Month: September 2023

Canadian bishops at their plenary meeting in 2018. This year’s gathering starts Monday and includes discussions on euthanasia and Indigenous issues. (Canadian Catholic News file photo)

Canadian bishops’ discussions to include euthanasia, Indigenous issues

Canada

Euthanasia and Indigenous issues will be on the plate of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops when they gather for their annual plenary in Toronto next week. The plenary gathering in Toronto from Sept. 25 to 28 will bring together 79 bishops for discussions on the life of the Church in Canada. The meeting includes a full...

A protest at Vancouver City Hall in 2016 over the lack of enforcement of prostitution laws. An Ontario court has ruled that Canada’s laws on sex work are constitutional. (B.C. Catholic file photo)

Anti-trafficking committee pleased as court strikes down Charter challenge of sex-work law

British Columbia, Canada

The Anti-Human Trafficking Committee of the Archdiocese of Vancouver is praising a decision by Ontario’s Superior Court Monday that ruled Canada’s criminal laws on sex work are constitutional. In his 142-page decision, Justice Robert Goldstein dismissed a Charter challenge of Canada’s Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, saying the law balances the protection of...

Bishop Jon Hanse (The Catholic Register file photo)

Normal slowly returns as NWT bishop celebrates Mass again

Canada

Bishop Jon Hansen spoke to an “essentially full” St. Patrick’s Co-Cathedral on Sept. 10, in front of Yellowknife Catholics eager to congregate after nearly a month of being deprived of their home and parish community due to the rampant wildfires. “It was wonderful to see everyone,” said Hansen, who returned to the Northwest Territories capital...

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