Cannabis has been a reality in Canadian schools for a long time.

Marijuana still out of bounds for youth after legalization, but still an issue for schools

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All things considered, when the initial haze of marijuana smoke clears on Oct. 17 things are expected to be just as they were the day before in schools around Canada. But that doesn’t mean educators will be complacent.

Cardinal Thomas Collins presides at 2018 ordination Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto.

Seminarians look for light during dark times of abuse crisis

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Hayden Straczala had just finished a fruitful year in parish internship when news broke of a Pennsylvania report that identified 1,000 victims who were sexually abused by Catholic priests. As more stories began to come out in Chile, Germany and other parts of the world, it weighed heavily on him as he returned to his academic studies in St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto. 

On Oct. 6, Jordan Hunt, 26, was charged with eight counts of assault and seven counts of mischief for the alleged kick and for allegedly scribbling on the clothing and signs of the demonstrators, and tearing a ribbon off Campaign Life Coalition’s youth co-ordinator Marie-Claire Bissonnette’s clothing.

MP launches petition against violence after assaults at LifeChain pro-life demonstrations

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OTTAWA – Conservative MP Garnet Genuis has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn political violence after news of several incidences of assault against pro-life demonstrators.
CCCB president bishop Lionel Gendron presents a new sexual abuse document in an introduction YouTube video.

Positive reviews for Canadian bishops’ sex abuse document, but hard work is ahead

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Catholic bishops’ new sexual abuse document released Oct. 4 sets the right tone, say observers, but now the hard work of implementation begins.
L'Arche community members present their work at an art show.

L’Arche ready to build a new beginning in Burnaby

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VANCOUVER – A community built around love for people with developmental disabilities is undergoing ground-breaking changes.

Len Rhodes, president of the Edmonton Eskimos, speaks at the Edmonton Catholic Social Services general meeting Sept. 17.

Edmonton football team president shares painful past

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EDMONTON – The mission of Catholic Social Services is to care for and lift up the most vulnerable among us.

The document was adopted unanimously Sept. 27 at the annual plenary meeting of the bishops and establishes national standards which every bishop has pledged to implement in their diocese.

Sex abuse document from Canada’s bishops focuses on victims, urges accountability and transparency

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OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops’ have released a new document on sexual abuse that calls for accountability, transparency, prevention and healing as first steps to repair the considerable damage inflicted on the Church and society by decades of priestly abuse and coverups by bishops.

Cardinal Collins has not been e-mailing you.

E-mail scam uses Cardinal Collins’ name to lure victims

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Toronto Catholics are being warned about a new e-mail scam involving someone impersonating Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Doctors from Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital have outlined policies and procedures for medically assisted death for children.

Assisted suicide plans for children unveiled at Toronto's Sick Kids hospital

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TORONTO – In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have laid out policies and procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies.
Canadian bishops working on palliative care resources for every parish

Canadian bishops working on palliative care resources for every parish

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CORNWALL – Canada’s Catholic bishops aim to have palliative care resources available in every parish to help Catholics grapple with suffering and dying under a regime of legal euthanasia.

Fr Raymond de Souza, editor of Convivium.ca and Ray Pennings, vice president of Cardus participated in the 7th annual Parliamentary Forum on Religious Freedom Oct. 1.

Canada’s religious freedom at risk in the courts and in Parliament

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OTTAWA – Experts warned religious freedom is at risk in Canada as it is no longer seen as a fundamental right but something that can be trumped by vague “charter values” and partisan politics.

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