A recent photo created by an app showing Pope Francis wearing a designer bomber jacket went viral on social media, fooling millions around the world.
Children’s aid faces up to race issues
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterLess than 10 per cent of the children in Toronto are Black, yet more than half the kids in the care of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto are Black. Priscilla Manful is determined to do something about it.
Seeking common ground in a polarized world
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhen Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a comic strip back in 1970, he didn’t know the half of it. Pogo never heard of Twitter, attack ads, bot farms or “doing your own research.” Pogo could never have imagined a Church or society broken down into political and cultural sects caught up in perpetual rhetorical war with one another.
Agnes Thomas driven to make impact
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterDr. Agnes Thomas’ depth of experience, gleaned from years of service to several communities, has led to a new role as executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
A step further on pilgrimage of penance
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterRepudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, endorsing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, confessing the sin of a colonizing mentality, promising to stand with Indigenous peoples when they struggle for their land and their rights and committing the Church to reconciliation with Indigenous people world-wide — all this arrived in a two-page statement issued jointly by two Vatican dicasteries as another step in the pilgrimage of penance Pope Francis undertook in Canada last summer.
For sale: landmark Nova Scotia churches
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterDespite needing repairs topping $1 million, a recently deconsecrated landmark Acadian church has drawn extensive interest from buyers since being put up for sale by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth late last month.
‘Dear Fr. Robert’ Montreal’s only married priest
By Anna FarrowThe April 1 funeral for Fr. Robert Assaly at Montreal’s St. Thomas More Catholic Church featured a rare sight: front pews filled by his large family with his wife Nancy, their children and spouses.
Development and Peace protests foreign aid cuts
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe federal government plans to spend a lot of money — $496.9 billion in 2023-24 — but the growth in federal spending projected by the latest budget hasn’t done anything for Canadian agencies that deliver humanitarian assistance and development aid in poor countries around the world.
Churches must press government on climate, MP says
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs the world’s scientists once again draw attention to the dire state of a warming planet, it’s time for churches to up their game on climate change, said Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Rewriting history won’t speed up reconciliation
By Brian Giesbrecht, Catholic Register SpecialWinnipeg is close to saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. Soon, the streets, and anything else that bears his name, will be erased from Manitoba’s history.
Mount Cashel victims soon to receive settlements
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterDozens of survivors of abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s will receive compensation from the Archdiocese of St. John’s beginning in the fall.