Canadian News

Hamilton’s Ex Corde Foundation aims for no one going without

Fund will soon hit $10-million mark in grants

Quinton Amundson · May 5, 2024

The Diocese of Hamilton’s Ex Corde Foundation is soon projected to crack the $10 million ceiling in charitable giving.

Church vocations go beyond the priesthood

Luke Mandato · May 4, 2024

Last month’s ShareLife Speaker Series shed light on the significance of vocations and how they can be better understood and nurtured.

Charities’ award honours Fullan’s legacy

Luke Mandato · May 4, 2024

When the time of recognition finally arrived for one of the leading figures in social work in Toronto Catholic circles for nearly three decades, the man who had committed a large part of his life to assist so many took the selfless route.

Mideast conflict affect felt at Montreal Shoah memorial

Anna Farrow · April 30, 2024

Shockwaves from the Gaza war impacted Christian-Jewish relations seriously enough to hamper a Montreal commemoration of the Shoah this year, say organizers of the 45th annual event held on April 28.

Halifax shelter program not so temporary

Luke Mandato · April 26, 2024

What began as a short-term project by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth to bring the city’s most vulnerable out of the cold and into temporary shelter remains a project in progress more than two years later.

Activists seek right to home birth

Many women prefer intimacy over hospital setting, proponents say

Agnieszka Ruck · April 26, 2024

COVID-19 and life issues have brought bodily autonomy and the right to accept or refuse medical treatment to the forefront in recent years.

Pro-life flag won’t fly at Toronto schools

Toronto Catholic District School Board trustees voted against a motion to fly the flag at area schools this May

Quinton Amundson · April 24, 2024

The International Pro-Life Flag will not fly over Toronto Catholic schools this May.

St. John’s closures ‘canonically unsound’

Archdiocese can’t ‘usurp’ parish finances, dicastery says

Quinton Amundson · April 24, 2024

Having ruled that the Archdiocese of St. John’s closing of a number of parishes was canonically unsound, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has further said that civil law does not trump canonical rights.

Abortion push abroad ‘ideological colonization’

Anna Farrow · April 23, 2024

The Canadian government continues to allocate billions of dollars for the promotion of sexual and reproductive health rights in the developing world, while slashing funds to other priorities like national defence.

Former trustee feels vindicated by dicastery’s dignity document

Quinton Amundson · April 18, 2024

Reading the passages about gender theory written in the new Vatican document Dignitas Infinita (Infinite Dignity) offered Francine Champagne, a former school trustee in Winnipeg, a feeling of vindication.