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The News
Updated: May 9th, 2008
Evangelical Christian agency ordered to abandon behaviour code
OTTAWA - The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered an evangelical Christian charity to rescind ...
Fr. Bayda to be bishop of Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholics
OTTAWA - When Fr. Bryan Bayda got the phone call from the apostolic nuncio (papal ambassador to Cana...
Catholic TV journalists cover papal visit
NEW YORK - Salt+Light TV producer Kris Dmytrenko thought covering the Pope's visit to the United Sta...

Featured Stories

Paulists celebrate 150 years of evangelization

TORONTO - Jazz isn’t just the American art form. It’s also the art of the possible. Nobody knows whether the Paulist Fathers got rhythm, but for 150 years this quintessentially North American community of priests has been riffing on themes laid down by St. Paul the Apostle 1,900 years...

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Food crisis a globalization crisis

TORONTO - Though there have been droughts and wars and corrupt governments, since the fall of the Berlin Wall millions have been lifted out of dire poverty, and millions more from moderate poverty into the middle class, by markets and globalization. Muhammad Yunis and the Grameen Bank bank have show...

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Who's afraid of Charles Darwin?

For the next year at least you are going to be hearing a lot about Charles Darwin. There is a growing worldwide movement to declare Feb. 12 Darwin Day. Next year is the 200th anniversary of his birth and the push is on to use the occasion to mark the triumph of scientific reasoning....

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Catholics could hold sway in U.S. election

Catholic voters may well decide who gets to be the next president of the United States. It’s a role that by now should be fairly familiar for American Catholics....

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Becoming a priest

Editor's note: Below is a series of short profiles on the men who will be graduating this year from St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. They will be ordained to the priesthood for different dioceses in Canada.             ...

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TORONTO - After 35 years the men ordained to the permanent diaconate for the archdiocese of Toronto are still discovering new ways to be deacons — new ways to serve God and the church. Deacon R...
TORONTO - The Catholic Church formed a part of his life for about 30 years, but despite loving his community and parish priest, Elmont Cumberbatch, 68, said it wasn't until this past Easter that he re...
An extra $45 million for the World Food Program plus $5 million more for the ecumenical Canada Foodgrains Bank in Winnipeg will help avert a disaster in much of the world where rising food prices are ...
TORONTO - Caritas, an agency dedicated to the healing and recovery of patients with drug and alcohol addiction, had a significant increase in donors for its annual telethon April 27.
TORONTO — If there's more to do, then Susan Tomenson is one woman who can be counted on. On April 16 the Jesuits honoured the Catholic activist for her willingness to do much more than the minim...


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Features
TORONTO - Jazz isn't just the American art form. It's also the art of the possible. Nobody knows ...
TORONTO - Though there have been droughts and wars and corrupt governments, since the fall of the Be...
TORONTO - Andrea Duffield, mother of three and raising them on her own the last five years, knows wh...
Arts & Entertainment
In 1966 John Lennon got into a world of trouble by saying during an interview that the Beatles were ...
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - More than 30 Christian journalists who gathered for the annual Canadian Church Pre...
Catholics and Slavery: A Compromising History by John Perry (Novalis, soft cover, 204 pages, $24.95)...
Catholic Education
TORONTO - It isn't always teachers who are critical to education. Among the annual education awards ...
TORONTO - Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments on academic freedom during his speech on Catholic educ...
THORNHILL, Ont. — Students and staff from St. Elizabeth Catholic Secondary School will host a ...
Science & Ethics
TORONTO - Catholic doctors are scrambling to have an influence nationally in coming debates over pro...
TORONTO - Lining the sidewalk across from a crisis pregnancy centre and its abortion clinic neighbou...
TORONTO - The Earth needs to be treated as a sacrament given to each other because “time is ru...
Faith
Pentecost (Year A) May 11 (Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23) Wh...
Ascension of the Lord (Year A) May 4 (Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1:17-23; Matthew 28:16-20) ...
Have you ever said no to God? Consciously, that is, and deliberately. Very likely, most of us have a...
Opinion
As a Lenten discipline, I re-read the earliest documents of Christianity, namely the letters (or Epi...
There is an old joke that only those who own presses enjoy freedom of the press. Indeed, not a few h...
Economists — practitioners of the “gloomy science” — are gleefully telling u...

 
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