The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · May 16, 2025
Pope Leo has seen the world from the bottom up, an experience that can only be life altering.
Luke Mandato · May 16, 2025
The Archdiocese of Toronto’s Office for Interreligious Dialogue has announced the winners of this year’s Dominican Friars Youth Interfaith Video Contest under this year’s theme of Faith as a pathway from division to unity.
Cindy Wooden · May 16, 2025
Thanking Pope Leo XIV for his prayers for Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church gave the pope a painting and a list of prisoners the Ukrainians want the Vatican's help in liberating.
Kate Scanlon · May 16, 2025
Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV on May 18, the vice president's office said.
Justin McLellan · May 16, 2025
Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May 18.
Cloey Uddenberg takes to the pitch with AFC Toronto
Luke Mandato · May 17, 2025
A graduate of Richmond Hill, Ont.'s Our Lady Queen of the World Catholic Academy, Cloey Uddenberg credits elements of her blossoming career as a professional athlete to her time growing in faith in Catholic elementary and high schools.
Justin McLellan · May 18, 2025
Launching his papacy with a call for reconciliation and communion, Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as the successor of St. Peter by calling for "a united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world."
Cindy Wooden · May 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV met privately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife May 18, their second encounter of the day.
Carol Glatz · May 20, 2025
The day after his inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV had a closed-door meeting at the Vatican with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who gave him a Chicago Bears jersey and a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Cindy Wooden · May 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
Gina Christian · May 20, 2025
A move to hold talks between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican appeared to gain momentum May 19, following a call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Quinton Amundson · May 20, 2025
Optimism abounds in the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy as it appears he could prove to be an important ally of Ukraine and its pursuit of a peace deal as its war with neighbouring Russia endures.
Anna Farrow · May 20, 2025
A pilgrimage organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) began with the promise of an audience with Pope Francis but ended with pilgrims being in Rome for the election of Pope Leo XIV.
Cindy Wooden · May 21, 2025
The Gospel parable of the "wasteful sower" who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path "is an image of the way God loves us," Pope Leo XIV told visitors and pilgrims at his first weekly general audience.
Luke Mandato · May 21, 2025
An inaugural report from the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Anti-Semitism shows an unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic activity worldwide, including a recent spike of 83 per cent here in Canada.
Sisters of Charity-Halifax worked in Chiclayo with Leo XIV
Quinton Amundson · May 21, 2025
The future Pope Leo XIV’s nine years of service were so well-regarded by the Peruvians of Chiclayo that they considered their former Bishop, the American Robert Prevost, a true “Chiclayano.”
David Agren · May 21, 2025
The Mexican bishops' conference has condemned a massacre of seven young people—including minors—at a parish festival, while urging action on the part of authorities amid rising violence and warning the population to avoid indifference in the face of recurring atrocities.
Five faith activists, including a Catholic nun, were arrested today and charged with trespassing for an early morning protest at a downtown Toronto bank.
From London parishes to St. Peter’s Seminary, 98-year-old priest left his mark
Quinton Amundson · May 22, 2025
One is not engaging in exaggeration or hyperbole by suggesting that Diocese of London retired cleric Fr. Michael Terrance Ryan is on the precipice of celebrating an extraordinary and rare achievement.
Barefoot and Preaching
Leah Perrault · May 22, 2025
It is always tempting to resist the hard and painful parts, to hate the stretch marks, and run away from the challenges. And, it is so much more helpful to me to see how the stretching can make more space.