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Canada’s Catholic bishops spent two full sessions at their recent plenary signing off on a major overhaul of how the national conference of prelates should operate.

Former priest and convicted sex offender Brian Boucher has been on a hospital ward with minors present for at least a month, The Catholic Register has learned.

A unique research project out of King’s University College in London, Ont., has given a a face and a voice to Yazidis who settled in Canada, a decade after Islamists attempted to eradicate them from this world.

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.

“Saddened, but not surprised” is how Cardinal Thomas Collins characterized his reaction to Canada’s now infamous reputation as the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime.

Mere days from the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, a sentiment expressed by an African prelate at the first gathering in 2023 lingers with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan.

A coalition of disability rights organizations has united to challenge Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying or whose death is not reasonably foreseeable.

The small country parish of St. Michael’s Parish Corkery is a testament to the grit, hard work and pious devotion of early Irish settlers in Canada.

Catholics in the nation's capital region are worried that what began as a temporary suspension of daily Mass at The Ottawa Hospital, one of the city’s prominent hospital centres, has become permanent.

Canada’s bishops began their 2024 plenary assembly Sept. 23 with the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit Venite Creator Spiritus, but in their message to Pope Francis they spoke, in another Latin phrase, of a new modus operandi in the Church.