Political events and news in effecting Catholics and Catholic concerns in Europe.
June 22, 2023
Christian and pro-life groups have postponed their three-day prayer meeting in Quebec City after the provincial government ripped up a rental contract because of false reports the event was an anti-abortion gathering.
June 20, 2023
Ontario hospices are getting more money to fund their day-to-day operations guaranteed over the next three years.
In a Church that “bears the signs of serious crises of mistrust and lack of credibility,” members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops will be asked to find ways to build community, encourage the contribution of every baptized person and strengthen the Church’s primary mission of sharing the Gospel, said the working document for the October gathering.
June 19, 2023
The Niagara Catholic District School Board has placed all of its schools under a hold and secure order after receiving an “unverified threat.”
Ugandans woke up June 17 to the shock of a school massacre in which at least 39 students and two community members were killed.
The compassion of Christ is what is needed now as the small community of Dauphin, Man., comes to grips with the loss of 15 of its members in a tragic accident on the Trans-Canada Highway, said the parish priest at the local parish.
June 17, 2023
Three years ago, Fr. Rob Brennan told his students at Loyola High School that the only vocational aspiration that remained to him was a “good death.” Now, as he lies in his hospice bed at the Jesuit residence in Pickering, Ont., Brennan’s friends, family and Jesuit confreres are united in prayer that he should be granted such an end.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Hamilton’s east end stands nobly at Sherman Avenue and Barton Street, the city’s longest street, as a beacon of faith and service to the community for the past 100 years.
June 16, 2023
The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States.
Bishop Nicola De Angelis, Bishop emeritus of Peterborough and former Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, passed away today in Montefiascone, Villa Santa Margarita Hospital in Italy. He was 84.