News/Canada
ShareLife commits $520,000 to fight hunger
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterDisquieting headlines about the state of household food security have unrelentingly flooded the Canadian news media ecosystem in recent months. Enter ShareLife.
Red Mass resurrected
By Anna FarrowA group of 60 jurists, notaries and law students gathered at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Montreal’s historic Notre-Dame Basilica on Sept. 7 to attend the first Red Mass organized by the newly formed Société Saint-Yves de Montréal.
Students renewed for school year
By Angelica Vecchiato, Register CorrespondentYouth between the ages of 14 and 30 looking to feel energized before the start of the school season met in praise and worship at the Throneway Renewal conference.
Student suspended over gender stance wins appeal
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterAn Ontario court delivered a key legal victory to Josh Alexander, the St. Joseph’s High School student from Pembroke, Ont., suspended for alleged bullying by stating in a class discussion that God created only two genders, male and female.
Board scrambles to meet staffing needs
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterThe London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB) is emerging as a living example of the principles of supply and demand.
A challenging start for Ukrainian leader
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterPope Francis’ comments praising the historical Russian empire in a video conference with Russian youth were “very surprising” and “unfortunate,” says the newly appointed head of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster.
Fraser Health ordered to uncover MAiD documents
By Terry O’Neill, Canadian Catholic NewsA provincial adjudicator has ruled in favour of The B.C. Catholic newspaper and ordered the Fraser Health Authority to take the wraps off additional sections of secret documents related to the development and implementation of its controversial assisted-suicide policies and practices.
Search for truth over graves is elusive
By Peter StocklandThe absence of human remains following excavations at Manitoba’s former Pine Creek Indian Residential school has attracted international attention in the form of a highly critical article in the New York Post.
Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, dies at age 94
By Canadian Catholic NewsVancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller said he was “deeply saddened” to learn of the death of Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, who served as Archbishop of Vancouver from 1991 to 2004.
Encountering beauty in liturgy
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterIn his 2022 apostolic letter Desiderio desideravi, Pope Francis said congregants are called “to be astonished at the beauty of the liturgy.”