Campaign Life Ottawa lobbyist Johanne Brownrigg says that the abortifacient drug RU-486 causes harm to unborn children and women.

Pro-lifers hope new law will keep RU-486 out of Canada

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OTTAWA - Canadian pro-lifers hope that a law requiring mandatory reporting of adverse drug reactions will be enough to keep the abortifacient drug RU-486 out of Canada.

Parishioners from Orillia, Ont.’s Guardian Angels parish attend a fundraising meeting on March 4.

Family of Faith passes halfway point of total goal

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At $55.8 million, Toronto Catholics are closing out 2014 having raised more than half the $105-million goal Cardinal Thomas Collins set for them in May.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops address modern challenges that parishes face, including changing demographics, loss of cultural values and increasing secularism, in a new document shown inset.

Parishes have a missionary role

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OTTAWA - The Canadian bishops’ doctrine commission, in a new booklet, is stressing the role of all Catholics in the new evangelization.

High atop “Catholic Hill” in Guelph, Ont., sits the Church of Our Lady Immaculate. The church was designated a basilica earlier this month. Among its past parishioners is Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins.

Guelph landmark church designated a basilica

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Guelph, Ont.’s Church of Our Lady Immaculate now dons the title basilica. The landmark church perched on a hill overlooking the city was designated a basilica earlier this month by Pope Francis, catching parishioners by surprise.

The Holy Door at Quebec’s Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame closes Dec. 28, but not before 350,000 have passed through.

350,000 pass through Quebec Holy Door

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A year of celebration in the Archdiocese of Quebec drew more than 350,000 pilgrims through the Holy Door of Quebec City’s Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame de Québec.

Vanessa Rasile serves food during Bishop Allen Academy’s annual Festive Dinner which brings those less fortunate in the community together to share a meal as one big family of friends.

Students’ eyes opened to real world problems

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TORONTO - At Bishop Allen Academy’s annual charity dinner for the community Dec. 8, Vanessa Rasile was served a cocktail of emotions.

Canadian theologian Moira McQueen is one of five women appointed to the new International Theological Commission.

Pope Francis bringing synodality back to Church

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TORONTO - Giving advice to the Pope is not a one-way street. It begins with Pope Francis giving advice to his advisors — including Canadian theologian Moira McQueen.

Canada’s papal nuncio Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi will celebrate Christmas with staff in Ottawa.

Christmas is the Good News, wherever nuncio may be

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Christmas in the small town of Gandino, in the foothills of the Italian Alps, was a wondrous time for Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi.

Left to right: Canadian Goan Christian group members Dr. Colin Saldanha, Rudy Fernandes and former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion

Lord's Prayer will still open Mississauga council meetings

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MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - "Our Father" still has a place at Mississauga city council.

On Dec. 17, council voted to keep the tradition of reciting the Lord's Prayer to open council meetings.

Pope John Paul II meets with a gathering of cheering youths in St. Louis in 1999.

April 2 to be Pope John Paul II Day in Canada

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OTTAWA - The bill to establish Pope John Paul II Day passed the Senate Dec. 16 and has received royal assent.
A new draft policy from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons on providing care at the end of life clearly warns doctors that both euthanasia and assisted suicide are against the law.

Doctors need to encourage patients’ end-of-life planning

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Doctors may be men and women of action, but before a patient dies they should be open and available for lots of talk, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is advising its members.

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