OTTAWA – The NDP has considerably softened a motion to invite Pope Francis to apologize for Indian residential schools after a previous motion failed to get unanimous consent April 18.
Cathy Majtenyi: Bishops’ letter leaves question unanswered
Why won’t Pope Francis issue a formal apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system?
Canadian bishops hit back at motion on papal apology
OTTAWA – Canada’s bishops’ conference is pushing back against “inaccuracies” in a proposed Parliamentary motion that will call on them to formally invite Pope Francis to apologize for the Church’s role in residential schools.
Canadian bishops: Let Easter be our call to reconciliation
VANCOUVER – A Squamish First Nation deacon is looking forward to his chance to bring the concerns of local Indigenous people to Rome.
Canadian bishops pick Cree student for Vatican youth synod
Let us wish shalom-peace for all humanity
Gendron elected president of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil has been elected president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), succeeding Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton.
Nuncio challenges bishops to build on ad limina visits to Rome
CORNWALL, ONT. – The Vatican’s representative in Canada has urged Canada’s bishops to build on the “moment of grace” and “fresh wind” of their ad limina visits to Rome earlier this year.
Fr. Bill Ryan put words into real action
Jesuit Fr. Bill Ryan was never going to settle for a small, quiet, unobtrusive, private faith. For the Harvard-educated economist any notion that God was real, that God intends justice, must be met with real, concrete and public action.
Bishops press Trudeau for action on mining in Latin America
In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops president Bishop Doug Crosby has accused Canadian mining companies of “unethical, unjust and irresponsible ways of mining” in Latin America.
Canada’s Catholic bishops have pulled together a coalition of Christians, Muslims, Jews and others to try to keep people from starving to death in four terrorism-and-war-torn nations – South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen.
The road to healing is long, but it is a destination Canada’s bishops hope can be reached by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Bishop Crosby: ‘Easter offers a reality that is full of joy’
The following is the Easter message released by Bishop Douglas Crosby, O.M.I., Bishop of Hamilton and president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Bishops' letter leave questions unanswered
The vagueness of the bishops’ statement fails to explain why the Pontiff decided not to apologize, Cathy Majtenyi writes
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