News and events from across the country.
December 24, 2013
TORONTO - When Saskatoon Bishop Don Bolen suggested St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter one, verse 13 as the starting point for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity not everybody on the Canadian writing team jumped on board.
December 20, 2013
EDMONTON - When Kristin Kopp read in her Sunday bulletin last Easter about Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith’s Jubilee Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she knew she had to be there.
EDMONTON - Charitable appeals made in parishes across the Edmonton archdiocese will be rolled into one starting in Lent 2014.
Updated 12/23/13 OTTAWA - Everything from sex tourism to prostitutes attending high-school career days is possible unless Parliament writes new legislation in the wake a Supreme Court ruling that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, warn anti-prostitution advocates.
The permanent diaconate is moving west. Two of the four dioceses in Saskatchewan will begin training men to become permanent deacons in 2014 and the other two are mulling it over.
December 19, 2013
TORONTO - When thinking of Mary it is essential to envision her in the flesh, as a physical human being, because that is the language of God, said Fr. Robert Barringer.
OTTAWA - Former Anglicans who convert to Catholicism must be a bridge to Christian unity and a force for true ecumenism, said the leader of North America’s Anglican ordinariate as four former Anglican priests were ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
OTTAWA - With the Dec. 10 release of the House of Commons Finance Committee Dec. 10 report on income inequality, Citizens for Public Justice says it is clear that Canada’s poor are not on the radar with the government.
One of Canada’s oldest Catholic universities is claiming it has gained a new lease on life by selling its buildings.
TORONTO - One week after the death of Nelson Mandela, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and Free The Children came together to honour the man dubbed the world’s last great statesman.