Sean Frankling

It took Julie Macfarlane, now a retired professor of law at the University of Windsor, four decades to come forward about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of a Church of England priest when she was a teenager.

The Rev. Lucia Lloyd, then of the Episcopal Church, watched the first Trump presidency with apprehension. Her friends told her there would be limits to what damage he could do, despite his discriminatory and hostile rhetoric toward women and minorities, but she remained concerned. One thing she found particularly horrifying, she says, was how many Christians were showing support for the administration’s most divisive policies.

Crown attorneys withdrew a trespassing charge against Canon Michael Van Dusen Dec. 23, citing the arresting officers' failure to provide their notes during discovery. Van Dusen was one of nine interfaith climate activists arrested during a sit-in climate protest at a downtown Toronto branch of the Royal Bank of Canada April 9, 2024. The court proceedings lasted about 20 seconds. Van Dusen had previously pled not guilty to the charge.

Volunteers Marion Berube (left) and JoAnne Jenkins work in the kitchen at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Timmins, another parish that provides food service and outreach to neighbours in need. Photo: George Cribbs

The Anglican Church of Canada has convened a panel of clergy and bishops to study a pair of proposed reforms to the structure of the worldwide Anglican Communion, known as the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals.

Several religious groups and civil liberties organizations are expressing concerns about Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which the House of Commons passed in its third and final vote on March 25.

“Everything [we have] is from God and everything belongs to God. And when we give, we are giving back to God.” The Rev. Keith Gilbert remembers the late Archbishop Douglas Hambidge—who died on March 2, four days before his 99th birthday—bringing that message with him wherever he went, especially as a speaker on church stewardship […]

Church leadership and staff have been hard at work on the “unambiguous mandate” set by General Synod for a leaner, less expensive national structure, Parker said.

Church leaders agreed they need more information on generative AI technologies to draft guidelines on how it should or should not be used.

The new task force is charged with studying practice and ethics surrounding NDA use, following up on work from 2025's General Synod.