Late last week Professor Frances Widdowson was arrested at the University of British Columbia. What crime did she commit? None. She simply wanted to engage in dialogue about the fact that no graves have been found at the Kamloops residential school. No real evidence has been discovered to back the claim of 215 mass graves. But the mob would not listen nor give her space to be there. She was shouted down and censored. Finally, the police were called, and she was arrested. It was independent media Juno News that caught the story on video. We post it below. The President of the UBC Benoit-Antoine Bacon says this in his message on the university website: UBC’s Strategic Directions 2025–2030 also provides an opportunity to reaffirm our dedication to Truth and Reconciliation, and to embedding Indigenous perspectives, knowledge and self-determination into university life. We are committed to ensuring reconciliation remains a foundational part of UBC’s academic and research mission. So, …
In 1965, one of the Vatican II documents promoted by Pope Paul VI was Nostra Aetate, in English, (In Our Time). The document was intended to address the relation between the Catholic Church and other main non-Christian religions, mainly Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. The document was an attempt to accommodate to the modern world. The Church needed an update. In regard to Judaism, the declaration makes it clear that it's time to reject the idea of the Jews being guilty of "deicide," that is, the death of Christ. Not all the Jews were responsible. Instead, the modern Church recognizes a spiritual connection between Christians and Jews. The Church must no longer focus on the Jewish people as unbelievers in Christ. On the issue of ecumenism or inter-religious dialogue, the Church "rejects nothing that is true and holy" in other religions and desires to work with other believers in mutual respect and co-operation. Catholics and Muslims worship the same God and honor Mary and Jesus. Hinduism …
In Nostra Aetate (1965), the Council repudiated the notion of Jewish culpability for Christ’s death, condemned anti-Semitism, and affirmed that God’s covenant with Israel remains valid. While these affirmations were framed as a recovery of charity and truth, they in fact represented a decisive departure from the inherited pattern of enmity. By redefining the Synagogue not as the figure of rejection but as a partner in dialogue, Vatican II effectively inverted the biblical paradigm. The ancient drama of light and darkness, once articulated by St. Stephen and echoed throughout tradition, was replaced by a narrative of reconciliation detached from the scriptural witness. What emerged was not a development of doctrine but a kind of anti-reality—a presentation of Christian-Jewish relations that obscures the very opposition established by Christ Himself. This anti-reality softens what Scripture presents as a stark antithesis, blurring the lines between truth and unbelief, Church and Synagogue …More
Tue Jan 27, 2026 - 8:00 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — “Pick your baby.” The invitation is now not just for little girls choosing their baby doll or for “Sims” gamers. It is the draw for real-life couples trying to conceive a baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to the company Nucleus IVF+, which has chosen that unsettling invitation for their marketing campaign and URL: www.pickyourbaby.com. Couples who sign up with Nucleus IVF+ are presented with an electronic “menu” of up to 20 embryos they have conceived, allowing them to view the sex of each baby, their anticipated hair and eye color, and predictions about the height and IQ of each as well as their risk for various diseases. The company notes that all these characteristics are only framed in terms of probabilities — they cannot make any guarantees. The process nevertheless allows a couple to maximize their chances of having an “ideal” child. The technology goes above and beyond traditional IVF disease screening by looking not …
Today the liturgy celebrates the memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274. He was a Dominican priest and a Doctor of the Church. He was great theologian and philosopher. His most influential work the Summa Theologiae deals with faith, reason and theological instruction. Aquinas is also the patron saint of Catholic schools. Here's the short reflection of the day from the Magnificat written by St. Thomas Aquinas. It's taken from his meditations on the Gospel of Mark and titled, "Christ the Sower." Our Lord willed to speak in parables, that people might better commit the teachings to memory…. [So he said,] Behold the sower went out to sow. The sower who goes out is Christ, and he goes out in three ways: from the secrecy of [his life with] the Father…from the Jews to the Gentiles; and from the depth of wisdom to the public place of teaching. The sower went out to sow, namely the seed of teaching…. Seed is the principle of fruit. Hence every good work is from God: The one who began a …
Toronto's Archdiocesan newspaper The Catholic Register reports about the new Archbishop of Edmonton is Stephen Hero. The article is called "An Edmonton homecoming for native son Hero." He was installed on January 23, 2026. He moves to Edmonton from serving in Prince Albert Saskatchewan. We congratulate Archbishop Hero and may God help him to shepherd the flock. However, Hero realizes there are great challenges in keeping and spreading the faith in present day secular Canada. He says he has worked to support the Catholic schools by working with his predecessor Archbishop Richard Smith. We don't know what the bishops have done in Western Canada to promote Catholic identity in education. We do know that Canada's Catholic public schools have been colonized by gender identity, "inclusive" education and critical race theory. These ideas contradict the Catholic meaning of the person, family, marriage and sexual identity. Why haven't parents and church parishioners been made aware of this from …
