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June 2013

June 14

Church approved sex-ed

June 14, 2013

When Toronto-area residents want to teach teens about God and sex, they call Rose Heron.

End poverty to improve health, says CMA

June 14, 2013

OTTAWA - Canada must eliminate poverty in order to become a healthy nation, according to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

Pope, Anglican archbishop pledge to work for unity

June 14, 2013

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, pledged to support each other with their prayers and to continue the search for full unity between their communities.

Students rally at Relay for Life

June 14, 2013

GUELPH, ONT. - More than 200 students, teachers, volunteers and cancer survivors joined forces on June 7 at St. James Catholic High School’s third annual Relay for Life.

June 15

Delving into Catholic moral reasoning

June 15, 2013

The Ethical Being: A Catholic Guide to Contemporary Issues by Scott Kline (Novalis, 264 pages, softcover, $19.95) It is not inevitable that a Catholic book about ethics must become a Catholic book about sex. Despite the popular notion that morality is the conservative, judgmental and unkind mode of talking about sex, Catholic moral science is not primarily a list of forbidden thoughts and acts which originate south of the belt buckle.

Evangelizing through the beauty of music

June 15, 2013

Chris Bray is steadfast and earnest on record, steadfast and earnest on stage, steadfast and earnest throughout a simple phone call.

June 16

Jewish scholar predicts dark times for Palestinian Christians

June 16, 2013

Updated 06/18/13: A previous version of this article contained an error. Justus Weiner does not practise law with the U.S. firm White and Case. It’s not hard to find Christians willing to predict a dire future for Christians in the Middle East. Jewish legal scholar Justus Weiner arrived in Canada to echo that bleak forecast for Palestinian Christians from an Israeli perspective in front of the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights in Ottawa June 4.

Pontifical Canadian College marks 125 years

June 16, 2013

ROME - The Canadian Catholic community in Rome is marking 125 years of maintaining an official presence in the Eternal City.

June 17

Manila cardinal takes delayed possession of his titular church in Rome

June 17, 2013

ROME - "We've been waiting a long time," Capuchin Father Gianfranco Palmisani told Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, who showed up a few minutes late to officially take possession of his "titular" church on the Eastern outskirts of Rome.

Pope: Politics, economics must serve all people, protect poor, unborn

June 17, 2013

VATICAN CITY - The goal of politics and economics is to serve all of humanity, starting with the poorest, the most vulnerable and the unborn, Pope Francis told British Prime Minister David Cameron, president of the Group of Eight industrialized nations.

June 18

Pope calls for 'revolutionaries' to change hearts by sharing God's love

June 18, 2013

VATICAN CITY - Christians are called to be revolutionaries, changing the world one heart at a time, Pope Francis said.

Bishop chides Obama for religious caricature

June 18, 2013

DUBLIN - A bishop in Northern Ireland accused President Barack Obama of a "hackneyed" analysis of the political situation in the region.

Quebec at a crossroads with euthanasia bill, bishops say

June 18, 2013

OTTAWA - As the Quebec government considers an end-of-life bill that would allow euthanasia, Quebec's Catholic bishops warn that society faces a crucial choice.

June 19

Pope, JRS call attention to the face of Christ in faces of refugees

June 19, 2013

ROME - The photos of refugees projected on the facade of Rome's Gesu Church are reminders of what Pope Francis would call the suffering body of Christ today, said the head of Jesuit Refugee Service.

Brave new world

June 19, 2013

The morning after becoming Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis checked out of his hotel by paying his own bill and then calmly strolled into his new life. It was a novel way to launch a papacy but, then, over his first 100 days the new Pope has been making novelty commonplace.

Haste leads to spiritual blindness

June 19, 2013

Haste is our enemy. It puts us under stress, raises our blood pressure, makes us impatient, renders us more vulnerable to accidents and, most serious of all, blinds us to the needs of others. Haste is normally not a virtue, irrespective of the goodness of whatever it is we are hurrying towards.

Jesus’ call is an invitation

June 19, 2013

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) June 30 (Kings 19:16, 19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62) Elisha was completely blindsided. As he went out to plow that morning, he probably thought the day would be like any other, but his life would never be the same.

End-of-life ‘medical aid’ is euthanasia

June 19, 2013

On June 12, the Quebec national assembly introduced a bill to legalize euthanasia that is rife with false claims, euphemisms and ambiguous language.

Bill-52 should die so that we can all live

June 19, 2013

The Parti Quebecois’ so-called Act Respecting End of Life Care, the horrifying Bill-52, is cynicism wrapped in subterfuge blanketed by the blackness of ideological blindness.

Immigration and the American Church

June 19, 2013

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - Last week the American bishops met here to pray, study and reflect upon the role of the bishop in the New Evangelization. But before they began, the Latino leadership of the American bishops devoted their attention to the emerging new America, on the pressing subject of immigration reform.