Though Canada has largely entered a post-pandemic landscape in recent months, lingering scars from the two-year public health emergency mingled with fresh economic challenges are forcing homeless shelters to brace for a tough winter.
Poverty produced by senseless war
By Catholic News ServiceWar produces tremendous poverty, and its violence strikes those who are defenseless and vulnerable, Pope Francis said.
‘Seismic’ shift hits religious landscape in Canada
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere 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.
A refugee crisis looming, advocates say
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere’s a storm coming, warns FCJ Refugee Centre executive director Loly Rico.
Campion alum touched by sojourn to Ukraine
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterDr. 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.
Brescia professor’s dream comes true
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterGrowing 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.
King’s course shows economics should seek meaning
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPope 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.
Encounter, heal and purify: St. Jerome’s plan for reconciliation
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAll 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.
Irish unity: will dream come true?
By PETER STOCKLAND AND SUSAN KORAH, The Catholic RegisterThe 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.
Catholic artist gives audience a complex experience
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTrying 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
By Susan Korah, Catholic Register SpecialLawrence 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.