John Dipple
When spring approaches next year, two 36-foot spires that have soared as landmarks of Regina’s skyline for more than a century will come down as the boldest step yet in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration of Holy Rosary Cathedral.
The Archdiocese of Toronto is now accepting donations that will support vast humanitarian relief efforts following last month’s earthquake in Colombia and subsequent mudslides and flooding in Nepal.
A judge has found sexual misconduct accusations against Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet to be unfounded and ordered his accuser to pay him $100,000.
A 68-year-old resident of Saint-Simon has been charged with arson following a suspicious fire that completely destroyed the New Brunswick town's historic Saint-Simon Catholic Church on the Acadian Peninsula early Aug. 24.
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Four years into a relentless war that has largely faded from news headlines, Ukraine is still facing a massive humanitarian crisis.
A U.S. Catholic bishop is calling on the international community to step up aid after devastating torrents of water and mud raged along the Nepal-China border, killing more than 580 with over 1,900 still missing.
Pope Leo XIV expressed his sadness by the devastation wrought by a glacial collapse in the Nepal-China border, causing a deadly wave of floods and mudslides that killed 168 people with hundreds more feared dead.
A deadly gang attack near Haiti's capital that saw dozens killed and kidnapped should cause the U.S. to "rethink" its ending of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.
In a motu proprio Pope Leo XIV grants the Synod of Bishops of the Eastern Churches the power, through "an orderly procedure," to remove a patriarch from office.
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Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 25 appointed the Knights of Columbus' Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly as a member of the Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican's secretary for relations with states and international organizations, arrived in Moscow Aug. 24 for a four-day visit, with meetings scheduled with Russian government, Orthodox and Catholic leaders.
