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December 6, 2012
In the face of an impending lawsuit, the student union at Langley, B.C.'s Kwantlen Polytechnic University has relented and will confer club status on a campus pro-life group.
December 7, 2012
TORONTO - Theology should be at the heart of Catholic universities, Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller told a Toronto audience Nov. 28.
This year for Advent I decided to do something I’ve never tried before: New Year’s resolutions for a new Church year (a Year of Faith, in fact).
TORONTO - Students at St. Marcellus Catholic School in Toronto’s west end are turning old four-litre milk bags into beds.
OXFORD, England - Germany's Berlin Archdiocese has announced plans to merge its parishes into larger "pastoral areas" and pool its institutional resources in the face of falling church membership.
VATICAN CITY - When the Catholic Church affirms the importance of how all the faithful understand matters of faith and morals, it is not saying Catholic beliefs are open to a popular vote, Pope Benedict XVI said.
HAMILTON, ONT. - The stopping of an incoming tsunami. The conversion of a staunch atheist. Various healings of mind and body.
December 8, 2012
Facing high-profile resignations and protests from within the organization, massive budget cuts and a complete reorganization, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
TORONTO - By sticking to fair trade products while Christmas shopping this year, you’ll have wrapped a gift once while giving twice.
TORONTO - In Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to Modern Times, authors Randall Heskett and Joel Butler ask not what would Jesus do but rather what wine would Jesus drink?
December 9, 2012
TORONTO - Most of the time the theologians at Toronto’s Regis College are talking and teaching about faith in God. For eight weeks beginning Jan. 16 scholarly minds at the Jesuit graduate school will focus
MEXICO CITY - Ana Rita Valero received an unlikely request in 2008. Valero, an anthropologist and president of the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was asked by an official with the Mexican consulate in Shanghai to send two large images of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
For MP Charlie Angus, the important part of the Good Samaritan story is that the Good Samaritan came back. He didn’t just bind up the traveller’s wounds and go on his way.
OTTAWA - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is seeking a court opinion on its mandate to collect government documents under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
December 10, 2012
ROME - In the immaculate conception of Mary, Christians recognize the
WASHINGTON - The following children's books are suitable for Christmas giving:
In response to an invitation earlier this year by the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council
VATICAN CITY - The universal church needs Catholics in the Americas who are joyful missionaries
ILIGAN, Philippines (CNS) -- Although hundreds of people died as Typhoon Bopha hit the southern Philippines
December 11, 2012
OTTAWA - A Quebec Court of Appeal decision forcing a private Catholic high school