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Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing

Ten years after ISIS, Yazidis seek healing

King's 'photovoice' gives voice to those who lost almost all

Susan Korah · September 29, 2024

A unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.
Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon

Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon

Quinton Amundson · September 28, 2024

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.
Call it what it is: lethal injection

Call it what it is: lethal injection

Cardinal Collins decries weasel words around medically assisted death

Quinton Amundson · September 27, 2024

“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.
Synod guides a practical step forward, bishop says

Synod guides a practical step forward, bishop says

Quinton Amundson · September 27, 2024

Mere days from the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, a sentiment expressed by an African prelate at the first gathering in 2023 lingers with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan.
Disability rights coalition challenging Track 2 MAiD

Disability rights coalition challenging Track 2 MAiD

Quinton Amundson · September 26, 2024

A coalition of disability rights organizations has united to challenge Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying or whose death is not reasonably foreseeable.
At 200, St. Michael's Corkery a testament to Irish forefathers

At 200, St. Michael's Corkery a testament to Irish forefathers

Angelica Vecchiato · September 26, 2024

The small country parish of St. Michael’s Parish Corkery is a testament to the grit, hard work and pious devotion of early Irish settlers in Canada.
Ottawa Hospital to stop offering daily Mass

Ottawa Hospital to stop offering daily Mass

Luke Mandato and Anna Farrow · September 25, 2024

Catholics in the nation's capital region are worried that what began as a temporary suspension of daily Mass at The Ottawa Hospital, one of the city’s prominent hospital centres, has become permanent.
Jubilee, synod at top of CCCB agenda

Jubilee, synod at top of CCCB agenda

Bishops meet for plenary in Quebec

Anna Farrow · September 25, 2024

Canada’s bishops began their 2024 plenary assembly Sept. 23 with the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit Venite Creator Spiritus, but in their message to Pope Francis they spoke, in another Latin phrase, of a new modus operandi in the Church.
Parishioners take control of Portugal Cove South church

Parishioners take control of Portugal Cove South church

Portugal Cove Catholics make clear Holy Rossry is their church

Quinton Amundson · September 23, 2024

Cynthia Power proudly declares that she is a lifelong inhabitant of Portugal Cove South, a quiet coastal town featured along Newfoundland’s famed and scenic Irish Loop, which circles the southeastern portion of the Avalon Peninsula.
March against gender ideology numbers shrink

March against gender ideology numbers shrink

Quinton Amundson · September 23, 2024

There was evidence of progress and setbacks on display with the second nationwide 1 Million March 4 Children on Sept. 20.