Canadian News

‘Fed Up’ with food insecurity

Event provides meals for needy, lessons to youth

Luke Mandato · May 29, 2024

Fed up with the growing food insecurity they see each day, chefs are teaming up with young cooking students to tackle the issue in Toronto with “Get Fed Up 2024.”

Lacroix again proclaims his innocence

François Gloutnay · May 28, 2024

“I reiterate my innocence,” Quebec City Cardinal Gérald Lacroix says in a six-minute video that the Archdiocese of Quebec released on its YouTube channel.

Toronto palliative care forum seeks a ‘narrative of hope’

Quinton Amundson · May 27, 2024

Amplifying advocacy and pastoral care efforts, bolstering educational resources and championing life-affirming legislation are among the recommendations emerging from an international interfaith symposium on palliative care staged in Toronto late last month.

Fr. Lennon knew what it means to be Catholic right to the end

Luke Mandato · May 27, 2024

Even in his dying days, Fr. Paul Joseph Lennon continued to show his concern for the poor.

Bishop Bayda celebrates Ukraine’s ‘strength,’ ‘dignity’

Quinton Amundson · May 27, 2024

Bishop Bryan Bayda, who leads the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada, said God guided him on where to go and whom to meet during his February visit to war-torn Ukraine.

Vandals desecrate Ottawa statue honouring Oblate

Sculpture just steps from pro-Palestine encampment

Quinton Amundson · May 27, 2024

A University of Ottawa statue honouring the late Fr. Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI located steps from a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus was discovered vandalized on May 24.

A monument to greatness

John Paul II, Mother Teresa statue’s goal is ‘silent evangelization’

Agnieszka Ruck · May 26, 2024

Those behind a larger-than-life monument of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa are hoping it will match the calibre of other great and historic Catholic works and inspire generations to come.

AI and porn: a mixed blessing

If online porn is the problem, could online counselling be a solution?

Nicholas Elbers · May 25, 2024

When lewd AI-generated images of Taylor Swift showed up on the internet earlier this year, it felt like a sign of the times, with the technocratic anarchy of AI’s generative potential being joined in unholy matrimony to pornography’s capacity for dehumanization.

Young mothers’ group gains ‘Momentum’

Luke Mandato · May 24, 2024

A unique ministry known as Momentum has been fostering a faith community of Catholic single women by providing them with opportunities to grow in their relationships with both God and each other.

Independent Catholic schools' aim is growth

Ottawa hosts first conference for consortium

Anna Farrow · May 24, 2024

A year ago, Ottawa businessman John Pacheco woke up with a perplexing divine message running through his head: “Get the schools going.”