A banner depicting Canada-born Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, is displayed outside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 17, 2024, ahead of her canonization Oct. 20, 2024.
For the third time, a Canadian has been elevated to sainthood with the Oct. 20 canonization of St. Marie-Léonie Paradis. Canadian Catholics turned up in force to celebrate the canonization of Quebec-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis in St. Peter’s Square, with bishops and priests, members of the congregation Paradis founded and devoted laity made the trip...
Pro-Palestinian rallies like this one at Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square have been cauldrons of anti-Semitism since Hamas started the war in Gaza with its attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023.
Fr. Deacon Andrew Bennett has a simple message for Canadian Jews: “We will not abandon you.” On Sept. 23, Canada’s former ambassador for religious freedom launched the Canadian Christian Declaration on Antisemitism, a document that denounces the rising tide of antisemitism in Canada and states an unequivocal solidarity with the Jewish community. “We declare to you,...
The next session of Telling Truth in Charity: Introduction to Catholic Journalism will be offered online starting Sept. 24, with weekly classes on interviewing, writing, copyediting, and more, all through a Catholic lens.
Writing in a Catholic newspaper in Australia, Monica Doumit notes that her country is heading down the same road of euthanasia that Canada has been on for nearly a decade. In an article titled “Thank God for Catholic media, or we’d never know the truth on euthanasia,” Doumit wrote in The Catholic Weekly, “With wall-to-wall euthanasia...
CWL leaders and national convention organizers gathered for Mass Aug. 9 at the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon. (Photo by Kiply Lukan Yaworski, Catholic Saskatoon News)
SASKATOON—National and provincial leaders of the Catholic Women’s League of Canada have arrived in Saskatoon, holding meetings ahead of a three-day national convention that will bring hundreds of League members from across the nation to the prairie city on the South Saskatchewan River. League president Shari Guinta and her national executive – which includes provincial...
Supporters gather at a prayer rally in Georgetown, Texas, Sunday in support of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was shot the previous day in an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Penn. FBI officials say have yet to determine what motivated the shooter to open fire from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator and critically injuring two others before he was shot dead by the Secret Service. The FBI believes the shooter acted alone. (OSV News photo/Sergio Flores, Reuters)
By Charles Wells In a statement issued in the wake of Saturday’s attack on former U.S. President Donald Trump, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, said, “Together with my brother bishops, we condemn political violence, and we offer our prayers for President Trump, and those who were killed...
I hadn’t expected Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič to be as forthright as he was. He described the shock of arriving in Canada during the residential school crisis and finding flags at half-mast for months and irresponsible statements being made. My interview with Canada’s Apostolic nuncio appears here. For him, the key to preventing what we’ve seen...
Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital’s policy of not allowing euthanasia onsite is the subject of a lawsuit by the parents of a terminally ill woman who was transferred to another facility to be euthanized. (Terry O’Neill photo)
The parents of a terminally ill woman who was transferred to another facility to be euthanized after St. Paul’s Hospital refused to allow the procedure on its premises are suing the provincial government and Providence Health Care, the Catholic health-care provider that operates St. Paul’s. The couple’s lawsuit says their daughter’s Charter of Rights and...
There has been no public accounting for the millions disbursed by the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations to the Kamloops First Nation for “field work, records searches and to secure the Residential School grounds.” A child’s red dress hangs on a stake near the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School June 6, 2021.CNS photo/Jennifer Gauthier, Reuters
A planned National Gathering on missing Indigenous children and unmarked graves has been abruptly postponed, days before it was reported that there is no public accounting for the millions of dollars that the federal government has sent to the Kamloops First Nation to investigate residential school burial sites. Meanwhile, the final report from the Office...
Albertos Polizogopoulos, a pro-life lawyer who was known across Canada, has died at age 41 after being diagnosed with cancer in September 2020. (Canadian Catholic News photo)
On May 9, as thousands of Canadians once again gathered on Parliament Hill for the annual March for Life, Canada’s pro-life movement lost one of its greatest champions. Albertos Polizogopoulos, a dear husband to Faye Sonier, father of two, and a friend of many, passed away at the age of 41 after being diagnosed with...
Pro-life supporters march in this year’s March for Life in Ottawa. (Peter Stockland photo)
Thousands of pro-lifers packed onto Parliament Hill and spilled out onto Wellington Street May 9 for the 27th annual National March for Life. The crowd gathered on the Hill at noon with its members bearing both homemade and professionally crafted signs pledging to stand fast for the unborn and vulnerable. The march’s theme “I will never...
