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A girl looks on at a display of Russian weapon systems used in their attacks, outside St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. During the month of November, Pope Francis is asking people to pray for children who are suffering because of poverty, war and exploitation.

Poverty produced by senseless war

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War produces tremendous poverty, and its violence strikes those who are defenseless and vulnerable, Pope Francis said.

It is true that many Canadians do believe and retain their religious faith. But those numbers are dropping, and dropping fast, according to the latest census figures.

‘Seismic’ shift hits religious landscape in Canada

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There were 10.9 million self-identified Catholics in Canada in 2021, a sharp drop of two million from 2011, according to the latest census religion numbers. 

Post-pandemic, Canada is facing a refugee crisis as more and more people seek to resettle in Canada.

A refugee crisis looming, advocates say

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There’s a storm coming, warns FCJ Refugee Centre executive director Loly Rico.

Dr. Katherine Owens encounters a retired psychologist in her travels to Ukraine earlier this year.

Campion alum touched by sojourn to Ukraine

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Dr. Katherine Owens’ long career as a psychologist has afforded her opportunities to go abroad and provide post-disaster psychological support, serving among those affected by devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Somalia.

Peggy O’Neil, a professor in Brescia University College’s Food and Nutritional Sciences and Leadership Studies departments.

Brescia professor’s dream comes true

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Growing up in Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, Peggy O’Neil said she and her family would encounter Brescia College — now Brescia University College — on their route to pick up pizza for dinner.

A man stands beside a sign indicating the Toronto Stock Exchange index in downtown Toronto in this CNS file photo.

King’s course shows economics should seek meaning

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Pope Francis challenged young Catholics to “transform an economy that kills into an economy of life” at a three day “Economy of Francesco” meeting in Assisi Sept. 22-24.

When Pope Francis delivered his apology to Canada’s Indgenous peoples in Alberta this summer, students and faculty at Waterloo, Ont.’s St. Jerome’s University watched intently alongside an Indigenous elder.

Encounter, heal and purify: St. Jerome’s plan for reconciliation

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All histories are contested. If they weren’t, there would be no reason to study history. For an historian running a Catholic university in Canada right now, this nation’s history of colonialism and residential schools has created a special responsibility — not to the past but to our future understanding of ourselves.

A seagull flies in front of a mural which shows a group of men, led by then-Fr. Edward Daly, right, carrying the body of shooting victim Jackie Duddy during 1972’s Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland, one of the most infamous days in Northern Ireland’s “The Troubles.”

Irish unity: will dream come true?

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The historic emergence of a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland will be a significant, though not the decisive, factor in achieving a reunited country, says a Belfast MP visiting Canada.

Denyse Thomasos, above, sits before her piece Arc. Fr. Dan Donovan says what is important about Thomasos’ work is not so much its religious affiliation, but its spiritual instinct.

Catholic artist gives audience a complex experience

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Trying to explain the effect of Denyse Thomasos’ immense, complex, abstract paintings, Fr. Dan Donovan reaches for St. Thomas Aquinas.

Gregorian chant renewal in the works

Gregorian chant renewal in the works

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Lawrence Harris has a renewed vision of service forged and refined in the fire of COVID-19 that raged across the world for nearly three years.

In Eucharistic adoration, Janelle Ryan has encountered the person of Jesus.

Encountering the anchor of Eucharistic adoration

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I have experienced the healing and transformation that encountering the person of Jesus Christ brings and Eucharistic adoration has played a large role in this. Adoration is one of the best ways to experience the peace, love and strength that only Jesus can provide. It’s something we desperately need these days.

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