The Canadian bishops have expressed concern about our natural environment and in a new document are calling on Catholics to act on the Church’s environmental teachings.

Bishops issue call to action on environment

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OTTAWA - Canada’s Catholic bishops are calling on the laity to reflect, discuss and act on the Church’s environmental teachings.

By increasing incomes for the poor, Ontario can save money down the road on things like health care, says ISARC.

Focus Ontario budget on poor

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TORONTO - The religious leaders who run food banks, shelters and community services want this spring’s Ontario budget to boost incomes for minimum-wage employees and people on Ontario Works.

International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino.

D&P seeks CIDA move details

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There’s nothing wrong with dissolving the Canadian International Development Agency to make it part of a new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, says the Catholic bishops’ development agency. But there’s a host of devils in the details.

Let the bells ring

Let the bells ring

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OTTAWA - When they ring out for the first time in two years on Easter weekend, the bells of St. Anne Church will be celebrating both the Resurrection and an important milestone in the history of the 140-year-old church.

Pope Francis kisses a disabled man after spotting him in the crowd and having his popemobile stop as he rode through St. Peter’s Square March 19 ahead of his inaugural Mass at the Vatican.

Pope resonates with Canadians

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Pope Francis had a message for Canadians at his inaugural Mass — a message of peace, simplicity, reconciliation and hope — according to several members of the official Canadian delegation in Rome on the Feast of St. Joseph to witness the beginning of a new papacy.

Bishop Gordon

Bishop at odds with Yukon government over school same-sex policy

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Whitehorse Bishop Gary Gordon is standing firm against the Yukon government over demands that Catholic schools in the diocese stop teaching Church doctrine on homosexuality.

 

Bonnie Vadacchino (right) poses next to her granddaughter Elizabeth Vadacchino and grandson Zachary Heil during their recent trip to Rome to witness the first few days of Pope Francis’ papacy.

Grandmother shares spontaneity

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When Bonnie Vadacchino saw the white smoke rise above St. Peter’s Square on television from her home in Welland, Ont., March 13, it signalled two things to her. First, that a new Pope had been elected, and second, it was time to go to Rome.

Marc Kielburger delivers the keynote address at the annual Voices That Challenge conference March 22.

Social justice is nothing without taking action

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TORONTO - Students can go to all the social justice conferences they want, but unless the message sinks in and they are prepared to take action, then it is just a waste of everyone’s time, Marc Kielburger told students gathered for the Voices That Challenge conference March 22.

Canadian Oblate recognized for heroic virtue

Canadian Oblate recognized for heroic virtue

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VATICAN CITY - An Oblate who spent the last years of his life in western Canada is among seven people whom Pope Francis has recognized for their "heroic virtues."

Silvio Rodriguez holds a Jesuit-style sugar cane container for yerba mate — a South American infusion made from evergreen holly — which then-Cardinal Bergoglio was often seen drinking in the streets of Buenos Aires. Argentine-born Rodriguez owns El Almacen Café in Toronto. He was very pleased his countryman was elected Pope Francis.

Toronto’s Argentines rejoice in Pope Francis

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TORONTO - Former priest Peter Doherty is happy a fellow Argentine was elevated to the papacy. But he’s even happier knowing the Church is in the good hands of the man who ordained him.

MP Mark Warawa's Motion-408 condemning sex-selection pregnancy termination was deemed non-votable by a parliamentary sub-committee on March 21, 2013.

MP Warawa's gendercide motion deemed non-votable

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OTTAWA - Pro-life and pro-family groups decried the March 21 decision by a parliamentary sub-committee to make Motion-408 condemning sex-selection pregnancy termination non-votable.

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