In these past few months, not only has our Canadian economy cooled, but the European debt crisis continues to spiral out of control. Many economists throughout the world still remain skeptical as to whether any long-term, effective changes will be brought forward. Officials at the Vatican, however, are more optimistic. The Pontifical Council for Justice ...

Tonight on Perspectives: As Dublin gets ready to host the International Eucharistic Congress in 2012, Irish priest Fr. Kevin Doran previews the global gathering. ...

Tonight on Perspectives: Benedict XVI canonizes three new saints and makes some important appointments for the next Synod of Bishops. We also take a look back at the Canadian Bishops’ Plenary Assembly. ...

These are the Church’s three newest saints: a bishop with a missionary heart, a rope-maker who taught women, and a spirited priest from Como, who became a missionary of sorts in his 70s. They share a few features: they all founded religious orders and they all felt called to serve the disadvantaged, whether they were ...

Canadian Bishops gather every year for their annual Plenary Assembly. This week, on a special edition of S+L Radio, we travel to the bishops’ plenary in Cornwall, Ontario and learn what they’ve been working on this past year. Featured chats with Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Archbishop Michael Miller of Vancouver, Bishop Paul-André Durocher of ...

How should I feel when hearing the news of the death of Muammar Gaddafi? I am not a Libyan. I do not have any friends from Libya. All I know is what I hear in the media and what I’ve been hearing in the media about Libya and Gaddafi for the last 40 years. Part ...

[singlepic id=137 w=200 h=200 float=right] Canadian Bishops gather every year in Cornwall, Ontario for their annual Plenary Assembly. This week, on a special edition of SL Radio we travel to the Bishops’ Plenary and learn what they’ve been working on this past year. Featured chats with Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Archbishop Michael Miller of ...

Let me tell you about Brother Paulus, a Capuchin priest based in Frankfurt who considers himself to be, in his own words, “a special messenger of God.” He has been involved in media for some 20 years and you need to watch the kind of work that he’s been doing. What’s unique is that it’s ...

In the video above, Msgr. Patrick Powers shares what we can expect on the final day of the Canadian bishops’ annual gathering in Cornwall, Ontario. Two of the events he describes will be televised live on S+L and streaming on the CCCB Plenary Assembly section of our website. First, the bishops will celebrate Morning Prayer ...

On Wednesday, the Canadian bishops addressed one of the more controversial topics of the CCCB Plenary Assembly: the ongoing process of renewal of Development and Peace (CCODP). According to Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, the bishops are continuing to revision Development and Peace in light of Benedict XVI’s social encyclical Caritas in Veritate. The reform ...