Priest, politician, Scripture scholar and lightning rod for controversy Fr. Raymond Gravel has died.
Ontario CWL to focus on social justice over the coming year
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterOntario’s Catholic Women’s League plans to bolster its social justice work during the forthcoming year.
St. Ann’s has served Catholics from far, and near
By Erik CTORONTO - A century ago, the faces of Irish immigrants dominated the congregation at St. Ann’s parish.
deVeber award named after palliative care pioneer
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThomas Andrew Echlin will never know what he started in 1955, when he died at home with his mother just days after he was born.
Collins says we need reasoned approach like Thomas More
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterToronto - Cardinal Thomas Collins wants Catholics to follow the example of St. Thomas More and what More can teach us about religion’s role in civil society.
Demolition begins in the Diocese of Antigonish.
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterIn the small township of New Waterford, N.S., a parish has fallen.
God's natural law supersedes any man-made law, says Chaput
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Natural law, that which reflects the sense of order God inscribed on humanity upon creation, needs to be recognized by contemporary society as the underpinning of our civil laws.
Religion pushed to side in Canada, Faith in the Public Square conference told
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Canada's laws and courts promote secularism over religious and moral pluralism, a Montreal university professor said on the opening day of the Faith in the Public Square conference Aug. 5.
Input sought on physicians’ conscience rights
By Evan Boudreau, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Silence from the public could cost Ontario’s doctors the right to deny non-emergency procedures, prescriptions and referrals which they morally oppose, warns the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute.
Majority of Canada’s doctors are opposed to euthanasia
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Canadian Medical Association says the majority of its members continue to support its policies against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Ottawa archbishop among religious urging CPSO not to violate physicians’ conscience rights
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, along with an imam and a rabbi, have written a joint-intervention in favour of physicians’ conscience rights.