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An innovative idea for old church buildings
Faith can move mountains but can it move a church? An American pastor believes so. Fr. David Dye ...
Br. André's example for us all
He was a small man, poor, sickly, uneducated and with no discernible skills or talents. He had littl...
A time to give
In Charity in Truth Pope Benedict XVI described charity as “love received and given,” an...

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Police and students

Building a bridge between police, students

TORONTO - He’s taught students about the dangers of bullying and domestic violence, played side-by-side with the boys’ soccer team, even baked muffins for a school awareness campaign. He is Constable John-Paul DiCecca of the Toronto Police Service, one of 30 School Resource Officer&rs...

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Canada religious change

Canada's Christian numbers projected to fall over next two decades

In the next 20 years Canada is expected to be less Christian, and a little less religious. According to Statistics Canada, the most dramatic change in Canada’s religious landscape will be an increase in the number of Muslims. Muslims currently make up 35 per cent of all non-Christians. By 2...

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parenting

The challenge of parenting in a consumer culture

TORONTO - When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 entered her teenage son’s vocabulary this year, Mary hit the panic button. First, she didn’t like that “all his friends” were playing this game with a mature rating, and second, she worried about the impact a controversial terro...

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Br Andre Statue

Brother André a saint for today

MONTREAL - Just two days after the announcement of Brother André’s canonization, St. Joseph’s Oratory had no lack of pilgrims filing past his tomb. One young woman, who would not reveal her name, stopped and prayed at the various stations depicting St. Joseph’s life, lea...

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teen suicide

The ugly truth of Canada's First Nations teen suicide

Stretched thinner and thinner across Canada’s North, the church is losing touch with First Nations communities as First Nations communities lose touch with hope. Another wave of teen suicides in the James Bay region has left church leaders wondering how they can offer hope to young aboriginals...

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In previous editions, The Catholic Register has called abortion-on-demand Canada's greatest collective sin and our government's inaction on the issue our greatest national shame. Now opposition leader...
The Olympic Games can be too political, too commercial and too often a platform for cheaters. Yes, they are flawed, and in that they resemble God's children — damaged but worthwhile, imperfect b...
The self-described Friends of Haiti took a commendable first step on Jan. 25 when this coalition of wealthy nations, in Montreal for a conference chaired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, committed to...
In a radio interview after Port-au-Prince had been destroyed, a Haitian-Canadian said she prayed the world would unite to build a new Haiti where abject poverty could be replaced by dignified poverty....
Congratulations to Canada's two new auxiliary bishops, Bishops William McGrattan, 53, and Vincent Nguyen, 43. Their recent ordinations and calls to serve the archdiocese of Toronto provide an injectio...
The recent security measures announced by Ottawa may be good and ultimately necessary but they represent a troubling infringement on privacy and should be stalled until they can be brought to Parliame...


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Features
When I was eight years old, my country of Angola was in a civil war. The war started in 1975 and off...
TORONTO - When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 entered her teenage son's vocabulary this year, Mary...
TORONTO - To Dorothy Pilarski, helping catechize mothers is almost an emergency today. This is one r...
Arts & Entertainment
With the tragedy in Haiti, there has been a great number of generous efforts by artists to support t...
TORONTO - There's an art to looking at eternity, but figuring that out wasn't easy for 29-year-old R...
U Got 2 Love by Fr. Stan Fortuna, C.F.R. (Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 254 pages, $13.95....
Catholic Education
A government that pins its economic recovery plans on sending more kids to colleges and universities...
TORONTO - Angelic voices fill the auditorium at St. Michael's Choir School on an early Sunday morn...
TORONTO - One of the things that differentiates Catholic high school students from their public coun...
Science & Ethics
One of the myths of our age declares that there is a war between the traditions of science and relig...
Adding Canadian-made generic drugs to the mix of affordable HIV and AIDS treatments could be good ne...
TORONTO - A 13-year-old girl is battling cancer, but after nine years of treatment, her doctor has r...
Faith
Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year C) March 21 (Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11)...
Editor's note: today we begin our annual series that profiles the men who will graduate from St. Aug...
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year C) March 14 (Joshua 5:9, 10-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15...
Youth Speak News
In August, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace will take its first combined...
WINNIPEG - On Oct. 18, 1914, in a small chapel sitting in a valley in Schönstatt, Germany, Fr. Josep...
TORONTO - More than 300 people gathered at the midtown Holy Rosary Church March 5 for the archdioces...

 
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