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Much of Western society has become “deaf to the word of life spoken not only by the Church but also by science,” Archbishop Richard Smith said at the recent Archbishop’s Annual Mass for Life at Vancouver’s Holy Rosary Cathedral.

With the sun shining on the waves, Archbishop Richard Smith made a pastoral visit to Vancouver’s port ministry, accompanying port chaplains in their duties supporting the spiritual welfare of docked seafarers and ship workers.

A Vancouver pro-life activist has been charged with mischief after being arrested during a four-hour protest outside the city’s Every Woman’s Health Centre.

For the first time, the ShareLife campaign eclipsed the $15-million benchmark en route to an eye-popping $15,671,786 sum on behalf of over 40 social service agencies in the Greater Toronto Area.

One was coined the "digital pioneer of the Canadian Catholic Church" by starting a blog in 2003, at the age of 33. The other is a self-described “dinosaur” in terms of Internet adoption.

Fr. Elissandro Marcelo Caldas, the pastor of Toronto's St. Norbert’s Parish, received the unexpected honour to accompany a holy relic of St. Carlo Acutis from Assisi, Italy, to St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.

Groups that opposed Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act and its threat to criminalize religious speech, are celebrating after the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights voted Jan. 26 to delay further consideration until after tackling Bill C-14, the Bail Reform and Sentencing Act.

Edmonton Archbishop Stephen Hero, formally installed Jan. 23, now spiritually shepherds a city and region he called home for over 40 years.

Forty-seven young pro-life Canadians ventured southward to the National March For Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23 to bask in solidarity with American defenders of the preborn and to help deliver a message that the future should be teeming with life as God intended.

While many around the world mark 81 years since the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Catholics, fellow Christians and Jews will gather at Toronto’s Darchei Noam Congregation to remember the Shoah not as mere history, but as a continued living call to action to turn past tragedy into present solidarity against hatred in its many forms.