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December 14, 2012
VATICAN CITY - The light of Christ has not dimmed over the past 2,000 years, but Christians today have an obligation to resist attempts to extinguish it
OTTAWA - Motion-312 may have been shot down in the House of Commons, but Stephen Woodworth hasn’t given up.
December 15, 2012
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board thinks the answer to cyber-bullying isn’t punishment policies but bands on cellphones — blue rubber bands.
TORONTO - Each Christmas Hope for Children hands out about $800,000 to young people living on their own, young parents and families.
TORONTO - When attempting to solve social problems like homelessness, students need to be prepared
OTTAWA - Many Catholics, including bishops, have disagreed about how far a Catholic charity can go
December 16, 2012
TORONTO - You know you’re going to die, so what’s the plan?
Pope Benedict XVI’s new laws governing Church-affiliated charities are less about clamping down and more about opening the way
TORONTO - The Buffalo Bills have been coming to play at Toronto’s Rogers Centre for the past five years, and each year the archdiocese of Toronto has done its part to make the players feel at home.
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa insists his gendercide Motion-408 is about discrimination
December 17, 2012
Updated 12/18/12 VATICAN CITY - Just weeks after the Vatican praised Palestine’s boosted status as a non-member observer state
MANGALORE, India - Thousands gathered at Our Lady of Health Church in Shirva, just outside Mangalore, for the funeral of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who killed herself after falling for a hoax from Australian radio announcers.
NEWTOWN, Conn. - As law enforcement officers tried to piece together the Dec. 14 shooting
VATICAN CITY - After 20 children and six adults were shot dead in Connecticut, Pope Benedict XVI offered
NEWTOWN, Conn. - Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, was at Sandy Hook Elementary School
December 18, 2012
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Catholic leaders said they would appeal to the Supreme Court
RYE, N.Y. - The "sacramental sense" of a Catholic pastor's outreach after the horrific violence
JERUSALEM - The simmering smell of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in Catholic parishes
December 19, 2012
OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops president has sent a condolence letter concerning the Dec. 14 school shootings to his American counterpart.
DUBLIN - The Irish government has announced plans to legalize abortion in limited circumstances, but Minister for Health James Reilly insisted his plans will take "full account of the equal right to life of the unborn child."