Canadian News

News and events from across the country.

Pro Lifers get their marching orders

March 9, 2014

Looking to build excitement leading into the annual National March for Life, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) has announced this year’s itinerary and list of speakers three months in advance.

Abuse scandal lingers a quarter century later

March 8, 2014

Twenty-five years on, the case that began the world-wide Catholic sexual abuse scandal is still crawling through the court system and still on the minds of Newfoundland Catholics.

Quebec wants own foreign aid agency

March 7, 2014

A campaign in Quebec to establish its own international development agency is being welcomed by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace as a possible new source of funding.

Think tank with Christian roots to change the lives of eight students

March 6, 2014

You say you want a revolution? The Cardus think tank wants one too, and it plans to help eight young people make it happen.

D&P launches campaign to end world hunger

March 6, 2014

If 842 million people are hungry you can’t just invite them over for lunch. But that doesn’t mean we’re helpless. Development and Peace wants Catholics to stop thinking of world hunger as a permanent condition or an unsolvable problem that will never change.

Ordinandi Dinner attracts another sell-out crowd

March 5, 2014

TORONTO - More than 1,500 people crammed the Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, Ont., on March 4 to wine, dine and celebrate seven soon-to-be priests at the Archdiocese of Toronto's 24th annual Ordinandi Dinner.

Pope Francis names six Toronto monsignors

March 4, 2014

TORONTO - When Msgr. Gregory Ace received a call from Cardinal Thomas Collins his first reaction was a slight sense of panic. “When the Cardinal called me he called me on my cellphone and when the Cardinal calls you kind of think, oh, am I in big trouble or something?”

Community fights to save only Polish church in Atlantic Canada

March 2, 2014

A Polish Catholic community in Sydney, N.S., seems to be fighting a losing battle to keep its beloved St. Mary’s Polish Church afloat, but it is determined to keep up the fight.

Catholic input on prostitution consultation sought

March 1, 2014

Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller has asked the British Columbia government to reconsider its decision not to prosecute violations of Canada’s prostitution laws.

A polarized debate

February 28, 2014

The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.