At the Catholic Women’s League annual convention, three long time members sit behind their Centennial Display, a collection of CWL memorabilia spanning the organization’s one hundred years of existence. From left to right: Rose Marie McCarthy (member for 50 years) Mary Ann Warren (member for 53 years) and Natalie Carley (member for 62 years). The ...read more

Just as the faithful of Vancouver have a pilgrimage to celebrate the feast of Assumption, Catholics in Edmonton have their own shrine to visit on this feast. The Skaro shrine, located 80 km northeast of Edmonton, was built at the turn of the 20th century by residents of the Polish settlement there. In 1904 residents ...read more

In Edmonton Alberta the Catholic Women’s League is holding their 92nd annual national convention. Just over 900 women are taking part in the gathering. Here they were listening to Dr. Chantal Beauvais speaking about spiritual poverty. ...read more

In anticipation of our special screenings in Toronto on Sept. 5 and Ottawa on Sept. 19, here is the brand new second trailer for the S+L documentary Across the Divide. Check out the Across the Divide website to learn more about the tour, which is co-sponsored by CNEWA Canada and the Archdioceses of Toronto and ...read more

Only through believing, then, does faith grow and become stronger; there is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one’s life apart from self-abandonment, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.” Pope Benedict XVI, Porta Fidei ...read more

Host Kris Dmytrenko and our guests Fr. James Mallon, pastor of Saint Benedict Parish in Halifax and director of the John Paul II Media Institute, and Fr. Jim Roche, Episcopal Vicar for the Diocese of London, Ontario, talk about their experiences with the closure of parishes and explain why this can sometimes be a good solution for ...read more

The Council itself, in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, said this: While Christ, ‘holy, innocent and undefiled’ (Heb 7:26) knew nothing of sin (cf. 2 Cor 5:21), but came only to expiate the sins of the people (cf. Heb 2:17)…the Church…clasping sinners to its bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows ...read more

…it is the love of Christ that fills our hearts and impels us to evangelize. Today as in the past, he sends us through the highways of the world to proclaim his Gospel to all the peoples of the earth (cf Mt 28:19). Through his love, Jesus Christ attracts to himself the people of every ...read more

The primitive Church, then, certainly did not think of itself as the place of perfect people. Polemics arose over opinions within the community that truly risked schisms. Mutual hatreds surfaced, people proposed themselves as charismatics, thus disseminating confusion in the group. Pagan vices persisted and people drew away from the apostles’ message to follow their ...read more

Today’s photo comes from our crew in Anaheim covering the Knights of Columbus Supreme Annual Convention. On our set, from left to right: Sebastian Gomes, Andrew Santos, Wally Tello, Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB. ...read more