Catholic Aid Work

Last March was officially Irish Heritage Month in Canada, and you didn’t need the federal Heritage Department to tell you so.

Are we losing our ability to think deeply, purposefully?

Among the many messages Pope Francis has been getting over the course of his first full day recovering from abdominal surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital, his favorite, so far, was a large card from a Peruvian family he met during his last hospital stay.

What is the price of an abusive kiss by a predatory priest? How much should an unwanted fondle fetch to serve justice to the victim? Ask the class-action lawyers.

As Nova Scotians received a welcome dose of good news on June 5 that the overall wildfire situation across the province has been contained and many of the evacuees were authorized to return to their homes, the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth continued to call for prayer for those affected.

Survivors of abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and by clergy from the Archdiocese of St. John’s through the years, are poised to receive a financial settlement from the archdiocese by the end of the year.

The Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools’ (GSCS) downtown office was vandalized May 29 following the leaking of an internal email asking principals to avoid the “Rainbow Tent” at a children’s festival.

The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is on the hunt for a man who deliberately started a fire and assaulted two men at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Calgary.

Pope Francis was scheduled to undergo surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital June 7 to treat a hernia that had developed at an incision of a previous operation, the Vatican said.

It appears that James Kitchen will have to wait until nearly the end of the summer to substantively challenge the suspension of St. Joseph’s High School student Josh Alexander in provincial court.