Western Canada

A Vancouver priest recovering from a hip fracture at Vancouver General Hospital says he was twice offered assisted death by health-care staff who knew he was a priest and opposed to euthanasia.

Vancouver Archbishop Richard Smith says the pain of the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy is still being felt a year later, especially within Vancouver’s Filipino community, which continues to carry the wounds of that day.

For many years, the pro-abortion movement has been successful in convincing men they need not concern themselves with the “women’s issue” of abortion. Looking at the students attending this year’s Youth 4 Life Expo, that may be starting to change.

The interim label has been removed from Dr. Scott Morrison who is now the fifth president and vice-chancellor of St. Mary’s University in Calgary and began a five-year term on April 1.

When Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin recently described organ donation as an act of love that “transcends death,” the words landed close to home for Michelle Pereira of Sacred Heart Parish in Delta.

The Alberta government’s new Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, has received a seal of approval from the province’s Catholic bishops.

Dominic Montpetit fondly recollects running the 42-kilometre marathon at the Great Canadian Death Race near Grand Cache, Alta., alongside his brothers and Bishop Mark Hagemoen of Saskatoon in 2022.

March has gifted Canadian culture of life advocates with hope in the form of the Archdiocese of Toronto’s Help Not Harm campaign and the Alberta government’s sweeping euthanasia reform bill.

The Man of the Shroud Exhibition, a long-standing blend of faith, science and mystery centred on the historical Shroud of Turin, wrapped up its final run in British Columbia this month.

In an age when some philosophical materialists believe nothing exists beyond matter, Dr. David Neima says neuroscience points in another direction.