Silent Voice camp counsellor and camper at Silent Voice's Sign Language Summer Program.

Catholic groups scramble for summer job funds

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Correction: A previous version of the story stated Matt Pascuzzo said the attestation came as a result of anti-abortion campaigners who used the jobs funding to aggressively campaign for criminal code sanctions on abortion. Pascuzzo did not make the statement. 

Agencies rejected for Canada Summer Jobs grants because they won’t tick the pro-abortion attestation box are scrambling to come up with private funds to cover the summertime services they provide to the poor.

Mourners embrace during an April 8 vigil at Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, to honor members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were killed in a fatal bus accident.

Prayers and tears for victims of Humboldt Broncos tragedy

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Crying, hugging and shaking their heads in disbelief, the people of Humboldt, Sask. gathered at the local hockey arena April 8 for an inter-faith service to mourn 15 people who died after the bus carrying the town’s junior hockey team collided with a truck.

Msgr. Kennedy celebrated his retirement at the Archdiocese of Toronto Pastoral Centre Aug. 31, 2016.

Msgr. Philip Kennedy led Catholic Missions in Canada for a decade

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Once a missionary, always a missionary. It didn’t matter whether bedridden with illness or looking off into retirement, Msgr. Philip J. Kennedy kept Canada’s mission territories close to his heart.

A man gambles on casino slot machines.

Faith leaders battle Sudbury casino

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More than 50 faith leaders, including Sault Ste. Marie Bishop Marcel Damphousse, have banded together to oppose a $60 million casino project on the eastern edge of Greater Sudbury.

Auxiliary Bishop Marc Pelchat of Quebec, pictured here in 2017, said Quebec bishops have discussed limited ordination of married men to help fight the priest shortage.

Quebec bishops ponder possibility of married priests

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QUEBEC CITY – The Catholic bishops of Quebec have discussed the possibility of ordaining married men to priesthood.
Faith opens up wallet for international aid, study finds

Faith opens up wallet for international aid, study finds

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Faith is the force Development and Peace counts on when they ask for money. A new study by the Angus Reid Institute shows they have the right idea — but also that it may not be enough.

Students in an ESL class at St. Andrew's Catholic Elementary School in Toronto.

Special education, mental health funding given helpful boost in Ontario public schools

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A pre-election $625 million injection of cash into Ontario’s education system has put a smile on the faces of Catholic school trustees as they anticipate more help dealing with mental health issues in the student body and the spiralling costs of educating special needs students.
The Carmelite sisters run an orphanage for albino children in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Albinos’ plight sends Canadian into action

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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Abandoned. Beaten. Ostracized. Dismembered. Children in Tanzania with albinism face rejection and brutal attacks due to local superstitions about their condition.

Levi and Kaitlyn Breederland with their young family.

For converts, Easter brings sense of relief

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EDMONTON – Levi Breederland and his wife Kaitlyn feel a strong sense of relief as they approach Easter — after months of preparation they will finally be received into the Catholic Church.
A letter from Liberal MP John McKay (left) has surfaced in which he called the attestation a “regrettable error.” Liberal MP Scott Simms (right) was the only MP to vote for the Conservative motion March 19 that would have lifted the attestation.

No sign Liberals will budge on Summer Jobs attestation despite continuing protest

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OTTAWA – The Liberal government shows no sign of budging from requiring the pro-abortion Canada Summer Jobs attestation, despite pleas from faith leaders and news of a second Liberal MP breaking ranks.

Taylor Hyatt of Not Dead Yet and Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition made the rounds of various MP offices the last week of March to raise concerns about the possible expansion of the euthanasia law while there are not adequate regulations in place for the present law.

Pro-life, disability rights activists take euthanasia concerns to MPs

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OTTAWA – Euthanasia opponents and disability rights activists are uneasy about a process to liberalize Canada’s euthanasia law — a law which they say still lacks regulations and proper safeguards.

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