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November 2, 2006
Father Raymond Gravel [images/stories/canada_people/une_rgravel.jpg]Joliette Bishop Gilles Lussier has said that by deciding to run for political office, one of his priests has given up his right to perform any sacramental ministry. Fr. Raymond Gravel's decision to become a candidate for the Bloc Quebecois in a federal byelection is a "painful situation for the church," Lussier said in a press release issued Oct. 31.
NDP Faith and Justice Caucus MPs Charlie Angus, Tony Martin and Joe Comartin. [images/stories/canada/NDP-CAUCUS.jpg]OTTAWA - Religion and politics have often been associated with the so-called religious right, but now a group of New Democrat MPs and party members want to revive the religious left. To that end, they have established a Faith and Justice Caucus.
Toronto Mayor David Miller [images/stories/toronto_people/MillerDavid.jpg]TORONTO - Faith may be the next force in municipal politics in Toronto, and Mayor David Miller thinks that's a good thing.
toronto [images/stories/schoolB_logos/toronto.jpg]TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board is asking a judge to solve half its $34- million deficit problem.
TORONTO - John Dubeau still remembers the pain he felt when he and his wife divorced more than 30 years ago.
Why do we struggle with patience? Why is waiting so hard? It's because our pace of life has quickened. It's difficult to have patience in a society where cell phones, the Internet and bank machines eliminate much waiting in our lives.
SUDBURY, Ont. - When Matthew Schouten found out his parish church was closing and merging with another, he immediately decided he would lend a helping hand. The 18-year-old was one of many young people who came together to create a brand new place of worship for their small town of Espanola, 45 minutes outside of Sudbury in the diocese of Sault Ste. Marie.
FocolareLogo [images/stories/logos/FocolareLogo.jpg]TORONTO - Miso soup, sushi and a pad thai noodle dish is an average lunch menu for a household of four first-generation Canadians and one international student.
November 3, 2006
Dialogue interruptus may be the norm in a world crammed with distractions, but this interruption was 40 years.
[images/stories/schoolB_logos/hamilton.jpg]The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board received the Marsha Forest Centre Rose Quartz Warrior Award on Oct. 30 for being the first school board in the world to include special needs students in its regular classrooms. The last program which separated special needs students closed down in 1969.
Pope Benedict XVI [images/stories/PopeBenedictXVI/Benedict HS.jpg]Pope Benedict XVI said priestly sexual abuse of minors was a "heart-rending" tragedy that requires an effort of purification by the church.
[images/stories/logos/Poppy.jpg]When Canada was a nation of just 11.3 million it saw 45,300 of its young men die in the Second World War, just one generation removed from the 66,665 men who died in the Great War.
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) Nov. 12 (1 Kings 17:10-16; Psalm 146; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44) Visiting a very poor country is often a disturbing experience but it can also be moving and enlightening. Many people who are living in stark poverty practise incredible generosity and hospitality. People share with a visitor or guest what little they have and it is done with a pleasant and joyful attitude.
[images/stories/toronto/alterServers.jpg]TORONTO - There was standing room only at St. Michael's Cathedral for the 21st annual Cardinal Carter Altar Server Awards on Oct. 28. Auxiliary Bishop Richard Grecco celebrated Mass for just over 430 altar servers from 116 parishes in the archdiocese of Toronto, which is a dramatic increase from 21 years ago when only 30 parishes and 55 altar servers participated in the first such Mass.
Public protests against globalization — vociferous, often tumultuous affairs — gained momentum from the mid-1990s onward, peaking around the turn of the new millennium. Then, for reasons that are imperfectly understood, the potential Great Cause of a generation of young activists simply fizzled.
It's a 15-minute boat ride from Kingston to Wolfe Island. Commuters working in the city or high school students go back and forth every day on the hourly trips. A lot of people who are not islanders just go for the free boat ride.
On Monday, Nov. 13, Ontario voters will go to the polls to choose their representatives for local governments. Top of mind for Catholic school supporters should be the selection of school board trustees.
Is Canada facing legalization of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide by stealth? Recent court decisions and strategies used by euthanasia lobbyists suggest this is happening even though the law as it is written still bans both types of killing.
[images/stories/books/all_rise.jpg]Robert Fuller, in his new book All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies and the Politics of Dignity, says that our lever against rankism is the will to dignity. The sentence structure may be awkward, but readers know right away he is saying that will is the fulcrum and dignity the force which can eliminate abuse, discrimination or exploitation based on rank.
November 9, 2006
Saddam Hussein [images/stories/international_people/saddam.jpg]VATICAN CITY - The head of the Vatican's justice and peace office and an editor of a Vatican-approved Jesuit journal said it would be wrong to carry out the death penalty against Saddam Hussein.