OTTAWA - With one year to come up with a solution after the Supreme Court struck down Canada’s laws against physician-assisted suicide, there are any number of options being bandied about on all spectrums of the political divide.
More Canadian dioceses to put Synod questionnaire online
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTwenty of the 70 Catholic dioceses in Canada are using their web sites to ask Catholics for opinions about family life — questions that range from how the Church can welcome families with gay members to how economics and media are shaping family life.
CCCB to keep Synod survey results private
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) released a revised set of questions Feb. 10 for the upcoming Synod on the Family, but maintain that the consultations’ results will stay private.
Mother walks the walk for autism
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Dee Gordon, a Catholic mother of three, walked to Ottawa from her home in Toronto in the dead of winter to raise awareness of the autism crisis.
“It was so incredible I was able to make this walk,” said Gordon in an interview from her home.
Groups make effort to protect physicians’ conscience rights
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Doctors’ conscience rights are threatened by a proposed policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) that may force them to refer patients for morally problematic procedures, warn some physicians’ organizations.
Schools need to teach Canada’s black past
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Everton Lewis is trying to raise awareness that black history is as much a part of Canada’s past as the stories of European explorers like Samuel Champlain.
Regis’ Lenten retreat takes aim at busy youth
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Everyone needs spiritual direction at some point in their life, said Sr. Mechtilde O’Mara.
Cardinal Collins: State is wrong to permit assisted suicide
By Catholic Register StaffOTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada ruling that legalizes assisted suicide “is simply wrong” and indicates a society that “has lost its moral compass,” said Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Opponents rally in wake of Supreme Court decision on assisted suicide
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Disappointment, indignation and calls to invoke the notwithstanding clause followed a historic Supreme Court of Canada unanimous decision that struck down a ban on physician-assisted suicide and opened the door to assisted death for people who may not have a terminal illness.
Marriage tribunals say their work already done at a loss
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterPope Francis is hardly the first Catholic to express dismay over long, expensive, bureaucratic processes laid out for people seeking annulment of a mistaken, failed marriage. But in most of Canada, annulments are available at no cost and canon lawyers from coast to coast have been working on making the process faster and less bureaucratic.
An evolving youth ministry
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Young people aren’t the future of the Church, says Andrew Santos, they are the present.