Msgr. Pat Powers, left, meets with CCCB president Archbishop Paul-André Durocher. The CCCB announced that it will launch a national campaign this fall to combat the legalization of euthanasia in Canada.

Canadian bishops to launch national strategy to combat euthanasia

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BEAUPRÉ, QUE. - Canada's bishops will launch a national campaign this fall to combat a push in Canada to legalize euthanasia.

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, wrote the final draft of the Aparecida document.

Latin theology coming to Canadian bishops

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Cuba’s Cardinal Jaime Ortega is about to welcome Canada’s bishops to the rough and tumble of Latin American theology. 

These children were among 350,000 people at Martyr’s Shrine for Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1984.

Remembering a saint

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Before George MacDonald met Pope John Paul II 30 years ago his life looked bleak.

Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino

Cardinal Ortega to address evangelization challenges

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OTTAWA - A high-profile Cuban cardinal with a French Canadian connection will lend a latin touch to the Canadian bishops annual conference this year. 

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Rivals pray for Rob Ford at mayoralty interfaith debate

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TORONTO - Olivia Chow, John Tory and long-shot candidate Ari Goldkind all offered prayers for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who was being treated in hospital with a stomach tumour detected the evening before Toronto mayoralty candidates were to answer questions from faith leaders at Metropolitan United Church.

The Catholic Organization for Life and Family released a 12-page booklet titled, “Families, Christ calls us to sow joy and hope!”

Families encouraged to promote life, peace and love

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OTTAWA - The Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is urging families to live up to a vocation of promoting life, peace and a culture of love.

Cardinal Thomas Collins (left) calls for action to protect vicitms against the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Imam Habeeb Alli condemns the actions of ISIS.

Faith leaders urge peace and action

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TORONTO - The people came to pray and were told to act.

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast

Imams decry ISIS ‘barbarism,’ ‘satanic deeds’ at Ottawa rally

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OTTAWA - Religious leaders, including two Imams, denounced the barbarism of the Islamic State and urged the protection of Iraqi Christians and other minorities during a Parliament Hill rally on Sept. 6. 

Conservative cabinet member Jason Kenney (right) told Mahir Aboudi and his family that his aging mother and father could not join his family in Canada as refugees because hey haven’t yet crossed an international border.

Internally displaced Iraqi Christians not refugees

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TORONTO - Mahir Aboudi’s aging mother and father — on the run from the Islamic State and holed up with thousands of refugees in Irbil, Kurdistan — can’t join their son and his family in Canada as refugees because they haven’t yet crossed an international border, Conservative cabinet member Jason Kenney told Aboudi and his family. 

Scarborough Retirement Centre marked its 25th anniversary Aug. 26 with a Hawaiian-themed party. Among the guests were, from left, local MP John McKay, who was welcomed by owners Harold Green, Fred Lafontaine and Josee Lafontaine.

Scarborough Retirement maintains strong Catholic ties throughout 25 years

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TORONTO - For the past 25 years Scarborough Retirement Centre has been providing Catholic seniors a like minded community where they can comfortably live out their golden years.

Students from the York Catholic school board weave together four-litre milk bags which are shipped to places like Haiti as protective packaging for other goods then distributed for use as sleeping mats.

Parish, school join forces to save humanitarian project

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RICHMOND HILL, ONT. - When a humanitarian project that turned old milk bags into sleeping mats stalled, Cathie Furfaro found new partners for the initiative at the nearby parish.

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