Anna Farrow

Cardinal Gerhard Müller kicked off a multiweek North American tour Sept. 12 at Montreal’s McGill University with a lecture that performed an end run round the standard faith versus science debate.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller is 76 years old, but he is not fading quietly into the crimson-curtained ecclesiastical background.

Canada’s bishops began their 2024 plenary assembly Sept. 23 with the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit Venite Creator Spiritus, but in their message to Pope Francis they spoke, in another Latin phrase, of a new modus operandi in the Church.

One way or another, the lives and careers of Fr. Thomas Rosica and Fr. Michael Bechard have been entwined for nearly 30 years. The two priests are now locked in a civil case that may prove to be the final nail in the coffin of what was, up until five years ago, an illustrious ecclesiastical career.

Then-Father Brian Boucher is pictured at a court proceeding in this undated photo. A Quebec judge stated that for more than three decades, leaders of the Archdiocese of Montreal failed to properly treat complaints against Boucher. In 2019 Boucher was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault of two boys; he was laicized in 2020.

Pro-Palestinian rallies like this one at Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square have been cauldrons of anti-Semitism since Hamas started the war in Gaza with its attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023.

Nestled in the centre of Quebec City, Je Te Salue Notre-Dame is a new exhibit of old rosaries which is a visual display of the spiritual devotion that lies at the heart of the founding of the province.

A banner depicting Canada-born Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, is displayed outside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 17, 2024, ahead of her canonization Oct. 20, 2024. CNS photo/Lola Gomez

Despite Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s insistence that secularization is a done deal in the province, a bureaucratic misstep that prevented a group of 50 Anglicans from dining at a restaurant attached to the National Assembly may indicate that consensus is more wishful thinking than reality.

After two and a half years of work, Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray has released a two-volume report at the Oct. 29-30 National Gathering on Unmarked Graves in Gatineau, Que. that focused more on reparations and denialism than the identification and protection of unmarked graves.