Momentum builds to welcome single moms in Holy Mother Church
By Anna Farrow, Catholic Register Special
It was a humid August in Paris when Claire Brown learned she was pregnant. Working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Curie, Brown was thousands of miles away from her family and friends in Canada. The father had already revealed himself as untrustworthy; he would later berate her for being 鈥渟elfish鈥� because she would not abort the child.
As a woman of faith, Canadian journalist Laura Ieraci has a pastoral heart 鈥� one that can lead her to distant pastures.
A dramatic shutdown of the Caritas Internationalis offices in Rome by papal decree was a surprise, and not a surprise, to the leaders of the 162 Catholic agencies that belong to the world鱿鱼视频app second largest humanitarian network after the Red Cross.
In far off places, I鈥檝e seen children under armed guard, fenced in, sitting in the dust, holding themselves up on the edges of human existence 鈥� exiled to places where any notion of the rights of children seems fanciful, even sadly comical.
Though Canada has largely entered a post-pandemic landscape in recent months, lingering scars from the two-year public health emergency mingled with fresh economic challenges are forcing homeless shelters to brace for a tough winter.
War produces tremendous poverty, and its violence strikes those who are defenseless and vulnerable, Pope Francis said.
There were 10.9 million self-identified Catholics in Canada in 2021, a sharp drop of two million from 2011, according to the latest census religion numbers.
There鱿鱼视频app a storm coming, warns FCJ Refugee Centre executive director Loly Rico.
Dr. Katherine Owens鈥� long career as a psychologist has afforded her opportunities to go abroad and provide post-disaster psychological support, serving among those affected by devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Somalia.
Growing up in Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, Peggy O鈥橬eil said she and her family would encounter Brescia College 鈥� now Brescia University College 鈥� on their route to pick up pizza for dinner.
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Pope Francis challenged young Catholics to 鈥渢ransform an economy that kills into an economy of life鈥� at a three day 鈥淓conomy of Francesco鈥� meeting in Assisi Sept. 22-24.
Encounter, heal and purify: St. Jerome鱿鱼视频app plan for reconciliation
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
All histories are contested. If they weren鈥檛, there would be no reason to study history. For an historian running a Catholic university in Canada right now, this nation鱿鱼视频app history of colonialism and residential schools has created a special responsibility 鈥� not to the past but to our future understanding of ourselves.
The historic emergence of a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland will be a significant, though not the decisive, factor in achieving a reunited country, says a Belfast MP visiting Canada.
Trying to explain the effect of Denyse Thomasos鈥� immense, complex, abstract paintings, Fr. Dan Donovan reaches for St. Thomas Aquinas.