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June 27, 2014
School is finally out, and with the beach, the sun and all the adventure plans, it’s the perfect time for some sweet summer lovin’. However, summer romances tend to be about feeling good and having fun instead of authentic love.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said legalizing marijuana and other so-called “recreational drugs” has never curbed drug addiction rates and has little impact on the criminal organizations trafficking drugs around the world.
TORONTO - Some Ontario Catholic teachers who think the World Pride Parade is no place for their union to have representation have expressed their thoughts but feel their voice has gone unheard.
TORONTO - Toronto’s most anticipated Catholic youth conference this summer may be sold out, but teens without tickets can still get in on the action.
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican investigation has led to the expulsion of a former Vatican ambassador from the priesthood in response to allegations of sexually abusing minors.
June 28, 2014
TORONTO - Come September the first Catholic funeral home in the Archdiocese of Toronto will open its doors at Holy Cross Cemetery.
DUBLIN - The Irish government is finalizing the parameters of a judicial inquiry into Church-run state-funded mother and baby homes.
TORONTO - Media guru Fr. John Pungente, S.J., has been fighting media illiteracy for half-a-century, and for his work the Marshall McLuhan Initiative has awarded Pungente and the Jesuit Communication Project the fourth annual Medium and Light Award for significantly contributing to religious communication.
June 29, 2014
Despite numerous controversies over dismissing gay Catholics from Church posts and the U.S. hierarchy’s campaign against same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing anything to block gay couples from having their children baptized.
June 30, 2014
HAMILTON, ONT. - The future is a kind of massive cloud of the unknown, a mix of the probable and the impossible, that is constantly smothering the present. Every life has a little history, but lives are lived for, in and with the future.
TORONTO - The Catholic Church in Egypt is trying to gets its voice out to the nation through a new broadcasting effort.
OTTAWA - The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) has released a study debunking myths about income splitting as a way to provide tax relief for Canadian families.