Fundamental political leadership demanded that Prime Minister Trudeau unequivocally declare before Christmas whether he would try to continue leading Canada or resign. Now, in the new year, so does charity. And not in any abstract or metaphorical sense. Tens of thousands of charities across this country had their operating budgets pulverized by the postal strike...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters from his Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa on Jan. 6, announcing he intends to step down as leader of the ruling Liberal Party but will stay on as prime minister until a replacement is chosen. (OSV News photo/Patrick Doyle, Reuters)
Trudeau to step down after new leader chosen
Justin Trudeau announced today that he will resign as Prime Minister and Liberal leader once members select his successor through a nationwide party leadership election. The man who has resided at 24 Sussex Dr. since his first federal electoral victory in 2015 told media assembled at Rideau College that he called upon Governor General Mary...
Bishop Emeritus David Monroe and altar servers prepare for the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s celebration marking the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year. The Mass began with Archbishop Michael Miller blessing the Jubilee cross. (Nicholas Elbers photo)
Jubilee Year 2025 welcomed in across Canada
Jubilee Year 2025 was welcomed in at churches and cathedrals across Canada with Masses celebrating the historic event as well as the Feast of the Holy Family. In Vancouver, Archbishop J. Michael Miller gathered on Dec. 29 with about a dozen altar servers, deacons, and lay faithful outside Holy Rosary Cathedral before the Mass for...
Father Paul Goo, centre, is pictured during a missions trip to the Philippines in 2017, will serve in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State beginning in January. Father Goo is pastor of Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver. (B.C. Catholic file photo)
Vancouver priest assigned to Vatican’s Secretariat of State
Father Paul Goo, pastor of Christ the Redeemer Parish in West Vancouver, has been called to Rome to serve in the English-language section of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, starting in January...
Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters are guarded by police after violence targeting Israeli soccer fans broke out in Amsterdam Nov. 8.
Could Dutch attacks happen here?
Amsterdam today, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary tomorrow? Both Richard Marceau, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs’ (CIJA) vice p...
The reliquary containing remains of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and his photo. The Italian teen had a great love of the Eucharist and used his technology skills to build an online database of eucharistic miracles around the world.
Carlo Acutis relics to return home
After a short but successful Canadian pilgrimage in eastern and central Canada, a pericardium relic of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis, is on its way back to Assisi, Italy. Blessed Carlo is expected to be canonized in this year’s Jubilee Year.
Kathy Matusiak-Costa, Director of Compassionate Community Care was one of the facilitators at a workshop Nov. 9 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. CCC is a registered charity of health care professionals and volunteers who provide support to vulnerable persons and their families during times of illness and crisis. (Photo by Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News)
Compassionate Community Care: taking action against loneliness and despair
By Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News Some 100 participants gathered Nov. 9 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon for a Compassionate Community Care workshop about providing grassroots care and connection for those who are isolated or suffering. Organized by Jackie Saretsky, Coordinator of the diocesan Hospital Chaplaincy Office, in response to requests for...
The Bilodeau home at 219 Carnarvon St., with Ellen Bilodeau and children. (Steve Norman Collection)
A Time to Remember, A Time to Give Thanks: The Life of Ellen Murphy Bilodeau (1857-1939)
November is the Month of the Holy Souls, a time when Catholics are called to remember and pray for those who have gone before us. In keeping with this tradition, we have been publishing stories of...
A groom flashes a peace sign at wedding-goers while processing out of St. Mary’s Church in Vancouver after having his marriage sacramentally blessed at the Marriage Mass on October 19. (Nicholas Elbers Photos)
Couples find sacramental marriages ‘in God’s perfect timing’
Sometimes it just takes moving across the world to understand the value of a sacramental marriage. At least that’s what it took for Eddelyn and Mario John, two recent arrivals from the Philippines....
Premier John Horgan is shown in a Government of British Columbia photo He died on Nov 12 at age 65 BC Government photos
Archbishop offers prayers for former B.C. Premier John Horgan
Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, issued the following statement on Nov. 12 following the death of former B.C. Premier John Horgan. “I was saddened to learn of the passing of former...