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October 30, 2015
The Catholic fight to keep doctors from administering lethal drugs to patients who say they want to die continues as the deadline nears for a Supreme Court of Canada mandate that physician-assisted suicide become legal as of Feb. 6, 2016.
OTTAWA - Faith groups from across Canada are calling on Canada’s new government to focus on palliative care instead of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
PARIS - Climate change and the refugee crisis are the two biggest challenges facing Europe that need a unified response recognizing the “ecological debt” richer nations owe poorer ones, the president of Europe’s Roman Catholic bishops conference said.
TORONTO - Fr. Gary Thomas knows what an exorcism looks like up close and personal.
October 31, 2015
TORONTO - On a bitter, cold day sometime this winter, as you shop for Christmas presents or head to lunch after a business meeting, somebody on the street is going to ask you for money. They might be sitting in a little island of dirty blankets on the sidewalk. They might be unshaven, wild-eyed. They might not even ask you for anything because they are too busy talking to, yelling at or cowering away from some invisible enemy.
THORNHILL, ONT. - To celebrate All Saints’ Day, a Thornhill parish is hosting a costume party for its youngest parishioners.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Catholic Church representatives in Nicaragua are concerned about the potential social and environmental impact of building a 278-km-long canal through the country to link the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.