Anna Farrow
Indigenous inquiry favours prison sentences for ‘denialism’
After two and a half years of work, Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray has released a two-volume report at the Oct. 29-30 National Gathering on Unmarked Graves in Gatineau, Que. that focused more on reparations and denialism than the identification and protection of unmarked graves.
Anglicans denied Quebec assembly booking
Despite Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s insistence that secularization is a done deal in the province, a bureaucratic misstep that prevented a group of 50 Anglicans from dining at a restaurant attached to the National Assembly may indicate that consensus is more wishful thinking than reality.
Mother Marie-Léonie Paradis Canada’s newest saint
For the third time, a Canadian has been elevated to sainthood with the Oct. 20 canonization of St. Marie-Léonie Paradis.
Canadian Catholics turned up in force to celebrate the canonization of Quebec-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis in St. Peter’s Square, with bishops and priests, members of the congregation Paradis founded and devoted laity made the trip to Rome for the special occasion.
Rosary exhibit pays tribute to a spiritual past
‘Like the believers... shine by their diversity and the uniqueness, while being united by the same devotion’
Christians sign on to back Canada’s Jews
Fr. Deacon Andrew Bennett has a simple message for Canadian Jews: “We will not abandon you.”
CCCB renewal plan approved behind closed doors
Canada’s Catholic bishops spent two full sessions at their recent plenary signing off on a major overhaul of how the national conference of prelates should operate.
Exclusive: Sex offender ex-priest in hospital with sick kids
Former priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.
Two priestly paths collide
Entwined for three decades, they are now embroiled in lawsuit
Jubilee, synod at top of CCCB agenda
Canada’s bishops began their 2024 plenary assembly Sept. 23 with the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit Venite Creator Spiritus, but in their message to Pope Francis they spoke, in another Latin phrase, of a new modus operandi in the Church.
Cardinal Müller fears collapsing Church
Cardinal Gerhard Müller is 76 years old, but he is not fading quietly into the crimson-curtained ecclesiastical background.