A campaign in Quebec to establish its own international development agency is being welcomed by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace as a possible new source of funding.

You say you want a revolution? The Cardus think tank wants one too, and it plans to help eight young people make it happen.

If 842 million people are hungry you can’t just invite them over for lunch. But that doesn’t mean we’re helpless. Development and Peace wants Catholics to stop thinking of world hunger as a permanent condition or an unsolvable problem that will never change.

Perhaps we haven’t considered Lent in terms of opportunity. Most of us picture opportunity knocking in the form of a new job, a surefire investment, a vacation, an adventure. Fasting, penance, charity, prayer are given to us as duties, obligations, tasks.

If you’re not ready, you can lose track of Lent. After Ash Wednesday slips by, the Thursdays and Fridays of Lent can seem a lot like any other Thursday or Friday.

The Supreme Court has given Canadians a year to figure out how they want to deal with prostitution and so far the answers have ranged from nothing to police crackdowns and new criminal laws.

TORONTO - As Toronto’s Ukrainians woke up to news that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was on the run in eastern Ukraine after parliament had voted him out of office and that national elections are scheduled for May 25, they gathered to pray. At Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church all three Divine Liturgies on Feb. 23 included special, added prayers for the future of Ukraine.

Anybody who ever thought the Church never changes must have had another thought crash their party a year ago when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down from the throne of Peter.

TORONTO - The economics of faith is the economics of abundance. But that’s a hard message to get out into a world mesmerized by the illusion of scarcity, an economist told faith community activists at Toronto’s City Hall.

How Canadians end their lives and whether we need a national plan for the health care of dying Canadians will be debated in Parliament at the beginning of April.