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The COVID crisis is driving home the importance of solidarity as the essential purpose of Development and Peace.

Crisis brings home lesson of solidarity

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As a young aid worker, Christian Champigny spent weeks confined to his house in poor countries while war and revolution raged in the streets outside.

Deacon Mike Walsh prepares the altar before a taping of the Daily TV Mass.

Daily TV Mass seeing spike in viewers

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Viewership has skyrocketed, appreciative comments are flowing in from around the world and the phone is ringing constantly in the Markham, Ont., offices of the National Catholic Broadcasting Council. It certainly isn’t business as usual.

Bishop Michael Power.

Bishop set a powerful example

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Priests have not been spared from being infected — and dying — as COVID-19 sweeps the world.

Aid programs a model for basic income

Aid programs a model for basic income

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Many of the financial measures being rolled out by governments to help people weather the COVID-19 storm would be unnecessary if Canada had a basic income policy, say basic income advocates.

Pope Francis reaches out to the statue titled Angels Unawares by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz at the Vatican last September. The statue depicts a group of migrants and refugees on a boat. Advocates are urging political leaders to include refugees and migrant workers in aid support during the COVID-19 crisis.

Groups call for emergency benefits to help non-citizens

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OTTAWA -- Francisco Rico-Martinez knows that many of the people he helps at a Toronto refugee centre are worried about how they and their families could be impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis.

Cardinal Collins celebrates Mass for Daily TV Mass at the Loretto Abbey chapel in Toronto.

Cardinal Collins adds children’s online chat to Holy Week schedule

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Cardinal Thomas Collins will participate in a live online interaction with parents and children as part of extensive Holy Week and Easter activities and services announced by the Archdiocese of Toronto.

“When people are afraid and anxious, this is when I would invite them to remember that we are a people of faith,” Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith said at a press conference at St. Joseph’s Basilica after all Masses were suspended in the wake of COVID-19. “We recognize that God has our back, God does not let us down and He’s never aloof. Trust that God is drawing close to us — that’s the reason for our hope.”

Quebec dioceses start temporary layoffs

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QUEBEC CITY -- As the Quebec government tightens measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allows only essential services, the Catholic dioceses of the province have started temporary layoffs affecting hundreds of Catholic employees and priests.

Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Ottawa program comes to rescue of priests and workers in Toronto diocese

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Large-scale relief programs implemented by the federal government to deal with the economic fallout from COVID-19 have saved staff at the Archdiocese of Toronto offices and parishes from layoffs.

‘New normal’ means new tasks to tackle

‘New normal’ means new tasks to tackle

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CALGARY -- A few weeks ago, Jamie Hunka sat at a desk in one of The Mustard Seed’s support centres helping job seekers write resumes and master interviewing skills.

Signs of caution and solidarity have been popping up all over Toronto as citizens learn to adhere to terms like “social distancing” and “self-isolation.”

On the virus frontlines: ‘Everyone is stressed’

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In hospital hallways, where the virus wages psychological warfare on doctors, nurses, cleaners and orderlies, hospital chaplain John Zamiska fears evil.

Fourteen residents and a volunteer worker at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, Ont., have died from COVID-19.

Pastor stands ready as COVID-19 hits Bobcaygeon hard

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Fr. Luis Lapinid can’t help but feel a little helpless in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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