TORONTO - This Advent season, churches across the archdiocese of Toronto will open day and night on Dec. 11 for a special Day of Confessions.

Touring Tacloban in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Ryan Worms was aware of horror and grace.

Money can’t buy you love, or justice, or reconciliation. But sometimes money is the necessary first step.

Just days before Pope Francis laid out his dream for a missionary Church in all parts of the world, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president Archbishop Paul-André Durocher put forward his own hopes for the new evangelization in Canada.

OTTAWA - The West’s crisis of faith has “morphed” into a crisis of hope that requires anchoring people in the great Christian story, said Montreal Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd.

TORONTO - Since it was launched in Toronto in 2005, Israel Apartheid Weeks have spread across university campuses in North America. In recent years there have been events claiming Israel is “an apartheid state” at New York University, Cambridge University in England, in Johannesburg, South Africa and in Jerusalem.

TORONTO - Shortly after arriving in Canada this summer from Hungary, Fr. Jeno Rigo pulled into a self-serve gas station to fill up his car. He studied the pump but, perplexed, was soon inside the station asking the attendant for help. When you are new to a country even the most mundane tasks can be challenging.

Twenty-million dollars in matching funds from Ottawa for Philippines typhoon relief have so far gone to a familiar list of United Nations agencies and heavyweight non-governmental organizations with experience in emergency relief and development.

OTTAWA - A coalition comprising feminists, religious, aboriginals, NGOs and human-trafficking experts are joining forces with Conservative MP Joy Smith to take on the porn industry.

OTTAWA - Warning of a “dark and dystopian future” if society accepts any instance of the state stripping even one person of their status as a human being, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth tabled another motion in Parliament that highlights the status of the unborn child.