Dr. Ricardo Duchesne has generously granted permission to repost the following article which he published to his popular X account yesterday. Woke Watch Canada readers may recall the several instances where I have cited Dr. Duchesne’s work, like Anti-Whiteism and the Ethnogenesis of Heritage Canadians, or built the thesis of an article around it, like The crime of false history. Dr. Duchesne is controversial and he has paid the usual price in Canada for daring to be so. This of course, immediately makes his work more attractive to me. However, beyond the contentions, the work is deeply researched and insightful— one book alone, which I’ll discuss below, took him ten years of careful reading (eg. comparing the World History textbooks of different eras) — and his reasoning comes from years of disciplined scholarly development; the kind where Western intellectual traditions are exploited in a most fruitful and edifying fashion. First I will mention Dr. Duchesne’s newer works which I …
Jan 25 Word of God Sunday Cardinal William SC Goh of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Singapore has written for this Sunday a thoughtful homily. This Third Week in Ordinary Time we celebrate the Word of God. Christ Himself is the Word of the God. The reflection is titled, "Making Missionaries Disciples fro Christ." Today, the Universal Church celebrates Word of God Sunday. This Sunday is set aside to honour the Word of God so that we may appreciate the inexhaustible riches contained in the Scriptures, through which God continues to engage us in constant dialogue. Devoting this Sunday to the Word of God opens for us the treasury of His Word, which serves to light our way in a world marked by darkness, ignorance, moral confusion, selfishness, and sin. Jan 24 Did Bishop Timothy Senior need to apologize? St. Joseph's Catholic school in Hanover, Pennsylvania participated in the 2025 Halloween parade. One of the floats had the words "Arbeit Macht Frei." The German words meaning "Work sets you …
Fri Jan 23, 2026 - 3:55 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations was reprimanded for breaching an Act of Parliament for sealing records on the yet unproven residential school grave claims and has now been ordered to release records. Recently, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty was mandated to release files it has pertaining to the 2021 claims by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation, who said it found graves of 215 children at a former residential school. It has thus far tried to seal “confidential information” records it has on the matter. Commissioner Caroline Maynard wrote that “The department must respond to the request without further delay.” As reported by LifeSiteNews, in 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some Canadian residential schools. The reality is, after four years, there have been no mass graves …
Kanada dostala príkaz na vydanie záznamu: Kanadské ministerstvo pre vzťahy medzi korunou a domorodým obyvateľstvom dostalo príkaz na zverejnenie záznamov týkajúcich sa žalôb o hrob v rezidenčnej škole v Kamloops v roku 2021. Prvý národ Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc vtedy tvrdil, že zemský radar na základe narušenia pôdy zistil viac ako 200 možných "neoznačených hrobov". Doteraz sa však nenašli žiadne ľudské pozostatky. Federálna vláda poskytla na vyšetrovacie práce približne 12,1 milióna dolárov a požadovala správy o pokroku. Po tom, ako reportérka Blacklocková požiadala o tieto záznamy, ministerstvo ich vydanie odložilo. Komisárka pre informácie Caroline Maynardová rozhodla, že tým bol porušený zákon o prístupe k informáciám, a nariadila zverejnenie záznamov.
O Canadá é obrigado a divulgar registos: O Departamento de Relações Coroa-Indígena do Canadá recebeu ordens para divulgar os registos relacionados com as reivindicações de 2021 sobre as sepulturas da Escola Residencial de Kamloops. Na altura, a Primeira Nação Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc alegou que o radar de penetração no solo detectou mais de 200 possíveis "sepulturas não marcadas", com base em perturbações do solo. No entanto, até à data, não foram encontrados restos humanos. O governo federal disponibilizou cerca de 12,1 milhões de dólares para o trabalho de investigação e exigiu relatórios de progresso. Depois de o Blacklock's Reporter ter pedido esses registos, o departamento adiou a sua divulgação. A Comissária para a Informação, Caroline Maynard, considerou que tal violava a Lei de Acesso à Informação e ordenou a divulgação dos registos.
At an altitude of 2,580 metres (8,500 feet) and located inside a towering sandstone spire the Abuna Yemata Guh church has to be the hardest and most dangerous church to reach. The church is in the Gheralta Mountains of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. A huge vertical sandstone structure shoots straight up 2,580 metres and like a miracle inside that rock one finds a Christian church. No doubt the hardest to access on the planet. The church takes its name from one of the nine saints who came to Ethiopia from Rome, Constantinople and Syria during the 5th and 6th centuries. The saints came to the region as missionaries to bring Christianity. They were also responsible for building monasteries and translated the Bible into Ge'ez, the old language of Ethiopia. Abuna Yemata Guh is one of the oldest churches in Ethiopia, and its founder worked to help carve the church into what is the highest sandstone spire in the area. The Church has beautiful mural paintings on its walls, domes and columns that …
We are not surprised because when the dignity of every person as a child of God is overlooked by those who know “better”, every bad thing possible is the result.
Tue Jan 20, 2026 - 10:15 am ESTTue Jan 20, 2026 - 10:18 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — After leading the Indiana Hoosiers to win its first ever national championship in college football, devout Catholic quarterback Fernando Mendoza repeatedly gave glory and thanks to God and credit to his teammates and coaching staff. Fernando Mendoza’s post-game interview after winning the National Championship. pic.twitter.com/ZSO81gr7cS — CFB Kings (@CFBKings) January 20, 2026 “This season is the season I’ve gotten the closest, the most religious I’ve ever been. And I think it’s also reflected in the success, not just the success but also the platform to praise God and to praise Jesus Christ,” said Mendoza in a pregame interview. “And I would say this is a big part of myself and my identity,” he added. Fernando Mendoza proudly honors his Catholic faith and thanks God for receiving the Heisman Trophy. On Christmas eve, he took brought it to church to celebrate with his local priests at the Indiana …