COVID has been hard on families, but just how hard is only now coming to light, as society gradually opens up to a post-pandemic reality.

In his own way, Pope Francis is developing a different kind of vaccine to battle the effects of COVID-19. This is not a vaccine developed in a scientific lab, but it may well be a much-needed antidote to some of the unseen but crippling injuries that have accompanied the pandemic.

Couples struggling in their marriage have been hit with a double whammy by the COVID-19 lockdown, according to a counsellor with Catholic Family öÏÓãÊÓƵapp Toronto.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- On the night of May 9, Edward Okello, an aeronautical engineer, died when a kitchen knife was plunged into his chest. Vigilance Shighi later said she did not know how the weapon hit her boyfriend, who had beaten her.

ThereöÏÓãÊÓƵapp a global public health risk that could tear families apart and harm women and children — not COVID-19 itself, but a related fallout from shutting families indoors and depriving them of jobs and school.

As more stories of abuse and violence emerge from Hollywood and beyond, agencies like Catholic Family öÏÓãÊÓƵapp Toronto are bracing for impact.

INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana mother who beat her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger is citing the stateöÏÓãÊÓƵapp religious freedom law as a defense against felony child abuse charges, saying her choice of discipline comes straight from her evangelical Christian beliefs.

TORONTO - A simple idea that has helped hundreds of women who face domestic violence and abuse is down to its last few weeks unless OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp provincial government comes up with $70,000 per year to keep it going.