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November 8, 2013
TORONTO - A documentary about the Medjugorje apparitions of the Virgin Mary has been so popular that Cineplex has suspended all future Canadian showings amid reports it is negotiating a distribution deal that may cut out a Catholic non- profit organization that has spent thousands of dollars to promote the film.
OTTAWA - The federal government will conduct a constitutional analysis on the Charter of Quebec Values that was introduced in the province's National Assembly Nov. 7, says Jason Kenney.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has asked Catholic young people around the world to read, meditate and act on the beatitudes as they celebrate World Youth Day in their dioceses in 2014 and 2015 and as they prepare to join him in Poland in 2016.
TORONTO - Toronto’s Newman Centre hosted an exorcism movie night to coincide with Halloween to debunk Hollywood’s take on a very misunderstood religious rite.
VATICAN CITY - For the first time, the bones traditionally believed to be the relics of St. Peter the Apostle will be on public display for veneration.
November 9, 2013
Back in the 1300s, it’s doubtful that French composer Guillame de Machaut was imagining his newly written Messe de Nostre Dame being re-born in a future far, far away.
If there is one thing Alyssa Bormes thinks hockey can teach us it is how to be better Catholics.
November 10, 2013
TORONTO - Loyola High School isn’t going to the Supreme Court of Canada just to get a ruling on whether the private school can teach world religions from a Catholic, Jesuit point of view. The real fight is over whether churches, charities and schools across Canada have a right to religious freedom, said Paul Donovan, the Montreal school’s principal
When Lt. Col. Sylvain Maurais, a Catholic lay chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces, was in the Afghanistan war zone he felt no fear because “it is what we are called to do.”
TORONTO - Experts on homelessness are giving the federal government credit for settling on the right approach to helping some of the most vulnerable people in Canada.
November 11, 2013
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis led prayers for people hit by a deadly typhoon in the Philippines and surrounding region, and asked that concrete aid be sent soon.
MANILA, Philippines - The back entry to the grandstand at the Villamor Air Base was teeming with people as the noon sun peaked. It was Nov. 11, three days after Super Typhoon Haiyan pounded the central Philippine islands, leaving a path of overwhelming destruction that emergency and relief workers were hard-pressed to penetrate.
GOMA, Congo - The Catholic Church rejoiced at the end of a yearlong military campaign in North Kivu by the defeated rebels of the M23 movement, but made it clear that much remains to be done to consolidate that peace.
November 12, 2013
VATICAN CITY - Italian Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, who had devoted most of his priestly life to music and served as director of the Sistine Chapel Choir for more than 40 years, died Nov. 11 at the age of 96.
Updated 11/12/13 TORONTO - As pictures and reports of the devastation in Tacloban City, Philippines, reached the world’s newspapers and computer screens Nov. 9, Toronto Filipinos were attending the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church.
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MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- International and local groups were poised to get aid to the worst-hit areas of the typhoon-stricken central Philippines, but the challenges of getting help to communities growing desperate for food and water went beyond just making sure roads were clear.
November 13, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS - A Catholic family in Madison that owns a vehicle lighting manufacturing company won an important religious liberty victory in a Nov. 8 ruling handed down by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined with the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace to prepare a first response and a plan of continuing aid for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan that has devastated parts of the Philippines Nov. 8.
BRUSSELS - The president of the Belgian bishops' conference joined other faith leaders who criticized proposed legislation to extend euthanasia to children and dementia sufferers, warning the measure risks "destroying the functioning of society."