Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo is among 21 new Cardinals elevated to the College of Cardinals. 

Project 'Echoes' the positive on palliative care

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A new project from the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research is shining a much-needed light on uplifting palliative care stories across the country.

Jubilee prep well underway, marking year of hope

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Preparations are well underway for Canadian Catholics to join faithful worldwide as "Pilgrims of Hope" for jubilee year 2025.

Reconciliation fund already making a difference

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With over $17.5 million raised in the two-and-a-half years since the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund (IRF) became a registered charity in March 2022, the 73 Canadian Catholic dioceses are poised to exceed the five-year $30-million commitment Canada's Catholic bishops made to the nation's Indigenous peoples.

Students find healing in Listening Circle

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St. Michael’s College School (SMCS) in Toronto has brought back the Listening Circle initiative, a program implemented last year by a former student looking to ease the burden of grief for himself and his school community. 

CCCB renewal plan approved behind closed doors

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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

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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.

Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing

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A unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.

Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon

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Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.

Call it what it is: lethal injection

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“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.

Synod guides a practical step forward, bishop says

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Mere days from the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, a sentiment expressed by an African prelate at the first gathering in 2023 lingers with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan.