Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register

Ruth Robert first learned about abortion as a 10-year-old child. 

She was assigned a presentation that ties to pregnancy and turned to Google.

On April 2, Rafael Srebrnič is set to turn 96 years old. His impressive longevity — like all men and women blessed to live this long — is to be admired. 

Deacon Sean Raphael Jacob first felt the priesthood could be in his future during a family vacation to Rome as a young child.

The Archdiocese of Winnipeg is taking a hand’s off approach as the Prairie city looks to erase the legacy of Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin from its map for his association with Canada’s residential school system.

Each year over the past four the Diocese of Saskatoon has been hosting a Spring Congress to liaise about diocesan plans with clergy, staff, lay leadership and Church attendees from its 92 member parishes.

The broadening of assisted suicide access to individuals solely suffering from mental illness has officially been delayed by one year to March 17, 2024, though voices are rising to scrap any expansion altogether. 

For 25 years, NCBC has brought the liturgy home

Like father, like daughter.

Dr. Lauretta Frederking credits listening to her father David Conklin’s lectures as a professor at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) — he specialized in business, economics and public policy — for sparking her interest in becoming an educator. And she credits her mother, Marilyn, for instilling within her an unquenchable thirst to always be learning. 

When it comes to caring, for people experiencing cancer, death in the family or other trauma, their church is often where they can turn for support. But when it comes to sexual abuse and trafficking, many feel that’s the last place they can seek comfort.

The Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board has developed a host of protocols to raise awareness about the dangers of sex trafficking.