The Canadian Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is urging Catholics to “speak up” as the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons reviews is policy on conscience rights.

COLF urges Catholics to speak up for physicians' conscience rights

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OTTAWA - The Canadian Organization for Life and Family (COLF) is urging Catholics to “speak up” as the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons reviews is policy on conscience rights.

Michel Lambeth’s St. Joseph’s Convent School has been released on a stamp by Canada Post.

St. Joe’s Sisters on new stamp

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TORONTO - Canada Post’s new release of stamps by prominent photographers includes a well-known shot by Michel Lambeth of two Sisters of St. Joseph and a man who helped the sisters in Toronto.

Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins, left, and Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, are two of the speakers at the Faith in the Public Square event in Toronto.

Putting religion back in the public square

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TORONTO - A century ago renowned Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton mused that freedom of religion once meant you were free to express your religion, but now it means you should rarely mention it.

Displaced Christians wait for humanitarian aid July 20 at a church in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniya, east of Mosul. Chaldean Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona of Mosul said the Islamic State, which took control of Iraq's second-largest city in early June, is car rying out "religious cleansing."

Harper denounces persecution of Christians in Iraq

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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement July 22 denouncing the persecution of Iraqi Christians.

Lawsuit launched against Quebec's euthanasia law

Lawsuit launched against Quebec's euthanasia law

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OTTAWA - Living With Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia have launched a lawsuit challenging Quebec’s euthanasia law.

NDP Justice critic Francoise Boivin

Prostitution bill passes Justice Committee with amendments

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OTTAWA - Prostitution Bill C-36 passed the House of Commons Justice Committee with amendments that put it on track for a Third Reading vote when Parliament resumes in September.

Birth control prescriptions focus attention on Canadian doctors' rights

Birth control prescriptions focus attention on Canadian doctors' rights

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OTTAWA - Canadian doctors who refuse to prescribe birth control pills have become the focus of a debate over physicians' rights to freedom of conscience and religion when practising medicine.

Bern Will Brown died July 11 at age 94. The former Oblate's funeral was held today.

Bern Will Brown a 'Renaissance man' of Canada's north

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From mushing dog-teams 100 kms in minus 40C blizzards, to helping unionize a mine, Bern Will Brown had a job like few Catholic priests. 

Carol Mitchell prays for the safe return of Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents.

Calgary Catholic parish prays for missing child, grandparents, as man charged with murder

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Updated 07/14/14

CALGARY - Calgary Catholics still maintain hope that five-year-old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Alvin and Kathryn Liknes, missing since June 29, will be brought home to safety, but it is looking unlikely as Calgary police have laid three murder charges against a man who was a person of interest in the trio's disappearance.

Kedra Kimiksana tastes a cherry for the first time, thanks to the efforts of Sr. Faye Trombley.

Vincentians hope to bring food security to North

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You may not remember your first cherry, but Kedra and Destiny Kimiksana will always remember theirs. The young sisters got to try a cherry thanks to Sr. Faye Trombley, the missionary who runs Our Lady of Grace parish in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. At 69 degrees north and 133 degrees west, on a little reach of land that extends into the Beaufort Sea, cherries are hard to come by and expensive.

Ordinariate priest Fr. John Hodgins, of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Toronto, grasps the outstretched hand sculpted on the Holy Door in the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame in Quebec City.

300,000 pilgrims expected to pass through Quebec’s Holy Door

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QUEBEC CITY - More than 100,000 pilgrims have already passed through the Holy Door in Quebec’s Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame and another 200,000 are expected before year's end.

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